Dr Tommaso Perego
Senior Lecturer
Sound and Music
Department of Music, Writing & Performance , School Of Arts And Creative Industries
Dr Tommaso Perego is a Senior Lecturer at UEL and Course Leader for the MA Professional Sound and Music and BA Sound and Music for Games and Media courses. As a researcher, he writes and develops projects about movement as expressed through sound, with key interests in sound and space, acoustic ecology, sound design, immersive multimedia and new media, interactive and generative sound and music. Dr Perego also has an interest in Natural Medicine, Naturopathy, and Herbal Medicine (he is a qualified Naturopath GCRN Member, Herbalist, Nutritionist, and Iridologist),and is working to the integration of holistic complementary practices in general healthcare, for improvements in prevention through nutrition, non-toxic medicines, and the use of sound in holistic therapy.
Qualifications
- PhD
Areas Of Interest
- Music composition
- Music technology
- Spatial audio
- Sonic movement
- Interactive, immersive, and interdisciplinary collaborative practice
OVERVIEW
Since the Conservatory studies, ranging Avant-Guard compositional techniques, Arrangement, Composition, Harmony and Counterpoint, Orchestra Conducting, Music Technology, and Performance, Dr Perego has established a practice in the field of Software Augmented Acoustic Instruments (Les jeux sont Faits), winning the 2006 iXem Price with Incastro di Mondi, an improvisational piece for Bass Clarinet, Flute, Violin and Wireless Gamepad. Since in the UK, Dr Perego worked alongside theatre makers (Rotozaza, Silvia Mercuriali, Talia Randall), and choreographers (Jalianne Li, Kristen McNally) and created works shown at important venues in London (e.g. The Roundhouse, Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden) or in locations throughout the world (see the work Wondermart 2010, and I Hear You See Me 2016), to explore the application of sound to different media, in particular implementing spatial audio techniques and technologies (such as Ambisonics and Wavefield Synthesis). In 2014 he chaired the First International Conference on Sound and Movement Practice in collaboration with Goldsmiths University of London, Trinity Laban Conservatoire, and Game Of Life and Mondriaan Foundations. Since then, he has been publishing and presenting work and research at different conferences, most notably the Audio Engineering Society on Immersive Audio 2019.
On the Natural Medicine side of things, Dr Perego has published a thesis on Minerals in Plants tracing the relation between
substances in plants and their therapeutic action on humans, and presented at the British Sociology Society on the importance of diet in prevention and long term health. Currently, he established a Naturopathy Clinic business under which name he professes working with chronic fatigue clients and female health.
PUBLICATIONS
- 2024 British Science Festival "Sonic Adventures", 13 September 2024
- 2019 Multimodality and Audiovisual Perception: A Case Study involving Spatial Audio, Wave Field Synthesis, and Dance Choreography
- 2017 Sonic Choreosophia: a Cross-disciplinary Investigation on Sound and Movement Practices, Thesis
- 2013 Creativity and Reproducibility in Loudspeakers Sound Diffusion Performances
CURRENT RESEARCH
ACI Funded Song of The Bees. An audiovisual immersive and interactive work in which sound would be the guide into a journey of discovery of the life of a bee. This project looks at the intersection between semantics of audio, space, and movement and tries to establish how that interplays with the changing role of the audience from passive listener to engaged interactive participant.
TEACHING
Publications
The last four years of publications can be viewed below.
Full publications list
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