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Nick Rothwell.

NICK ROTHWELL
INTERFACE DESIGNER

Nick Rothwell is a composer, performer, software architect, programmer and sound designer, with work encompassing the technical and artistic disciplines. He has a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, and a Ph.D. from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, specialising in semantics and parallel architectures for functional and logic programming languages.

Nick has extensive experience in programming techniques, software design and deployment strategies, working for organisations such as Guardian Media Group and Pearson Broadband, building data feeds, remote management servers and content management systems. He has extensive knowledge of programming languages and environments, computer networks, client/server architectures, and database systems.

Nick has also worked extensively with technology and media for the arts. He has been using the Max media environment for fifteen years, building control, audio and video processing systems, and integrating Java enterprise technologies for network and database interfacing. He designed and implemented nonlinear choreographic cueing software for projects at Vienna Volksoper and Ballett Frankfurt, designed an Internet-to-audio data feed for a Futuresonic exhibit by composer Volkmar Klien, and has also implemented visualisation and control systems for Huron surround-sound processors and native ambisonic processors, and a Java-based expert system for a choreographic project which explored chaotic and emergent mathematical systems, with a performance debut at the ICA, London. He is currently building a network-interfaced audio control system for a new media gallery exhibit in the West Midlands, and doing research on an intelligent portable dance artefact for Ricochet Dance Productions.

Nick is also an established composer and performer. He has produced commercial TV and radio recordings, and worked in workshop and performance contexts with choreographers such as Laurie Booth, Carol Brown and Shobana Jeyasingh. He has composed for Transitions Dance Company at the Laban Centre, and has make a series of pieces for Aydin Teker in Istanbul. He also builds video works and systems, with responsive/nonlinear video works commissioned by Sonic Arts Network (one to be shown at TECHNE 06 in Istanbul), and a set of works with choreographer Jane Turner. He has played at venues including the ICA, Goldsmith's College, Fiske Planetarium (Colorado), Odtu Cagdas Dans Gunleri (Ankara) and Arcosanti (Arizona).

Nick also writes articles for the US and UK music technology press, and is currently teaching computer science topics to media students at Westminster University.