Dr Manuella Blackburn releases debut album

Dr Manuella Blackburn, Lecturer in Music Technology at Liverpool Hope, has released her debut album of electroacoustic music this month, on the empreintes DIGITALes label. 

The six works on the disc are a collection of pieces composed in the past five years and showcase the research completed in her PhD portfolio of compositions. Manuella's most recent work, Switched on, also features on the disc. 

The project was supported by Liverpool Hope's Doctoral Publishing scheme.To buy the album, go to: http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imed_12117/,

Dr Manuella Blackburn is currently composer in residence at the Visby International Centre for Composers (VICC), Sweden.
The centre is a work and meeting place for composers from the Baltic Sea regions and the Nordic countries as well as the rest of the international world of composers.

The centre promotes contemporary music concerts, conferences, seminars, educational and co-operation projects. The centre has so far hosted over 450 international composers since 2001. 

Manuella is working on a new electroacoustic music composition in Studio Alpha based at the centre.