Andrew Dubber DOB: 14 – 09 - 67 email: [email protected] web: http://andrewdubber.com
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellow Birmingham City University / Arts & Humanities Research Council February 2008 - Present
Degree Leader and Senior Lecturer in the Music Industries Birmingham City University August 2006 – Present
Freelance Blogger, Author, Editor and Webmaster New Music Strategies, New Music Ideas, UniSurvival April 2006 – Present
Public Speaker and Author Seminars and workshops for a wide range of organisations and events January 2006 - Present
Visiting Lecturer in Radio, Music Industries, Podcasting, New Media and Media Studies Staffordshire University, University of Westminster, De Montfort University September 2004 – Present
Project Co-ordinator, Online Music Enterprise Research Project UCE Birmingham (name since changed to Birmingham City University) February 2005 – December 2006
Visiting Lecturer in Popular Music, Music Industry and Radio UCE Birmingham September 2004 – February 2005
Curriculum Leader in Radio and Lecturer in Radio and Music Industries Auckland University of Technology June 2002 – August 2004
Sunday Jazz specialist radio programme presenter and producer George FM June 2000 – November 2005
Lecturer in Radio Auckland University of Technology July 1999 – June 2002
Breakfast Show Technical Producer 91ZM / The Radio Network October 1999 – April 2000
Label Manager, Producer, Company Director and Co-owner Tap Records Ltd October 1997 – September 2002
Company Director, Producer and Co-owner Pronoun Productions Ltd February 1996 – May 2000
Company Director, Producer and Sole Trader Adverb Productions Ltd July 1995 – May 2000
Production Manager Radio Pacific Ltd July 1990 – June 1995
Production Sound Operator Television New Zealand October 1989 – April 1990
Presenter and Production Engineer 95bFM Student Radio July 1988 – October 1989
Freelance Music Journalist Rip It Up Magazine, Smash Hits, Monitor Magazine June 1988 – June 1993
EDUCATION
Post-graduate Certificate in Education Birmingham City University 2008
Masters of Arts (Communication Studies) First Class Honours Auckland University of Technology 2007
RESEARCH, CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS
I have been involved in a number of research projects since my arrival in the UK, just over three years ago. In particular, Online Music Enterprise was a 2-year project funded by the Learning and Skills Council to research and train music industry professionals. I am currently involved in an Arts and Humanities Research Council project in partnership with the BBC to study the ways in which audiences of specialist music programming use online and digital media. I have also just started work on a large, 2-year Knowledge Transfer Fellowship project which claims half of my salaried time at the university. This project is to work with 25 music and radio organisations around Britain (and one in Holland) to develop new projects, strategies and solutions that will help develop economic growth in the sector, using new technologies and business practices.
I have also written journal articles and presented at a number of academic conferences in the past five years, a selection of which appear below:
‘Radio and the Internet’, Between Empires Conference, Auckland, February 2003.
‘There’s no such thing as Internet Radio’, The Radio Conference: A Transnational Forum, Madison, WI, August 2003.
‘The radio interview as teaching’ The Radio Journal 2/2 2004
‘Radio Question Time’ panel, MeCCSA/AMPE conference, Lincoln, January 2005
‘Radio, Digitalisation and the Laws of Media’, Radio Studies Network Conference, Birmingham, April 2005
‘There is no ‘We’ in iPod’, The First European Communication Conference, Amsterdam, November 2005
‘The Digitalisation of Radio in New Zealand’ in The Great New Zealand Radio Experiment, K. Neill & M. Shanahan (Eds), Thomson Dunmore Press 2005
‘Online Music Enterprise’, MeCCSA/AMPE Conference, Leeds, January 2006
‘Jazz, Radio and National Identity in New Zealand’, Leeds International Jazz Conference, Leeds, March 2006
‘New Zealand On Air’, Sounding Out Conference, Sunderland, September 2006
Online music enterprise: new technologies of music distribution and consumption [co-author] LSC 2006
New broadcast technologies UNESCO [co-author] 2006
The Alternative Media Handbook, Routledge [contributing author] 2007
‘Tutira Mai Nga Iwi (Line up together, people): Constructing New Zealand identity through commercial radio’, The Radio Journal 5/1 2008
As well as these articles and conference papers, I have written for non-academic publications such as Computer Music Magazine, Idealog magazine, the Birmingham Post and several independent music magazines.
INDUSTRY PRESENTATIONS AND SEMINARS
I have presented too many music and radio industry presentations to list here. These presentations are generally for musicians and people who run independent music businesses, and the topic of discussion is always the online music environment. Highlights include seminars for the Musicians Union in Bath, Wrexham, London, Birmingham and Great Malvern; for the Association of Independent Music in London and Manchester; for Dutch broadcasting organisation Veronica Holdings in Hilversum; for Music Tank in London; at Music Industry events such as CMJ Music Marathon in New York, Gigbeth in Birmingham and by:Larm in Oslo. I currently have speaking engagements booked throughout Europe, all over the UK -- and in China as the keynote speaker at the International Mobile Music industry conference in Shanghai.
I am a regular contributor as an ‘industry expert’ in new media technology on BBC Radio WM, and co-present live phone-in radio programmes about technology issues on the station. I am also regularly interviewed in British and overseas media outlets on issues of technological change, digital policy and the music business.
