EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS:
Audio Arts 'Live to Air' Tate Gallery London 1981
environment soundtrack Boilerhouse, V&A Museum, London 1983
video installation Riverside Studios, London 1986
environment soundtrack (with Yasuaki Shimizu) Tokyo 1990
'this moment' ICA Biennial 1992
environment soundtrack Wellcome Trust, London 1993
untitled gallery installation
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 1994
'The Listening Room' gallery installation Chisenhale Gallery, London
1994
'The Listener' gallery installation Mall Gallery, London 1996
installation within 'Disorders', curated by Beaconsfield at St Thomas'
Hospital, London 1996
'Open Square' installation City Hall Square Copenhagen 1997
'The Listening Room' installation Biennale of Sydney 1998
'Root' (with Thurston Moore) Chisenhale Gallery, London 1998
'Resolute' Platform Gallery, London 1999
'Bang', curated by Katherine Meynell, Standpoint London 2000
'A Casa Di...', (with Martin Creed) Cittadellarte, Biella Italy 2000
'Sharing a Shadow' Three Colt Street, London 2001
Martin Creed: 'Work No. 211
A Collaboration with David Cunningham' - Frieze London 2001
'Transience', Kiasma, Helsinki 2001
'The Listening Room' installation, The Connecting
Principle, University of Newcastle 2002
'A position between two curves' Days Like These, The Tate Triennial of
Contemporary British Art, London 2003
'Where a straight line meets a curve' (with Karen Mirza and Brad
Butler), Lux Open, London 2003
'Speech Radio' Radioartmobile, Venice Biennale 2003
'Sounding spaces' installation, ICC Gallery, Tokyo 2003
'Listening to the Architecture'
installation, Clerkenwell Magistrates Court, London 2003
'Lift Corridor', Ikon offsite project, Birmingham 2003
'The Listening Room' installation, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 2003
'Interior' site specific installation, Kanazawa 2004
'Exterior' site specific installation, AA School of
Architecture , London 2005
'The Listening Room' installation, Camden Arts Centre, London
2005
'A piano in a gallery' installation, Carter Presents, London
2006
'Four silent films' LCC, London 2007
'alphabet' noshowspace.com,
London 2007
'Instructions for Films' n.o.w.here, London 2007
'The Listening Room' installation, L'Exposition Continue, 1m3
Lausanne 2008
'The Museum of Non Participation,
n.o.w.here, London 2009
MUSIC FOR FILM AND TELEVISION:
'Interlace' dir. Stephen Partridge
-Partridge/Cunningham 1974
'Soundtapes' dir. Stephen Partridge -Partridge/Cunningham
1982
'Ghost Dance'(with Jamie Muir and Michael Giles) dir. Ken
McMullen -Channel 4/ZDF 1983
'Blue Dance' (with Muir and Giles) dir. Jane Thorburn -After
Image/Channel 4 1983
'Being and Doing' dir. Ken McMullen, Stuart Brisley -Arts Council
1984
'Just What Is It' dir. Geoff Dunlop -Arts Council/Channel 4
1984
'Dance on Four' dir. Geoff Dunlop -Illuminations/Channel 4
1984
six works for television John Latham -Annalogue/Channel 4
1984
'Five Closedowns' David Cunningham -Annalogue/Channel 4
1984
'Tumbled Frame' Rose Garrard -Annalogue/Channel 4 1984
'Barricades' dir. Geoff Dunlop -Thames Television 1985
'Bliss' dir. Janet Street
Porter -Border Television 1985
'Zina' dir. Ken McMullen -TSI/Channel 4 1985
'Alter Image' series 2 incidental music dir. Jane Thorburn
-After Image/Channel 4 1985
'Holy Cross'(with Peter Gordon)
dir. Kit Fitzgerald -WGBH 1985
'Alter Image' series 3 incidental music dir. Jane Thorburn -After
Image/Channel 4 1986
'Terminus' dir. Pierre William Glenn -CAT Productions 1987
'Brute!' dir. Malcolm Bennett
-After Image/Network 7/Channel 4 1988
'Great Writers - Kafka' dir. David Thomas -LWT 1988
'Sentences' dir. Stephen Partridge
Partridge/Cunningham 1988
'The Late Show' incidental music dir. Alex Graham -BBC2 1989
'Fragile Earth' dir. Ashley Bruce -Central 1990
'The Sounds of These Words'
dir. Stephen Partridge -Fields and Frames/C4 1990
'Mackintosh 2' dir. Bruce
McLean -Fields and Frames/C4 1990
'The Dazzling Image' dir.
Jane Thorburn -After Image/Arts Council/Channel 4 1990
'this moment' dir. David Cunningham
-Arts Council/BBC 2 1991
'Naked Making Lunch' dir.
