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Dr Stuart James

Stuart is a Lecturer in the Composition and Music Technology program at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

Current teaching

  • MUS1604 - Home and Studio Recording
  • MUS1620 - Acousmatics and Sound Art
  • MUS2608 - Interactive Music Performance Lab
  • MUS2616 - Sound Synthesis Performance Lab
  • MUS3607 - Circuit-bending Lab
  • MUS3612 - Networked Music Lab
  • MUS3611 - Composition Principal Study 1
  • MUS4607 - Composition Principal Study 2
  • MUS4612 - Composition Principal Study 3

Biography

Stuart is a Western Australian-based composer, performer, sound designer, audio engineer, and producer. His compositional work explores both acoustic and electronic instruments, and he has been commissioned to write compositions by the ABC, Decibel Ensemble, Tetrafide Ensemble, the WASO New Music Ensemble, percussionist Louise Devenish, and visual artist Erin Coates. Stuart's work has also been performed by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Michael Kieran Harvey, and his work has been released on Tall Poppies. Stuart won the state finals of the ASME young composers’ competition, won the Dorothy Ransom composition prize, and has also been nominated for Australian Music Centre Awards for his percussion pieces Temperaments and Kinabuhi | Kamatayon. Stuart has been a founding member of the Decibel ensemble, and has performed as part of this ensemble throughout Europe and Asia. Stuart also manages and operates a commercial recording studio, and has recorded and mixed national and international artists including ShockOne, Kele Okereke, JMSN, Ta-ku, Loston, Jaime Page, and others. Stuart also completed his doctorate for research in spatial audio, spectral synthesis, and wave terrain synthesis, and has continued to publish regularly on music technology.

Professional associations

  • 2019 - Present: WA Chapter of the MSA Committee (Member)
  • 2018 - 2021: Decibel New Music Management Committee (Member)
  • 2015 - Present: Audio Engineering Association (Member)
  • 2010 - 2021: The Soundfield Studio (Managing Director)
  • 2001 - Present: Australasian Performing Rights Association (Member)

Research areas and interests

Stuart is an interdisciplinary scholar with a background in music composition, jazz, popular, and classical piano performance, sound design, computer programming, audio engineering and production. His research areas include:

  • Music Composition
  • Immersive Audio and Video
  • Electroacoustic performance practice
  • Digital Musicology
  • Digital Signal Processing.
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