1. Alex Germains
Flat 3, 20 Aigburth Drive, Liverpool L17 4JQ. Telephone: 07455 807 189
E-mail: flyinggermains@hotmail.co.uk
www.alexgermains.com
I have worked hard to achieve a balance between vocational, creative, and academic
activities over the course of my career to date. I have been able to frame much of
my experience as an artist, self-employed company director, and music
composer/producer, through my academic studies and subsequent teaching career
during the last eight years. I have a great deal of experience of collaboration in
business, artistic, and academic practices, as well as experience in self-motivated and
self-directed employment, artistic practice, and academic research and writing.
I believe that the combination of my teaching career, doctoral research, and on-going
vocational/creative activities, illustrate my commitment to engaging with ‘real world’
activities, in tandem with investigating societal/cultural processes. This approach
has allowed me to benefit from both experience and theory. This ‘portfolio’ career
has given, and continues to give me invaluable skills across a range of disciplines and
areas of human activity.
1998-present (ongoing):
Self-employed Musician/Artist (incorporating a diverse range of practices, including,
but not limited to:
Music composition, production, and performance…
Audiovisual arts – video, sound art, animation…
Community-focused Sound Art/Arts projects…
Post-production film and Television audio…
Self-directed arts-related business activities (planning, organisation, managing
budgets, marketing, promotions, touring, tax etc.)…
Instrumental/Academic tuition…
Session musician – Bass player ‘Echo and the Bunnymen’, 2000-2002…
(for specific details of individual projects and publications, soundcloud, youtube, and
website, see appendix)
Jan. 2013- May 2015:
Full-time Lecturer/Module Leader, LJMU B.A. Popular Music Studies (see ‘teaching
experience’ section)
2011- Aug. 2012:
Post-Graduate teaching qualification, Edge Hill University (PGCE – Post-
Compulsory Education and Training

2. 2007-2011:
Undergraduate/Post-Graduate studies, Liverpool Hope University
Teaching experience:
Liverpool John Moores University: B.A. Popular Music Studies
Modules taught:
Understanding Radio: Practice and Production
Digital Music Production
Audio Cultures and Audio Technologies
Creative Music Project
Music Industry
Music and Culture: Texts and Contexts
AS/A2 Music/Music Technology – Carmel College, St. Helens
Instrumental/Music Technology tuition – secondary schools/further education
colleges
Supply teaching – primary, secondary (through Hays and Randstad Education
Agency).
Areas of expertise:
Creative Practice – popular music composition and production
Mass Communications production and consumption (Radio, Television, Film, Music,
Videogame)
Sound Art conceptualisation, practice, and critical analysis
Research in Popular Music Studies
Research in Cultural Studies
The development and use of technology in music/culture
Self-employment in the arts industries
Specific academic research interests include:
Theories of cultural transmission, with particular reference to ‘Memetics’.
(copies of M.A. dissertation on ‘The Memetics of Popular Music’ available on
request)
Popular music/culture studies
Utilising technology for specifically creative purposes
Utilising technology for educational purposes
Human/Computer Interaction
Multi-touch interfaces as creative tool

3. Practical Skills/experiences include:
All major DAW and software/hardware recording equipment, in particular Logic Pro,
but also Pro Tools, Cubase, Reason/Rebirth/Record, Ableton Live etc.
Sound engineering/Live sound
Music notation/composition
Songwriting
Production/Mixing/Mastering
DJ-ing
Music Industry/Internet-based creative practices
Performance
Session musician
Instrumental tuition: acoustic/electric guitar, bass guitar
Self-employment/company directorship
Short film production – artistic/commercial projects – roles include production, sound,
lighting, camera
Documentary production
Education:
PGCE post-compulsory education and training - Edge Hill University
M.A. (Distinction) – The Beatles, Popular Music and Society/Popular Music Studies
– Liverpool Hope University.
B.A. Hons. (First Class) – Music, Popular Music, Music Technology – Liverpool
Hope University.
G.C.S.E. – English Language A, English Literature A, French A, German A, Maths C,
Physics C, Economics C, Media Studies C, I.T. A – Castell Alun High School, Hope,
Wrexham.
Other Vocational Experience
2000-2001
Waiting-on staff, Ego Mediterranean Restaurant, Chester and Liverpool.
2006-2007
Barclaycard Debt Collection agency (callcentre), Kirkby, Liverpool.
Barclaycard PDQ machine service-line (callcentre), Wavertree, Liverpool.
Academic, professional and personal references are available on request.

