David Bird & Adam Bell

Dr David Bird is an active composer and sound designer, working with Film, Contemporary Dance, Theatre, and Radio. David’s specialisms are centered around composition, sound design, studio-based recording techniques and technologies, location recording, multi-channel diffusion and spatialisation techniques, object orientated programming and performance practice.

David’s interest in music was developed through studying Creative Music Technology on the Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. In 2014, David completed a Ph.D. candidacy at the Sonic Arts Research Centre and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Queen’s University Belfast. From 2014-2019, David was employed as the Studio Assistant at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen’s University Belfast. David is currently employed as a Lecturer in Music Technology at the Swansea College of Art, University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

Adam Bell

After completing his Bachelors and Masters degrees at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Adam Bell undertook a PhD at Brunel University under the supervision of Christopher Fox and was awarded a Doctorate in Music in 2019. Adam’s aesthetic approach eschews surface-level mimesis and is exclusively built from what he terms as ‘point gestures’ that share commonalities to the artistic practice of Wassily Kandinsky, in particular those found in the book Point and Line to Plane.

Adam’s music is situated within the modernist tradition, in particular the post-1945 generation of European avant-garde composers and the American composer Milton Babbitt, the so-called ‘New Complexity’ school of composers and the music and writings of Gordon Downie. Adam’s other musical interests exist at the extremes of genres, including electronic, noise and drone music as well as doom and tech metal.