Ross Euan Davidson
Photo credit: Maria Jose Rojas
Ross is an award-winning composer of contemporary electronic music and a sound designer.
He is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD at De Montfort University, supervised by Bret Battey and Simon Atkinson. This research investigates the rich potentials of applying an electroacoustic
compositional approach to sound design in narrative films, and is supported by funding from AHRC Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. More information about this can be found on Ross' M4C Research Profile, or by getting in touch via the contact form on this site.
Ross has developed a compositional approach which focuses on the creation of immersive sound-worlds, drawing on the beauty and intrigue of sounds we find in our everyday life and using these to create rich new sonic environments that appeal to and go beyond our lived experiences. His work spans many multi-media formats including film, theatre, and contemporary dance.
His music has been performed internationally at festivals such as Ciclo de Música Electroacústica (Valdivia), Sound Junction (Sheffield), Ai Maako (Santiago), and The Engine Room International Sound Art Exhibition (London). In 2018 he travelled to Guna Yala, Panama, where he made extensive field recordings of the beautiful tropical rainforest soundscapes as part of La Wayaka Current’s artist residency. In 2017 his piece Veins Coalesce
was awarded the student category prize in Klang!. He completed his MA in electroacoustic composition in 2017 under the guidance of Adam Stanović and Adrian Moore.
He is a member of the duo AARD, an improvised live-coding and modular synth group, along with Alejandro Albornoz.
Resonance
In 2018 I featured in a documentary about the process of recording sounds for sonic art. The film was created by Joe Georgiou and Oscar Whaley, and in it I talk about a few aspects of my approach to sound recording and some of my inspirations.
I would like to thank Joe and Oscar for involving me in this project, I had a lot of fun and it was a hugely rewarding experience!
Check out Joe's website here to see more stuff he's done and what he has coming up: https://joegeorgiou.wixsite.com/film
