I have loved listening to music ever since I can remember and began piano lessons and singing in the local choir at the age of seven. Fascinated by my dad's collection of electronic music I also developed a passion for recording and music technology. I studied Music and Sound Recording on the University of Surrey's Tonmeister course, graduating in 1994, also studying privately with the organist Michael Howard until 1996.

I have worked variously as a recording engineer, musician, technologist and teacher. From 1996-1998 I was a lecturer for Music Technology at Newham College of Further Education in east London. From there I moved onto Digital Audio Research where I spent two years as a technical services manager before becoming a product specialist at Fairlight.

Seeking to update and expand my skills, I came to the University of York in 2000  to do an MSc in Music Technology. I then undertook a PhD in spectral modelling for creative sound transformation which I submitted and successfully defended in 2006. From 2004 I was a teaching fellow in the Department of Electronics then in October 2008, I transferred to a new role as a researcher for room acoustics modelling. I have just taken up a new permanent post as lecturer in Music Technology, meaning that I get to combine both teaching and research. I have previously taught on the following courses, as well as supervising projects:

undergraduate - acoustics and psychoacoustics, recording studio techniques and technologies, advanced post production techniques, ECAD for music, advanced music technology systems and mathematics workshops.
postgraduate - human perception of sound, audio processing techniques and environments, studio recording and multimedia compression (audio).

Outside of room modelling my current research interests are real-time spectral modelling of audio and advanced audio modelling and processing for studio based effects. I recently supervised Bachelors and Masters projects on audio processing with the two-dimensional Fourier transform, transcribing the music of Debussy to 19 and 31 TET tuning systems, physical modelling in PD, automated audio mixing tools, tempo perception, principal component analysis of rasterised audio, modelling of weakly non-linear systems for audio, modification of human voice characteristics and spectral modelling of guitar distortion.

Outside of my work at the University I am a director/trustee of Accessible Arts and Media, a community and new media centre with charitable status based in York. I still work freelance, when time permits, as a recording engineer and consultant. I still play the piano and organ and sing with The Vale of York Voices, an occasional choir that sings for services in York Minster. As a DJ I've played at festivals such as The Big Chill, Drop Beats not Bombs and Sightsonic as well as at club nights like Playtime.