Duncan Williams, Ba (Hons), PhD (Surrey), MAES
Dr Duncan
Williams studied at the world-renowned Institute
of Sound Recording in Guildford, Surrey, where he was supervised by
Director of Research and Senior Lecturer in Audio, Dr Tim Brookes.
Duncan’s
research interests are in sound
recording, psychoacoustics,
and
digital
signal
processing, and he has presented at, and held tutorial sessions
for several of
the
Audio
Engineering
Society (AES) Conventions, as well as presented at, and been a
reader of technical papers for, the Digital Music
Research
Network in London and Glasgow, and an invited panellist for the Association
of
Professional Recording Services (APRS). Commercially, he has
written
both hardware and software reviews for Sound
on
Sound magazine and Tape Op magazine. He is currently Information
and Music
Technology
Officer in the Faculty of Music
at Oxford
University (ranked the #1 music department in the UK by both The
Times and
Independent newspapers).
In industry, Duncan worked at Jacobs Studios, Surrey, one of the UK's
most
popular
residential recording studios, as well as freelance
production and
engineering in many of London's studios (Riverside, Maidstone,
Metropolis), on projects ranging from DVD authoring and
surround
production, to library music, classical editing, and major label
recording.
Credits include The Stooges Extended Play Digipack, mixing and
mastering classical virtuoso Esteban Antonio, and tracking indie
darlings The Pigeon Detectives live at Ibiza
Rocks for XFM. His work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 1 by Colin
Murray, Radio 2 by John Peel, and XFM by Claire
Sturgess and Ian Camfield, as well as been playlisted on Totalrock,
Scuzz
TV, MCM France, and Extreme Sports TV.
 As
a musician and
composer, Duncan has been published
across the globe and performed both nationally and internationally,
including
studio and live prime-time television performance (often in truly
embarrassing
contexts). He has performed at Rock Im Park (AUS), Hard Rock Hell (UK),
and the
annual Guildford Festival, Ambient Picnic, amongst other UK and EU
performances. Most recently, Duncan played at the London International
Music
Show at the ExCEL centre, alongside the likes of Yngwie Malmsteem, for
French luthiers, Vigier
guitars, by whom he is endorsed.
Duncan lives in West Oxford, where he
administrates some of his back catalogue via a small independent label
(PRS/PPL/VPL/VAT registered in the UK), and recently became the best
man to
aging
tantric-crooner Sting's live engineer of choice (!).
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