Pete Stollery


Pete Stollery is a British composer, specialising in electroacoustic music.
Stollery studied with Jonty Harrison at the University of Birmingham from 1979 to 1996, and is currently Professor in Composition and Electroacoustic Music at the University of Aberdeen.
His work Shortstuff was awarded a Special Prize at the Musica Nova competition in Prague in 1994. Onset/Offset has received honorable mentions at the 1996 Stockholm Electronic Arts Award and the 1998 Pierre Schaeffer competition. Altered Images received Second Prize in the São Paulo competition in 1997. His music was featured at the ISCM World Music Days in Germany in 1995.
In 2008, Stollery's scènes, rendez-vous was featured at the Signal & Noise festival in Vancouver and at the sound festival in Aberdeenshire.

Activities

He chaired the Sonic Arts Network from 1985 to 2003 and edits its annual Journal of Electroacoustic Music. He is a founder member of invisiblEARts, a group of sound artists based in Scotland, also including Simon Atkinson, Robert Dow, Alistair MacDonald, Pippa Murphy, Nick Virgo and Pete Dowling.
Stollery is one of the founders of the Sound Festival in the north-east of Scotland, a month-long festival of new music.

Recordings

Solo RecordingsUn son peut en cacher un autre
Compilation RecordingsUne Production Acousmatica – ShioumMaximal Music 4 – Altered Images50 ans de Musique Concrète – Onset/OffsetElectroacoustic Music 3 – Onset/OffsetElectroacoustic Music 6 – PeelSonic Art from... – ABZ/A, ShortstuffLegacies – Onset/Offset, Altered ImagesFlorida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Vol 1 – Squirt You Are Here – Onset/OffsetVibro 3 – The Citizen Band Issue – Serendipities an SynchronicitiesDrift: Resonant Cities – ABZ/ADeep Wireless 6 – Still Voices
Internet
  • – Banchory Ears
  • – ''Back to Square One''

List of works

Acousmatic/SoundscapeCloches Shortstuff Shioum Altered Images Onset/Offset Peel ABZ/A Vox Magna Banchory Ears Serendipities and Synchronicities Fields of Silence Still Voices Scènes, rendez-vous Back to Square One
Electroacoustic with instruments/voicesMyth, for four amplified voices and live electronicsFaible, for electric harp and live electronicsSquirt, for alto saxophone and digital musicThickness, for flute, viola and digital musicPlanar, for trumpet and digital musicbɜ:dz, for organ and digital music74 Degrees North, electroacoustic score for opera with Paul Mealor
Multimedia Music and Sound DesignArchaeolink Our Dynamic Earth Magna Science Adventure Centre Saint Patrick Centre Norwich Millenium Library