Philip Brissenden
School of Arts and Media
Adelphi Building AP306
Please email for an appointment.
Current positions
Lecturer in Music
Phil Brissenden began as a pianist and composer. He is now a multi-instrumentalist and focuses on musical instrument design. His Phd project is a patented invention, integrating a reverse action keyboard with a zither interface, called the reverse action piano harp
The official website for this instrument is here
Recordings demonstrating the instrument playing music from various genres are to be found here
Areas of research
Music, Instrument, Design, Composition, Performance
- Composition
- Studio Composition
- Music Technology and Studio Production
- Acoustics
- Musical Instrument Design
- Evolutionary origins of pitch sense and tuning
Qualification
- MA Music – Composition. University of Durham