Key details
Professor Andrew P Knight-Hill
Associate Head of School - Research and Knowledge Exchange; Lead - Centre for Sound and Image
Andrew Knight-Hill (1986) is a composer of electroacoustic music, specialising in studio composed works both acousmatic (purely sound based) and audio-visual. His works have been performed extensively across the UK, in Europe and the US. Including performances at Fyklingen, Stockholm; GRM, Paris; ZKM, Karlsruhe; New York Public Library, New York; London Contemporary Music Festival, London; San Francisco Tape Music Festival, San Francisco; Cinesonika, Vancouver; Festival Punto de Encuentro, Valencia; and many more.
His works are composed with materials captured from the human and natural world, seeking to explore the beauty in everyday objects. He is particularly interested in how these materials are interpreted by audiences, and how these interpretations relate to our experience of the real and the virtual.
He joined the University of Greenwich in August 2014 having previously worked as a freelance composer.
Personal website: http://www.ahillav.co.uk
Sound Design at Greenwich: http://blogs.gre.ac.uk/sounddesign
Loudspeaker Concert Series: Loudspeakerorchestra.org
Responsibilities within the university
- Associate Professor in Sound Design and Music Technology
- Programme Leader BA Sound Design
- Director of Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert series
Awards
- AHRC ECR Leadership Fellowship (2020-22)
- Artists International Development Fund Grant – Arts Council England & British Council (2013-2014)
Recognition
- Editorial Board - Music Sound and the Moving Image, Liverpool University Press
- Reviewer - Organised Sound, Cambridge University Press
- Steering Group / Programming Committee for the Seeing Sound Festival
- Invited Jurist – Royal Television Society: Craft Skills Award in Sound (2019)
- Panel Member – National Occupational Standards Consultation for Sound and Recording (2019)
Research / Scholarly interests
- Electroacoustic composition
- Audiovisual practices and intermedia art
- Phenomenology, perception and interpretation
- Realism and cinematic diegesis
- Spatial theory
- Loudspeaker Orchestra Performance and Multichannel Sonic Installations
- Live electronics and improvised performance.
Key funded projects
| Date | Title of Grant | Awarding Body | Duration | Total Amount Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30/3/19 - 29/6/22 | A Sonic Palimpsest: Revisiting Chatham Historic Dockyards | AHRC – (Research Grant ECR) | 27 months | £246,029 |
| 02/2019- 07/2019 | Immersive Hyperreal Soundscapes | HIEF (QR) - University of Greenwich | 5 months | £19,822 |
| 11/2017-07/2018 | Consolidating Impact – Collaborative Practice Based Research | REF (QR) – University of Greenwich | 9 months | £7,998 |
| 01/2016-07/2016 | Hear This Space – Object Based Audio Narratives | REF (QR) – University of Greenwich | 7 months | £4,901 |
| 05/2014-04/2015 | Hear This Space - Building Community | Arts Council England | 1 year | £14,950 |
| 12/2013- 03/2014 | Quiet Sounds (NOTAM) | British Council - Arts Council England | 3 months | £4,877 |
| 10/2008-05/2009 | Sound, Sight, Space and Play – Student Led Initiative | AHRC | 9 months | £2,000 |
Media activity
BBC Radio 4 - PM Programme - Historical Soundings
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02gbs48
BBC TV NEWS - Changing Sounds of an Industrial City
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-28563835
Forthcoming BBC News spot
Recent publications
Written Outputs:
HOBBS, J; KNIGHT-HILL A (2021) (I)MAGESOUND(S). RSS Press: Copenhagen
KNIGHT-HILL, A (2020d) Audiovisual Spaces: Spatiality, Experience and Potentiality in Audiovisual Composition. IN: Sound & Image: Aesthetics and Practices. Routledge: New York. * [Available June 2020]
KNIGHT-HILL, A (2020c) Sound & Image: Aesthetics and Practices. Routledge: New York. * [Available June 2020]
KNIGHT-HILL, A (2020b) The Nature of Sound and Recording. IN: Foundations of Sound Design for Linear Media (ed.) Filimowicz. Routledge: New York
KNIGHT-HILL, A (2020a) Electroacoustic Music: An Art of Sound. IN: Foundations of Sound Design for Linear Media (ed.) Filimowicz. Routledge: New York
KNIGHT-HILL, A. (2019) Sonic diegesis: Reality and the expressive potential of sound in narrative film. Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 36(8). [Summer 2019]*
BROWN, C.; KNIGHT-HILL, A. (2018) Stories of a Ruined Space: Filmic and sonic approaches to practice-as-research. Journal of Media Practice and Education, 19(3). [Autumn 2018]
HILL, A (2017) Listening for Context: Interpretation, abstraction and the real. Organised Sound 22(1). pp. 11-19 [April 2017]
HILL, A (2015) Theatres of Sounds: the role of context in the presentation of electroacoustic music. IN: Proceedings of InSonic 2015, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Hill, A (2013) Understanding Interpretation, Informing Composition: audience involvement in aesthetic result. Organised Sound, 18(1). pp. 43-59 [April 2013].
