Andrew Tweedie

>> Andrew Tweedie, Neurotic's Director of Music, was born in Croydon in 1964 and brought up on a Greater London Council (GLC) 'overspill' estate in Suffolk. Risking rock-and-roll credibility, he took a degree in music from Royal Holloway College, University of London (studying composition with John Woolrich) and violin lessons at the Guildhall School of Music. He was studying cultural history at Cambridge University when the 1997 reformation of the 1977 punk band Menace lured him away from academia to play guitar.

Andrew's work often has a conceptual foundation that emerges from real-world question. Being conceptual does not result in the abandonment of technique. Andrew uses ideas about the world we live in as the starting point for structuring composition based on analogies with the subject matter. 'For me, the most interesting element of Neurotic is that the robots acquire taste unhindered by social context and prejudice. That's how we should all approach listening. One of the personal dangers for artists is that they become self regarding and grounding your work to a real-world debate can guard against this.'

Using the conceptual approach, Andrew is working on the development of a work that engages with ethical issues surrounding the increased use of Artificial Intelligence in medicine.

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