Gareth Whitehead

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Lecturer - Music Business

Education  

  • Postgraduate – Tertiary Education with Teaching Qualification  - Stirling University 
  • BSc (Hons) - Audio Technology with Electronics - Glasgow Caledonian University
  • Currently working towards PhD at the University of Surrey 

Employment 

  • Electronic Music Composer and performer (2005 – present) 
  • Record label owner - Bulletdodge records (2008 – present) 
  • Music business lecturer - New College Lanarkshire (2014 – 2022)   

Publications 

  • Whitehead, G. (2022). Exploring Personal Spectres in Electronic Music. Dancecult, 14(1), pp.2–22. doi:10.12801/1947-5403.2022.14.01.01. 

Conference Papers/Presentations 

  • November 2022 – Unsettling the Spectres in Electronic Music Composition - ‘The Unsought Discovery ‘ - Orpheus Doctoral Conference 2022, Ghent, Belgium 
  • June 2022 – ‘How the electronic music compositional process can be informed by the concept of hauntology’ – 7th Derrida Today Conference, Washington DC, USA 

Experience 

  • Electronic Music composer, collaborator and remixer – worked with Carl Cox, Juan Atkins, Plaid, Marshall Jefferson, Giants In The Trees (Krist Novoselic), Phil Hartnol (Orbital), Leeroy Thornhill (Prodigy), Adamski, 808 State, Mad Professor, Roedelius (Cluster), Werner Zappi Diermaier (Faust) 
  • Touring electronic music performer / DJ  
  • Promoting new talent at music conferences and networking events such as The Amsterdam Dance Event, Ibiza International Music Summit, Sonar Barcelona, The Detroit Movement Electronic Music Conference and Brighton Music Conference 
  • Question Session Music Conference project manager – 2016 - 2020  
  • Music industry Advisory Group member - Scottish Music Industry Association (2019 – present)

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