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Gregory Marcellus Schiemer (born 16 January 1949 in Dunedoo) is an Australian electronic music composer, instrument builder and teacher. His artistic preoccupations include creative engagement with new technology, music created for non-expert performance and intercultural-interfaith dialogue.
Greg Schiemer was born on 16 January 1949 in Dunedoo, New South Wales. [1] He attended Holy Cross College, Ryde (1961 to 1963), and finished high school in the Passionist minor seminary (from 1964) at St Ives and at the Sydney Technical College, Ultimo in 1968. [2] He completed a B.Mus at Sydney University in 1972 where he studied composition with Peter Sculthorpe who introduced him to music from Asia and by Harry Partch. [3] Through David Ahern, he discovered experimental music and the work of Cornelius Cardew and John Cage. [2]
The foundations of his work as composer and instrument-builder were laid while he was a musical collaborator of Philippa Cullen. Working with Cullen's electronic dance ensemble, he learned from electronic engineer Phil Connor and organ builder Arthur Spring and between 1972 and 1975 together they built some of the earliest electronic music systems that react to dance movement. [4] Between 1976 and 1981 Schiemer worked for Digital Equipment Australia, a division of Digital Equipment Corporation, initially in computer field service and later as senior design technician. In 1999 he completed a PhD in Electronics from Macquarie University for his thesis "MIDI Tool Box: An interactive system for music composition". [5]
Schiemer first taught electronic music composition at the Canberra School of Music from 1983. [6] In November of that year he organised a "Concert on Bicycles" as part of the city's Sunday in the Park. [6] [7] For the concert music was provided by volunteer participants cycling at Commonwealth Park with transistor radios attached to their bicycle frames. [6] [7]
He relocated to the Sydney Conservatorium in 1986.[ citation needed ] There he mentored musicians working with new technology and participated in the activities of watt, the electro-acoustic group co-founded by composers Martin Wesley-Smith and Ian Fredericks. In 2003, he moved to the University of Wollongong where he supervised postgraduate composers and coordinated interdisciplinary research involving sound across a variety of disciplines within creative arts and informatics. He was also the lead chief investigator for Australian Research Council projects focused on mobile technology, [8] haptic instruments [9] and microtonal performance. [10]
His electronic instruments include:
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