Ambrose Seddon

Dr Ambrose Seddon

  • u_aseddon at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
  • Principal Academic in Music and Audio Technology
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Biography

I am a composer working in the fields of electroacoustic and electronic music. My recent outputs include multichannel acousmatic work, soundscape composition, immersive sound installation, and live performance with laptop and electronics. My music is available through Canadian label empreintes DIGITALes and German label Gruenrekorder.

After completing a BMus (Hons) in Music at Goldsmiths College, University of London, I composed, produced, and performed electronic music, which was released through a number of independent record labels. During this time, sonic experiments with field recording, hardware processing, and computer audio led me to discover the extensive possibilities of electroacoustic music. As a result, I then pursued an MA in Electroacoustic Composition, followed by a PhD in Music (electroacoustic composition) both at City, University of London, and both under the supervision of Professor Denis Smalley.

I supervise PhD projects here at BU, and welcome enquiries from potential students...

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Research

My research interests include electroacoustic composition, multi-channel and ambisonic approaches to composition, form and structure in electroacoustic music, and music analysis. I have presented at various international conferences and festivals including: International Computer Music Conference (ICMC); Sound & Music Computing (SMC); Electroacoustic Music Studies (EMS) Network conference; Klang! Festival, Montpellier; Sonorities Festival, Belfast; Visones Sonoras, Mexico City; and L'Espace du Son, Brussels.

I have been composer in residence at Elektronmusikstudion (EMS, Sweden, 2015, 2016, 2023), and at Visby International Centre for Composers (VICC, Gotland, Sweden, 2023 [forthcoming]).

My electroacoustic works are regularly performed internationally in concert and on radio, receiving numerous competition prizes and special mentions including:

• 1st Prize - Klang! Electroacoustic Composition Competition 2014

• 1st Prize - Visiones Sonoras Electroacoustic Music Composition Competition 2006

• 2nd Prize XI° Destellos International Competition of Electroacoustic Music 2018

• 2nd Prize - Klang! Electroacoustic Composition Competition 2019

• Finalist - Métamorphoses Acousmatic Composition Competition 2012

• European Region Composition Prize - ICMC 2007 (International Computer Music Conference)

I also create interactive sound installations, collaborate on immersive audiovisual projects, and perform as part of improvised live electronics ensemble NonRecursive.

Favourites

  • Seddon, A., 2025. Composing spaces: music composition and spatial audio. In: InMusic25 20/06/2025 Bath Spa University, Bath. Routledge Innovation In Music Conference Book Routledge.
  • Seddon, A., 2023. Review of M. Clarke, F. Dufeu and P. Manning, Inside Computer Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN 9780190659653 (paperback). Organised Sound: an international journal of music and technology, 27 (2), 257-263.
  • Seddon, A., 2021. Variability and the spatial setting: emergent properties and sound relationships in acousmatic music. In: Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference 2021 10/11/2021 De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Electroacoustic Music Studies Network.
  • Seddon, A., 2021. Reflecting Cau Cau and Parque Urbano El Bosque. Published online.
  • Seddon, A., 2020. Espaces éphémères. Empreintes DIGITALes, Montreal, Canada. Music album - compact disc and digital download.
  • Seddon, A.. Tipping Points. Site responsive interactive sound installation. Horniman Museum, Forest Hill, London, UK. 16/11/2019.
  • Seddon, A.. Traces of Play. 4-channel acousmatic sound, fixed media. Salle Molière, Opéra Comédie de Montpellier, Montpellier, France. 02/06/2017.
  • Seddon, A., 2016. Temporal recurrence in Andrew Lewis’s Penmon Point. In: Emmerson, S., Landy, L., eds. Expanding the horizon of electroacoustic music analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 231-246.
  • Seddon, A., 2016. Temporal recurrence in Andrew Lewis’s Penmon Point. In: Emmerson, S., Landy, L., eds. Expanding the horizon of electroacoustic music analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 231-246.
  • Seddon, A., 2015. Higher-level relationships in Dhomont's Novars. Musimédiane, 8.

