Keith Potter

Biography

Keith Potter studied at the University of Birmingham, University College Cardiff and the University of York. Dissertations on Roberto Gerhard and Morton Feldman, plus several published articles on these composers, have been followed by a range of research and publications covering many different areas of contemporary music, with a particular emphasis on British and American work. Scholarship has been extensively supplemented with reviewing for many magazines, journals and newspapers. He was the co-founder and, for seventeen years, Chief Editor of Contact: a Journal of Contemporary Music , and for ten years a regular music critic on The Independent daily newspaper.

Research Interest

Present research work includes books on the American composers Earle Brown and Steve Reich, and collaboration with colleagues from the Departments of Computing and Psychology at Goldsmiths, and from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Queen Mary College, University of London, in a project on information and neural dynamics in the perception of musical structure, including particular reference to minimalist musical compositions.