Hugill's writings consist of research publications, critical writings and translations from French. The major areas covered are Cultural History (focusing mainly on aspects of Modernism), Music (especially digital music and experimental composition) and Computer Science (in particular creative technologies). As Director of the Institute Of Creative Technologies, he has also published on Transdisciplinary Research.
Forthcoming (2012) 'Pataphysics: A Useless Guide (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press)
Hugill, A. (2008) The Digital Musician (New York: Routledge. 2nd edition due 2012)
"As fine an example of an approachable academic book aimed at technologically literate students as one could want. [...] It is the author’s fascination with music in the digital (or post-digital) age rather than the micro-genres of digital music per se that makes this book so interesting. 'The Digital Musician' is by no means a ‘how to’ book. The author himself clearly states that this was never his intention. Rather the book tackles the often ignored questions of ‘why?’ and ‘what?’ These questions are not only applicable to students of technology and composition, but are those that any sound artist or musician who creates anything worthwhile is continually asking himself or herself. [...] The Digital Musician is a highly stimulating book that asks of its readers as many questions as it attempts to answer. As such it is strongly recommended."
Organised Sound 14(1): 109–117 Cambridge University Press. See the full review here.
Hugill, A. (2011) 'Musicianship in the Digital Age' in Sound Musicianship (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press).
Hugill, A. (2009) 'Future Visions' in Design Leicestershire (Leicestershire: Leicestershire County Council)
Hugill, A. (2007) 'The Origins of Electronic Music' in The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
"The structure of The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music consists of an introduction followed by 13 chapters grouped around three major thematic areas. Part One, Electronic Music in Context, contains four chapters. In the first, entitled “The Origins of Electronic Music,” Andrew Hugill finds the nascent stirrings of desire for sound technology in passages of visionary fiction from the 17th through 19th centuries. It is a refreshing vantage point from which to begin. Taken together with his discussion of early inventions and their transformation into new expressive media, he illustrates the emergence of real sonic art from the collective imagination." pp. 64-65.
Computer Music Journal, Fall 2009, Vol. 33. No. 3. MIT Press.
Adair G., Frampton K., Hugill, A., Lucie-Smith E., Lynton, N. (1999) Art of our time: Ten Years of the Praemium Imperiale (in French, German, Italian, Japanese). Tokyo: The Japan Art Association. pp. 210-272, 385-397
Hugill, A. (1998) 'OuMuPo' in Oulipo Compendium. London: Atlas Press. pp. 328-330.
Hugill, A. (1996) New Impressions of Africa (a translation of Cantos I, II & IV of 'Nouvelles Impressions d'Afrique' by Raymond Roussel, with introduction). London: The Printed Head, Vol. III No. 13. pp. 7-41.
Hugill A., Melville A., White I. (1993) The True, The Good, The Beautiful: An Elementary Chrestomathy of 'Pataphysics. London: The Printed Head.
Forthcoming (2012) 'Well-tampered pianos: the writings of Montagu O'Reilly (Wayne Andrews).
Forthcoming (2012) 'Reconciling oppositions: Marcel Duchamp and Samuel Beckett'.
Hugill, A. (2010) 'Les pianos surréalistes dans les écrits de Montagu O'Reilly' in Pianographies 42. Collection Observatoire Musical Français, Série "Conférences et Séminaires", Université Paris-Sorbonne, pp. 53-58.
Zedan, H., Hugill, A. & Thomas, S. (2008) Mapping Human Creativity.
Hugill, A. (2005) 'From Online Symphonies to MusiMOO: some creative uses of the internet in music and education' in Contemporary Music Review Vol 24, No. 6, pp. 527-540
Hugill, A. (2005) 'Internet Music: An Introduction' in Contemporary Music Review Vol 24, No. 6, pp. 429-437
Hugill, A. (2005) 'Five Texts by Jean-Pierre Brisset' in Jubilat No. 10 (USA: Amherst)
Ayesh, A. & Hugill, A. (2003) ‘Evolutionary Form in a Network Composition: Preliminary Report’, MAXIS200: Proceedings, University of Leeds
Graves, A., Hand, C. & Hugill, A. (1999) 'MidiVisualiser: interactive music visualisation using VRML' in Organised Sound Vol. 4 No. 1, Cambridge University Press
Hale, T. & Hugill, A. (1999) 'Raymond Roussel and Jules Verne: The Science is Fiction' in Jules Verne: Narratives of Modernity ed. Smyth, E., University of Liverpool Press
Graves A., Hand C., & Hugill A., (1997) 'Interactive Visualisation of Musical Form using VRML' in Proceedings of the Fourth UK VRSIG Conference R. Bowden (Ed.) Brunel University pp. 98-109. ISBN: 1-8 72166-64-4 Graves. A, Hand C, & Hugill, A. (1997) 'MidiVisualiser', a VR composition tool, written in VRML and Java
Hugill, A. (1996) 'Mercy: A Vision for New Music' in Contemporary Music Review Vol.15, Parts 3-4, pp.115-120, Routledge
Hugill, A. (1995) 'Equivalence in Culture' in The Journal of European Cultural Policy Vol. II pp. 323-327, Routledge
Hugill, A. (1995) 'Les Origines humaines'. Edited translations of texts by Jean-Pierre Brisset.