Journal Articles

Chapters

  • Seddon, A., 2016. Temporal recurrence in Andrew Lewis’s Penmon Point. In: Emmerson, S., Landy, L., eds. Expanding the horizon of electroacoustic music analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 231-246.
  • Seddon, A., 2016. Temporal recurrence in Andrew Lewis’s Penmon Point. In: Emmerson, S., Landy, L., eds. Expanding the horizon of electroacoustic music analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 231-246.

Conferences

  • Seddon, A., 2025. Composing spaces: music composition and spatial audio. In: InMusic25 20/06/2025 Bath Spa University, Bath. Routledge Innovation In Music Conference Book Routledge.
  • Seddon, A., 2021. Variability and the spatial setting: emergent properties and sound relationships in acousmatic music. In: Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference 2021 10/11/2021 De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Electroacoustic Music Studies Network.
  • Seddon, A., 2018. Audible relationships in acousmatic music composition. In: CeNMaS Composers' Conference 27/04/2018 University of Sheffield.
  • Seddon, A., 2017. Some reflections on using video feedback at Bournemouth University. In: CELebrate 2017 - Assessment and Feedback 13/06/2017 Bournemouth University, UK.
  • Seddon, A., 2015. Notions of Landscape and Environment in Fleeting Strands. In: INTIME 2015 - Landscapes And Environments: Experimentation And Transformation In Sound And Music 24/10/2015 Coventry University.
  • Seddon, A., 2013. Trevor Wishart's Globalalia: Analytical Agendas, Initial Listenings and Question Marks. In: OREMA Symposium 4 11/07/2013 Leicester.
  • Seddon, A., 2012. Sound Material Correspondence and Temporal Relationships in Acousmatic Composition: Proposing a Taxonomy of Recurrent Phenomena. In: Electoacoustic Music Studies Network Conference (EMS) 11/06/2012 The Royal College of Music (Kungliga Musikhögskolan), Stockholm. Stockholm: Electroacoustic Music Studies Network.
  • Seddon, A., 2011. Developing a Taxonomy of Recurrence for Acousmatic Music: Sound Identity Correspondences. In: Sound Sight Space Play 08/06/2011 De Montfort University, Leicester.
  • Seddon, A., 2011. Investigating Recurrences in Andrew Lewis’s Penmon Point. In: Wolfe, M., Hill, A., eds. Sound, Sight, Space and Play 2010 02/06/2010 De Montfort University Leicester. Leicester: Sound, Sight Space and Play Postgraduate Symposium for the Creative Sonic Arts.
  • Seddon, A., 2007. Recurrence in Acousmatic Music: Creative and Analytical Possibilities. In: EMS07 Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference 11/06/2007 De Montfort University Lecester. Leicester: Electroacoustic Music Studies Network.
  • Seddon, A., 2006. Approaches to Electroacoustic Composition. In: Visiones Sonoras Festival Internacional de Música Electroacoústica y Nuevas Tecnologías 18/09/2006 Morelia, Mexico.
  • Seddon, A., 2006. Recurrence and Sound Material Identity in Acousmatic Composition. In: Digital Music Research Network 22/07/2006 Goldsmiths College, University of London. Online London: Digital Music Research Network.

