"Abstracted Journeys" at London Contemporary Music Festival

A composition by recent PhD graduate Andrew Hill, Abstracted Journeys, has been programmed for the penultimate concert of the London Contemporary Music Festival, on August the 4th. [http://lcmf.co.uk/4-August-Coming-Together]

Listen to the work here:

https://soundcloud.com/andrewhill86/abstracted-journeys

Symposium 4: Thursday 11th July 2013 ‘Building communities, changing needs, ongoing work’

 

As part of the AHRC funded project ‘New Multimedia Tools for Electroacoustic Music Analysis’ directed by Simon Emmerson and Leigh Landy (Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester) – and hosted by the Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities at DMU.

 

Location: Clephan Building, Bonners Lane, De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH (Room 0.01)

Time: 10.30-17.00

Chairs: Simon Emmerson, Michael Gatt

Invited guest contributors: Michael Clarke, Frédéric Dufeu, Trevor Wishart
10.30/10.45-11.00 coffee and introduction

11.00-12.00 ‘New Multimedia Tools for Electroacoustic Music Analysis’ (1)

- Simon Emmerson (DMU) – Achievements of the project and future possibilities

- Mike Gatt (DMU) - The OREMA project and the eOREMA journal: update and future developments

12.00-12.45 - Michael Clarke and Frédéric Dufeu (Huddersfield) –

'An Introduction to the TIAALS software (Tools for Interactive Aural Analysis)'

(part of TaCEM - Technology and Creativity in Electroacoustic Music – an AHRC funded joint Huddersfield/Durham project).

12.45-14.00 - Lunch

14.00-15.30 Open Forum: Trevor Wishart’s Globalalia – analytical approaches

Led by Michael Gatt including contributions from –

Trevor Wishart, Kevin Dahan, Weiwei Jin, Cormac Gould, Ambrose Seddon

15.30-15.45 - Tea/coffee

15.45-16.30 ‘New Multimedia Tools for Electroacoustic Music Analysis’ (2)

Pierre Couprie (DMU): EAnalysis software: update and demonstration

(http://logiciels.pierrecouprie.fr/?page_id=402)

16.30-17.00 -

Questions & discussion

Open Forum output possibilities (OREMA, eOREMA).

Everyone welcome!
Your participation in this Symposium presupposes your consent to it being video and audio recorded.

Your contact: Simon Emmerson - s.emmerson@dmu.ac.uk

Neal Spowage at Music and/as Process Huddersfield

Photo Credit - Rebecca Carter

Postgraduate student Neal Spowage has just presented Frozen Venus to delegates at the Music and/as Process Symposium at the University of Huddersfield on 30th July 2013.

Frozen Venus is a performance work that demonstrates six new Plungerphone electronic instruments. It explores them using a series of states that involve grouping power, leadership, control and support. The intention of the performance is to demonstrate how controlling and manipulating others has a dark ambition. It hovers between intimacy and opposition. Not necessarily political, but rather social and humanistic, we project a symmetry where every dynamic component is shadowed by dark comedy. 

Louise Rossiter Selected for Weimar Workshop

Doctoral student Louise Rossiter has been selected as one of eight participants in a four-day workshop at the Studio für elektroakustische Musik at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar.

The jury selected the following eight composers to attend the workshop and present their work in Weimar.  The event is organised by Robin Minard and will include tuition from Francis Dhomont. One person will be selected at the end for a 3-month residency at the Hochschule.

Adam Basanta : Canada

Robert Bentall : Ireland

Ana Dall'Ara-Majek : Canada

Takuto Fukuda : Japan / Austria

Simon Pérez : Argentina

Martine Louise Rossiter : UK

Sam Salem : UK

Dimetrio Savva : Cyprus / UK

Dirty Electronics with the Royal Academy of Music

Tuesday 25 June @ The Forge, Camden, London

Main Room

7:00 PM

Price: £9/7 online; £10/8 on the door

Superconducting looks at the bare bones of electronic sound through the construction of DIY pick-ups, amplifiers and paper loudspeakers, and how these, what could be considered, raw materials can be explored through composition and performance. The piece also looks at the intersection between electronic and acoustic sound, and mechanical processes and performance. Copper coils and magnets are used to create, not only pick-ups, but also vibration speakers that are attached to large sheets of paper that resonate. Preparing the paper - dampening, using different sizes, shapes and positions in the room - produces a range of timbres and sound characteristics. The transistor is also explored as the basic building block for an amplifier.

           

www.dirtyelectronics.org

www.forgevenue.org/events/eventdetails/25-jun-13-showcase-the-forge/

Dirty Electronics Sonar 20th Anniversary Synth

John Richards and MTI post-graduate Jim Frize have created a hand-held synth for Sonar International Festival of Advanced Music and New Media Art. The Dirty Electronics Sonar 20th Anniversary Synth is an ultra minimal pocket-sized synth, black finished with silver-plated etched Sonar logo. The synth is a analogue digital hybrid that comes with pre-written sequenced patterns that can be either listened to in their own right or ‘played’ (mashed-up, parts of the sequence looped, tempo changed, noise and feedback added, etc.). The synth is played by running fingers across the letters of the Sonar logo. Bit bashing meets analogue noise and crumpled grooves.

Workshops were held over a weekend at the new Sonar by Day venue where over a hundred people took part in building the synth with large audiences watching and listening to the results. Sonar saw a record breaking number of 120,000 attendees at the Festival along with a headline performance from Kraftwerk.