Staff profile
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Job title: Senior Lecturer
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Dept: Music and Performing Arts
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Tel: 01843 609170
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Campus: Broadstairs
Robert Stillman is a composer and multi-instrumentalist whose work exists at the intersection of Song, Sonic Arts, and History. Many of his projects reflect a strong awareness of process, location, and medium, and draw heavily upon the musical heritage of Folk Americana. His most recent release, Early Maine Films (l'animaux tryst field recordings), was a CD/DVD featuring original sound and music composed to accompany turn-of-the-century archive footage from Stillman's native Maine (U.S.) Selections from the project were performed live with the films at the 2007 H & M High Line Festival (curated by David Bowie) in New York City.
Stillman also acted as co-curator (with video-artist/musician Sara Magenheimer) for the summer series 'Rarities' at New York's Cake shop, which featured performances by members of TV on the Radio, Grizzly Bear, and Parts and Labor. He has toured extensively throughout the US and Europe, playing at festivals such as the Barcelona International Jazz Festival (Spain) and the Bleeding Edge Festival (Saratoga, California), sharing bills with acts such as Deerhoof, Yo La Tengo, Matmos, Black Dice, and Dirty Projectors. He is currently completing a recording of repertoire for one-man-band entitled Machine Song, which is due for release in the Spring of 2009. In addition to his own composing and performing work, Robert also has an extensive background in Jazz and Improvised music as a saxophonist/clarinetist, and has performed/recorded with such notable figures as the late Steve Lacy, Jorge Rossi, and Albert Sanz.
Stillman studied as an undergraduate at Tufts University and New England Conservatory, and received a BA in English and a BFA in Music respectively. His teachers have included George Garzone, George Russell, and Danilo Perez. He has also completed an MA in Music at Sussex University, with a focus on Studio Composition. He is currently a full-time Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University's Broadstairs Campus, where he teaches Popular Music Analysis, Studio Production, Music in the Media, and Language and Notation.