dBâle electronic music festival basel
frau musica electronica
21 - 23 April 2010
Schwarzwaldallee 200
4058 Basel
Pippa Murphy
Pippa Murphy was born 1972 in the UK. As a composer of instrumental and digital music Pippa has been involved in performances, recordings, collaborations, installations, multimedia work and laptop improvisation in the UK and abroad. She has written music for BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3, Scottish Flute Ensemble, Paragon Ensemble, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Sonic Arts Network, Youth Music and COMA. She has written for numerous contemporary theatre companies including Tron Theatre, Glasgow and Traverse Theatre Company, Edinburgh.
She has devised and facilitated many community education projects, including composition workshops in Iran, over 50 ‘Sonic Postcards’ projects in primary schools in Aberdeenshire, trained teachers in Scotland, Syria, Vietnam and China with the British Council. She has taught at Edinburgh and Aberdeen University and composed with asylum seekers in Glasgow, Manchester and Edinburgh.
She completed her BMus, MA and PhD in composition at Birmingham University. She is the Vice-Chair of Sonic Arts Network and writes for Whitakers Almanac, Sunday Times and The Scotsman.