Jeremy Peyton Jones
Reader
Music
Goldsmiths University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Jeremy Peyton Jones is a composer with a particular interest in the intersection between music / theatre / performance / live art and other time based media. He was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Artists Award 2015. He studied at Dartington College of Arts and Goldsmiths and in the 1970’s worked with John Cage and Christian Wolff. His work has been performed across the UK, Europe, Australia and North America and is regularly broadcast in the USA, Australia and the UK.
Research Interest
Post-operatic music theatre; collaborative, improvisational devising processes; the theatricalisation of instrumental/vocal performance; the body in performance; the role of narrative; the performance space and its environment; multimedia combination of music, text, image and action; repetition in music and performance.
Publications
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Sound Production as Theatrical Action Peyton Jones, Jeremy. Sound Production as Theatrical Action. In: Marilyn Wyers and Osvaldo Gileca, eds. Sound, Music and the Moving Thinking Body. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
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Accommodating the threat of the machine: the act of repetition in live performance. Peyton Jones, Jeremy. 2013. Accommodating the threat of the machine: the act of repetition in live performance. In: Pwyll Ap Sion; Kyle Gann and Keith S. Potter, eds. Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 141-160. ISBN 9781409435495
