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553:, who part-funded liminal's involvement through their PROJECT fund and features as a case-study in their Artists & Places publication. It was during this project that liminal developed their use of the sound-walk as a research tool, in this instance consolidating the extensive research undertaken into the soundscape of the Warwick Bar site into a binaural walk available to the public. Liminal later contributed to the 557:'s twenty-year strategic plan, working with masterplanning consultants Scott Wilson and building on the research techniques they developed for the Warwick Bar project on a series of proposals which address the soundscape of the water park. Liminal's recent work has focussed on the creation of 'listening spaces', whether this takes the form of a site-specific sound-walk, such as 77: 36: 197: 418:, graduating with a PhD in 2001. During his time in Birmingham, Prior's work was often concerned with integrating acoustic space as a compositional parameter in his work. This theme stimulated interests which still define the work he is involved in today, whether that be through his installations, sound-walks, 504:
children's education project in 1999 but it wasn't until 2003 that they formally established Liminal, a design studio with a particular interest in exploring sound and architecture. The partnership has resulted in projects ranging from installations to sound-walks as well as commercial sound design
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Since 2002, Prior has made a series of short films often characterized by their brevity and simplicity. On a number of these films, Prior has collaborated with poet Larry Lynch, who as well as contributing texts often features in the films themselves. Their collaboration
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development in Birmingham. Their work on this project involved close collaboration with masterplanning architects Kinetic-AIU and has since been cited as an exemplar for artist-architect collaborations by
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Prior began teaching in the music department at the University of Birmingham in the late 1990s while a post-graduate student there. Since 2001, Prior has been a lecturer, then senior lecturer in music at
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with poet Larry Lynch (2008), the point of departure for these pieces is to create a reflexive listening experience for the audience; focussing attention back onto the act of listening itself.
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he has made for museums and galleries. Another feature of the work Prior was producing during this period but less evident in more recent projects, was the attempt to assimilate
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and Michael Bassett as well as contributing sound designs to films by artists Jane Grant and Anya Lewin. In 2007, Prior was invited by improvising vocalist Steve Lewis to join
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project based around an improvising ensemble. Since 2002, Prior has been working with his brother Andrew Prior on a series of collaborative music projects. Their piece
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and in keeping with other recent work, this piece has evolved into a number of different iterations. Two years after the completion of the installation version of
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to produce a third, improvised version of the work which has been performed a number of times subsequently. Following the completion of
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and consultancy and a number of theoretical publications and conference papers. Liminal was formed as a company in order to undertake
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and the music from this piece went on to win an honorary mention at the 1998 Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition
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which was completed in late 2007. Meanwhile, Prior was also asked by UK songwriter John Matthias to produce two tracks on his
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Prior's work has won prizes including a number of awards from the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition,
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as part of the Sonic Arts Expo, 2006. In 2007, Prior was commissioned by the SpACE-Net spatial audio research group in
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ATOM award. Prior has received awards from the University of Birmingham Alumni award, M.J. West Foundation, the
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features the voice of poet John Hall and was premiered in February 2008 as part of the Voices III festival in
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as well as working towards an album of original material. Prior also remixed John Matthias and Nick Ryan's
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In 2010 they were awarded £50,000 to create "The Organ of Corti" to 'recycle' and create new sounds.
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and first prize in the 1998 EAR (Hungarian Radio) composition prize. When Koch went on to join
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Prior began working with New Zealander Dugal McKinnon in 1998 on a composed radio documentary
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dance company, he worked with Prior again, commissioning him to write the score for
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David Prior was born in the UK and studied Music and Religious Studies at the
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Award for Outstanding Achievement in Digital Installations and the 2006
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Prize, E.A.R (the composition prize of Hungarian National Radio), the
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into the devising of his ultimately 'fixed' compositions, for example
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studio in Paris the following year. The piece was short-listed by the
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Prior first collaborated with architect Frances Crow in 1997 on
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Since 2006, liminal have been involved as lead artists in the
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Polytechnic and ESMAE School of Music and Performing Arts,
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in 1998, it was selected by then SPNM artistic director
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which went on to win a Prix de Residence at the 1996
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