Greg Schiemer

He first taught electronic music composition at the Canberra School of Music from 1983, before moving in 1986 to the Sydney Conservatorium. There he mentored musicians working with new technology and participated in the activities of watt, the electro-acoustic group co-founded by composers Martin Wesley-Smith and Ian Fredericks. In 2003 he moved to the University of Wollongong where he supervised postgraduate composers and coordinated interdisciplinary research involving sound across a variety of disciplines within creative arts and informatics. He was also the lead chief investigator for Australian Research Council projects focused on mobile technology, haptic instruments and microtonal performance.

Between 1976 and 1981 he worked for Digital Equipment Australia, a division of Digital Equipment Corporation, initially in computer field service and later as senior design technician and in 1999 he was awarded a PhD in electronics from Macquarie University.

The foundations of his work as composer and instrument-builder were laid while he was a musical collaborator of Philippa Cullen. Working with her electronic dance ensemble, he learned the craft of electronics under the tutelage of electronic engineer Phil Connor and organ builder Arthur Spring and between 1972 and 1975 together they built some of the earliest electronic music systems that react to dance movement.

Gregory Marcellus Schiemer (born 16 January 1949) is an Australian electronic music composer, instrument builder, and teacher. His artistic preoccupations include creative engagement with new technology, music created for non-expert performance and intercultural-interfaith dialogue.