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Mike Cullen

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Mike is a leading Music Producer & Sound Designer with 20 years industry experience. ( Biography ) ( Discography )

Mike is also an M.Sc Distinction Alumni of The University of Edinburgh.

2006 to Present. He runs Music Technology and Creative Music Programming courses for Under-graduates and provides tutoring and mentoring for Post-Graduate Sound Design students at The University of Edinburgh.

Since 1988, Mike has gained universal respect for his productions, sound designs and performances mainly under the alias of Mike Dred.

He has consistently performed in over 25 countries & 110 different cities.

He is the first DJ Producer to get sponsored by the Arts Council of Great Britain and the UK National Lottery.

The publication ' The Rough Guide to Techno', described Mike as “The Jimi Hendrix of the 303” and “Full on Acid Genius”.

As well as presenting new developments in electronic and computer music, Mike has also given lectures on Sound Design and Synthesis.

Works are often used for educational purposes and a selection is part of the prestigious Music Performance Research Centre (MPRC) collection at the Barbican Centre, London. UK.

Mike, together with co-producer Peter Green is the inspiration behind Electroacoustic Music being represented on a more popular level.

Their early sonic experiments prompted Dave Robinson, Editor of Future Music (November 1995, Issue 37), to write:

"We boldly call ourselves Future Music. But how often do we bring you something so forward-looking, yet at the same time so contemporary that it might - just might set the agenda for the next post-techno, post-analogue phase?"

These comments confirmed an innovative and open-minded attitude to Sound Design over notation in terms of leading edge composition and laid the foundations for a lot of modern day contemporary computer music.