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A founder member of both The Human League and Heaven 17, Martyn is one of the leading figures in electronic music. As record producer and artist has featured on recordings totaling over 50 million sales worldwide during a 27 year career to date, working with Tina Turner, Terence Trent D’Arby, Chaka Khan, Erasure, Marc Almond and Mavis Staples.
Martyn founded Illustrious Company with Vince Clarke in 2001 to exploit the creative and commercial possibilities of their unique ‘Heightened Reality’ three-dimensional sound technology and bespoke musical composition in collaboration with fine artists, the performing arts and corporate clients around the world who include The Science Museum, London, The Royal Ballet, and collaborations with the artists Cathy De Monchaux, Tim Head, Gary Stevens, David Bickerstaff and Philip Tsiaras (at the 2003 Venice Biennale).
Recently Martyn was part of the collective representing Britain at the Venice Architectural Biennale in 2006. Echo City, developed under the leadership of Jeremy Till, Director of Architecture at the University of Sheffield, is an "urban register" describing Sheffield at a variety of scales from 1:1 to 1:10 million and Martyn’s soundscape, with visuals by Malcolm Garrett, projected Sheffield's relationship with the world at large.
He also lectures extensively on music production, technology, creativity and soundscape composition at universities and colleges across the UK and Europe.
Sigrid Wilkinson
Sigrid Wilkinson is Head of Development for Future of Sound. From 2004-6 she was Director of Development at Zoo Art Fair, a non profit organisation which is one of the most significant international platforms for emerging contemporary art talent. Prior to this she was Business Development Manager at Arts & Business where she specialised in growing the engagement with the creative industries and developing alternative partnership models.
She works as a freelance consultant advising on development, fundraising and cultural partnerships. Clients include Commissions East, Inverarity Vaults and Draft Magazine.
She has an MA Hons in Art History from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and is the Advisory Board of The Drawing Room and Art Committe of Adventure Ecology.
Asa Bennett
Asa Bennett is a freelance engineer and producer, with extensive experience in the fields of Pop, TV and film, as well as contemporary and experimental projects with Gavin Bryars, David Lang and Derick Bailey. He is the in-house engineer for the ‘Treader’ Jazz improv Label, working with the likes of Evan Parker, John Tchicai, Eddie Prevost and J Spaceman (Spiritualized).
He has been working with Illustrious Company and Sonic ID on interactive projects since 2004 and played an integral part in projects such as ‘Echo City’ in the British Pavilion at the Venice Architectural Biennale, 25 years of I-D Magazine Exhibition, Christian Aid’s “Everytime I see the sea…” installation and the Future of Sound shows and tour.
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