About me
Hi My names Kieran and I need to write more about who I am here :) So heres an out of date non specific cv for me from 2005 I will update it soon but before you read it hears a pritty picture of Mofunk a wicked Funk band from Bristol playing at a gig I coordinated at the venue I re-established knwn as Trinity and famous home of the Bristol Sound. See below Picture form my old cv.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Name Kieran Doswell
Date of Birth 12/5/1978
Nationality British
Marital Status Married (6years) with two daughters (aged 3 and 5)
EDUCATION
2000-2001 The Wessex consortium
Foundation year of a Creative Music technology BA Hons course can be resumed.
1998-2000 Western Super Mare College
Btec in Music technology with a Distinction Grade
1996-1998 Filton College
Btec in Performing Arts with a Merit Grade
1994-1996 Blackburn College
A-level Chemistry Grade C
A-level Physics Grade C
A-level Biology Grade C
1994 10 GCSE 's it at A,B no and C grades
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
1996-1998 Filton College
European Itec qualification in Music technology
GENERAL
I thoroughly enjoy working with a diverse range of people through the medium of music and enjoy teaching and learning new skills and developing mutually beneficial relationships. I passionately enjoyed teaching and working with others, and seeing them grow and develop.
From the age of 14 I have been intimately involved in the music industry and have tried as many roles within the music industry as have been possible, I began as a guitarist and am presently reasonably well practised on guitar, I am an experiencing performer and lead vocalist, I have experience writing and producing songs in a variety of genre including various forms of electronic dance music, hip hop, jazz, Funk, rock and pop, I have performed, stage-managed, promoted, and produce a large number of events of varying sizes including live music showcases, dance-music club nights, festivals, and touring performances for local, national and internationally renown artists, I have produced and managed a number of bands the largest of being a 13 member live dance sound-system including instrumentation such as guitar's, key's, electronic samples, Sitar, Didgery do, drums etc. and have comprehensive audio recording experience in a variety of genre and techniques including, classical string and brass instruments, vocals, drums and Percussion. I've never been afraid to do any job that needs to be done in the course of musical activity and events, which I believe has given me insight to the overall workings of the music industry. I am well informed and have researched a wide variety of legal and business issues in relation to the Music Industry and am well versed with copyright issues.
I am widely known in Bristol’s music scene and have good relationships with many of Bristol's music venues, performers and producers and have also been musically active in other UK cities. I have been involved in the operation of Glastonbury and other national and local music Festival's since the age of 12.
I presently regularly practise and am reasonably competent on acoustic, electric and Bass guitar, Didgery Do, Piano and synthesisers, DJ Decks, various electronic instruments including sequencers, Drum machines and computers and I sometimes-even play a Carpenter's saw.
For the past six years I have been working with Bristol's inner-city communities using the arts as a tool for economic as social regeneration.
Currently: I Manage the Trinity Centre with Trinity Community Arts Ltd a company I cofounded in 2002 and am currently also the Company Secutary and Entertainments Licencee for. I also co-ordinate Umbrella MELTS, Bristol and the worlds first musician's time exchange project. For the past 3years I have also been leading on the Save Trinity campaign which has been very successful in resetablishing the Trinity Centre as the South Wests leadin, Community, Youth and Arts Centre.
Experience: Over ten years practical experience in the music industry and four years experience in community development. I have spent seven years conducting strategic research into Bristol's local music scene for the Umbrella MELTS project and have uncovered some remarkable facts.
My music industry experience includes: producing and managing bands and events, producing and composing music and performing with a variety of music groups. I have had CSV, New Deal, and practical based business training and mentoring, and have worked closely with community development organizations including the Avon CDA, BACEN, BEST, Brave, Bridging the Gap, Bristol City Council, and have made contact with countless other community and arts related organizations in the past few years, and with music development organizations including the Musicians Union, New Deal for Musicians, Bristol Sound, and various night clubs and venues. I have also contributed towards several local community festivals including St Pauls Carnival and Easton Community Festival (Under One Sky) as Main Stage Manager and as assistant stage manager for the second stage at Bristol Community Festival. I have co-ordinated over contless medium sized events including the Blue Fusion weekend music festival at the New Trinity Centre, which attracted the involvement of over 250 local artists.