4. Appendix
List of artistic practice/publications
2000 – 10” vinyl as ‘The Sandpeople’ – EVA records
2000 - ongoing - radio airplay, multiple national/regional/international stations,
including, most recently, Adam Walton show, BBC Radio Wales, Roger Hill
show, BBC Radio Merseyside.
As ‘Mountaineers’:
2001 – ‘Red Thong’ EP – Deltasonic Records. (‘Record of the Week’, Mark
Radcliffe show, Radio 1).
2002 – ‘Self-Catering’ EP – Mute Records
2003 – ‘Messy Century’ LP – Mute Records
2003 – ‘Ripen’ single – Mute Records
2004 – ‘I Gotta Sing’ single – Mute Records
2004 – Goldfrapp ‘Black Cherry’ (Mountaineers remix) – Mute Records
2004 – use of ‘I Gotta Sing’ on ‘The River King’ feature film.
2005 – ‘Motions of Interplanetary Dust’ EP – Northern Ambition Records
2006 – ‘Blame’ Mountaineers Remix: 28 Costumes – Spank Records
Post ‘Mountaineers’:
2008 – Music composition/production, ‘viral’ advert ‘Ford Fiesta Love Factory’
(also Production Manager on advert shoot) – Good Times Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14JKJDoJKBU
2009-2011 co-songwriting/production with Emily Lansley (Emily and the Faves,
Stealing Sheep) – some of these subsequently incorporated into Stealing
Sheep’s work.
2010 – Post-production sound on short film ‘Heroes’, in collaboration with ‘First
Take’ Liverpool.
2012 – Threshold Festival, Liverpool. Live drawing/music performance as part of
‘PRAAN’ ensemble.
2012 – ‘Graceless Opus: Apartment 132’. Live performance as part of ‘Low Lives
4, Networked Performance Festival International Exhibition of Live
Performances’, live stream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK5Dc46x6Ac
2012 - Live improvised audio performance, Here/There/Everywhere, Regeneration
Through the Arts, Huttons Buildings, Sheffield.

5. 2012-ongoing – Creative consultant, demo production with ‘Stealing Sheep’
(Heavenly Records).
2012- ongoing – recording engineer/production/mastering, Library/Production music
in collaboration with composer Tom Moss, for Imagem music, Dewolfe
music.
2013 – ‘Snaketown’, Liverpool Biennial; audiovisual arts event at ‘Camp & Furnace’,
in collaboration with Jon Barraclough, Chiz Turnross, and others.
2013 – ‘Lineout’: audiovisual performance with Jon Barraclough, Madeline Hall and
Deep Hedonia, Philip Jeck, and ‘Sense of Sound’, Liverpool.
2014 – Involvement with ‘8 Water Street’ arts project, Liverpool. (including
proposed audiovisual exhibition ‘The Event’, re-scheduled due to having lost
use of the building).
2014 – collaboration with ‘The Kazimier’ and ‘Stealing Sheep on ‘Mythopoeia’ New
Years Eve performance event. In addition, documentation of the event in
photo and video.
2014-2015 - Silent Cinema, Live improvised soundtrack to early silent films,
Kazimier Garden, Liverpool.
2015 – Live Performance with ‘InAtoms’ for BBC Radio Merseyside Popular Music
Show.
2015 – ‘Block Stories’; community arts workshop using Minecraft/Papercraft,
Birkenhead Priory, in collaboration with ‘Re-Dock’.
2015 – Lighting Assistant, Production Assistant, on ‘Two to Birkenhead’ video for
Bill Ryder-Jones, with ‘Good Times’ film company.
2015 – ‘Smiles’ album release, as ‘germanager’, Upitup Records.
http://www.upitup.com/catalogue/release.php?cat_id=81
2015 – Film showing; ‘Lime Grove’, as germanager, as part of ‘Broadcast’ short film
event at Liverpool Small Cinema.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVP1vXkrhis
2015 – Sound Design, ‘Spooks’ musical theatre production, in collaboration with
composer Tom Moss.
2015 – Contributor: composed original music, created photographs, and provided
written documentation of ‘concept’ as part of a commission for ‘Music for
Empty Spaces’ radio broadcast project for ‘The Popular Music Show’ curated
by Roger Hill, BBC Radio Merseyside.
2015 – Musical collaborator, producer, sound engineer, ‘Ubu Roi’ opera project, in
collaboration with Chiz Turnross.

6. 2015 – VJ for ‘china crisis’, during live performance of their album ‘Flaunt the
Imperfection’, Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.
2015 – Live performance as ‘Germanager’, at ‘Broadcast 2’ audiovisual compendium,
Small Cinema, Liverpool.
2015 – Live performance as ‘Germanager’, The Bluecoat (Arts Centre), Liverpool.
2015 – Live performance as ‘Germanager’, ‘Schismatica’ event, Drop the Dumbulls,
Liverpool.
2015 – Acousmatic performance of new works, as part of ‘Mythopoeia 3’ event, The
Kazimier, Liverpool.
2015 – ‘Block Stories’ audiovisual community arts workshop, Birkenhead Priory.
2015 – Remix; ‘Apparition’ by Stealing Sheep (Heavenly Records).
2015 – Music video for ‘Narkotic’ by Melodien, Deep Distance Records.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmkSjnknC8I
2015 – Line producer, music video for ‘Blossoms’ song ‘At Most a Kiss’ (Virgin
EMI records)
2015 – Location scout, production assistant, music video for Bill Ryder-Jones song
‘Wild Roses’ (Domino Recordings)
In addition, I perform live, under my own name, as ‘germanager’, ‘alexmountaineer’,
and with collaborators in ‘Zukanican’, ‘Melodie du Kronk’, ‘Emily and the Faves’,
Chiz Turnross, ‘Stealing Sheep’, ‘InAtoms’, and others.
Links:
www.alexgermains.com
www.soundcloud.com/germanager
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd16UXgic61jayhLj0rf2Fw
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