Chris Rodley -Lucida/LWT 1992
'There we are John - Derek Jarman'
dir. Ken McMullen -British Council 1993
'Carlton Autumn Launch' dir. Dean Stockton -Carlton TV 1993
'MTV Interventions' dir. David Hall -Annalogue/MTV 1994
'Turner Prize 1994' dir. Chris Rodley
Illuminations/Channel 4 1994
'Lucky Man- Lindsay Anderson' dir. Ken McMullen -British
Council 1995
'Island Race' dir. William Raban -Bow Visions 1996
'Confessions' dir. William Raban -Bow Visions 1997
'This is Modern Art' incidental
music dir. Chris Rodley -Oxford TV 1999
'Firestation' dir. William Raban -Bow Visions 2000
'Variety' dir. Ian Breakwell -BFI 2001
'MM' dir. William Raban
-Bow Visions 2002
'Civil Disobedience' dir. William Raban
-Bow Visions 2004
'Continental Drift' dir. William Raban
-Bow Visions 2005
'The Space Between' dir.
Karen Mirza and Brad Butler
2005
'The Exception and the Rule' dir.
Karen Mirza and Brad Butler
2009
MUSIC FOR THEATRE AND DANCE:
'Canta' Ian Spink Group/Second Stride 1981/2
'War Crimes' dir. Tim Albery/Ian Spink -ICA London 1981
'Performing Clothes' Michelle Clayton -ICA London 1983
'Crickets' Mantis Dance Company
choreographed by Micha Bergese 1983
'Hearts Desire' choreographed by Patti Powell, London 1984
'Freedom of Information' Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane Company, USA 1984
'Faust' Mantis Dance Company choreographed by Micha Bergese 1986
'Kioku no Gekijyo' (with Yasuaki Shimizu) choreographed by Goro
Namerikawa, Tokyo 1990
'Freedom of Information' London
Contemporary Dance Theatre 1991/2
'Futures' Ken McMullen- NFT, London 1993
'Oedipus' Ken McMullen- Cochrane Theatre, London 1993
'Charlotte at 5am' Tiina Huczkowski -Helsinki 1997
'Life's a Monkey' Ken McMullen-
Cochrane Theatre, London 2002
FILM AND TELEVISION - MUSIC PRODUCTION:
'Act of God' dir. Peter Greenaway -Thames
Television 1981
'The Draughtsman's Contract'
dir. Peter Greenaway -BFI/Channel 4 1982
'The Cold Room' dir. James Dearden -HBO 1983
'The Kiss' by Paul Richards and Michael Nyman -Annalogue/Channel
4 1984
'Making a Splash' dir. Peter Greenaway -Media
Software/Channel 4 1984
'A Zed and Two Noughts' dir. Peter Greenaway -BFI/Allarts
1985
'I'll Stake My Cremona to a Jew's Trump' dir. Sara Jolly
-Practical Pictures 1985
'The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat' dir. Chris Rawlence
-ICATV/Channel 4 1987
'Drowning by Numbers' dir. Peter Greenaway -Allarts/Channel
4 1988
'Monsieur Hire' dir. Patrice Laconte -Hachette
Première/Cinéa 1989
'Out of the Ruins' dir. Agnieszka Piotrowska -BBC 1989
'La Sept Suite' prod. Phillippe Truffault -La Sept 1989
'La Mort de Seine' dir. Peter Greenaway -Erato/Allarts 1989
'The Cook the Thief his Wife &
her Lover' dir. Peter Greenaway -Allarts/Erato 1989
'Le Mari de la Coiffeuse'
dir. Patrice Laconte -Hachette Première/Cinéa 1990
'Men of Steel' dir. Agnieszka Piotrowska -BBC 1990
'Prospero's Books' dir. Peter Greenaway -Allarts/NHK 1991
'Misfit' dir. Sam Taylor Wood
-Arts Council/BBC 2 1997
'Angel' dir. Mark Wallinger
-Arts Council/BBC 2 1997
'Beating the Bridges' dir. William Raban -Bow
Visions/Carlton TV 1998
'Non Places' dir. Karen Mirza
and Brad Butler
1999
PERFORMANCE ACTIVITIES:
Riverside Studios, London 1981
Riverside Studios, (with Michael Nyman) London 1981
B2 Wapping, London (with The Flying Lizards) 1982
Almeida Theatre (with John Cage) 1983
San Francisco Art Institute 1983
Centre de Culture, Grenoble (with Peter Gordon) 1983
ICA London (with Peter Gordon) 1983
Womad Festival, ICA London (with Peter Gordon) 1984
Riverside Studios, London (with The Flying Lizards) 1985
ICA London (with Kathy Acker) 1987
Brixton Academy, London (with The Flying
Lizards) 1987
Nakagawa Warehouse Tokyo (with Yasuaki Shimizu and Goro Namerikawa)
1990
Posthof, Linz (with John Greaves) 1992
Passage du Nord Ouest, Paris (with John Greaves) 1993
Bath Pavilion (with Michael Giles) 1996
Beaconsfield, London (with Panasonic) 1996
Albany, London (with 'Accidents
and Emergencies) 1997
Strike, London (with Slomo World Atlas) 1999
