Jon Weinel is a sonic artist and digital music composer.  He holds a PhD entitled ‘Altered states of consciousness as an adaptive principle for composing electroacoustic music’, completed at Keele University 2012.

My main expertise is in audio design and composition, with a specialist interest in psychedelic music.  I also have a visual arts background and have worked on audio-visual projects and sound design for video games.

I work with a range of software including Renoise, Audition, Logic and the graphical programming environment for sound: Max/MSP.  I’ve used this to create a variety of software which allows you to interact with the sounds produced (see the software page for details).  I also use Wwise for demoing interactive music and sound effects for game design.

I’m currently working as a contractor at a mobile games company, and I also teach part-time at Manchester Metropolitan University and Keele University.  If you need professional audio for a video game product or similar, please get in touch.

To contact me: jonweinel@hotmail.com

Selected Performances

2011.  Tiny Jungle (7:10).  Noisefloor festival, Staffordshire University.

2010.  Entoptic Phenomena in Audio (20:00).  ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NYC.  Part of the International Computer Music Conference 2010.

2010.  Atomizer (1:00).  Included in VoxNovus 60×60 Dance and 60×60 Sanguine Mixes, performed internationally including Stratford Circus, London.

2009.  Night Dream (8:00).  MANTIS festival, University of Manchester.

Video Game Credits

2011.  Astraware Word Games.  Nook Color.  Sound design and music.

Publications

2012.  ’Altered states of consciousness as an adaptive principle for composing electroacoustic music’.  PhD thesis, Keele University.  Read

2012 (forthcoming).  ’Easter Eggs: hidden tracks and messages in musical mediums’.

2012 (forthcoming).  ’Shamanic Diffusions: a technoshamanic philosophy of electroacoustic music’.

2011.  ’Tiny Jungle: Psychedelic Techniques in Audio-Visual Composition’.  Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2011 (ICMA/University of Huddersfield).  Read

2011.  ’Quake Delirium: Remixing Psychedelic Video Games’.  Sonic Ideas 3 (2) (CMMAS).  Purchase Read

2011.  ’Mutations (megamix): exploring notions of the ‘DJ set’, ‘mashup’ and ‘remix’ through live piano-based performance’, co-authored with Robert Ratcliffe and Zubin Kanga.  eContact! 13 (2) (CEC).  Link

2010.  ’Bass Drum, Saxophone and Laptop’.  eContact! 12 (4) (CEC).  Link

2008.  ’Flashcore: Earth Atomizer, Let’s Go’, published online at Spannered.org. Link