Pete Stollery (born 24 July 1960 in Halifax, UK) is a British composer, specialising in

electroacoustic music Electroacoustic music is a Music genre, genre of Western art music in which composers use recording technology and audio signal processing to manipulate the timbres of Acoustics, acoustic sounds in the creation of pieces of music. It originated a ...

. Stollery studied with

Jonty Harrison Jonty Harrison is an electroacoustic music composer born 27 April 1952 in Scunthorpe, and currently living in Birmingham, England. Career Jonty Harrison studied with Bernard Rands at the University of York, graduating with a DPhil in Compositi ...

at the

University of Birmingham The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university in Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as ...

from 1979 to 1996, and is currently Professor in Composition and Electroacoustic Music at the

University of Aberdeen The University of Aberdeen (abbreviated ''Aberd.'' in List of post-nominal letters (United Kingdom), post-nominals; ) is a public university, public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland. It was founded in 1495 when William Elphinstone, Bis ...

. His work ''Shortstuff'' was awarded a Special Prize at the ''Musica Nova'' competition in Prague in 1994. ''Onset/Offset'' has received honorable mentions at the 1996 Stockholm Electronic Arts Award and the 1998 Pierre Schaeffer competition. ''Altered Images'' received Second Prize in the São Paulo competition in 1997. His music was featured at the

ISCM World Music Days The ISCM World Music Days is an annual contemporary music festival organized by the International Society for Contemporary Music, originally created in 1923 as the ISCM Festival as a means to support the most advanced composition tendencies.

in Germany in 1995.Pete Stollery
The Living Composers Project In 2008, Stollery's ''scènes, rendez-vous'' was featured at the ''Signal & Noise'' festival in Vancouver and at the ''sound'' festival in Aberdeenshire.

Activities

He chaired the

Sonic Arts Network Sonic Arts Network was a UK-based organisation, established in 1979, that aimed to enable both audiences and practitioners to engage with the art of sound through a programme of festivals, events, commissions and education projects. Its honorary ...

from 1985 to 2003 and edits its annual ''Journal of Electroacoustic Music''. He is a founder member of ''invisiblEARts'', a group of sound artists based in Scotland, also including Simon Atkinson, Robert Dow, Alistair MacDonald, Pippa Murphy, Nick Virgo and Pete Dowling. Stollery is one of the founders of the Sound Festival in the north-east of Scotland, a month-long festival of new music.

Recordings

Solo Recordings * ''Un son peut en cacher un autre'' (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 0678, 2006) Compilation Recordings * ''Une Production Acousmatica'' (Acousmatica, CD1296, 1996) – ''Shioum'' * ''Maximal Music 4'' (PanAroma, CD199.003.658, 1998) – ''Altered Images'' * ''50 ans de Musique Concrète'' (Acousmatica, CD1298, 1998) – ''Onset/Offset'' * ''Electroacoustic Music 3'' (Electroshock, ELCD010, 1999) – ''Onset/Offset'' * ''Electroacoustic Music 6'' (Electroshock, ELCD020, 2000) – ''Peel'' * ''Sonic Art from...'' (MPS, MPSCD013, 1999) – ''ABZ/A'', ''Shortstuff'' * ''Legacies'' (Sargasso, SCD28046, 2003) – ''Onset/Offset'', ''Altered Images'' * ''Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Vol 1'' (EMF, EMF131, 2003) – ''Squirt'' (Griffin Campbell, alto saxophone) * ''You Are Here'' (Accidental Records, ac07 cd, 2003) – ''Onset/Offset'' * ''Vibro 3 – The Citizen Band Issue'' (Avence Double Entendre, 2005) – ''Serendipities an Synchronicities'' * ''Drift: Resonant Cities'' (New Media Scotland, 2007) – ''ABZ/A'' * ''Deep Wireless 6'' (New Adventures in Sound Art, 2009) – ''Still Voices'' Internet
''Far Afield; A Webbed Hand Compilation''
(Webbed Hand Records, Webbed Hand 055, 2005) – ''Banchory Ears''
''Football Sound Narratives''
(Binauralmedia.org, Nodar 001, 2010) – ''Back to Square One''

List of works

Acousmatic Acousmatic sound is sound that is heard without an originating cause being seen. The word ''acousmatic'', from the French , is derived from the Greek word ''akousmatikoi'' (ἀκουσματικοί), which referred to probationary pupils of the phi ...

Soundscape A soundscape is the acoustic environment as perceived by humans, in context. The term, originally coined by Michael Southworth, was popularized by R. Murray Schafer. There is a varied history of the use of soundscape depending on discipline, ...

* ''Cloches'' (1987) * ''Shortstuff'' (1993) * ''Shioum'' (1994) * ''Altered Images'' (1995) * ''Onset/Offset'' (1996) * ''Peel'' (1997) * ''ABZ/A'' (1998) * ''Vox Magna'' (2003) * ''Banchory Ears'' (2004) * ''Serendipities and Synchronicities'' (2004) * ''Fields of Silence'' (2005) * ''Still Voices'' (2005) * ''Scènes, rendez-vous'' (2006) * ''Back to Square One'' (2007) Electroacoustic with instruments/voices * ''Myth'' (1986), for four amplified voices (SATB) and live electronics * ''Faible'' (1987), for electric harp and live electronics * ''Squirt'' (1994), for alto saxophone and digital music * ''Thickness'' (2000), for flute, viola and digital music * ''Planar'' (2006), for trumpet and digital music * ''bɜ:dz'' (2008), for organ and digital music * ''74 Degrees North'' (2010), electroacoustic score for opera with

Paul Mealor Paul Mealor CLJ FLSW (born 25 November 1975) is a Welsh composer. A large proportion of his output is for chorus, both a cappella and accompanied. He came to wider notice when his motet ''Ubi Caritas et Amor'' was performed at the wedding ...

Multimedia Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as Text (literary theory), writing, Sound, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single presentation. T ...

Music and

Sound Design Sound design is the art and practice of creating auditory elements of media. It involves specifying, acquiring and creating audio using production techniques and equipment or software. It is employed in a variety of disciplines including filmmaking ...

* ''Archaeolink'' (1997) * '' Our Dynamic Earth'' (1999) * ''

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'' (2000) * ''Saint Patrick Centre'' (2000) * ''Norwich Millenium Library'' (2001) *''

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'' (2006)

References

External links

personal site

Pete Stollery on electrocd.com

invisiblEARts

sound festival

invisiblEARts
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stollery, Pete Living people Scottish classical composers 20th-century British classical composers 21st-century British classical composers Electroacoustic music composers British male classical composers 1960 births Alumni of the University of Birmingham 20th-century Scottish musicians 20th-century British male musicians 21st-century British male musicians