The Orchestra:
A User's Manual
by Andrew Hugill
with The Philharmonia Orchestra
Andrew Hugill: Web
Hugill's use of the internet as a creative, pedagogic and research tool extends back as far as the early 1990s, before the arrival of the World Wide Web. In 2010/11, his reputation in this area was acknowledged by the British Library, who featured him in their exhibition 'Growing Knowledge: the evolution of research'. Recognition of his contribution to internet pedagogy was made in 2006 by the Times Higher Education awards, when he was 'Highly Commended' for the 'Most Imaginative Use of Distance Learning'. He has also been a consultant to the BBC's 21st Century Classroom project and to the National Grid for Learning.
The projects listed below include novel technological developments, creative projects and web resources created with many collaborators including the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Bournemouth Sinfonietta. Hugill has a particular interest in understanding how traditional art forms may adapt to an ever-changing digital environment. His most recent collaboration in this area is a new digital opera project with The Opera Group, which will be launched in 2012.
Creative Projects
Hugill et al. (2004) The Sound Exchange (web development project with the Philharmonia Orchestra). Funded by Arts Council England.
Hugill, A. (2004) Sound Ideas (a project in which young people created orchestral sounds with the Philharmonia orchestra). Funded by DTI: 'connexions'.
Hugill, A. (2004) Net Symphony (a collaborative composition experiment).
Hugill, A. (2004) Random Round (an interactive version of Percy Grainger's experiment with random composition, written in 1912). Requires Flash (and takes a while to load).
Hugill, A. (1999) Symphony for Cornwall (an education project involving a collaborative composition with 30 schools across Cornwall and the Bournemouth Sinfonietta). Funded by Arts Council England.
Hugill, A. (1994) New Impressions of Africa (a hypertext translation of Cantos I, II & IV of 'Nouvelles Impressions d'Afrique' by Raymond Roussel, with introduction).
New Technologies
Hendler, J. & Hugill, A. (2011) Syzygy Surfer (a new creative search technology built on the semantic web. The project is a collaboration wth Prof. Jim Hendler, and is being developed by a team of PhD students supervised by Hugill, Hendler and Prof Hongji Yang). The project is outlined in the paper: Hendler, J. and Hugill, A. (2011) 'The Syzygy Surfer: Creative Technology for the World Wide Web' pp. 1-3. In: Proceedings of the ACM WebSci'11, June 14-17 2011, Koblenz, Germany.
Hugill, A. (1998 -2009) MusiMOO (a Multi-User Domain for teaching music).
Graves. A, Hand C, & Hugill, A. (1997) 'MidiVisualiser', a VR composition tool, written in VRML and Java.
Web Resources
Hugill, A. et al. (2004) The Orchestra: A User's Manual (an online manual for orchestration featuring multimedia clips of Philharmonia Orchestra musicians discussing aspects of instrumental technique).
Hugill, A. et al. (2004) Sample Library (an extensive collection of instrumental samples, recorded by the Philharmonia Orchestra).
Hugill, A. et al. (2004) Composer Resource (documentation of the first session of an online 'scratch pad' for composers and orchestral musicians. This went on to become a key component of the Philharmonia Orchestra's 'Sound Exchange').
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