Chloe Cutler Recipient of DMU Creative Thinking Award

Chloe Cutler, an MA by Research student in the MTIRC, has just been awarded DMU prestigious Creative Thinking Award for her project The Tono: Enhanced Learning with an Innovative Instrument in Key Stage 2 and 3 Music Education. As part of her MA, Cutler designed and constructed a custom electronic handheld instrument to take into the classroom to teach students about making sound-based (as distinct from note-based) music. The classroom placements have been highly successful, with very positive feedback from students and teachers alike. Particularly notable was the fact that some students who have not responded strongly to traditional music instruction in the past seemed to respond enthusiastically to instruction with the Tono. Cutler has been granted £3000 to develop her project further.

Sponsored by Toby Moores, CEO of sleepydog.net, The Creative Thinking Awards were established to recognise exceptional levels of creative, novel, original, and inventive thinking.This year the £10,000 prize was shared between three winners who came up with ideas which connected two or more disciplines to come up with creative and unique ideas.

Neal Spowage - Speaker Bra and Wireless Shovel Controller at Falmouth

Doctoral Student Neal Spowage will premier his brand new work Cold Papaya on 28th August at the Fascinate Conference, in the The Performance Centre at Falmouth University. He will also give a paper and a demonstration for his new sculptural wearable instrument The Speaker Bra and Wireless Shovel Controller for which Cold Papaya is a vehicle.

Cold Papaya is a part of Neal's PhD portfolio and ongoing collaboration with choreographer Danai Pappa.

"Cold Papaya (Neal Spowage and Danai Pappa) explores dual relationships and erotic humour in live electronic music. The instrument used in this performance is in two parts, one is a bra and one is a shovel. By dividing kinesthetic source bonding into two distinct focal points, we explore love in a story of horror and dark humour that describes a balance of power, loss, sex and confusion between performers. This wearable instrument, and the performance piece are a mirror for both the artist, and the audience. How important is touch, sound, an object and the sexual power of the human body?"

Luca Forcucci: UCLA Future Lab and more…

Doctoral student Luca Forcucci will present his work in October as part of the UCLA Future Lab and discuss issues on Sonic Arts and Architecture. Also in October, he will present a concert at the 15th International Festival for New Media Culture  Art+Communication 2013 / Riga / Latvia.

He has also recently presented work at the Ionian University in Corfu, Greece, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel during the Biennale of Venice, the “Hörraum:Atmosphären” within “Kultur:Stadt exhibition” at the Akademie der Künste / Berlin / Germany and UNESP / University of Sao Paulo / Brazil.

"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