The electroacoustic music studios of the University of East Anglia have maintained a position with regard to music's engagement with technology out of all proportion to their scale. From the early 1970s the studios promoted multi-loudspeaker sound diffusion for the performance of electroacoustic music, initiating the longest continuously-running concert series of such music in the UK (still running today as the Sonic Arts series).
During the 1980s the then studio director Denis Smalley introduced the notion of 'spectromorphology' which was to provide critical and descriptive tools for the genre. In the 1990s under new director Simon Waters the studios were quick to adopt new approaches involving both high-tech (real-time and networked performance) and low-tech (hardware hacking) solutions to musical problems.
The introduction in 2009 of a new undergraduate programme in Music and Technology has brought the combination of experiment and rigour which characterised the studio's research programmes to a much wider audience of potential students.
During the 1980s the then studio director Denis Smalley introduced the notion of 'spectromorphology' which was to provide critical and descriptive tools for the genre. In the 1990s under new director Simon Waters the studios were quick to adopt new approaches involving both high-tech (real-time and networked performance) and low-tech (hardware hacking) solutions to musical problems.
The introduction in 2009 of a new undergraduate programme in Music and Technology has brought the combination of experiment and rigour which characterised the studio's research programmes to a much wider audience of potential students.