Performances

  • Seddon, A.. The Nowness of Everything. Live diffusion of fixed media acousmatic sound. Project(ion) Room, Brussels, Belgium. 04/12/2025.
  • Seddon, A.. L'Espace du Son: invited 1-hour programme of my acousmatic works. Théâtre Marni, Brussels, Belgium. 19/10/2025.
  • Seddon, A.. Traces of Play at GuteLjaudKarte 2024. Acousmatic sound installation. Fleringe Church (Fleringe Kyra), Fleringe, Gotland, Sweden. 01/07/2024.
  • Seddon, A.. Traces of Play. 4-channel acousmatic sound, fixed media. Visby, Sweden. 27/01/2024.
  • Seddon, A.. Reflecting Cau Cau and Parque Urbano El Bosque. Ambisonic electroacoustic sound. Campus Los Canelos de la Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile. 05/10/2023.
  • Seddon, A.. Reflecting Cau Cau and Parque Urbano El Bosque. ambisonic sound. The Historic Dockyard, University of Kent, Chatham, Kent. 29/10/2022.
  • Seddon, A.. Reflecting Cau Cau and Parque Urbano el Bosque. Ambisonic sound. University of Limerick, Ireland. 04/07/2022.
  • Seddon, A.. 'Pellere' at Klang! Festival of electroacoustic and contemporary music 2022. acousmatic sound 8-channel. Opéra Comédie, Salle Mollière, Montpellier, France. 04/06/2022.
  • Seddon, A.. Traces of Play at Klang! Festival of electroacoustic and contemporary music 2022. 4-channel acousmatic sound. Opéra Comédie, Salle Mollière, Montpellier, France. 04/06/2022.
  • Seddon, A.. Tipping Points. Site responsive interactive sound installation. Horniman Museum, Forest Hill, London, UK. 16/11/2019.
  • Seddon, A.. Traces of Play. 4-channel acousmatic sound. Convergence Conference/Festival of Music, Technology and Ideas. 12/09/2019.
  • Seddon, A.. Tipping Points [Bridport]. Multichannel sound installtion. Bridport Literary and Scientific Society, Bridport, Dorset. 06/07/2019.
  • Seddon, A.. Tipping Points. Sound installation. Bournemouth Natural Sciences Society. 04/05/2019.
  • Seddon, A.. Traces of Play. 4-channel acousmatic sound. BEAST FEaST 2019, University of Birmingham. 04/05/2019.
  • Seddon, A.. Traces of Play. 4-channel acousmatic sound. University of Greenwich. 27/01/2019.
  • Seddon, A.. Traces of Play. Fixed media, 4-channel acousmatic sound. Pontio, Bangor University, Bangor, Wales. 20/11/2018.
  • Seddon, A.. Traces of Play. Fixed media acousmatic sound. Musicacoustica Festival, Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China. 26/10/2018.
  • Seddon, A.. Traces of Play. Multic-channel fixed media acousmatic sound. L'Espace du Son Festival, Théâtre Marni, Brussels, Belgium. 24/10/2018.
  • Seddon, A.. Traces of Play. Multic-channel fixed media acousmatic sound. New York City, USA. 20/07/2018.
  • Seddon, A.. Traces of Play. Stereo acousmatic sound. Sound and Music Computing Conference 2018, Rialto Theatre, Limassol, Cyprus. 04/07/2018.
  • Seddon, A.. 10_35_70. Stereo acousmatic sound, fixed media. Student Hall, Talbot Campus, Bournemouth University. 02/05/2018.
  • Troisi, A., Davis, T., Amelidis, P., Seddon, A.. nonRecursive. Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe: The Engine Room, The Old Fire Station. 01/05/2018.
  • Seddon, A.. Fleeting Strands. Stereo acousmatic sound, fixed media. Sound + Environment 2017, University of Hull. 29/06/2017.
  • Seddon, A.. Traces of Play. 4-channel acousmatic sound, fixed media. Salle Molière, Opéra Comédie de Montpellier, Montpellier, France. 02/06/2017.
  • Seddon, A.. Fleeting Strands. Stereo acousmatic sound, fixed media. BEAST FEAST 2017, University of Birmingham, UK. 29/04/2017.
  • Seddon, A.. Pellere. 8-channel acousmatic sound, fixed media. Sound Image 2016, Greenwich University, London. 12/11/2016.
  • Seddon, Seddon, A.. Pellere. 8-channel acousmatic sound, fixed media. Bournemouth University. 09/11/2016.
  • Seddon, A.. The Nowness of Everything. Stereo acousmatic sound, fixed media. Dudley House, Bendigo, Australia. 02/09/2016.
  • Davis, T., Troisi, A., Seddon, A., Canning, R., Thompson, B., Chiaramonte, A., Borgo, D.. NonRecursive @ Symposium on Interagency in Technologically-Mediated Performance. Performance. Bournemouth University. 29/01/2016.
  • Seddon, A.. Fleeting Strands. Stereo acousmatic sound, fixed media. INTIME 2015 - Landscapes And Environments: Experimentation And Transformation In Sound And Music. 24/10/2015.
  • Davis, T., Troisi, A., Seddon, A., Thompson, B., Canning, R., Chiaramonte, A.. NonRecursive. Performance. Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe: The Engine Room. 15/10/2015.
  • Seddon, A.. Pellere. 8-channel acousmatic sound, fixed media. New York City, USA. 27/06/2015.
  • Seddon, A.. Pellere. 8-channel acousmatic sound, fixed media. EARspace at HFWAS, Birmingham. 21/03/2015.
  • Seddon, A.. Pellere. Radio Broadcast. 05/01/2015.
  • Seddon, A.. Pellere. 8-channel acousmatic sound, fixed media. ICMC/SMC2014, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece. 17/09/2014.
  • Seddon, A.. Pellere. 8-channel acousmatic sound, fixed media. Maison des Arts Sonores et La Chapelle Gély, 34070 Montpellier, France. 05/06/2014.
  • Seddon, A.. Fouram. stereo acousmatic sound, fixed media. Centro Musica Contemporanea, Milan, Italy. 21/03/2014.
  • Seddon, A.. Fleeting Strands. stereo acousmatic sound, fixed media. Symposium on Acoustic Ecology, University of Kent, Chatham, Kent, UK. 09/11/2013.
  • Seddon, A.. Secure. 16-channel audio. Bold Tendencies, Peckham, London. 03/08/2013.

