John Young's 'Red Sky' Premieres 12 April 2015

John Young, composer and professor within the Department of Music, Technology & Innovation, will be premiering 'Red Sky' – a new work on a World War One theme – at 7pm on 12 April 2015. The event will take place at Leicester's New Walk Museum.

Red Sky is for alto flute, clarinets, piano and electroacoustic sounds. It was written for Carla Rees, Heather Roche and Xenia Pestova, musicians well known for their support for contemporary music generally and widely admired in the EA community.

The piece incorporates oral history recordings of 20 WWI veterans, men and women, most recorded in the '70s and '80s within a mixed EA/instrumental 'cinema for the ear', offering something of a journey through aspects of their wartime experience. Their stories are both disturbing and uplifting.

The performance marks the closing of the first of Leicester City Council's series of World War One exhibitions and is supported by the Arts Council England, Leicester City Council, The Imperial War Museum and De Montfort University.

De Montfort University have posted a news piece containing a brief interview with John, which can be found by visiting:  http://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/news/2015/march/world-premiere-of-dmu-composers-tribute-to-war-dead-will-be-cinema-for-the-ears.aspx

Leicester Media School - Music, Technology and Innovation New Media Events 2013-2014 - Launch Party Events

The Music, Technology and Innovation Department and Research Centre launch the public events of the Leicester Media School with two showcases of their wide ranging recent creative output. These two concerts cover audio, audio-visual, dirty electronics, surround sound immersion and much more … on PACE 1’s purpose built multichannel system. It’s a party - come along – free!

Wednesday October 9^th, 2013 7.00pm

PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

Pete Batchelor Kaleidoscope: Cycle - Pulse + Fuse (8 channel surround sound)

Louise Rossiter SiO₂ (8 channel surround sound)

Louise Rossiter/Andrew Connor Teahouse Memories (audio-visual)

John Young 5 Versions of Reality (multi-speaker diffusion)

Wednesday October 23^rd, 2013 7.00pm

PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

Simon Atkinson Three Modulations for Mute Synth II (multi-speaker diffusion)

Amit D Patel aka Dushume-Svaramaya Bass In The Pace.... (bespoke instruments create noise beneath the surface)

Ben Ramsay Flinch-Rest (multi-speaker diffusion)

John Richards Mute Synth live (with Dirty Electronics)

Miriam Akkerman / University of the Arts, Berlin: Seminar and Installation

Miriam Akkerman, a PhD student from University of the Arts, Berlin, will be visiting us next week on an Erasmus exchange. Miriam is an instrumentalist, composer, and sound artist, with work ranging from live electronics to installation art.

Thursday, Feb 28
MTI Research Lab (Clephan 0.19)

12:30-1:30 — Research Seminar: "Between Algorithm and Composition. David Wessel, Karlheinz Essl and Georg Hajdu"

2:00-3:00 — Presentation and discussion of an installation artwork "Info Wall" with the MUST3028 Installation Art class and all others interested

For more information on Miriam's work, see www.miriam-akkermann.de.

Katharine Norman receives 2012 New Media Writing Prize

Honorary Research Fellow Katharine Norman is recipient of the 2012 New Media Writing Prize, announced by Bournemouth University and if:book UK. Norman received the prize for her work Window, an interactive sound essay in memory of John Cage. 

The work was described as "a beautiful meditation made by a composer with a love of coding and an imagination that naturally expresses itself in digital, multimedia productions. The term ‘poetic’ in this field can be code for impenetrable, but this really is a multimedia poem of depth and substance, inspired by the work and philosophy of John Cage. The viewer/listener/reader looks out of a window, hears ambient sound, evocative text, using a slider which makes it possible and pleasurable to move from day to night, to remix the balance of text to sound."

John Cousins (NZ) Guest Concert Wednesday December 5th 7pm PACE Studio 1

A performance of audiovisual works by John Cousins

'Choke' (8 channel)
'Between Floors' (16 channel)
'Say' (stereo)

John Cousins is New Zealand’s leading sonic artist.  In a career spanning more than 40 years his output embraces instrumental and vocal music, live art, photographic installations, audiovisual and acousmatic electroacoustic music.  In this concert he will present three audiovisual works in an immersive sound environment.

Preceded 3-4.30pm by a research seminar on Cousins’ audiovisual work 'Aria', in the PACE Building, Studio 1.

Entry Free! All Welcome!