Biography
Jason Dixon studied music (undergraduate) and music technology (postgraduate) at Queen's University Belfast, specialising in composition with Professors Michael Alcorn and Piers Hellawell. His music has been performed at the Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music and at the Pulse Field International Exhibition of Sound Art (Georgia State University). It has also been broadcast by NVR Radio and various other internet radio stations.
Previous works include: Morbid Anxieties (tape), Mutant Tapeworm (ensemble and tape), Mutant Neutrino (flute and tape), The Legend of Oscar (the life and times of a mutant oboe) (tape), Oscar the Mutant meets a sticky end (the chronicles of a weekend night-shift worker) (two percussion soloists and orchestra), Not a mutant in sight (tape), strong words, softly spoken (tape), 4+1=? (4 Amateur Percussionists, Max/MSP and SuperCollider) and dot73 - mutations on a theme by Xenakis (tape).
Jason is currently employed as a Studio Assistant at Queen's University, Belfast. Working for both the School of Music and the new Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), he looks after all the technical stuff and does some teaching on the BSc in Music Technology degree programme. |
