David Worrall (composer)

David Worrall
Worrall in 2016
Born
David Robert Worrall

(1954-10-25) 25 October 1954 (age 70)
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation(s)Composer, polymedia artist, information sonifier, academic

David Worrall (born 25 October 1954 in Newcastle NSW) is an Australian composer and sound artist working a range of genres, including data sonification, sound sculpture and immersive polymedia (a term he coined in 1986) as well as traditional instrumental music composition.[1][2]

  1. ^ Following from the notion of polyphony, polymedia is a descriptive term to describe a genre of composition in which the simultaneous integration of different media are employed to transmit a polymodal 'message'. Such works rely on the functional integration of two or more of the aural, visual, tactile, kinesthetic, proprioceptive, etc. senses. VR (Virtual reality) environments are examples of immersive polymedia.
  2. ^ A multichannel performance space for presenting experimental polymedia compositions.