Sprawl, London (with Slomo World Atlas) 1999
Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy 2000
Performer Festival, Oslo (with Scanner), Norway 2001
Ocean, London (with Scanner), 2002
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2002
Tate Britain, London, 2003
ICC Tokyo, 2003
Korinbo Harbor, Kanazawa
2004
CAY, Tokyo 2004
Filmlab, London 2004
Super Delux (with Yasuaki Shimizu) Tokyo,
2004
Artfair, Basel, 2005
Middlesborough Music Festival, 2005
Supersonic, Birmingham,, 2005
Sound Track (with
Karen Mirza and Brad Butler), London
2005
Beaconsfield (with
Karen Mirza and Brad Butler), London
2005
NOG Gallery, London
2005
G5, Zürich 2006
Fondazione Spinola Banna per l'Arte, Torino 2006
Conjunction, Stoke-on-Trent 2006
Mister Motley Amsterdam 2006
Bethnal Green Working Mens Club, London 2007
Sonic Recycler, Brentford 2007
ICA London 2008
Le Bourg, Lausanne 2008
Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin 2008
Art:Concept, Paris 2009
Modern Art Oxford 2010
TEACHING AND LECTURING:
London College of Printing 1979 (part-time lecturer,
Film and Television BA)
ICA London 1979 (public lecture)
San Francisco Art Institute 1983 (visiting lecturer,
Film School MA)
Middlesex Polytechnic 1983 (visiting lecturer, Fine
Art)
Derbyshire College
of Higher Education 1986 (visiting lecturer, Fine Art BA)
Maidstone College of Art 1983, 1987-96 (part-time
lecturer, Fine Art BA, Time Based Media BA, MA)
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art
1988,1991-93 (visiting lecturer, Fine Art BA, Electronic Imaging,
postgraduate diploma and MSc)
Slade School of Fine Art 1990/91 (visiting lecturer,
Fine Art postgraduate diploma, MA)
University of Lincolnshire and Humberside 1991
(visiting lecturer, Fine Art BA)
University of East
London 1992/3 (visiting lecturer, Fine Art BA)
Middlesex University 1992-2001 (part-time lecturer,
Fine Art BA, MA)
University of Wales 1996 (visiting lecturer, Fine Art
BA, MA)
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art 1995-98
(external examiner, Fine Art BA)
Royal College of Art 1996-2000 (visiting lecturer,
Photography, Film and Television, Communications, MA)
University of Sydney 1998 (visiting lecturer, Fine
Art BA, MA)
University of Lincolnshire and Humberside 1999
(external validator, Fine Art, BA)
London College of Printing 1998-2001 (visiting
lecturer, Film and Television, BA)
University of Newcastle 2001 (visiting lecture, Fine
Art BA, MA)
University of Newcastle 2002- 2005 (AHRB Research
Fellow)
Middlesex University 2005 (visiting lecture, Sonic
Art)
London College of Printing 1998-2001 (visiting lecturer, Film and
Television, BA)
London College of Communication 2004-2006 (external
examiner, Sonic Art BA and PostGrad)
Middlesex University 2006 (visiting lecturer, Sonic Arts)
University of the Arts London, London College of Communication
2006-2008 (Senior Research Fellow)
Middlesex University 2007 (visiting lecturer, Sonic Arts)
Slade School of Fine Art, UCL 2007-2009 (external examiner,
MA, MFA)
Middlesex University 2008 (visiting lecturer, Sonic
Arts)
PUBLICATIONS:
'Philip Glass - Music in Twelve Parts' -Musics
magazine London 1976
'Studio International reviewed'
-Musics magazine London 1977
'Einstein on the Beach' -Musics
magazine London 1977
'Parsons and Skempton' -Musics magazine London 1977
'The Campiello Band, Fluxus Music' -Musics magazine London 1977
'The Theatre of Mistakes' -Musics magazine London 1977
'Christian Wolff in London' -Contact magazine London 1978
various reviews -Time Out London 1979
'4.33 for John Cage' -Unknown Public London 1992
'Le soir de la mort d'Anthony Burgess' -L'Azur magazine Paris 1993
'Listening and The Listening Room' -Transcript Dundee 1996
'Noise Water Meat' -Art Monthly
London 2000
'Sonic Boom' -Art Monthly London 2000
contributions to:
'Understanding Music' ed. Judy Tatchell -Usbourne Publishing London
1990
'Writings on Glass' ed. Richard
Kostelanetz -Schirmer Books New York 1997
'Sounding Spaces' ICC Gallery,
Tokyo 2003
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