Hill, A. (2013) Abstracted Journeys. In: Compose with Sounds [CD]. Leicester: De Montfort University.
Hill, A. (2013) Interpreting Electroacoustic Audio-visual Music. Thesis (PhD), De Montfort University.
Hill, A (2011) What is Electroacoustic Audio-visual music? In Andrew Hill and Motje Wolf (Eds.) Proceedings for Sound, Sight, Space and Play 2010. Leicester 2-4 June 2010.
Hill, A. (2010) Investigating Audience Reception of Electroacoustic Audio-visual Compositions: Developing an Effective Methodology. eContact! 12(4) [Available online from: ]
Hill, A. (2010) Desarrollo de un lenguaje para la música audiovisual electroacústica: investigación sobre su comunicación y clasificación. En el Límite — Escritos Sobre Sonido, Música, Imagen y Tecnología, pp. 144–165. Editado por Universidad Nacional de Lanús, 2010; compilado por Raúl Minsburg.
Composition Projects:
Over Lunan, [theatrical sound design for choir and electronics] – 2020
We choose to go to the Moon: Apollo 12, [film soundtrack] – 2020 *
Gong, [film soundtrack] – 2019 *
Spectral Spaces, [ambisonic composition for Trumpet and Electronics] – 2019
Attack and Continuants, [ambisonic composition for Trumpet and Electronics] – 2019
VOID, [audiovisual composition] – 2019 *
Child of the Big City, [silent film orchestral composition] – 2019
Europe Endless, [documentary soundtrack] – 2018
Coccolith, [film soundtrack] – 2017 *
Double Take, [soundtrack for dance performance] 2017
Incandescence, [electroacoustic composition] – 2016
Projections, [post-acousmatic electroacoustic composition for 16mm projector] – 2016
(I)MAGESOUND(S), [live improvisation performance] – 2016 & 2019
Sounds of the Cultural Quarter, [interactive soundscape application] – 2015
Stille Lyd – Part Two – Høvringen, [electroacoustic composition] – 2015
Stille Lyd [Part One & Part Two] - 2014
Abstracted Journeys
electroacoustic composition – 2013
- April 2014, Sweet Thunder Music Festival, San Francisco.
- November 2013, Symposium on Acoustic Ecology, University of Kent.
- August 2013, London Contemporary Music Festival, London.
- April 2013, ZKM, Karlsruhe.
- January 2013, Akousma, GRM Paris.
Quaff
electroacoustic composition – 2012
- November 2012, The Binaural Experience, Phoenix Square Leicester.
- November 2012, MTI Concert Series, Leicester.
Re-enlivening the Archaic
electroacoustic soundscape – 2012
- October 2012, Great Central Gallery, Leicester.
Vox Lupo
electroacoustic composition – 2011
- May-June 2012, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath.
- April 2012, The International Festival for Innovations in Music Production and Composition (Leeds College of Music).
- October 2011, MTI concert Series, Leicester.
- March 2011, Hear Th↓s Space @ Fabrika, Leicester.
Perpetual Motion
electroacoustic audio-visual composition – 2010
- January 2013, Visible Bits, Audible Bytes, Leicester.
- May-June 2012, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath.
- May 2012, Noisefloor festival, Staffordshire.
- Cinesonika 2, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
- November 2011, XVIII Festival Punto de Encuentro, Valencia.
- August 2011, International Computer Music Conference, Huddersfield.
- March 2011, Lightworks, Grimsby.
Phase
electroacoustic audio-visual composition – 2009
- September 2014, Image Resonance, Mar Del la Plata, Argentina.
- June 2013, Ionian University, Corfu.
- April 2013, BulldogBtyes, South Carolina State University.
- April 2012, Nottingham Contemporary gallery, Nottingham.
- October 2009, Electroacoustic Wales, Powis Hall, Bangor.
- May 2009, Sound, Sight, Space and Play conference, Leicester.
Flux
electroacoustic audio-visual composition – 2008
- April 2012, Nottingham Contemporary gallery, Nottingham.
- August 2010, CPulse, Leicester.
- February 2010, Soundings Festival, Edinburgh.
- February 2009 Fylkingen, Stockholm.