Duncan Williams, Ba (Hons), PhD
(Surrey), MAES
Duncan is a Research Fellow in Music with
Artificial Intelligence, working on an EPSRC
funded project on a Brain-Computer
Interface for Monitoring and Inducing
Affective States with
Professor Eduardo Miranda and Dr Alexis
Kirke at the Interdisciplinary
Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR)
in Plymouth, UK. Previously, he was a
post-doctoral Research MCR at Wolfson
College Oxford, and Music Technology
Officer in the Faculty
of Music, University of Oxford, UK.
Duncan studied at the Institute
of
Sound Recording in Guildford, Surrey,
where he was supervised by Director of
Research and Senior Lecturer in Audio, Dr
Tim Brookes. His research interests include
sound
recording, psychoacoustics,
and digital
signal processing, and he has
presented, peer reviewed, and occasionally
chaired, sessions for various  Audio
Engineering Society (AES) conventions
and conferences, been a reader of technical
papers and presented for the Digital
Music Research Network in London and
Glasgow, and an invited panelist for the Association of
Professional Recording Services
(APRS). Commercially, he has written both
hardware and software reviews for Sound
on Sound magazine and Tape Op magazine
and contributed to BBC1's prime-time
broadcast 'The One Show' on the mathematics
of music.
In industry, Duncan worked at Jacobs
Studios, Surrey, one of the UK's most
popular residential recording studios, and
in a freelance capacity in many of London's
studios (Riverside, Maidstone, Metropolis)
on projects ranging from DVD authoring and
surround production, to library music,
classical editing, and independent and major
label recording. His work has been broadcast
on BBC Radio 1 by Colin
Murray, BBC Radio 2 by Mark
Radcliffe and the late John Peel, and
XFM by Claire
Sturgess and Ian Camfield, as well as
been playlisted on Totalrock, Scuzz TV, MCM
France, and Extreme Sports TV.
 As a musician and
composer, Duncan has been published across
the globe and has performed both nationally
and internationally, including studio and
live prime-time television performance
(often in truly embarrassing contexts).
Recent published work includes library music
for EMI
Production Music, DeWolfe,
and KPM MusicHouse, with television credits
on MTV, MTV Classics, and ITV. He has
performed at Rock Im Park (AUS), Hard Rock
Hell (UK), on live TV with Bernie Nolan and
Mylene Klass (Channel 5 - don't ask...),
and at the annual Guildford Festival,
Ambient Picnic, amongst other UK and EU
performances. Most recently, Duncan played
at the London International Music Show at
the ExCEL centre, London, alongside the
likes of Yngwie
Malmsteem for French luthiers, Vigier
guitars, by whom he is endorsed. |
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