Professor Andrew Lewis

Professor of Composition

a.p.lewis@bangor.ac.uk

Professor Andrew Lewis

Professor of Composition

Co-Dean for Research, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science

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Email:Ìýa.p.lewis@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: 01248 382188

Location: Music Building

Website:Ìý

Andrew Lewis is an award-winning composer and an internationally recognised figure in the field of acousmatic composition. His more recent work includes more music for orchestras and ensembles, but retains a strong interest in the materiality of sound, and the use of technology to realise new kinds of musical ideas. He is especially interested in spatial sound, in the relationship between 'real-world' and 'abstract' sounds, and in the phenomena of aural perception as part of the creative process.

  • Professional: Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales
    Learned Society of Wales, 2024
  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
    Higher Education Academy, 2019
  • PhD Composition
    University of Birmingham, 1991
  • PGCE Music in Education
    Birmingham City University, 1991
  • BMus (Hons)
    University of Birmingham, 1984
  • Professional: Member of the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society (MCPS)
    Mechanical Copyright Protection Society (MCPS),
  • Professional: Member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM)
    Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM),
  • Professional: Member of the Performing Right Society (PRS)
    Performing Right Society (PRS),

Undergraduate and Taught Postgraduate modules:

  • Sonic Art
  • Music Since 1850
  • The Nineteenth Century Symphony
  • Interactive Sound and Music
  • Composition
  • Acousmatic Composition
  • Composition in Context

I am currently main supervisor for three PhD's in composition and electroacoustic composition:

  • Sara Pinheiro: Acousmatic Foley
  • Hu Yu:ÌýNuo Opera in Acousmatic Music
  • Shen Lin: Chinese Folk Music in Interactive and Acousmatic Music

Recently completed PhD projects in Composition:

  • Katherine Betteridge: Nature and Magic – Rediscovering Connections (2020)
  • Steven Tunnicliffe: Perception and Structure in Electroacoustic Music (2019)
  • Richard Garrett: Generative Music from Fuzzy Logic and Probability (2017)
  • Emmannouil Gregoriadis: An Invitation to Listen: exploring engagement in technologically mediated music (2016)

Recent projects include the audiovisial work 'LEXICON' (funded by the Wellcome Trust) which was seen live by more than 1700 people during its UK tour, and 'Fern Hill' for orchestra and electronics, which was commissioned for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales for the centenary celebrations of Dylan Thomas, and broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. This work won first prize in the KLANG! competition, Montpellier, and was given its French premiere there by theÌýOrchestre national Montpellier Occitanie.ÌýIn 2016 he was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to compose a large scale work for orchestra and electronics featuring the voices of people with dementia and their partners who care for them ('Lebenslieder'). The resulting work was awarded second prize in the KLANG! competition, Montpellier, in 2018. In 2019 'Straatmuziek' for flute, clarinet, piano and electronics was one of only two works chosen to represent Wales at the ISCM World Music Days in Estonia.ÌýIn 2018 he was one of ten composers from Wales commissioned for the debut concert of the UPROAR Ensemble, and in 2020 completed a new commission them for ensemble and electronics, for a tour in the UK and Europe.

Numerous recordings are available, including two collections of his works: 'Miroirs obscurs' and 'Au-dèla' (empreintes DIGITALes) as well as 'Schattenklavier' on Shadow Piano (Innova).ÌýÌýHis instrumental and vocal music is published by Composers Edition, and his acousmatic music by Ymx média, Montréal (electrocd.com).

WEBSITES

  • Composer website:Ìý
  • Acousmatic music publisher:Ìý
  • Scores publisher:Ìý
I mainly supervise composition PhDs, especially those involving acousmatic music, and music for live instruments with electronics. I am interested in compositional approaches and strategies, technological development of compositional tools (including software development), and aesthetic and cultural issues (for example, the role of perception and cognition in acousmatic music, and the performance and public reception of music involving technology). Examples of recently completed composition PhD projects I have supervised include "Exploring Engagement in Technologically Mediated Music", "Generative Music from Fuzzy Logic and Probability" and "Perception and Structure in Electroacoustic Music".

2025

  • Published
    Lewis, A. (Other), 16 Feb 2025
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • Accepted/In press
    Lewis, A. (Other), 14 Apr 2025, (Accepted/In press)
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • Published
    Lewis, A., Jan 2025, Harpsichord Reimagined: Resonances in Contemporary Music. Palmer, J. & Chapman, J. (eds.). Vision Edition
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2023

  • Published
    Lewis, A. (Other), 10 Mar 2023
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2022

  • Published
    Lewis, A. (Other), 6 Sept 2022
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • Published
    Lewis, A. (Other), 1 Jul 2022
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • Published
    Lewis, A. (Other), 2022
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • Published
    Lewis, A., 2022, Looking Within, the Music of John Palmer: Interview with John Palmer. Vision Edition
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
  • Published
    Lewis, A. (Other), 2022
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • Published
    Lewis, A. (Other), 2 Nov 2022
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2019

  • Published
    Lewis, A. (Other), 9 Feb 2019
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2018

