Alan’s interests relate to the use of music-based technologies, design and composition. In 2018 he was awarded a prestigious CODI composer award. He has gained commissions from Marc Rees (performance artist & producer), the National Library of Wales and has worked with musical partners such as Ash Cooke and Ed Wright. He is currently working with the Finnish composer Maria Kallionpaa on an immersive opera and has recently been commissioned to compose and record pieces for the poet Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani for her published poetry based on Amelia Rosselli. His work has been performed at Bangor Music Festival and was played at Tate (London) as part of the event ‘Living with the Internet of Things’. He is a Composer in Residence at the computational Foundry Swansea. His interests relate to Music, AI, Algorithms, Composition and Performance. In 2017 he composed the music for the BUFV award winning film “Into the Looking Glass – how selfie culture is preparing us to meet our future selves”, (Award presented at the British Film Institute). He has worked closely with Oxford University examining the development of experimental Algorithmic software tools for music composition. He has written extensively on Music, Audio and Technology. In 2019 he was General Chair of the Audio Mostly conference held in Nottingham, and he is a member of the Steering Group for the CoDi dan-ddaear / CoDi off-grid project run by Ty-Cerdd. He is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Nottingham, Department of Music.