Goldsmiths - University of London

Dr Mick Grierson BA Hons, PhD

Mick Grierson is an experimental artist specialising in real-time interactive audiovisual research, with specific focus on cognition and perception. He works in film, music, and software development, both
inside and outside industry, designing, developing and producing new approaches to creating audiovisual experience. In addition to working in traditional roles in film and television, he has designed
commercial audiovisual software for the entertainment industries, which has led to several high profile commissions, including title design and digital audiovisual installations for the hit T.V. show Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind. In January 2008, he collaborated with the Sonic Arts Network to create a freely available interactive audiovisual interface for use by the deaf and hard of hearing . In addition he is lead developer on the Mabuse Audiovisual Composition Software Environment. He is currently working on a three year fully funded AHRC project on audiovisual cognition at Goldsmiths College
Electronic Music Studios.

Research interests

Audiovisual cognition and perception, signal processing and segmentation, brain-computer interfaces (EEG), information retrieval, aesthetic processing, audiovisual interaction and composition, gaming, live electronics, software development, accessibility, experimental electronic improvisation, live cinema, sound and cinema, avant-garde and experimental cinema.

AHRC Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts, Cognitive and Structural Approaches to Contemporary Computer Aided Audiovisual Composition, Goldsmiths College Electronic Music Studios, Department and Music, Goldsmiths, University of London, June 2006 - June 2009.

Advisory member of the steering committee for the Daphne Oram Archive, responsible for Oramics preservation and research, process developer for archiving digital materials.

Selected publications

Audiovisual Compositions
Structure Interne (2003) : Live real-time audiovisual composition for piano, video camera and computer. Published by NOISEFILM.

Third World Warhol (2003) : Live real-time audiovisual composition for videotape and computer. Published by NOISEFILM.

Recent Publications
Casey, M & Grierson, M. "Soundspotter / Remix-TV: Fast Approximate Matching for Audio and Video Performance", Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007

Grierson, M. "Noisescape: A 3d Audiovisual Multi-user Composition Environment", in Birringer, J., Dumke, T., Nicolai, K., (eds) "The World as Virtual Environment", Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau, Dresden 2007: pp 160-168

Forthcoming Publications
Composing With Brainwaves: Minimal Trial P300b Recognition as an Indication of Subjective Preference for the Control of a Musical Instrument, Dr. M Grierson, Submitted to the ICMC 2008

Making Music with Images: Interactive Audiovisual Performance Systems for the Deaf, Dr. M Grierson, Submitted to Electronic Visualization and the Arts, Computer Arts Society 2008

Goldsmiths Electronic Music Studios: 40 Years,  Dr Michael Young, Dr John Drever, Dr Mick Grierson, Ian Stonehouse 2008, Submitted to ICMC 2008