Biography
Job Title: Senior Lecturer
Courses Taught: BA (Hons) Music (Production)
Specialisms: Music technology, Studio composition
Scott Hewitt (BA (Hons), MMus, PhD) is Senior Lecturer (Specialist Study Music Production) on the BA Music Production programme.
Scott Hewitt (BA, MMus, PhD) performed through his formative years within brass bands and choirs while finding his way to music technology. Having worked within theatre Scott headed off to Huddersfield to complete a BA in Music Technology and later a MMus from Goldsmith College in Studio Composition. He recently completed a PhD in Notation for Laptop Ensembles. He is the founder of the Huddersfield Experimental Laptop Orchestra and its post graduate sibling HELOpg and currently lectures at Leeds Conservatoire.
Additionally Scott is a co-founder of the Inclusive Improv, the convener of the Week of Speakers a presenter on theAudioPodcast, instigator of #CreativePact and editor of The Music Technology Chronicle.
Scott is interested in creative performance and improvisation with computers individually and within ensemble settings. He is additionally interested in the history of computer music performance, networks for improvisation and diffusion outside of the concert hall.
Selected Publications
- Security and Stability in Network Connected Performances Environments
- International Computer Music Conference, Ljubljana Sept 2012
- Notational Approaches for Laptop Ensembles
- Symposium on Laptop Ensembles and Orchestras, Baton Rouge 2012
- HELOpg, Lessons Learned (So Far)
- Symposium on Laptop Ensembles and Orchestras, Baton Rouge 2012
- HELO: The Laptop Ensemble As An Incubator For Individual Laptop Performance Practices
- International Computer Music Conference, New York 2010
- Sound Communication: A Standard Syntax For Inter-Application, Inter-Device And Inter- Player Communication Over OSC
- International Computer Music Conference, Belfast 2008
