PhD in Music Composition, Royal 探花直播 Conservatoire
Thesis title: Grandchildren of Experimental Music 鈥� Performing the compositional act by creating intriguing situations in which musical sound may occur
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership
MMus Master Artistic Research, Royal Conservatoire / Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
BMus(Hons) Music Composition, 探花直播 Conservatoire
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Chesterfield College
Voting Member of PRS for Music (Performing Right Society)
Peer reviewer for JAR (Journal for Artistic Research) and Riffs 鈥� Experimental writing on popular music.
- One-to-one composition tutor (BMus and MMus)
- Tutor on MMus Experimental Performance
Andy also teaches on the following modules:
- Performance Traditions 2: Music After 1900 in History and Practice (BMus2)
- Contextual Studies Specialism: Concert Situations & Liveness (BMus3)
- Experimental Performance in Context(s) (MMus)
Andy is currently a research assistant for the Documenting Music with Non-Sonic Elements AHRC Research Network. He undertakes practice-based research in his duos with Kathryn Williams and Se谩n Clancy.
Andy's methods for reading active participants as musical notation have been adopted by Hand Of, an arts education charity that seeks to enrich the education of disadvantaged children, for their Northumberland Space Programme (2018鈥搊ngoing).
Third supervisor for Ed McKeon: Making art public 鈥� The curatorial as musical praxis
2020 鈥楶erforming the compositional act with bouncy castles, soap and shh鈥�, in Research Catalogue (online)
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2020 鈥楿p Down Left Right鈥�, in Research Catalogue (online)
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2020 Tape Piece (limited-edition cassette), 探花直播 Record Company (with Maya Verlaak)
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2020 鈥楧rawings for 鈥楲evitas, Gravitas and High Intensity Interval Training for Sharon d鈥橝ire鈥欌��, in Tempo, volume 74, issue 293, Cambridge
2020 鈥楶rivate Hire 鈥� Kathryn Williams' and Andy Ingamells' latest performance vehicle鈥�, in The Sampler, online (with Kathryn Williams)
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2020 鈥楨very time we touch 鈥� Apartment House at the Petting Zoo鈥�, in The Sampler, online
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2019 鈥楶erforming the compositional act with bouncy castles, soap and shh鈥� in Proceedings of the International Conference for Technologies in Notation and Representation, Monash University, Melbourne, pp. 74-79
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2018 鈥楳ake each face a living note鈥� in Y-E-S, online
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2018 鈥楡textscoreaday#180鈥� and 鈥楽ound of a marathon鈥� in CRU3, Berlin
2018 鈥業nterview鈥� in FREEING (Our Bodies), Issue 2, pp. 65-66
2017 鈥楲ocational Aesthetics: Squashing鈥� in Riffs 鈥� Experimental writing on popular music, volume 1, issue 1, pp. 34-35
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2017 Up Down Left Right (limited-edition artist book), Situations, Bristol
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2016 鈥楽top inhaling Oxygen and exhaling Carbon Dioxide because 鈥榳e did that in the 60s鈥欌�� in MusikTexte Zeitschrift f眉r Neue Musik, issue 149, pp. 22-23
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Andy is the Label Manager of 探花直播 Record Company (BRC), a Conservatoire-based label that presents eclectic and exciting new releases by artists who challenge, innovate and transform ideas of music today. He coordinated the partnership between BRC and leading contemporary music record label NMC Recordings Ltd. More information available from https://birminghamrecordcompany.wordpress.com
He is currently employed as a freelance producer by Eastside Projects gallery and 探花直播 Big Art Project to individually record 1092 members of the public singing for Turner Prize-winning artist Susan Philipsz鈥檚 major new public artwork Station Clock. In 2014-15 he was employed by Philipsz to play and record war-damaged historic brass instruments for her large-scale artwork displayed in Tate Britain鈥檚 Duveen Galleries and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.
Selected reviews of Andy鈥檚 composition and performance work:
- 鈥淎bsurd and curiously life-enhancing 鈥� a comic tour de force鈥� 鈥� The Wire, issue November 2020.
- 鈥淟iterally breathtaking [鈥he] unusual composition method left the audience stunned, giving each sound its own life and soul, a gripping physicality and energy, while setting a nice contrast to digitally produced music鈥� 鈥� Nonclassical. Battle of the Bands 2018: Reviewed, online.
- 鈥淎chieved something meaningful for both ears and eyes [鈥 The falsetto squeals of the sellotape launched fragmentary melodies into the air. This piece was witty and fun鈥� 鈥� Philip Clark. Frieze, online (2018).
- 鈥淎 deadpan parody of a composer film portrait/hagiography [鈥 Superbly entertaining鈥� 鈥� Leo Chadburn. Tempo, volume 70, issue 276 (2016).
- 鈥淪harp, inventive, but not terribly hygienic鈥� 鈥� Michael White. Classical Music, issue April 2016.
- 鈥淥utstanding [鈥 demonstrating a skilful balance of compositional elements and performance qualities, with well-planned theatrical effects鈥� 鈥� Viola Yip. Tempo, volume 69, issue 271 (2015).
- 鈥淪harp and embedded in the tumult of the everyday world鈥� 鈥� Eduard van Beinum Foundation, online (2015).
Andy has presented radio broadcasts on Resonance Extra as part of the x.y FM programme and given interviews for various outlets including SWR2 (JetztMusik) and the BBC.
