About me

I have three degrees: Master of Arts (interdisciplinary) in Computer Science and Music from the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada) (2008), a Bachelor of Music from the same university (2006), and a Bachelor of Arts (first class Honours) in Philosophy, with an extended minor in Music and a minor in Mathematics from Simon Fraser University (2003). I am currently working on a PhD in Electrical Engineering & Electronics at the University of Glasgow.

I began playing cello when I was four years old; I joined my first orchestra when I was nine. I began composing in Aug 2001, started playing viola in 2002, and started playing violin in 2004.

I was the Documentation Editor of GNU/LilyPond for four years, including one year of organizing the LilyPond Grand Documentation Project involving over 20 people to train my replacements. I then became the Release Manager of LilyPond, and gradually organized other aspects of the project. However, I was forced to take over more documentation duties as all the previous documenters either drifted away or started writing code.

I have also written documentation for Marsyas and Strasheela. I am currently writing a pitch tracker for Rosegarden as part of my research group's activities.

I don't have a photos linked from this page because I generally dislike seeing photos of people I meet on the 'net. However, if you don't share this rare quirk of mine, here is a picture of Graham Percival.

Contact info

Email: graham@percival-music.ca. This address is forwarded to a gmail account, since gmail does an excellent job of spam filtering and this is sadly required for any publically-viewable email address these days.

Of course, gmail reads all my email. If you have anything private to say, I can tell you a non-public email address of mine (without spam filtering), or better yet, you could encrypt it with gpg.

My current public key is pubkey.txt. This is the newer key out of the two keys available on the public keyservers. Please note that I forgot the passphrase of my old key; you can see the details on my blog post "me idiot".