Journal Articles:

• Journal Article International Journal of Community Music
  Opera, devising and community: A creative and pedagogical methodology (2021)
• Journal Article Interference
  Evoking the sublime: Absence and presence in live electroacoustic performance (2014)

Other Scholarly outputs

• Book chapter ‘The Utopian Ensemble: Collaboration and Emergent Creation’ in Dance AND Research: Percorsi di Ricerca nell’Arte Coreutica Performativa. Rome: Squi[Libri]

Creative Practice

• Choreography Mineral Language (2021) (composition, choreography, artistic director) Accademia Nazionale di Danza, Rome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHYLJVFfHWU&feature=emb_title
• Performance IN/OUT – Rainbow Family (2021) composition, performance, imagery online performance Wise Thoughts commission
• Other Light Machine (2020) album release composition and performance on the label Sombre Soniks
• Choreography Utopia/Dystopia (2019) – in collaboration with Florencia Guerberof (visual artist, choreographer, dancer). Cross-disciplinary opera integrating electronic sound, movement and theatre + audiovisual installation Gallery 46, Whitechapel London http://gallery46.co.uk/exhibitions/04-30-july-2019-liminality-temporal-impressions/
• Performance Fault Line (2016) – solo performance project integrating live instruments and electronic sound. Performed at Café OTO, The Haunt London, Tectonics Festival Tel Aviv 2017. Digital and CD album release on the label Sombre Soniks (2016/17)
• Performance Turing Cabaret (2011/18) – live performance (GFest 2011, Levontin7 Tel Aviv, Korzo Theater The Hague NL) and CD/digital release.
• Performance Cabaret of Tears (2018-ongoing) – recital featuring material by Hanns Eisler, Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, Kurt Weill and Guy Harries Performed by Guy Harries (voice/flute) and Arin Maisky (piano) Venues: Phoenix Arts Club London, Hateiva Jaffa, Levontin7 Tel Aviv (Israel)
• Performance Sonic Rituals (2011-2022) with performer/composer Yumi Hara Cawkwell, performed at Cafe OTO, The Courtyard Theatre Hoxton, Rio Cinema Dalston, and internationally. Album released on Migro Records, 2014. Second album Wheels Within Wheels released on Sombre Soniks 2015.
• Other Live Hazard Collective founded with artist Valerie Pezeron in 2012. The collective explores the interdisciplinary links between drawing and sonic performance, and has organised a number of large-scale events in the UK, including Rich Mix, ELCAF 2015, University of East London, ICA. The collective’s work also includes workshops with the general public and diverse communities
• Performance Two Caravans (2010/13) – chamber opera based on the best-selling novel by Marina Lewycka. Produced by Kameroperahuis (NL) and Opera Up Close (UK). The opera won the Flourish Opera prize and was presented at King’s Head Theatre in Autumn 2013.
• Choreography creation of piece for the MACRO museum in Rome with students of the Il Cantiere Infinito April 2019

Other Activities

Guy Harries

www.guyharries.com

EDUCATION

 

• 2004-2011 PhD in Electroacoustic Composition, City University, London (UK)
• 2002-2004 MMus (Master of Music) in Sonology,The Institute of Sonology, The Hague (NL)
• 2000-2003 BMus (Bachelor of Music) in Composition, The Royal Conservatory, The Hague (NL)
• 1998-2002 BMus (Bachelor of Music) in Sonology, The Institute of Sonology, The Hague (NL)

 

 

PRIZES AND GRANTS

 

• Flourish 2013 prize for chamber opera – from Opera Up Close & Eclectic Opera
• Winner of the Henriette Bosmans Prize for composition from GeNeCo (Association of Dutch Composers) in the year 2000.
• Scholarship from the Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation (2003).
• Scholarship from the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers (2003).

 

 

ARTICLE PUBLICATIONS

 

• 2012 ‘Embodied Subjectivity and Audience Engagement via Drawing in the Project Shadowgraphs’. In Proceedings of the Drawing Out conference.
• 2013 ‘The Open Work: Ecologies of Participation’. In Organised Sound 18(1)
• 2014 ‘Evoking the sublime: Absence and presence in live electroacoustic performance’. In Interference online journal.
• 2020 ‘The Utopian Ensemble: Collaboration and Emergent Creation’ in Dance AND Research: Percorsi di Ricerca nell’Arte Coreutica Performativa. Rome: Squi[Libri]
• 2020 ‘Opera, devising and community: A creative and pedagogical methodology’ in International Journal of Community Music

 

CURRENT ACADEMIC POSTS

 

• Since 2006 Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of East London

Subjects taught: psychoacoustics, sound design, acousmatic composition, composition for film, music theory, improvisation, arrangement, independent music production, PhD supervision.

