Simon's work has shifted from studio-based acousmatic composition (in the 1980s) to a position which reflects his sense that music is primarily concerned with human action, and only secondarily with acoustic fact. Clearly-defined compositions have increasingly been replaced by performances which bring together particular sets of strategies, technologies, performers and environments. His research investigates the relationship between music and other activities, contiguities between performing and composing/improvising, 'instrument building', and the manner in which musical thought and practice operate in highly technologised contexts. His teaching includes both notation-based and studio-based composition, music's relationship with film and image, electronic technologies, material culture, and critical thought. As Director of the Electroacoustic Music Studios he curates the long-running Sonic Arts concert series and programmes guest seminars, workshops and residencies at UEA, in the UK, and abroad. He has an international reputation as an electroacoustic composer, with awards and commissions in the UK and abroad, and speaks regularly at conferences (not always on music). He has directed two AHRB-funded Research Projects hosted by the School of Music ­ ARiADA (Applied Research in Aesthetics in the Digital Arts) and SARA (Sonic Arts Research Archive), the former producing a peer-reviewed online journal, the latter the de facto national archive for Sonic Art. He has worked with many contemporary dance and physical theatre companies and visual artists including Ballet Rambert, Adventures in Motion Pictures and the Royal Opera House Garden Venture, and as the music director of pioneering multimedia theatre practitioners Moving Being. His works have been widely presented and broadcast in the UK, Europe and the USA.

• The VPFI (Virtual/Physical Feedback Instrument) Flute: A Performance Ecosystem (2007)

Professional Awards (excluding commissions)

• Bourges Festival (France). Hon Mention for Dangerous Liaisons - Jun 1983
• Hinrichsen Foundation Scholarship to work with 'Chant' voice simulation programme at EMS Stockholm - Oct-Nov 1985
• ACGB Bursary for Electro-acoustic music - 1986
• RVW Trust (London) Bursary to work at EMS Stockholm and GES Vierzon (France) for six months - 1987-8
• ACGB Bursary for Electro-acoustic music, and to co-direct an experimental improvisation workshop - 1989-90
• Noroit (Arts Foundation), Arras (France). Drift nominated for Prix Léonce Petitot - Nov 1991
• Shortlisted nominee for Paul Hamlyn Foundation Composition Award - Oct 1993
• AHRB Research Grant (£143000) - Nov 1999 (three years) SARA - Sonic Arts Research Archive / ARiADA - Applied Research in Aesthetics in the Digital Arts
• EPSRC Research Grant (£35000) - Oct 2004 (one year) Interactivity, Ubiquitous Technology and Music Performance (with Dr Jonathan Impett)

Conferences & visiting affiliations (selected)

• 2008 (Jun) Speaker at EMS07 (Sorbonne, Paris)
• 2008 (Mar) Curator and Reviewer for ICMC (International Computer Music Conference) SARC, Belfast
• 2008 (Mar) Speaker –Sonic Imagery Symposium, De Montfort University
• 2007 (Nov) Performer (VPFI flute) 'Performance Ecosystems' Aurora Festival, Norwich Arts Centre
• 2007 (June) Chair and performer (VPFI flute) 'Music and/as Right Action' Conference (the second 'Music and Ethics' conference), University of East Anglia
• 2007 (June) Speaker at EMS07 Leicester (De Montfort University) 'Performance Ecosystems: Ecological approaches to musical interaction'
• 2007 (April) Speaker at Sonorities 2007 Symposium (SARC, Belfast) 'Proximity and Presence'
• 2006 (Jun) VPFI flute performance at 'Faster than Sound' – Aldeburgh Festival, Bentwaters Airbase
• 2006 (April) Speaker at Sonorities 2006 Symposium (SARC, Belfast) 'Performance Ecosystems: Ecological approaches to musical interaction'
• 2006 (Feb) Curator 'Negotiating the piano' concert (featuring Sebastian Lexer, Shigeto Wada, David Plans-Casal) Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast
• 2006 (Jan-Feb) Artist in Residence (Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University, Belfast)
• 2005 (November) Speaker at Tectrim i10 Convention (UEA, Norwich) 'Dissenting design: Interface and interactivity'
• 2005 (Oct) Performer (VPFI flute) 'Circuits of Malpractice – performance/web broadcast for EPSRC project 'Interactivity, Ubiquitous Technology and Music Performance'
• 2005 (October) Speaker at EMS05 (McGill University, Montreal) 'Making the archive and archiving the making: Insights and outcomes from a major research project'
• 2005 (Sept) Performer (VPFI flute) & speaker British Academy Festival of Science, Dublin Institute of Technology
• 2005 (Jul) Speaker at International Network for Electroacoustic Preservation, INA-GRM-Radio France leading to establishment (2005 Dec) of a major bid to EU funding co-ordinated by Daniel Teruggi (GRM-Radio France) with Simon Waters (UEA), Ludger Brümmer (ZKM Karlsrühe), Yann Geslin (Radio France) and Leigh Landy (De Montfort University) as co-directors.
• 2005 (May) Performer (VPFI flute) Sonorities 05 Festival, SARC Belfast with Nic Collins, Jonathan Impett, Cesar Villavicencio
• 2005 (March) Guest Lecture at University of Edinburgh School of Arts, Culture and Environment - 'Contiguities between composition and performance in 'technologised' musical practice'.
• 2004 (April) Keynote speaker at Technologies of Culture Symposium, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast Belfast 'Colliding bodies of knowledge – (aspects of) hybrid thought in musical practice'
• 2003 Member of the ICMC 2003 Reading Panel
• 2003 (August) Chair, International Conference on Music and Gesture. University of East Anglia
• 2003 (August) Keynote speaker at Festival Garage, Stralsund, Germany 'Kunst ohne Rezept'
• 2002 (December) Keynote speaker 'Hybrid Thought' conference hosted by Department of Architecture KTH (Royal Technical University) Stockholm.
• 2001 (July) Director, Curator, Producer, Performer - Hybrids Festival/Conference, University of East Anglia (with Sonic Arts Network) 28 events featuring international practice and research on 4 stages over 3 days
• 1999 (October) Curator/performer in concerts/events at Ultima Festival, Oslo.
• 1998 (October) Keynote address to International Seminar on Digital Aesthetics/Man, Music, Machine- Ultima Festival, Oslo.
• 1999 (April) Keynote address to Oxford University's Beyond art? Digital culture in the Twenty-first century Colloquium, Oxford Union
• 1997 Curator, performer, lecturer, workshop leader Fylkingen, Stockholm 'Diffusion'
• 1997 Guest Lecturer at KTH (Royal Technical University), Department of Architecture, Stockholm
• 1994-1997 Board of Directors of Sonic Arts Network
• 1994 (June) Course leader for composition/choreography courses for British Council/Moving Academy of Performing Arts in Zagreb
• 1994 Guest Professor at Institute for Electroacoustic and Experimental Music, Hochschule für Musik, Vienna
• 1993 (April) Speaker at City University 3rd Science and Music Conference.
• 1993 (March) Director of and delegate at Symposium on Interdisciplinarity in the Arts, Corsham. (SouthWest Arts/Bath College of H.E./Southern Arts)
• 1990-93 Speaker and delegate in 'Dialogue Seminar' series, Norwich & Stockholm (UEA-Centre for Creative & Performing Arts; Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm; KTH -Royal Technical University, Stockholm)

Selected text publications and primary musical compositions