Kenneth Newby

Kenneth Newby (born 1956) is a Canadian media artist, composer-performer, educator, interaction designer, and audio producer based in British Columbia.^[1] He is known for his innovative use of technology in the creation of music, media performances, and installations.^[2] He is a research associate at the Center for Culture and Technology at the University of British Columbia, and Director of the Flicker Art Collaboratory at Frog Hollow, Mayne Island.

Kenneth Newby
Newby 2007
Background information
Birth name	Kenneth Clayton Newby
Born	(1956-09-29) 29 September 1956 (age 68) Victoria, British Columbia Canada
Genres	Contemporary Classical Spectral music experimental
Occupations	Composer musician media artist software designer animator sound designer educator scholar
Labels	Songlines Fathom Extreme City of Tribes Flicker Art Collaboratory
Website	kennethnewby.net

Early life

Newby was born in Victoria, British Columbia.

Career

Newby joined the research faculty in media arts at Simon Fraser University, where he was a member of the Computational Poetics research group with Aleksandra Dulic and Martin Gotfrit. At the University of the Fraser Valley he was associate professor in media arts, where he studied creative forces in the field of computational art.

Newby created performances and exhibits which integrated new media diffusion techniques and augmented reality systems, and he developed generative systems for the composition and performance of music and visual art.

In the 1990s Newby released several solo albums, including Ecology of Souls in 1993.^[3] He also collaborated on recordings with the groups Trance Mission and Lights in a Fat City.^[4][5]

In 2004 Newby collaborated with the group Gamelan Madu Sari on their album of Javanese music, New Nectar,^[6] and later contributed to their live performance installation, "Semar's Journey", in Vancouver.^[7]

Newby's recent work is focussed on long-term projects in generative art including the development of the Flicker Computer Assisted Composition system – a computer-aided system for the composition and performance of contemporary classical music; and Becoming World – a project in generative visual art in collaboration with Aleksandra Dulic.

Newby also worked as an interactivity consultant for Pixar Animation Studios, and as a sound artist and audio software developer at Electronic Arts.

Discography

Solo

Year	Name	Ref
1993	Ecology of Souls	[8][9]
1997/2017	Sirens	[10]
1998/2017	Seasonal Round (an opera with libretto and vocal performance by Robert Anthony)
2017	Chambers – Emergence Trilogy volume one
2017	Elegeia – Emergence Trilogy volume two
2017	spectral (golden) lyric – Emergence Trilogy volume three
2025	From Solitude: music for spectral orchestra

Trance Mission

Year	Name	Ref
1993	Trance Mission	[11]
1995	Meanwhile...	[12]
1996	Head Light

Lights in a Fat City

Year	Name	Ref
1993	Sound Column	[13]
1999	Memory Ground	[14]

Other appearances

Year	Name	Artist	Ref
1994	Landing	Stephen Kent
1995	The Shirt I Slept In	Beth Custer
1996	Halcyon Days	w/ Steve Roach & Stephen Kent	[15]