Compositions

Artefacts

PhD Students

  • Giel Dekkers, 2020. Student-centred partnerships between Dutch vocational popular music schools and music companies (MPhil Thesis), (Completed)
  • Dennis Braunsdorf, 2021. Composing with flexible phrases: the impact of a newly designed digital musical instrument upon composing Western popular music for commercials and movie trailers, (Completed)
  • Arnold Marinissen, 2022. The composition of concert music within the Digital Audio Workstation environment, (Completed)
  • Antonino Chiaramonte, 2024. Intermedial Interference in Electroacoustic Audiovisual Composition: An Investigation into Combining, Integrating, and Fusing Sound and the Moving Image, (Completed)

Profile of Teaching PG

  • Media Production Masters Project (Sound Design for Screen)

Profile of Teaching UG

  • Composing Using Technology
  • Production Techniques 1
  • Creative Music Technology
  • Creative Music and Audio Technology
  • Production Techniques 2
  • Composing Using Technology
  • Studio Techniques
  • Individual Music Project - supervision 2014–present
  • Composition 2
  • Production Portfolio
  • Production and Mixing 1
  • Production and Mixing 2
  • Graduate Production Project

External Responsibilities

Internal Responsibilities

  • Output Reviewer and moderation panel member, REF UOA 32 Mock exercise Spring 2023
  • Output Reviewer and moderation panel member, REF UOA 32 Mock exercise Autumn 2024
  • Deputy Leader (2017-2019), EMERGE Research Centre
  • Lead - Creative Sonic Practice Research Group, Creative Sonic Practice Research Group. https://csp.bournemouth.ac.uk/
  • Programme Leader: BSc Music & Sound Production Technology, Department of Creative Technology

Journal Reviewing/Refereeing

  • Organised Sound, Anonymous peer review, 01 Nov 2024
  • Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Anonymous peer review, 01 Jun 2023
  • Jury member: International Destellos Competition of Electroacoustic Music, Anonymous peer review, 25 Mar 2022
  • Organised Sound: an international journal of music and technology, Postpublication review, 01 Jul 2021
  • Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Anonymous peer review