IT SKILLS
I am particularly interested in new media and its potential for music industry. Since April 2002, I maintained a blog, The Wireless (http://thewireless.blogspot.com), at which I discussed new media, radio, technology and education. I recently moved this blog to my new personal site, http://andrewdubber.com. I am the author of New Music Strategies (http://newmusicstrategies.com) and editor of New Music Ideas (http://newmusicideas.com) and I am managing editor of a new website, Music Think Tank (http://musicthinktank.com), which features some of the world’s top thinkers and industry leaders as contributors. Likewise, I have started a group blog to discuss the radio industry in the online environment, New Radio Strategies (http://newradiostrategies.com). I also manage and edit a website that gives advice and guidance to students, UniSurvival (http://unisurvival.com) and have established a number of other websites, blogs and online discussion platforms for a number of research projects that I have been involved with.
I also have extensive experience in both using and teaching a number of music and audio software packages, as well as music radio programming, scheduling and playback systems:
Audio Production: • Adobe Audition / Cool Edit • ProTools • Sound Forge • SaDie • Audacity
Music Production: • Logic Pro • Ableton Live • Reason
Music Radio: • Selector • Master Control • Airwaves
My interests in IT technologies also extend to a wide range of internet applications and an involvement in online fora. In 1998, I established the New Zealand Radio List, an email discussion forum for radio industry professionals and since early 2005, I have co-presented with James Debenham a series of podcasts entitled 'Dubber and Spoons Take The Bus' which has been featured on the BBC Midlands Today television news programme, Channel 4's 'Ten 4' magazine and was listed as one of 8 top podcasts in the Guardian in 2006.
TEACHING
As well as teaching undergraduate modules at Birmingham City University in Music Online, Music Radio Programming, Radio Drama, Radio Production, Radio Commercials, Music Industries, Popular Music Culture and Presentation Skills, I have also presented guest lectures in podcasting for the MA Media Production class at UCE and in Music and Radio Industry for the Professional Studies Module. I teach a module in Creative Enterprise, which teaches both creativity and entrepreneurship as part of the MA in Events and Exhibition Management.
Outside of Birmingham City University, I have acted as guest lecturer in Popular Music and New Media at Staffordshire University, in Radio at DeMontfort University, and I filled in for several weeks in place of Dr David Hendy in the Radio Skills module at Westminster University.
As a contribution to staff and colleague development, I organised a series of lunchtime lectures and workshops introducing podcasting, and I have presented a number of showcases of radio from around the world.
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
I have designed and developed curriculum material for both the Music Industries degree and the Online Music Enterprise course at UCE, and I have significantly contributed to the development of other new modules introduced to the BA (Hons) degree since my arrival at UCE. The Radio Commercial Production module was built from scratch in the 2004-5 academic year, and in that year I also adapted elements of the Radio Drama module in order to introduce ideas from a wide range of international examples of the idiom, both traditional and experimental.
At AUT, I designed and developed several of the core modules in radio, including Radio Presentation and Music Radio Programming, and I introduced a new module in Music Industry to the Radio and Multimedia degree students in the Communication Studies Programme. I was also involved in leading the development of that module into a new Music Industries award through a course validation process at AUT.
I am interested in education and pedagogy, and have attended short courses in teaching and assessments during my time at AUT. I have recently received my Post Graduate Diploma in Education and I have published an article about Radio and Music Industry pedagogy in the Radio Studies Journal (Volume 2.2, 2004). For Online Music Enterprise, I put creativity and collaborative problem-solving at the centre of the teaching methodology, and used the success of this approach as the basis for a presentation at the 2006 MeCCSA Annual conference as part of a Birmingham City University panel on Online Music Enterprise.
MUSIC INDUSTRIES
I am an active member of the Birmingham Music Network and have forged strong ties with the local music industry across a wide range of genres. I am involved in production and remix work with local country/folk band Friends of the Stars and have provided consultancy for jazz/funk band Kanopus, rock band Taxi, Muslim nasheed/qawaali act Aashiq al-Rasul, reggae collective Friendly , online music company DA Recordings and independent retailer Jibbering Records.
I have worked as a semi-professional musician, co-writing and performing tracks with popular New Zealand Sony artist Strawpeople as well as in my own band.
As a label manager and record producer, I have produced numerous jazz records, as well as some hip hop and pop records, and have been a finalist at the New Zealand Music Awards. I have also worked as a freelance journalist, columnist, reviewer and interviewer for a number of prominent New Zealand music publications. I remain actively involved in the music industry both in New Zealand and here in Birmingham.
MUSIC RADIO
Until recently, for the past six years I programmed, produced and presented a specialist jazz radio programme that broadcast throughout New Zealand on dance format radio station George FM. I have also made music programmes for Radio New Zealand, and co-produced a popular music breakfast radio programme on national commercial station ZM.
For my company Adverb Productions, I produced a series of syndicated radio programmes for which I recorded over 400 new works by New Zealand jazz artists. The series was recognised at the New Zealand Radio Awards in the Best Studio Production and Best Light Music Series categories.
For my students at AUT, I established and programmed ‘Static’, an inner city low power FM radio station targeted at urban professionals and broadcasting around the clock throughout the year. The station has been running since 1999 and was recently featured as an example of good practice of student radio on BBC Radio 4’s ‘A World In Your Ear’.