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Andrew Hugill MA PhD (b. 1957) is a composer and writer, professor and researcher. He is Director of the Institute Of Creative Technologies (IOCT) at De Montfort University Leicester, UK, where he founded the Music, Technology and Innovation programme in 1997. He is an Associate Researcher at the Universite de la Sorbonne, Paris, and a National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2006 he was Highly Commended for the Most Imaginative Use of Distance Learning by the Times Higher Education Awards.
Hugill is the author of The Digital Musician (Routledge), and 'The Origins of Electronic Music' in The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music (C.U.P.) His latest CD is called 'Pataphysical Piano. His internet project with the Philharmonia Orchestra - The Sound Exchange - was nominated for the 2004 BT Digital Music Awards, and his compositions have been performed and broadcast worldwide. They include music for solo instruments and ensembles, orchestral, choral and digital music. Some well-known works are: Pianolith (2003); Symphony for Cornwall (1999); Les Origines Humaines (1996); Island Symphony (1995); Brisset Rhymes (1990); and Catalogue de Grenouilles (1988) for massed frog recordings and human musicians. He has also written on and translated French literature, including Raymond Roussel's New Impressions of Africa.
He currently leads several transdisciplinary research projects in the IOCT, such as the Digital Mapping project, and Virtual Roman Leicester. Through the IOCT he recently staged the Future of Creative Technologies conference and he is supervising several PhD students whose topics range from aspects of e-learning to musical composition to palimpsests of time to multimedia controllers for live performance.
NEWS:- May 17th 2010: Hugill's music featured on Radio France Culture series Les Passagers de la Nuit Episode 1 introduces the theme. Episode 3 has Hugill's music throughout.
- January 27th 2010: Appearance on BBC World Service 'Digital Planet', talking about the DMUCube at Phoenix Square.
- October 2009: Elected to the Comité Scientifique of IIREFL, the Institut International de Recherches et d'Explorations sur les Fous Littéraires.