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!

Dirty Electronics Workshops in Estonia and Finland

On November 10, 2012, Dr John Richards brought a "Cut and Thrust" Dirty Electronics workshop to Ptarmigan in Estonia, where projects included an instrument based on an electric generator made from a pair of scissors and a motor appropriated from a desktop printer.

Collaborating with students of the Sibelius Academy, he also presented a concert at the Helsinki Music Centre (Musiikkitalo) on November 16.

Shenyang Conservatory of Music - Lunchtime Concert 12.00 - Wednesday 21st November - PACE Studio 1

We welcome composers and instrumentalists from the Shenyang Conservatory in China. They will introduce us to the work of the Conservatory and play some electroacoustic music by members of their community, both staff and graduates of the composition department.

Looking of a Lad by Zhao Ziwen, Wei Fangxia, Zhao Yitong, Deng Ruochuan, Ren Xiu

Ambush on All Sides in Acousmographe by Zhang Ruibo

Birth and Rebirth by Zhang Ruibo (for Guqin and Max/MSP/Jitter)
Guqin soloist: Zhu Mohan

Heng (Perserverence, Duration) for live khoomei and industrial noise with VJ - Creative Design: Xie Bingyuan, Zhang Ruibo; Khoomei: Wumuti Anniwa (bass), Zhang Ruibo (tenor); Programmer: Zhao Zhongye, Yang Tianyang; VJ: Zhou Zhengqi

Entry Free! All Welcome!

Louise Rossiter: First Prize Espace du Son

Doctoral student Louise Rossiter was awarded ex-aequo First Prize in the Espace du Son competition for intepretation/diffusion of acousmatic music, along with Thomas Gorbach. The competition was held in October by Musiques & Recherches in Belgium.

MTI Events launch with two concerts of new work

 

We welcome new members of the growing Music, Technology & Innovation Research Centre team in two concerts to open the 2012-2013 season – a feast of acousmatic surround sound, audio-visual & generative music.

Wednesday October 24^th  7.30pm PACE Studio 1  – MTI Team Concert 1

John Young - Tongue (acousmatic) 

Craig Vear - Five Antarctic Solitudes (audio-visual)

Pete Batchelor - Nebula (acousmatic)

Ben Ramsay - The Batteries Of Orchards (acousmatic)

Luca Forcucci - L'Ecume des Jours (acousmatic)

Si Waite - Columns, rows and collisions: an interactive-generative piece for layered, grid-based systems (live laptop and controllers with projected visuals) 
(Note slightly later start time for this concert!)

Wednesday November 7^th  7pm PACE Studio 1  – MTI Team Concert 2

Simon Atkinson - Interiorities vi (acousmatic)

Louise Rossitter - Culture Shock (acousmatic)

Andrew Hill - New work (acousmatic)

Bret Battey - Clonal Colonies (I – Fast Runners; II – Soft Strata) (audio-visual)

Weiwei Jin - La solidificacion de la memoria (acousmatic)

Entry Free!

John Richards Featured in "New Electronics" Magazine

John Richards was recently interviewed by New Electronics magazine, "the site for electronic design engineers", for an article exploring the creative use of technology in the arts.