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

  • Highcliffe School Campus Visit: Music recording workshop and tour (11 Dec 2024)
  • Intermedial Interference: a concert of audiovisual electroacoustic music featuring BU PGR Antonino Chiaramonte (29 Nov 2024)
  • BU Sonic Arts Concert featuring Prof Jonty Harrison (07 Dec 2023)
  • Highcliffe School Campus Visit: Sound Design workshop, talk and tour (15 Nov 2023)
  • BU Sonic Arts Concert featuring Louise Rossiter (03 May 2023)
  • BU Sonic Arts concert featuring Suk-Jun Kim (07 Dec 2022)
  • BU Sonic Arts Concert: Music from the Soundlapse Project (23 Mar 2022)
  • BU Sonic Arts concert: music for piano and electronic sound featuring Dr Xenia Pestova Bennett (University of Nottingham) performing Karlheinz Essl’s Gold.Berg.Werk (04 Mar 2020)
  • BU Sonic Arts Concert: visual music and multichannel electroacoustic music by Dr Andrew Knight-Hill, Natasha Barrett, Paula Fairfield, Bethan Kellough, and BU PGR Antonino Chiaramonte (12 Feb 2020)
  • Concert of electroacoustic music featuring Prof David Berezan and Dr Manuella Blackburn (27 Mar 2019)
  • Concert of music for harp and electronics featuring Dr Úna Monaghan (University of Cambridge) (30 Jan 2019)
  • BU Sonic Arts concert featuring featuring Dr Brona Martin and Dr Orestis Karamanlis alongside students from the Composing Using Technology unit (05 Dec 2018)
  • Elecroacoustic music concert featuring Dr Owen Green and researchers from University of Huddersfield (17 Oct 2018)
  • Electroacoustic music concert featuring BU UG and PG students (02 May 2018)
  • Electroacoustic music concert featuring Dr Annie Mahtani (University of Birmingham) (28 Feb 2018)
  • Outreach: Visiting talk at Ringwood School (06 Nov 2017)
  • Electroacoustic music concert: Cello and electronics featuring Dr Alice Eldridge and Dr Chris Kiefer (University of Sussex), Dr Thomas Gardner (UAL), Dr Tom Davis (BU) and Laura Reid (independent) (01 Nov 2017)
  • Bournemouth and Poole College visit to BU (13 Oct 2017)
  • Visiting talk at Bournemouth Academy of Modern Music (13 Oct 2017)
  • Highcliffe School visit to BU campus (11 Oct 2017)
  • Outreach: Visiting talk at Twynham 6th Form, Christchurch (03 Oct 2017)
  • Visiting talk at Brockenhurst College (02 Oct 2017)
  • Outreach and course promotion: Visiting talk at Bournemouth and Poole College (25 May 2017)
  • Electroacoustic music concert featuring BU composers Panos Amelides, Ambrose Seddon and Antonino Chiaramonte (09 Nov 2016)
  • NonRecursive (14 Oct 2015)

Attended Training

  • FMC Established Supervisors Training, 08 Mar 2023
  • Avid Certified User Pro Tools, 15 Apr 2021, Avid Certified User Pro Tools
  • Supervisory Development Training for Established Supervisors, 10 Jun 2019
  • Programme Approval and Review training, 16 Mar 2018
  • Bournemouth University Research Council Development Scheme (RCDS), 07 Mar 2018
  • Academic Career Pathway (ECR): Becoming a Research Leader. Personal Development Skills for New and Aspiring Research Leaders, 27 Feb 2018
  • Supervisor Training: New Supervisors, 10 May 2016, Certificate of Doctoral Training

Qualifications

  • PG Cert in Education Practice (Bournemouth University, 2016)
  • PhD in Music (electroacoustic composition) (City University, London, 2013)
  • MA in Composition (electroacoustic) (City University, London, 2002)
  • BMus (Hons) in Music (Goldsmiths College, University of London, 1996)

Honours

  • Outstanding Contribution Award: for contribution to postgraduate research at BU (Doctoral College, Bournemouth University, 2024)
  • 2nd prize: Klang! Electroacoustic Composition Competition, Montpellier, France (Klang! Electroacoustic Composition Competition, Montpellier, France, 2019)
  • 2nd Prize XI° Destellos International Competition of Electroacoustic Music 2018 for the acousmatic work 'Traces of Play' (Destellos Foundation, Argentina, 2018)
  • Finalist: Metamorphoses competition for acousmatic music composition (Musiques & Recherches, Belgium, 2018)
  • Finalist: Métamorphoses 2018 Acousmatic Composition Competition (Musiques et Recherches, Belgium, 2018)
  • 1st prize: Klang! Electroacoustic Composition Competition, Montpellier, France (2014)
  • Special Mention: Métamorphoses 2012 Acousmatic Composition Competition (2012)
  • Special Mention: Foundation Destellos International Competition of Electroacoustic Composition and Visual-Music (Destellos Foundation, Argentina, 2010)
  • European Region Composition Prize: ICMC 2007 (International Computer Music Conference) (2007)
  • Pré-sélection: 33e Concours International de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques Bourges, France (Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB), 2006)
  • 1st prize: Visiones Sonoras Electroacoustic Music Composition Competition, Mexico (2006)
  • 32e Concours International de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques Bourges, France (Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB), 2005)

Memberships

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