He has worked with a number of artists including Tim Minchin, Pat Martino, John Williams, Tod Machover, Steve Winwood and Brian Eno and research bodies such as the Wellcome Trust,[3] UCL Neuroscience, British Library, Science Museum, Aldeburgh Music and the Smithsonian Institution.
In 2018, Milton Mermikides was interviewed by Evelyn Glennie on BBC Radio 4 on data sonification and his translations of Bridget Riley prints into music.
He has also worked with Sleep experts and his Sound Asleep project was exhibited in the Design Museum, London, and featured on BBC Radio 4 Inside Science.
Members have included Craig Ogden, John Williams, Paco Peña, Jake Willson, Thomas Leeb, Declan Zapala, Stephen Goss, Gary Ryan, George Hrab and Bridget Mermikides.
[1] In 2015 was hailed a 'Rap Genius'[34][non-primary source needed] by Gareth Malone OBE for his satirical instruction article on writing a generic Eurovision song.
[37] Milton's work features in many publications including The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music,[38] Nature Immunology,[39] New dramaturgy: international perspectives on theory and practice,[40] Medical Humanities Journal,[41] Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts[42] and The Anatomy of the Science Play[43].
His courage and productivity during this period was inspirational to many fellow cancer sufferers and received global attention from leukaemia patients, carers, scientists, schools, skeptical groups and musicians.
This later led to a scholarship from the James Randi Educational Foundation,[45] and appearing as a judge in the final of the 2006 Air Guitar World Championships in Oulu, Finland.
In 2015, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his bone marrow transplant, Mermikides put on a charity concert in Bush Hall, London, called Milton's Big Ego.
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