Goldsmiths - University of London

Ian Stonehouse, BA

Ian Stonehouse trained as a fine artist and filmmaker, and has worked variously as a sound, video, film & animation lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton and Middlesex University, and as a freelance sound recordist, film/video editor. Prior to Goldsmiths, he was employed at London Electronic Arts (latterly the Lux Centre for Film, Video & Digital Arts) in Hoxton Square, London, working with artists and video/film-makers such as Jane & Louise Wilson, Gillian Wearing, John Maybury, Gary Hume and many others. He was initially employed as Studio Manager in 1999 and, from 2004, as Head of the Electronic Music Studios. He is a board member of the UK & Ireland Soundscape Community (UKISC).

Presentations and exhibitions

BBC Radio 4 Today programme, 5th March 2008 - Autechre and electronic music.

MiE; 16th-19th November 2006, The Space, London. Member of the ensemble performing Catherine Kontz’s new music theatre production.

Frankfurter Ahnung (News of the Esemplasm); Sonic Arts Network CD, curated by Ben Watson (December 2005). Sound recording, editing, mastering. 

Alvin Lucier: Open Sound Systems; 16th September 2005, Tate Modern Gallery, London; member of the Open Sound Systems Ensemble, performing John Lely’s White Noise Machine.

Soundscape: the Journal of Acoustic Ecology; Vol.5 No.1, Spring/Summer 2004. Review of two CDs compiled/recorded by Peter Cusack – Your Favourite London Sounds and The Horse Was Alive The Cow Was Dead.

Late Lunch with Out To Lunch: 3rd March 2004; Resonance 104.4FM..

Earshot #4: Journal of the UK & Ireland Soundscape Community (December 2003). Recording included on accompanying CD, Architectural Soundmarks.

Esemplastic Tuesdays #19 , Royal College of Art, London; 8th February 2003.

The Rough Guide To Rock. Biographies on Frank Zappa & Brian Eno (Rough Guides Limited, 1996/2003).

MERZ NITE - 25th January 2002; Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Live computer/sound collage as part of a collective improvisation in celebration of the V&A’s collection of work by artist Kurt Schwitters.