Biography


Graeme Truslove
is a composer and performer based in Glasgow, Scotland.  His output includes: sonic and audio-visual compositions, and improvised music – playing guitar and/or laptop in various solo and collaborative projects.  His work is largely concerned with conflicts between intuitive performance and the fixed-medium, often integrating microtemporal and immersive approaches to sound creation and performance.  He holds both an M.Eng in Electronics with Music, and a Ph.D. in Music Composition from the University of Glasgow.  He currently lectures in Composition and Music Technology at the University of the West of Scotland.

Truslove has performed and exhibited his work internationally, and has attracted awards and nominations from: Metamorphoses (Belgium – 1st prize), The Salford Sonic Research Commission (UK), Creative Scotland, The British Council, The Performing Rights Society Foundation PRSF (UK), The Dewar Arts Award (Scotland), Sociedad General de Autores y Editores SGAE (Spain), The Prince’s Trust (UK), The Phonos Foundation (Spain), The Lumen Prize (UK), The International Computer Music Association (USA).

Significant international performances and exhibitions include: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, OPEN SPACE Commission; L’ESPACE DU SON, Brussels, Belgium; Sonic Fusion Festival, Salford, UK; Seeing Sound Symposium, Bath Spa University, UK; Sonica Festival, Glasgow, Scotland; StillReel, Digital Art Gallery, Australia; The xCoAx Conference, Porto, Portugal, Glasgow, Scotland and Bergamo, Italy; Noise Floor Festival, Staffordshire University UK; Concierto Noche Blanca International Festival of Electroacoustic Music, Santiago, Chile; Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium, Toronto, Canada; Electronic Literature Organization Media Art Show, West Virginia University, USA;  International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualisation, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan; International Conference on Information Visualisation, University of Montpellier, France; Featured Composer, Radiocentraal FM106.7,Antwerp, Belgium; Sound Festival, Aberdeen, Scotland; Lightworks Festival, Grimsby, UK; Soundproof festival, Edinburgh, Scotland; Abstract Movement Exhibition, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Hilltown New Music Festival, Castlepollard, Ireland; Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music, The Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), Belfast, Northern Ireland; Generative Art Conference, Milan and Rome, Italy; International Congress of Art and Technology, National Museum of the Republic, Brasília, Brazil; Electronic Music Midwest Festival, Lewis University, USA; FILE Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil; The International Computer Music Conference ICMC, Stony Brook University, New York, USA and McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Music Under The Influence of Computers, Center for Research in Computing and the Arts CRCA, University of California, San Diego UCSD; N.one-8, Leeds College of Music, Leeds, UK; Zeppelin “Sounds of Power, Listening of Fear”, Festival of Sonic Art, Barcelona; International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain; Transformations, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow Scotland.