Hugill, A. (1992) 'Beckett, Duchamp & Chess in the 1930s'. Unpublished article.
Forthcoming (2012) Hugill, A. The Ins and Outs of Transdisciplinary Research (DMU Transdisciplinary Research Centre)
Fishenden, J & Hugill, A. (2011) ‘Palimpsests of Time and Place’ in Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2011), Munich, July 18-22.
Hugill, A. (2011) ‘Digital Musicianship’ at the 7th International Conference on Music since 1900. Lancaster, July 28-31.
Hendler, J. & Hugill, A. (2011) ‘Creatively Abusing the Semantic Web’. Poster presentation at the ACM Web Science Conference, Koblenz, June.
Hugill, A. (2010) Music and ‘Pataphysics. Keynote, Digital Arts Week, Xi’an Academy of Music, China.
Hugill, A., Yang, H. & Zhou, H. (2010) An Ontology-Based Approach to Reengineering Enterprise Software for Cloud Computing. Given at the 34th IEEE Conference on Computer Software and Applications, Seoul, South Korea.
Cawthorn, D., Hugill, A. & Watson, G. (2010) Virtual Roman Leicester (VRL): An interactive Computer Model of a Romano-British City. Given at the 38th Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Granada, Spain, April 6-9.
Hugill, A. (2008) The Future of Creative Technologies. Keynote, delivered at the Future of Creative Technologies Conference, De Montfort University, Leicester.
Ayesh, A. & Hugill, A. (2005) Genetic Approaches for Evolving Form in Musical Composition. Given at IASTED (International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications) AIA 2005, Innsbruck, Austria.
Ayesh, A. & Hugill, A. (2003) ‘Evolutionary Form in a Network Composition: Preliminary Report’. Given at MAXIS2003, University of Leeds.
Hugill, A. (2001) 'Some issues in the creation of music online'. Given at Music Without Walls? Music Without Instruments? De Montfort University
Hugill, A. & Landy, L. (2000) 'De Montfort University: Studio Report'. Given at the International Computer Music Conference, Berlin, Germany
Graves, A. Hand, C. & Hugill, A. (1997) 'Interactive Visualisation of Musical Form using VRML'. Given at UKVRSIG 97, Brunel University, UK
Hugill, A. (1995) 'Marcel Schwob, Immanuel Kant & Thomas de Quincey'. Given at Marcel Schwob et l'Angleterre, British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia, UK.
Hugill, A. (1994) 'Mercy: a vision for new music'. Given at Leaving the 20th Century: Ideas and Visions for New Musics, University College, Bretton Hall, UK.
Forthcoming (2012) Hugill, A. Adventures in Creative Technologies (Kingston University)
Hugill, A. (2007) 'Les Origines Humaines: Brisset et la musique'. Given at the Université de Paris-IV Sorbonne.
Hugill, A. (2005) ‘How I Wrote Certain Of My Pieces’. Given at the University of Manchester, Composers’ Forum
Hugill, A. (2005) ‘The Future’s Here’. Given at the Incorporated Society of Musicians' Annual Conference
Hugill, A. (2005) 'Music in an Access Grid Environment: Future Possibilities'. Given at the University of Manchester, Department of Computing.
Hugill, A. (2005) 'Technologies musicales imaginaires: une etude'. Given at the symposium Technologies Imaginaires: l'approche pataphysique de la musique at Université de Paris-IV Sorbonne. (English version: Imaginary Music Technologies: A Study)
Hugill, A. (2003) 'Random Thought: Epicurus, Poincaré, and the compositional process'. Given at a symposium on 'randomness', De Montfort University.
Hugill, A. (2003) 'Composing with the internet'. Given at the University of Brighton, 'Visions' Archive.
Hugill, A. (1999) 'Schumann’s Chamber Music'. Given at the Leicester International Music Festival, New Walk Museum.
Hugill, A. (1998) 'Pataphysics and the art of writing with constraint'. Given at the trAce Centre, Nottingham Trent University.
Hugill, A. (1996) 'Composing with Computers'. Given at the British Computing Society.
Hugill, A. (1995) 'The State of the Agenda'. Given at the 'New Works Festival', Y Theatre, Leicester.
Hugill Thomson, A. (1989) 'The Apprentice in the Sun: An Introduction to the music of Gavin Bryars' in The Musical Times Vol. CXXX, No. 1762, pp. 724-728
Hugill Thomson, A. (1989) 'A Tale
Told: An appreciation of the music of Roger Marsh' in Contact No.35,
pp. 3-9
Thomson, A. (1987) 'Mots relatif aux Actes de Raymond Roussel' in Atlas Anthology Vol. 4, pp. 13-24
Thomson, A. (1980) 'Music of Association: Mr Gavin
Bryars and Irma: an Opera Op. XII by Mr. Thos. Phillips', BA
dissertation, University of Keele.

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