Audio

This page gathers audio interviews, radio features, and podcast conversations, alongside selected CD releases. The items range from ’Pataphysics and composition to aural diversity, autism, and hearing difference. Where transcripts are available, I link to them directly.

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Interviews, talks, podcasts and broadcasts

• Exploring Aural Diversity with Professor Andrew Hugill. Interview by Julia van Huyssteen for the Signia Podcast, 2024.
• Exploring Invisible Disabilities and Hearing: a conversation with Professor Andrew Hugill. Interview by Julia van Huyssteen for the Signia Podcast, 2024.
• The world is built for people with perfect hearing, but 83% of people don’t have it. Interview on St. Louis Public Radio by Avery Lea Rogers, 2023.
• An Introduction to ’Pataphysics. Christian Bök and Andrew Hugill interviewed by Anthony Etherin, 2022. The Penteract Podcast 2(4).
• Autism Stories: Andrew Hugill. Interviewed by Doug Blecher for the Autism Stories podcast, 2022.
• Aural Diversity in Leicester. Andrew Hugill interviewed by Rupal Rajani on BBC Radio Leicester, 15.11.2019.
• Aural Diversity. Andrew Hugill interviewed on BBC Radio 3 Music Matters, 29.06.2019. Transcript.
• 10 Jobs of the Future. BBC World Service: Business Matters, 2016 (starts c. 20 minutes).
• The Pataphysics of the Future. Talk given at the Transdisciplinary Common Room, De Montfort University, 13.02.2013.
• ’Pataphysics. Interviewed by Sedge Thomson on West Coast Live, 2012.
• Making Music with Computers. Lecture given to the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, 2012.
• Computers, Music and Me. Interview with Ben Jackson on BBC Radio Leicester (date unknown).
• Pianolith discussion. Interviewed by the pianist GeNIA about my composition Pianolith for rocks and piano, 2003.
• La Grenouille et le ’Pataphysicien. Radio France Culture broadcast in the series Surpris par la nuit, featuring excerpts from my musical works and an interview (90').
• Music and the Internet. Feature on BBC Radio 3 including an interview and extended excerpts from Island Symphony.
• Prom Preview: Berio’s Sinfonia. Discussion with Judith Weir, broadcast on BBC Radio 3, 1994.

CD recordings

• Pataphysical Piano: the sounds and silences of Andrew Hugill (2010). Single-composer CD of music for piano, performed by Taina Niemelä, Isabel Chaplais, Adam Swayne, Richard Uttley, Paul Kean, Karis Stretton.
• Bouquet of Sounds (2007). Compilation of electroacoustic works by Simon Atkinson, Pierre Couprie, Leigh Landy, Richard Hemmings, Christopher Hobbs, Rob Weale, John Richards, Simon Emmerson, Peter Batchelor, Rick Nance, Bret Battey, Sophy Smith, Andrew Hugill, Ximena Alarcón, Ron Herrema.
• ’Pataphysics (2005). A Hugill-curated CD with accompanying booklet commissioned by Sonic Arts Network. Tracks by Alphonse Allais, Alfred Jarry, Marcel Duchamp, Percy Grainger, Boris Vian, Harpo Marx, Luc Étienne, Jean Dubuffet, Robert Wyatt & Hugh Hopper, Gavin Bryars, Nigey Lennon, Christopher Hobbs, Andrew Hugill, Frédéric Inigo, Gullibloon, John Levack Drever, Neil Salley, Ramuntcho Matta, Marc Battier.
• Island Symphony (1995). Single-composer CD (no longer available).