Dr. Gary Bromham

Dr. Gary Bromham is a composer, artist, music producer and mix engineer. Also, a researcher
and published author who completed a PhD in Computer Science in 2021, specifically in
music and timbre perception, at Queen Mary’s University, London.

He began his career as a Fairlight programmer and a tape op at Trident Studios in London.
He subsequently began his songwriting and music production career in Iceland. During this
time, he co-produced the 1988 Icelandic Eurovision entry, made an album with jazz-funk
band Mezzoforte, and worked with progressive artist, Björk. Whilst collaborating with
Andrew Ridgeley, of Wham, on his solo album, was also fortunate enough to work with
George Michael on some of his albums, Listen Without Prejudice. As a result of his
collaboration with George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, he was offered his first publishing
contract with Warner Chappell Music in 1990. This proved to be a great success. He has
written with many varied and successful artists and songwriters, including Sheryl Crow, Bow
Wow Wow, The Tubes, Robbie Neville, Eddie Money and The Fixx to name but a few,
spending a large period of his time working in New York, Nashville and Los Angeles. Later
collaborations include Editors, Graham Coxon from Blur, The Maccabees, Lulu, and Delta
Goodrem and again Sheryl Crow on her single, ‘Soak Up the Sun’. He was also signed to EMI
Records in 1996 as a recording artist in the band The Big Blue. They released two singles and
achieved moderate success.

He completed his PhD at Queen Mary University of London, where he was researching the role
of retro aesthetics in music production and how some of these features are used in
intelligent music production systems. He has several publications in this ever-expanding
field. He recently released his first book, the Routledge publication, Distortion in Music
Production: The Soul of Sonics. He also records as an artist and is about to release his first
solo album titled ‘It’s All Noise’.