  • Published
    Lewis, A. (Other), 25 May 2018
    Research output: Non-textual form › Software
  • Published
    Lewis, A. (Other), 2018
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • Published
    Lewis, A. (Composer), 2018
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • Published
    Lewis, A. (Other), 2018
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • Published
    Lewis, A. (Other), 2018
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • Published
    Lewis, A. (Composer), 2018
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2016

  • Published
    Lewis, A. (Composer), 20 Oct 2016
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • Published
    Lewis, A. (Composer), 16 Feb 2016
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2014

  • Published
    Lewis, A. P. (Composer), 30 Oct 2014
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • Published
    Skains, R., Lewis, A. & Muse, E., 7 Jul 2014.
    Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

2012

  • Published
    Lewis, A. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2012
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2010

  • Published
    Lewis, A. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2010
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • Published
    Lewis, A. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2010
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2009

  • Published
    Lewis, A. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2009
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • Published
    Lewis, A. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2009
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2007

  • Published
    Lewis, A. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2007
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • Published
    Lewis, A. P. (Composer), 25 Oct 2007
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2006

  • Published
    Lewis, A. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2006
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • Published
    Lewis, A. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2006
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • Published
    Lewis, A. P. & Castanet, P. A. (Editor), 1 Jan 2006, Portrait polychrome No 10 : Francis Dhomont. 2006 ed. INA
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2004

  • Published
    Lewis, A. P. (Composer), 13 Feb 2004
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • Published
    Lewis, A. P. & Roy, S. (Editor), 1 Jan 2004, L’analyse des musiques electroacoustiques: modeles et propositions. 2004 ed. L'Harmattan, p. 0
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2003

  • Published
    Lewis, A. P. (Composer) & Lewis, A. (Composer), 3 Apr 2003
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • Published
    Lewis, A. P. (Composer), 30 Oct 2003
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2002

  • Published
    Lewis, A. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2002
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • Published
    Lewis, A. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2002
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2001

  • Published
    Lewis, A. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2001
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

1998

  • Published
    Lewis, A. (Other), 9 Jan 1998
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

1994

  • Published
    Lewis, A. (Other), 4 Dec 1994
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

1992

  • Published
    Lewis, A. (Other), 29 Jun 1992
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2025

  • English premiere of Fantazia Upon One Note; (Esme Lewis, violin)

    21 Mar 2025

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • First performance of Singing Light, for soprano and electronics; (Deborah Norin-Kuehn, soprano)

    16 Feb 2025

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

2024

  • 1 day CPD workshop for post-16 music teachers on using 'speech-to-song' techniques to teach composition in a classroom setting

    18 Jun 2024

    Activity: Types of Business and Community - CPD delivery/organisation of courses for externals (in kind) (Contributor)

  • Performance of 'Cori Spezzati' at the Spatial Audio Gathering, DMU Leicester

    17 Jun 2024

    Links:

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

2023

  • Performance of Two Lakes at the SOUND/IMAGE Festival, Greenwich University

    10 Nov 2023

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • A talk about my approach to interdisciplinary compositional research, from LEXICON (2012) to Two Lakes (2023)

    28 Oct 2023

    Links:

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • Performance of LEXICON at the Musicacoustica-Hangzou 2023 conference

    27 Oct 2023

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Performance of Two Lakes at ArteScienza Festival, Rome

    12 Jul 2023

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Performance of Three Storms at Noisefloor 2023

    11 May 2023

    Links:

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Held annually since 2005 in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico, focuses on artistic proposals that include new technologies at the core of artistic creation, offering a current perspective of what is happening globally in artistic creation.

    10 Mar 2023

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • What lakes are telling us about climate change, and how we can listen to them

    6 Mar 2023

    Links:

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

2022

  • Performance of Ascent at Echochroma XIX

    28 Nov 2022

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Performance of Skyline at Echochroma XIX

    28 Nov 2022

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Performance of 'Three Storms' at Echochroma XIX

    28 Nov 2022

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Radio 3 broadcast of 'In Memory', on 'Radio 3 In Concert'. BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Gergely Madaras (conductor)

    15 Nov 2022

    Links:

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • World premiere of 'In Memory', BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Gergely Madaras (conductor)

    11 Nov 2022

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Radio 3 broadcast of 'Canzon in Double Echo' on the 'New Music Show'. Uproar/Michael Rafferty

    5 Nov 2022

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Performance of 'Cori Spezzati'

    2 Nov 2022

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • World premiere of 'Three Storms'

    2 Nov 2022

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Performance of Skyline at the concert 'El laboratorio del Espacio' as part of 'Landscape and Sustainability: Listening to Multiplicity' at UAM

    13 Oct 2022

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • World premiere of 'Cori Spezzati'

    1 Jul 2022

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Performance of Canzon in Double Echo by UPROAR and Michael Rafferty

    1 Jun 2022

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Performance of Canzon in Double Echo by UPROAR and Michael Rafferty

    20 May 2022

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Performance of Canzon in Double Echo by UPROAR and Michael Rafferty

