Mr Peter Falconer MA
Postgraduate research student
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Peter Consistently Falconer is a PGR working towards a PhD in Music Composition.
Having been a professional performing musician, songwriter, producer and music teacher for many years with no degree, I took a musicology MA at Kingston University and fell in love with research (my final dissertation was arguing the importance of a lost Steve Reich piece: I was delighted to receive an email from Reich himself telling me I was completely wasting my time).
My composition project at Southampton is a web-based archive of sounds and music from a mysteriously abandoned seaside resort on the County Durham coast, viewable at www.seatonsnook.com. The project encompasses a range of techniques and genres, including field recording, electroacoustic music, and performance lectures. My aim is to explore the field of Sonic Journalism, and the musical applications of the emergent genre of Paraficiton.
I create in various genres and formats, including soundwalks, acousmatic pieces, performance lectures, pieces for live acoustic instruments, and audience-enacted chaos magic rituals in telephone boxes. I am also a voiceover artist and the house composer for Proxima contemporary dance company.