parameters and by selecting various trajectories through the shape, countless pieces may be generated. Academic output Mermikides gained a PhD from the University of Surrey in 2010 for his thesis ' Changes Over Time'. His academic output consists of many published articles including 'Rondo All Turca', for Total Guitar Magazine, '''On Composing: How To Be A Successful Computer-based Composer' (2010) for Computer Music Magazine Special: Making It, 'Parallel Worlds', '5 Decades of the Jam Band' 'Extreme Guitar Concepts' and 'Bossa Appreciation' (2014) for Guitar Techniques Magazine. He has also contributed chapters to many books including Music and Shape published by Oxford University Press and frequently shares articles on music theory on his website. He has given many keynote presentations, including a talk for TEDx Groningen in April 2016 entitled 'Everything we do is music'., at the Hong Kong Academy of the Performing Arts in 2018 as part of the 3rd Altamira Guitar Symposium and the International Guitar Research Centre, The British Sleep Society, Royal Physiological Society, Studium generale and the Frank Mohr Institute. In 2019 he shared a keynote presentation with Jim Al-Khaleli at the University of Surrey Doctoral Conference. In 2015 was hailed a 'Rap Genius' by Gareth Malone OBE for his satirical instruction article on writing a generic Eurovision song. He has also written an article on the controversial 432 Hz Movement and has been interviewed as an expert in ancient Greek Tuning on BBC Radio 3 Music Matters. He was supervisor for Bill Bruford's PhD at the University of Surrey. Milton's work features in many publications including The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music, Nature Immunology, New dramaturgy: international perspectives on theory and practice, Medical Humanities Journal, Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts and The Anatomy of the Science Play. Leukaemia and fundraising In 2004 Milton Mermikides was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia. On 8 April 2005, he received a life saving bone-marrow transplant from his sister Dr Alex Mermikides. Whilst undergoing intensive radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatment, he set up a website – miltcentral.com (now archived on his website miltonline.com) – and produced regular blog posts and videos from Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals documenting his treatment for leukaemia and bone marrow transplant. 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