Dr Michael Gatt
Faculties, departments and locations
- Ȧ School of Art
- Department of Performing Arts
- School of Arts
- Ȧ Hill
Course Leader: BA Music Technology
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
I am an acousmatic and sound installation composer who deals with site-specific works. In 2014 I completed my PhD in Electroacoustic Music Analysis at De Montfort University, Leicester. I specialise in audio recording, live sound technologies and sonic art.
Qualifications
- PhD in Electroacoustic Music Analysis – De Montfort University, 2010-2014
- MA Music, Technology and Innovation – De Montfort University, 2007-2009
- BA Hons Music, Technology and Innovation – De Montfort University, 2004-2007
Domains
Qualifications
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Course director
Courses taught
My research interests concern: acousmatic compositions; site-specific installation art; electroacoustic music analysis; preservation issues of electronic music; electronic music performance practices; open-access, collaborative research and wisdom of the crowd philosophy.
Publications
Memory, expectation and the temporal flux of acousmatic music
Gatt, Michael, 2020, Organised Sound (25), 2, pp 205-213
The OREMA project : a call for the liberation of sound analysis
Gatt, Michael, 2015, Organised Sound (20), 3, pp 316-322
OREMA : an analytical community
Gatt, Michael (2016). In: Emmerson, Simon, (eds.) and Landy, Leigh, (eds.), Expanding the horizon of electroacoustic music analysis. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, pp 148-169
On the collecting and preservation of Wind Chimes sources
Gatt, Michael (2010). In: Gayou, Évelyne, (eds.) and Couture, François, (eds.), Denis Smalley: Polychrome Portraits. France: Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, pp 59-72
Humanising electroacoustic music analysis
Gatt, Michael(2015). In: Being Human : Humanising music technology, 16 Nov 2015 :London, U.K.
The Online Repository for Electroacoustic Analysis project : a community approach to electroacoustic music analysis
Gatt, Michael(2013). In: Electroacoustic Music in the context of interactive approaches and networks, 17 - 21 Jun 2013 :Lisbon, Portugal
Project: Conception, composition and archiving
Monty, Adkins and Gatt, Michael(2009). In: International Computer Music Conference, 16 - 21 Aug 2009 :Montreal, Canada
Sound Tree
Gatt, Michael and Smith, Stuart (2015).
Follow the Sun concert
Evans, Alex, Osborn, David and Gatt, Michael (2016).
Hear Th↓s Space performance
Gatt, Michael, Smith, Simon and Martin, Brona (2015).
Tools for understanding electroacoustic music
Gatt, Michael (2014), PhD thesis, De Montfort University