 

• Since 2012 Lecturer at Trinity Laban Conservatoire – composition, electronic music, composing for media, project supervision, interdisciplinary work (dance and sound), Phd supervision.

 

ARTISTIC WORK  (selection)

 

• Mineral Language (2021) – dance film for online broadcast – choreography and sound composition commissioned by Accademia Nazionale di Danza, Rome.

 

• Light Machine (2020) – solo album released on the label Sombre Soniks

 

• Utopia/Dystopia (2019) – in collaboration with Florencia Guerberof (visual artist, choreographer, dancer). Cross-disciplinary opera integrating electronic sound, movement and theatre.

 

• Dreams of Time (2018 – ongoing) – chamber opera base on the best-selling novel by Alan Lightman. Performed at Tete-a-Tete New Opera Festival 2018.

 

• Turing Cabaret (2011/18) – live performance (GFest 2011, Levontin7 Tel Aviv, Korzo Theater The Hague NL) and CD/digital release.

 

• Create An Opera! (2017-2020) – community-based devising workshops and performances. Theatre Deli London.

 

• Fault Line – solo performance project integrating live instruments and electronic sound. Performed at Café OTO, The Haunt London, Tectonics Festival Tel Aviv 2017. Digital and CD album release on the label Sombre Soniks (2016/17)

 

• Composed the chamber opera Two Caravans (2010/13) based on the best-selling novel by Marina Lewycka. Produced by Kameroperahuis (NL) and Opera Up Close (UK). The opera won the Flourish Opera prize and was presented at King’s Head Theatre in Autumn 2013.

 

• Sonic Rituals (2011-2018) with performer/composer Yumi Hara Cawkwell, performed at Cafe OTO, The Courtyard Theatre Hoxton, Rio Cinema Dalston, and internationally. Album released on Migro Records, 2014.

 

• Founded the Live Hazard Collective with artist Valerie Pezeron in 2012. The collective explores the interdisciplinary links between drawing and sonic performance, and has organised a number of large-scale events in the UK, including Rich Mix, ELCAF 2015, University of East London. The collective’s work also includes workshops with the general public and vulnerable communities. , artists and musicians in a live performance context.
• Created the project Shadowgraphs (2009-2011) which included an installation (presented throughout the UK, including the Stephen Lawrence Gallery); a live performance project (performed at sound art festivals such as NoiseFloor Stafford 2011 and Sound Thought Glasgow 2011) and a blog

 

• Composed and performed (electronics and flute) in the multi-media chamber opera Jasser (2006/07) which toured throughout the Netherlands. (jasserdeopera.nl)

 

• Created, performed and directed three large-scale multimedia projects:
  • Infantry (2001-2003) in collaboration with Meira Asher – toured around Europe. CD released commercially on the label Sub Rosa (BE).
  • Stereo Dogs (2002) – for which he also created the video part. Performed in the Netherlands.
  • Imaginary Friends (2007-2008) an ‘impropera’ including electronics, live drawing, free impro and theatre

 

• Compositions commissioned and performed by various established ensembles: LOOS (NL), SOIL (NL), The Tate Ensemble (UK), Vocal Lab (NL), The Roentgen Connection (NL). Commissioned by: GeNeCo (association of Dutch composers), Foundation for Performing Arts (NL), BBC Radio 3 / Bath Festival, Gaudeamus (NL), Prins Bernhard Foundation (NL)

 

• A member of Luc Houtkamp’s POW computer ensemble, participating in the projects: The 13-bar Blues (2002-2004), Electric Maqamat (2004), TeamingUp (2004), Masnavi Molavi (2005-2006), Songs, Dances and Riddles (2005), An Homage To Hazard (2007), Strange Attractors (2009) and BoxOfBrix (2010)

 

• Work as singer-songwriter in combination with live-electronics, in the solo project Hatch (2004-2012)

 

• Discography includes: Infantry (with Meira Asher, Sub Rosa 2001) and the POW Ensemble’s The 13 Bar Blues (X-OR 2002), Birdsong From Inside The Egg (X-OR 2006) and Homage To Hazard (X-OR 2009), and Sonic Rituals (with Yumi Hara, Migro 2014). Solo albums: Fault Line (2016 Sombre Soniks), Light Machine (2020 Sombre Soniks). Works included in various compilations (released on the labels X-OR, Sub Rosa, Tursa, and netlabels Open Sound Group, Electronic Musik, Blogup Musique, Claswar Karaoke and Halas.am).