{{Multiple issues| {{Citation style|date=September 2024}} {{BLP sources|date=September 2025}} }} {{Use Canadian English|date=August 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Kenneth Newby | image = Kenneth profile.jpg | image_size = 200px | landscape = yes | caption = Newby 2007 | birth_name = Kenneth Clayton Newby | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1956|9|29}} | birth_place = Victoria, British Columbia Canada | occupation = {{flatlist| * Composer * musician * media artist * software designer * animator * sound designer * educator * scholar }} | label = {{flatlist| * Songlines * Fathom * Extreme * City of Tribes * Flicker Art Collaboratory }} | website = {{URL|kennethnewby.net/}} | genre = {{flatlist| * Contemporary Classical * Spectral music * experimental }} }}
'''Kenneth Newby''' (born 1956) is a Canadian media artist, composer-performer, educator, interaction designer, and audio producer based in British Columbia.<ref name="ShepherdHorn2003">{{cite book |editor1=John Shepherd |editor2=David Horn |editor3=Dave Laing |editor4=Paul Oliver |editor5=Peter Wicke |title=Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World |volume=II: Performance and Production|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x8KvAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA486|date=8 May 2003|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-84714-472-0|page=486}}</ref> He is known for his innovative use of technology in the creation of music, media performances, and installations.<ref>{{cite book|title=Electronic Musician|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uio9AQAAIAAJ|volume=13, Issues 8-12|year=1997|publisher=Polyphony Publishing Company|page=28}}</ref> He is a research associate at the Center for Culture and Technology at the University of British Columbia, and Director of the Flicker Art Collaboratory.
==Early life== Newby was born in Victoria, British Columbia.
==Career== Newby joined the research faculty in media arts at Simon Fraser University, where he was a member of the Computational Poetics research group with Aleksandra Dulic and Martin Gotfrit. At the University of the Fraser Valley he was associate professor in media arts, where he studied creative forces in the field of computational art.
Newby created performances and exhibits which integrated new media diffusion techniques and augmented reality systems, and he developed generative systems for the composition and performance of music and visual art.
In the 1990s Newby released several solo albums, including ''Ecology of Souls'' in 1993.<ref>[https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/bn-07-95/scapes.htm "Soundscapes"]. ''Tucson Weekly'', July 1995, by Linda Kohanov</ref> He also collaborated on recordings with the groups Trance Mission and Lights in a Fat City.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=P-form: Performance Art Magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fQoxAQAAIAAJ|issue=34–41|year=1994|publisher=Randolph Street Gallery|page=137 | title=P-form: Performance Art Magazine }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Beat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EAQ5AQAAIAAJ|volume=16|year=1997|publisher=Bongo Productions|page=28}}</ref>
In 2004 Newby collaborated with the group Gamelan Madu Sari on their album of Javanese music, ''New Nectar'',<ref>[https://www.straight.com/article/classical-spin-gamelan-madu-sari "Semar's Journey"]. ''Georgia Straight'', by Alexander Varty on 6 June 2007</ref> and later contributed to their live performance installation, "Semar's Journey", in Vancouver.<ref>[https://www.straight.com/article-94175/semars-journey "Semar's Journey"]. ''Georgia Straight'', by Alexander Varty on 6 June 2007</ref>
Newby also worked as an interactivity consultant for Pixar Animation Studios, and as a sound artist and audio software developer at Electronic Arts.
==Discography== '''Solo''' {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:96%; text-align:center; margin: 6px;" |- ! style="background:#dde; width:50px;"|Year ! style="background:#dde; width:207px;"|Name ! style="background:#dde; width:25px;"|Ref |- |1993|| ''Ecology of Souls''||<ref>[https://www.allmusic.com/album/ecology-of-souls-mw0000109027 "Kenneth Newby Ecology of Souls"]. ''AllMusic'' review; access date 26 April 2013</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Wire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cds4AQAAIAAJ|volume=131-136|year=1995|publisher=C. Parker|page=49}}</ref> |- |1997/2017|| ''Sirens''||<ref>[https://www.allmusic.com/album/sirens-mw0000595826 " Kenneth Newby Sirens"]. ''AllMusic'' Review by Sean Cooper</ref> |- |1998/2017|| ''Seasonal Round (an opera with libretto and vocal performance by Robert Anthony)''|| |- |2017|| ''Chambers – Emergence Trilogy volume one''|| |- |2017|| ''Elegeia – Emergence Trilogy volume two''|| |- |2017|| ''spectral (golden) lyric – Emergence Trilogy volume three''|| |- |2025|| ''From Emergence''|| |- |2025|| ''From Solitude: music for spectral orchestra''|| |}
'''Trance Mission''' {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:96%; text-align:center; margin: 6px;" |- ! style="background:#dde; width:50px;"|Year ! style="background:#dde; width:207px;"|Name ! style="background:#dde; width:25px;"|Ref |- |1993|| ''Trance Mission''||<ref>{{cite book|title=CD Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0yY9AQAAIAAJ|volume=11, Issues 1-6|year=1994|publisher=WGE Pub.}}</ref> |- |1995|| ''Meanwhile...''||<ref>[https://www.allmusic.com/album/meanwhile-mw0000122701 " Trance Mission Meanwhile"]. ''AllMusic'' Review by Jim Brenholts</ref> |- |1996|| ''Head Light''|| |}
'''Lights in a Fat City''' {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:96%; text-align:center; margin: 6px;" |- ! style="background:#dde; width:50px;"|Year ! style="background:#dde; width:207px;"|Name ! style="background:#dde; width:25px;"|Ref |- |1993|| ''Sound Column''||<ref>[https://www.allmusic.com/album/sound-column-mw0000621390 "Lights in a Fat City Sound Column"]. ''AllMusic'' Review .</ref> |- |1999|| ''Memory Ground''||<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r427281/credits|label=Memory Ground: Credits|access-date=26 April 2013}}</ref> |}
'''Other appearances''' {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:96%; text-align:center; margin: 6px;" |- ! style="background:#dde; width:50px;"|Year ! style="background:#dde; width:165px;"|Name ! style="background:#dde; width:147px;"|Artist ! style="background:#dde; width:25px;"|Ref |- |1994|| ''Landing''|| Stephen Kent|| |- |1995|| ''The Shirt I Slept In''|| Beth Custer|| |- |1996|| ''Halcyon Days''|| w/ Steve Roach & Stephen Kent||<ref>[https://www.allmusic.com/album/halcyon-days-mw0000613337 " Stephen Kent / Steve Roach Halcyon Days"]. ''AllMusic'' Review by Carol Wright</ref> |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2018/05/kenneth-newby-elegeia-music-for-mixed.html Review: Elegeia – Music for Mixed Ensembles, and Gamelan Semara Dana]
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