Remember the GLOSS program, the collection of recorded sounds from the Percy Grainger Home and Studio in White Plains, NY. The sounds include samples of instruments in the collection, and ambient sounds from the house and neighborhood. GLOSS now has a new name and a new website: GlossGlide.org.
GlossGlide is an exploratory sound project inspired by the ideas, materials, and creative ethos of Percy Grainger. It is the work of an autistic practitioner, developed through sustained individual practice and reflection.
The project brings together sound, interaction, and accessibility to explore what it might mean to engage with musical materials through continuous change, attention, and play.
GlossGlide is deliberately experimental. It is concerned as much with process as with product, and with creating conditions for listening and interaction that are open-ended, calm, and low-pressure. Users are not asked to achieve anything, and are free to pause, repeat, drift, or leave at any point.
Join host Paul Jackson, with GlossGlide developer Andrew Hugill, as they explore the new site, its design philosophy, and the ways in which it it is informed by Grainger's radical approach to music making and music composition.
Grainger the Educator
This meeting continues the Percy Grainger Society’s 2025–26 members’ meeting series, Grainger the Educator, a celebration of Percy Grainger’s often overlooked yet enduring influence as a teacher and educator. This three-part series seeks to illuminate Grainger’s innovative educational approach and spirit in a variety of settings, including his work at the National Music Camp, Interlochen, and his lecture series for New York University, and for the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
Andrew Hugill is a retired Professor, composer, musicologist, and creative technologist whose career spans nearly forty years across music, technology, and creative research. At Leicester Polytechnic/De Montfort University, he founded the Music, Technology and Innovation program and the Institute of Creative Technologies, later establishing the Creative Computing research centers at Bath Spa University and the University of Leicester. Since 2025, he has been a Visiting Research Professor in the School of Music at the University of Leeds. Hehas received numerous teaching and research awards and is both a National Teaching Fellow and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His research explores aural diversity, creativity, and disability, informed by his own experiences of autism, hearing, and balance disorders. He founded the Aural Diversity Network and, since 2023, has been the lead on GLOSS, an innovative project connecting music, accessibility, and digital creativity.
Paul Jackson is a pianist, conductor, musicologist, lecturer, and education consultant based in Cambridge, UK. A graduate of the University of East Anglia and City University, he studied piano with and conducting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He holds a PhD in Musicology and a PGCE in Post-Compulsory Education from Anglia Ruskin University, where he served as Head of Music and Performing Arts and Director of Music and Performance from 1998 to 2018. A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, he has taught widely across performance, composition, technology, and musicology. Active as both pianist and conductor, he performs as a soloist, and as a chamber musician, and as musical director for a number of orchestras and choirs. An authority on Percy Grainger, he is Editor of The Grainger Journal, President of the Percy Grainger Society, and, since 2023, has been co-lead on the GLOSS project.