Research Assistant, Interactive Technology in Music Performance
Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Research Assistant at Birmingham City University
- Past
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- Scientific Systems Administrator (Integra project) at Birmingham City University
- Senior Technician at South Birmingham College
- Digital Arts Technician at South Birmingham College
- Education
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- University of Central England in Birmingham
- The University of Birmingham
- Middlesex University
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Jamie Bullock’s Summary
Digital arts software developer and researcher
Specialist research and development for composition and performance of music involving live interactive technology. Related skills include programming (C/Python), media domain-specific languages (Pd, Max/MSP, Csound, SuperCollider), creative systems design, and innovation.
Jamie Bullock’s Specialties:
Software development for the digital arts
Technology-based music composition
Sustainability for interactive technology
Interactive systems and interface development
Jamie Bullock’s Experience
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Research Assistant
Birmingham City University
(Higher Education industry)
April 2006 — Present (2 years 7 months)
-Assisted with the software development strategy, and given related presentations at international meetings in Oslo, Birmingham, Krakow, Vilnius, Belfast and Strasbourg.
-Software development and programming of libIntgera, a library written in C with Python and Java bindings via SWIG
-Software development and programming of a database-driven (Postgresql) web application written in Python
-Developed software systems for performing musical works that use obsolete technology (Yamaha DX7 series)
-Written documentation and several international peer-reviewed papers (ICMC 2005, ICMC 2007, Organised Sound journal) -
Scientific Systems Administrator (Integra project)
Birmingham City University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
June 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 7 months)
- Remote Unix server administration including Apache, qmail, Plone, svn trac and ezmlm admin and maintenance
- Software development admin through Sourceforge including svn and tracker setup and admin
- Wiki setup and maintenatnce (dokuwiki)
- Generation of project documentation (wiki, doxygen, restructured text etc)
- Linux server configuration and maintenance (Postgresql, Apache, Python) including remote authentication -
Senior Technician
South Birmingham College
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
April 2002 — March 2004 (2 years)
- Responsible for managing the workload of 6 IT technicians on a network of over 1000 workstations with over 5000 users
- Linux server administration including SMB, LDAP, DHCP and CUPS service configuration and maintenance
- Network engineering tasks including switch installation and configuration -
Digital Arts Technician
South Birmingham College
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
February 2001 — April 2002 (1 year 3 months)
- Configuration and maintenance of networked media workstations
- User/workstation/printer management via LDAP web interface
- Hardware and software diagnostics
Jamie Bullock’s Education
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University of Central England in Birmingham
PhD (viva pending), Music Technology, 2004 — 2008
Thesis title: Implementing audio feature extraction in live electronic music
Submission details:
∗ c.60,000 words dissertation
∗ c.30-40 minutes composition
∗ c.4000 lines of code -
The University of Birmingham
M.Phil., Musical Composition, 1998 — 2000
Thesis title: Instrumentality in electro-acoustic music
Submission details:
∗ c.20,000 words dissertation
∗ c.25 minutes composition
∗ c.500 lines code -
Middlesex University
B.A. (Hons), Sonic Art, 1995 — 1998
Selected modules with grade (highest 1 - lowest 20):
∗ Music, the arts and ideas: 2
∗ Digital audio: 3
∗ Music performance 1: 3
∗ Music performance 2: 3
∗ Interactive composition: 3
∗ Music in culture and society: 3
∗ Sonic Arts - theory and aesthetics: 3
∗ Proposition module: 2
∗ Music composition 1: 3
∗ Music composition 2: 3
Overall grade: First Class honours
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Jamie Bullock’s Interests:
New music composition and performance Software development for creative media Mountain walking Cooking and eating!
Jamie Bullock’s Groups:
ICMA
SPNM
Integra project
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Python Community -
University of Birmingham Alumni -
Open Source
Jamie Bullock’s Honors:
SPNM Shortlisted composer 2000-2001
Birmingham Conservatoire Bursary 2004-2007
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