Sound artist and sound designer Monty Adkins (*1972) creates installations, concert pieces and audio-visual works and has also collaborated with a number of contemporary performers, video artists and photographers. He has released albums with Audiobulb (UK), empreintes DIGITALes (CAN), Cronica Electronica (P), Line (USA) and Eilean (FR), and also – under his dark ambient pseudonym SKRIKA, with Cryo Chamber (USA). His works have been commissioned by INA-GRM, IRCAM, BBC Radio 3, ZKM Karlsruhe and Sonic Arts Network, among others. Adkins is also the author and editor of numerous articles and books on electronic music, the most popular of which, Music Beyond Airports, is freely available from the University of Huddersfield Press, where he is also a professor of electronic music.