Ian Stonehouse is currently a researcher and archivist of experimental & electronic music at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has lectured in Sonic Art for the past 20 years and was Head of the Electronic Music Studios at Goldsmiths from 2004-2019.
He originally trained as a visual artist with experimental filmmaker Guy Sherwin and painter Paresh Chakraborty, and worked freelance for many years in sound, film, video and animation. In the late 1990s he was employed at the Lux Centre for Film, Video and New Media in London, working with artists such as Tacita Dean, Susan Hiller, John Maybury, Thomson & Craighead, Gillian Wearing, and Jane & Louise Wilson.

In recent years he’s performed as a member of noise-improv group Rutger Hauser (their eponymous debut album was released on the ADAADAT label in 2016), and as part of trio zerøspace (with Lucia H. Chung and Bill Thompson). Ian’s solo album, Voyage en Kaléidoscope (originally recorded on tape in 1995) was issued in 2016 thanks to the folks at Lumen Lake label. He was part of the ensemble who performed Bill Thompson’s Gates 2017at Goldsmiths and contributed tape loops to saxophonist Colin Webster’s release vs. Tape Loops on the Fractal Meat label in 2017. Ian’s albums Synthesizer Experiments Volumes 1-3 were self released on Bandcamp in 2019, alongside several others. He’s currently writing a biography of artist, performer, composer & sound poet Lily Greenham (1924-2001), whose first major retrospective – Lily Greenham: An Art of Living – ran from March to May this year at the Badischer Kunstverein gallery in Karlsruhe, Germany, for which he was a consultant researcher and tape archivist.

Since 2024 he has been involved in making four new copies of composer Hugh Davies’ pioneering ‘Shozyg’ experimental instruments using original materials for the concert series in February 2025 at the Science Museum in London & Bradford, with composers Gavin Bryars, Shiva Feshareki, Sarah Angliss, and the group Icebreaker.
https://ianstonehouse.bandcamp.com