Richard Scott is a composer and improviser residing in the UK and working regularly in Berlin and Amsterdam. He has been composing electroacoustic music and performing improvised music for over 25 years, performing and recording with artists such as Grutronic, Twinkle³, Clive Bell and Evan Parker. His work has been featured on BBC Radio 3 and 4, International Computer Music Conference, London Jazz Festival, Bratislava NEXT Festival of Advanced Music, Sonorities Belfast, Berlin Interaktion Improvised Music Festival and MANTIS Electroacoustic Music Festival. Manchester. He is a long term artistic resident at STEIM, a part-time Lecturer in Music at Lancaster University and co-curator of two concert series in Berlin: AUXXX Berlin and Basic Electricity.
In 1993 he was awarded a PhD from London University for a thesis which discussed free improvisation from historical and political perspectives. He wrote extensively for Wire magazine, was administrator at the LMC (London Musician’s Collective) and have been an active member of the improvising and electroacoustic communities in London, Manchester and Berlin. In 2010 he completed a MusM (distinction) in Electroacoustic Music Composition at NOVARS, Manchester University.
He is currently a Lecturer in Music Technology at the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (Lancaster University) and an Artistic Resident at STEIM (Amsterdam) focusing on infra-red and movement based performance technologies.
My videos are here:
Basic Electricity is here
AUXXX club Berlin is here