Steve Gisby

Steve Gisby (Surrey, 1975) is a composer and performer based in Brighton, UK. His music explores mathematical processes, the juxtaposition of logical systems and indeterminacy, ‘found’ material, and the dynamics of ensemble performance. Performances have taken place in the UK, France, Germany, Serbia, Finland, the U.S and Canada.

 

He has given lectures  at universities and institutions across the UK, Europe and the U.S, including IRCAM (Paris), the Sibelius Academy (Helsinki), Lille Conservatoire, California State University at Long Beach and the University of Tennessee, and is a member of the RMA Study Group Music and/as Process.

 

As a Rock & Pop examiner with Trinity College London, he has conducted exams in Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, India, South East Asia, the Far East and Australia.

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Performances:

• 2020:

  • World premiere of Nomad by Justin Alexander at the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK)

  • Nief Norf Summer Festival 10th Anniversary Marathon Concert (online) - interview, and performance of Symmetry | Reflection by Novus Percutere

  • Lawrence University (Wisconsin, USA)

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• 2019:

  • World premiere of OneOneOneOneZeroZeroZeroZero by Nataša Penezić at the Ring Ring Festival (Belgrade, Serbia)

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• 2018:

  • University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (USA)

  • University of Windsor (Ontario, Canada) 

  • OscilloScope (Bangor UK)

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• 2017:

  • World premiere of Transient Lines at the Nief Norf Summer Festival (Knoxville, Tennessee, USA)

  • Noizemachin!! #13 (London, UK)

  • University of South Alabama (USA)

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• 2016:

  • Electromatronic 2 (London, UK)

  • University of Arkansas (USA)

  • Oklahoma City University (USA)

  • University of Michigan (USA)

  • Northwestern State University (Louisiana, USA)

  • Ouachita Baptist University (Arkansas, USA)

  • University of Central Arkansas (USA)

  • Ann Arbor (Michigan, USA)

  • New Jersey (USA)

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• 2015:

  • Lee University (Tennessee, USA)

  • Canterbury Christ Church University (UK)

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• 2014:

  • PASIC (Indianapolis, USA)

  • Canterbury Christ Church University (UK)

  • University of South Alabama (USA)

  • Düsseldorf (Germany)

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• 2013:

  • Canterbury Christ Church University (UK)

  • University of Tennessee at Knoxville (USA)

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• 2012:

  • Furman University (South Carolina, USA)

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• 2011:

  • Lille Conservatoire (France)

  • Les Instants Chavirés (Montreuil, France)

  • La Métive (Moutier-d’Ahun, France)

 

Recordings / broadcasts:

• 2020: 

  • Launch of the Ranu project

  • Animation of com-bi-na-to-ri-al-ly

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• 2017:

  • Included in a compilation on the Reductive label

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• 2016:

  • Fragmented, Iterative, Speech Music featured on the album Solo Speaking by Lauren Redhead

  • Broadcast on Deutschlandradio Kultur (Germany)

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• 2015:

  • Featured on the album Symmetry | Reflection by Novus Percutere

  • Four Iterative Pieces CD released

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• 2012:

  • Featured in Volume 2 of the Putney Project on the Irritable Hedgehog label

 

Publications:

• 2017:

  • Co-author (with Lauren Redhead, Alistair Zaldua and Sophie Stone) of the article Performing Temporal Processes in the New Sound International Journal of Music

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• 2016:

  • Authored the chapter Subjectifying the Objective: Mathematical Processes and the Search for Balance in the book Music and/as Process

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Presentations: 

• 2020:

  • Featured in the exhibition Towards Sound at HilbertRaum, Berlin (Germany)

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• 2018:

  • Edinburgh Napier University (UK)

  • University of Sheffield (UK)

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• 2017:

  • University of Liverpool (UK)

  • University of Tennessee at Knoxville (USA)

  • Open Sound Collective (Brighton, UK)

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• 2016:

  • Bath Spa University (UK)

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• 2015:

  • University of Birmingham (UK)

  • Sibelius Academy (Helsinki, Finland)

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• 2013:

  • California State University at Long Beach (USA)

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• 2011:

  • IRCAM (Paris, France)

 

Trinity Rock tours:

• 2019:

  • Italy (Lecce, Ascoli Piceno, Montesilvano, Pescara and Andria)

  • India (Delhi, Chandigarh, Ludhiana and Bhopal)

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• 2018:

  • Sri Lanka (Columbo)

  • Italy (Castagnito, Alba, Garlasco, Bergamo and Silea)

  • Hong Kong

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• 2017:

  • India (Vadodara, Surat, Siliguri, Ranchi, Chennai, Tiruchirappalli and Yercaud)

  • Australia (Brisbane, Sydney, Nowra, Melbourne and Hamilton)

  • Portugal (Porto and Santarém)

  • Spain (Málaga and Fuengirola)

  • Italy (Milan and Novara)

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• 2016:

  • Dubai

  • Egypt (Cairo)

  • India (Delhi, Bhilai and Bhopal)

  • Hong Kong

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• 2015:

  • Thailand (Bangkok and Korat)

  • Malaysia (Labuan, Miri, Sibu, Kuching, Kota Bharu, Penang, Ipoh, Perak, Alor Setar and Sungai Petani)

  • Brunei (Kuala Belait)

  • South Africa (Cape Town, Somerset West, Plettenberg Bay and Port Elizabeth)

  • Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City)

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• 2014:

  • Northern Ireland (Ballymena)

  • India (Goa, Pune, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Vadodara and Surat)

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• 2013:

  • Italy (Mantova, Parma and Treviso)

  • India (Delhi, Ludhiana, Tiruchirappalli, Yercaud, Salem and Coimbatore)