    8 May 2022

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • 1 Mar 2022 →

    Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Contributor)

  • Performance of Fantazia Upon One Note at Â鶹Íø Music Festival, Â鶹Íø, North Wales

    11 Feb 2022

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

2020

  • Performance of Canzon in Double Echo by UPROAR and Michael Rafferty

    13 Mar 2020

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • World premiere of Professor Bad Trip, performed by UPROAR and Michael Rafferty

    28 Feb 2020

    Links:

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

2019

  • Performance of Scherzo as part of the diffusion competition ay L'Espace du son, Theâtre Marni, Brussels

    11 Dec 2019

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • 'Acoustic Frontiers', CKCU FM Ottowa, Canada

    16 Sep 2019

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)

  • Performance of Skyline

    20 Jun 2019

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Performance of Skyline, Music Technology Department, Shanghai Normal University

    9 Jun 2019

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Broadcast of Skyline

    23 Mar 2019

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)

  • World premiere of Earthline performed by Richard Craig

    9 Feb 2019

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Broadcast of Étude aux objets

    9 Feb 2019

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)

  • Performance of Étude aux object by UPROAR and Michael Rafferty

    9 Feb 2019

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Performance of Skyline

    27 Jan 2019

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

2018

  • Performance of Ascent

    2 Nov 2018

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Performance of Danses acousmatiques

    2 Nov 2018

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Performance of Dark Glass

    2 Nov 2018

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Performance of Skyline

    2 Nov 2018

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Performance of Ascent at L'Espace du son, Theâtre Marni, Brussels

    28 Oct 2018

    Links:

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Performance of LEXICON at L'Espace du son, Bar Marni, Brussels

    28 Oct 2018

    Links:

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Performance of Penmon Point at L'Espace du son, Theâtre Marni, Brussels

    28 Oct 2018

    Links:

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Performance of Scherzo at L'Espace du son, Theâtre Marni, Brussels

    28 Oct 2018

    Links:

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Performance of Skyline at L'Espace du son, Theâtre Marni, Brussels

    28 Oct 2018

    Links:

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • World premiere of Étude aux objets, performed by UPROAR and Michael Rafferty

    26 Oct 2018

    Links:

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Performance of Skyline by BULO, Victoria Rooms, Bristol

    26 Oct 2018

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Performance of 'Skyline' at BEAST FEaST, Elgar Concert Hall, Birmingham

    27 Apr 2018

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • World premiere of 'Lebenslieder' (three movements) at Studio Theatre, Pontio, Â鶹Íø

    19 Mar 2018

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • French premiere of 'Fern Hill' by l'Orchestre national Montpellier–Occitanie conducted by David Niemann, Opéra Berlioz, Montpellier, France

    23 Feb 2018

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Broadcast of 'Fern Hill' on 'Hear and Now', BBC Radio 3

    17 Feb 2018

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Broadcast of 'LEXICON' on 'La boîte noire', RTR – Radio France Rodez

    30 Jan 2018

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)

2017

  • Performance of 'Cân' at 'Acousmatrix #3', Salle Marguerite Long, Conservatoire de musique de Nîmes, France

    28 Nov 2017

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Broadcast of 'Skyline' on 'Acoustic Frontiers', CKCU FM Ottowa, Canada

    13 Nov 2017

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)

  • Performance of 'Danse des gestes (pas de trois)' (from 'Danses Acousmatiques')

    2 Nov 2017

    Links:

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • 2 Nov 2017

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Performance of Skyline

    26 Sep 2017

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • 23 Sep 2017

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • 1 Jul 2017

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • 25 Jun 2017

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • 28 Apr 2017

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • 5 Apr 2017

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • 17 Mar 2017

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Songs from Afar: composing the experience of dementia (RF-2016-527)

    1 Feb 2017 – 31 May 2017

    Activity: Types of Award - Fellowship awarded competitively (Contributor)

2016

  • Premiere of Skyline

    20 Oct 2016

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • Broadcast of Penmon Point

    28 Aug 2016

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)

223

  • Composer Andrew Lewis and scientist Iestyn Woolway discuss how lakes can help us understand climate change, and how this data can be used to make music. Lakes and reservoirs are a critical natural resource, supporting biodiversity and providing many benefits to people around the world. But lakes are critically susceptible to climate change, especially the increase in global temperatures. Climatic warming can have a huge influence on the physical environment of lakes, including warming of surface water and effects on water levels Ultimately, the physical environment of lakes is responding dramatically to a warming world. In this talk, Iestyn Woolway will discuss the response of key lake variables to climate change, and Andrew Lewis will explain how this data has been used in composing his new piece ‘Two Lakes’.

    6 Mar 223

    Links:

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • 01/02/2020 – 01/08/2022 (Finished)

  • 14/02/2019 – 30/06/2020 (Finished)

  • 01/01/2017 – 12/09/2017 (Finished)

  • 01/01/2012 – 30/09/2015 (Finished)

    Links:

College Roles

  • Co-Dean for Research

Departmental Responsibilities

  • Studio Director