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Gordon Delap is from Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. He studied music at Queen’s University, Belfast and City University, London. His composition teachers have included Michael Alcorn, Simon Emmerson, and Denis Smalley. In 2004 he received a PhD from Queen’s University, Belfast. He specialises in the creation of electro-acoustic music and sonic art. Recent works include ‘Interior’, an installation put together from sounds recorded in the rainforests of Borneo, ‘Beowulf and Grendel’ (2004), a work for live electronics and narrator, and ‘Light Body Corpuscles’ (2005), an audio-visual work commissioned by the British Council. His music has been performed throughout the world. Recent performances of his work have taken place at the European Media Arts Festival (Osnabruck, Germany), the Sonorities Festival (Belfast), Subliminal Festival (Brussels), the Belfast Festival, and Bimesp (Sao Paulo, Brazil). In 2005 he won the first prize in the Projet Itinerant competition ‘Point de repere’. (biography © Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland) |
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