As part of Umbrella MELTS activities I have co-ordinated and staged a series of music production workshops with local voluntary sector organisations such as a Young Bristol Action and their Millennium volunteers scheme and with the St Paul's Unlimited partnership and Art Goes Pop. During these workshops I worked in multi cultural environments and geographical areas of deprivation with children and young people aged between 18 and 25 and 8 to 18 years. During these workshops I developed the participants awareness of and enthusiasm for I.T., the music business and music technology and gave some insight and the advice on developing their musical skills further with specific reference to career paths.
I have also helped run a local recording and event management agency known as Blue Fusion and have a 17 tracks compilation album released and over 20 music groups on the books.
At present I am also part of an e-mail base development network for the UK Time bank network organisation, Time Bank UK and Bristol Interlets which are both part of the Social Economy drive of central government.
I.T. Experience: I have extensive knowledge of digital and computer based Audio Systems ranging from detailed knowledge of the principles and working methods in operating and to be controlling Audio Samplers, Sequencers both Midi and Audio, Synthesizers, FX's, Audio Processors, P C sound cards and Audio devices, Midi control units, and audio recording devices to the application of these devices in a variety of music and media industry environments and a detailed knowledge of the use of music and music technology and the multimedia and film industries.
I have a detailed knowledge of desktop publishing and office software and the Internet in terms of its use as an information resource, marketing tools, exhibition space, project management tools, and on-line database systems. the majority of this knowledge gained in the practical experience of managing the building the website www.letsmakemusic.org.
Software experience: I am able to use a great number of software systems and programmes on a variety of platforms including the PC Linux, Windows and Apple Macintosh MacOS . However there is only a limited number of computer programs I have a detailed knowledge of and others that I can operate at a slower pace for this reason I will break down my software experience and to the detailed knowledge of and not so detailed knowledge of.
I have detailed knowledge of: Cubase vSt, Cubase SX 2.2, Protools, Logic, Rebirth, Reason 2, Magic Music Maker, Ejay, Photo Shop 6, a variety of CD creation software, Recycle, Cool Edit Pro, Sound Forge Microsoft Outlook, Html, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office programmes Word and Excel and Linux alternitives such as Open Office.
I have some knowledge of: Final cut, SQL, Dream Weaver, Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft, Access, Front page and Power point, Flash, Photo Shop CE, Acid Pro, Fruity Loops, and Microsoft Works among others plus Linux audio, visual and office applications.
WORK EXPERIENCE
2000 -Present Free-lance Music Production Tutor for various community groups incl: Connexions, The Bristol Foyer, and The Mill Youth Centre,
2004 -Present Entertainments and liquor licensee and Acting Centre Manager for The Trinity Centre, Old Market, Bristol, BS2 0NW
2002- Present Steering group member and Company secutary for Trinity Community Arts Ltd
2002 -Present Member of Easton and Lawrence Hill Neighbourhood Renewal Steering and Task groups
2002 -2004 Music Production Tutor for various community groups
2001 - 2003 Founder and lead coordinator of the "Save Trinity" Campaign and founder and company secutary for Trinity Community Arts Ltd
2000- 2002. Part management of Blue Fusion(Music Recording and Event Management agenty) .
1999- Present. Chair person, co-ordinator and volunteer manager of Umbrella MELTS.
1999- 1999 Bristol Promotions manager for The Lizard Festival
1998-1999 Sales representative for Web Direct, (an Internet management and hosting company)Responsibilities included commissioned base sales of web space and relevant paperwork.
1996-1997 Kitchen Porter at the Bath Spa Hotel
1996-1999 Festival Bar Staff and shift manager, responsibilities included cash handling, serving to the public, and serving in restricted areas to performers and production crew.
1994-1996 Glass collector and Entertainment co-ordinator for the Cellar Bar, in Blackburn. A local music venue for which my responsibilities included part management of musical entertainment including the Jam sessions including press, promotion, performing and musician co-ordination.
For the past 12 years I have participated in an enormous amount of voluntary work at numerous Arts festivals the most notorious of these is my regular voluntary work at Glastonbury’s Pilton festival’s Acoustic stage, which I began 12 years ago. my since then my responsibilities as a voluntary worker have been diverse ranging from Stewarding, Litter crew, and Security to stage management, Event coordination Promotion, PR and children’s supervision.
ccq live at MELTS EVENT video
