Paul Whitty

Director of SARU, Professor of Music & Researcher, Co-Director of audiograft.

Paul Whitty is a composer and researcher. He currently leads the School of Arts at Oxford Brookes University where he works with SARU and curates audiograft with Patrick Farmer. Recent projects include Nature is a language – can’t you read? a re-invention of Michael Gordon’s Yo Shakespeare commissioned by Icebreaker; a project investigating the sounding cultures of football Get Some Chalk On Your Boots! that resulted in a conference, exhibition and series of publications; and Sound Diaries – an investigation of everyday life in sound developed in collaboration with Felicity Ford. He tends to spend a lot of his time marking out football pitches.

Paul Whitty