Kingsley Ash is a composer, performer and researcher in electronic and computer music whose work explores laptop technology in music performance and composition. He also makes a fine dry sparkling cider from his home in North Yorkshire.
N E W S
16/04/12
Currently writing music for the play Hedda Gabler
showing in York from next week.
8/04/12
Shortlisted as a finalist in the ICAD 2012 Sonification Competition, Atlanta, USA with a real-time Twitter sonification tool 'Affected States'.
March 2012
Forthcoming performances include wth Livecell in Leeds and at Wilton's Music Hall in London, and solo laptop performance in Leeds as part of the International Festival of Innovations in Music Production and Composition (iFIMPaC).
14/11/11
Just returned from presenting Livecell at the Music & Technologies Conference, Kaunas, Lithuania.
01/11/11
At the Sage, Newcastle, this weekend (4-6th November) to present the Livecell project at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival.
01/11/11
Taken delivery of a new 100ltr oak cider barrel - filling up as I type.... pictures to follow.
20/10/11
Off to Germany next weekend to present a workshop - Sound Gardens: Design and Cultivation - at the Institute of Music & Media, Dusseldorf. Using sensors and Max/MSP to develop indoor and outdoor sound sculptures. http://musikundmedien.net/en/
04/10/11
"Original music and sound designer Kingsley Ash did a magnificent job - the theatre throbbed with sound, reflecting the menace, murder and madness that was to come." Pocklington Post review of Macbeth.
27/09/11
Opening of Macbeth tomorrow night - click here for details.
26/09/11
Great time in America - thanks to the string quartet and to the MEME crew at Brown.
