Kendall Wrightson

Having qualified as an electrical/electronics technician, I joined Syco Systems (a professional audio visual retail and design company) as Chief Demonstrator, introducing the techniques of digital audio sampling, MIDI sequencing and tapeless recording to industry professionals from the music, broadcast, theatre and educational sectors. I also contributed incidental music to a BBC Play For Today in 1984 with musician and broadcaster Tom Robinson.

From 1988 I worked freelance offering Audio/MIDI programming, training and consultancy services. Projects included David Sylvian & Russell Mills’ audio/visual installation Ember Glance in Japan (1990). I also wrote over eighty articles - reviews, interviews and opinion pieces - for trade papers, Audio Media, Sound Engineer & Producer) and newsstand magazines (Sound On Sound and MacUser).

I took up a Senior lectureship in music technology at London Guildhall University in January 1992. In January 2000, Following a competitive interview process within the University I took up a Principal Lectureship leading learning and teaching development in the Department of Design & Technology.

Following on from two theses written for a Masters degree in 1996, I developed an interest in the relationship between sound, emotion, the individual and the environment, publishing articles in Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology.

For lifestyle reasons and to return to my roots, I moved from London to the North-East of England with my family in 2002. While continuing to to teach music technology locally, I have been formalising and extending a fascination for personal and psycho-spiritual development through a part-time M.Sc. in Consciousness & Transpersonal Psychology. My research thesis will be completed in August 2006.

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