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Andrew John Preston "Andi" Spicer (born 1959 in Birmingham, UK), is a British electroacoustic classical music composer who uses electronics (see Electronic Music) in his compositions. The composer is also a writer and journalist. He has contributed to The Wall Street Journal()() and The Gramophone as a reviewer () and has written for many international newspapers, magazines and news agencies, including Dow Jones Newswires, The Associated Press, The Independent, The Financial Times and The Observer. His music is published by Edition Tre Fontane () in Münster, Germany. ==History and influences== He studied economics at Aston University in Birmingham and pursued a career in journalism, while composing and performing free form improvised music (see free improvisation). He lived in Johannesburg, South Africa between 1996 and 2003, working as a foreign correspondent for major US and British newspapers, after which he moved back to England. He now lives in Brighton. Since then he has been a member of the New Music Brighton () and London Forum () collectives of composers in the UK. His compositions have been featured at the Brighton Festival, Soundwaves Festival (), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Goldsmiths College Pure Gold Festival (), Royal College of Music in London, London COMA Summer School,()() Bille en Tête Festival (Musique En Roue Libre) in Arras, France ()() and at the All Ears Contemporary Music Festival () in London, as well as at the Grahamstown Festival in South Africa and performed elsewhere in France, Sweden, Austria (), Mexico and the US. He is largely self-taught, although he took private lessons in composition and music theory with South African composer Martin Watt at the University of the Witwatersrand and composition workshops with British composer Michael Finnissy. His music uses improvisation, graphic notation, electronics (see electronic art music) and emphasises surface textures, but is also influenced by southern African and Asian world music. He is associated with the Gallery III () group of artists, musicians and multi-media artists in Johannesburg, South Africa, which included artist and musician James de Villiers and Beat poet Sinclair Beiles. Spicer is among a new generation of composers in post-apartheid (see apartheid) South Africa. Other examples are Bongani Ndodana-Breen, Dimitri Voudouris, Jürgen Bräuninger, (Cobi van Tonder ), Hannes Taljaard,() Michael Blake (see Michael Blake - Composer)()Robert Fokkens and Spicer's teacher Martin Watt. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andi Spicer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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