Kenneth Newby

Kenneth Newby
Newby 2007
Background information
Birth name Kenneth Clayton Newby
Born (1956-09-29) 29 September 1956
Victoria, British Columbia Canada
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Composer
  • musician
  • media artist
  • software designer
  • animator
  • sound designer
  • educator
  • scholar
Labels
  • Songlines
  • Fathom
  • Extreme
  • City of Tribes
  • Flicker Art Collaboratory
Website kennethnewby.net


Kenneth Newby (born 1956, Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian media artist, composer-performer, educator, interaction designer, and audio producer whose creative practice explores the use of technology to enable the creation of music, media performances, and installations.

His work centers around the exploration of the creative forces latent in an emerging poetics of computational art. This research and art-practice has encompassed the development of new media diffusion techniques for performance and exhibition, augmented reality systems for museum experience design, and generative systems for the composition and performance of music and visual art. He was a member of the Computational Poetics research group with Aleksandra Dulic and Martin Gotfrit at Simon Fraser University.

Becoming World — Kenneth Newby & Aleksandra Dulic

Newby's recent work is focussed on long-term projects in generative art including the development of the Flicker Computer Assisted Composition system — a computer-aided system for the composition and performance of contemporary classical music; and Becoming World — a project in generative visual art in collaboration with Aleksandra Dulic.

In addition to his art practice, Newby has worked professionally as research faculty in media arts at Simon Fraser University and the University of the Fraser Valley where he was Associate Professor in Media Arts. He has also worked as an interactivity consultant for Pixar Animation Studios, and as a Sound Artist and Audio Software Developer at Electronic Arts. He is currently a Research Associate at the Center for Culture and Technology at the University of British Columbia, and Director of the Flicker Art Collaboratory at Frog Hollow, Mayne Island.

Discography

Solo

Year Name Ref
1993Ecology of Souls[1]
1997/2017Sirens[2]
1998/2017Seasonal Round (an opera with libretto and vocal performance by Robert Anthony)
2017Chambers — Emergence Trilogy volume one
2017Elegeia — Emergence Trilogy volume two
2017spectral (golden) lyric — Emergence Trilogy volume three

Trance Mission

Year Name Ref
1993Trance Mission[3]
1995Meanwhile...[4]
1996Head Light[5]

Lights in a Fat City

Year Name Ref
1993Sound Column[6]
1999Memory Ground[7]

Other appearances

Year Name Artist Ref
1994LandingStephen Kent[8]
1995The Shirt I Slept InBeth Custer[9]
1996Halcyon Daysw/ Steve Roach & Stephen Kent[10]

References

  1. ↑ Ecology of Souls: Overview at AllMusic. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  2. ↑ Sirens: Credits at AllMusic. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  3. ↑ Trance Mission: Credits at AllMusic. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  4. ↑ Meanwhile: Credits at AllMusic. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  5. ↑ Head Light: Credits at AllMusic. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  6. ↑ Sound Column: Credits at AllMusic. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  7. ↑ Memory Ground: Credits at AllMusic. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  8. ↑ Langing: Credits at AllMusic. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  9. ↑ The Shirt I Slept In: Credits at AllMusic. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  10. ↑ Halcyon Days: Credits at AllMusic. Retrieved 26 April 2013.


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