User:Gavinstarks
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Gavin has been engaged in the cross-over between Technology, Music and Business since the early 1990s.
He pioneered streaming media in the UK and Europe in 1995 when he helped set up Richard Branson's Virgin.Net ISP, and the International Webcasting Association in Europe. In 1999 he created the award-winning cross-media company, Tornado Productions, and sold it to a larger media group in 2003. At Tornado he led projects with clients as diverse as Channel Four, Rolls Royce, Tate Modern, Shell and Greenpeace.
Gavin holds a BSc in Astronomy and a Masters degree in Computer Music: he worked at the Jodrell Bank Radio Observatory in Radio Astrophysics, and created and lectured new courses in Electronics and Music at Glasgow University. His music is regularly performed and his research published internationally. He contributes to the AmbientTV collective, the Acoustic Space Lab in Latvia, and Nesta/PAL workshops – exploring links between technology, science and the arts.
He also runs the non-profit webcasting company http://www.exequo.org, enabling NGO's, Arts organisations and the public sector to webcast their own content.
