Phil Legard

Phil Legard is a musician and producer whose work spans classical, folk, electronic, and experimental music. As an academic, Phil studies the relationship between contemporary music and esotericism.

Phil’s background is in experimental music, particularly in the fields of generative and algorithmic composition. As an editor, producer and technologist in the field of contemporary classical music Phil Legard worked for ten years with Nigel Morgan and Tonality Systems Press, the publishing and public-engagement partner to Tonality Systems, developers of the music programming language Symbolic Composer.
His interests in the generative processes underlying both composition and improvisation embrace a wider awareness of the compositional and performative act of music and its relation to our own environment. This has led to a number of solo and collaborative multi-disciplinary works involving sonic art, oral history, folklore and research into the implications of ontology and phenomenology on both place perception and artistic curation.

As a musician, Phil is currently working with his wife, Layla, as the experimental electronic duo Hawthonn. His current academic work and PhD studies concentrate on the relationship between music-making and esoteric thought, looking at how 'occulture' shapes the experiences, interpretations, and compositions of contemporary composers and performers.

• Composition Skills
• Music in Context
• Creative Audio Technologies
• Spatial Audio
• Music Production Project
• Electroacoustic Composition
• Audio-Visual Practice (MA)