Associate Professor Greg Schiemer

BMus (Composition) (USYD), Dip. Ed. (SYD), PhD (Electronics) (Macquarie)

Consultation Hours:
Tuesday 9.30 - 11.30, Wednesday 9.30 - 11.30

Greg Schiemer (b.1949) studied composition with Peter Sculthorpe graduating from Sydney University with Bachelor of Music in 1972. After a period working for Digital Equipment Australia, he lectured in electronic composition at the Canberra School of Music (1983-85) and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (1986-2002).

Much of his work is associated with musical applications of new technology since the early 1970s and is documented in John Jenkin's 22 Australian Composers. Between 1989-94 he developed a microcontroller-based interactive composition system called the MIDI Tool Box to implement live-performance algorithmic composition in firmware. Using some of these instruments he has played his own music at festivals in Australia, Greece, Japan and Hong Kong.

In 1994 he was awarded an Australia Council Composer’s Fellowship to work on new musical instrument design at CSIRO Division of Radiophysics. In 1997 he was Chief Investigator for a Collaborative ARC project to develop musical applications of 3D audio with Lake Technology as industry partner. His recent ARC Discovery project will adapt mobile phone handsets for composing and playing new music in just intonation with particular focus on the work of contemporary tuning theorist Erv Wilson. His most recent ARC Linkage project, conducted with Associate-Professor Fazel Naghdy and Mr. Timothy Hurd QM, from the National Carillon, will develop a new performance interface using haptic technology.

E-Mail: schiemer@uow.edu.au

Greg Schiemer

Music and Publications

ARC Projects

"Pocket Gamelan:tuning musical applications for wireless internet"