Visible Bits, Audible Bytes: Audio-visual Concert & Symposium Wednesday 13th February

Wednesday February 13th, 2013
Phoenix Square (Film & Digital Media)

Midland Street, Leicester, LE1 1TG

Visible Bits, Audible Bytes

Seminar: 3pm – 5pm

Concert & screening: 6.30pm - 8pm

Location: Phoenix seminar rooms and cinema
Concert tickets: £5 (£3 conc.) - seminar free entry
Call the box office on 0116 242 2800 to reserve your free place on the afternoon seminar or to book a ticket for the concert - or book online (http://phoenix.org.uk/)



Visible Bits, Audible Bytes presents a series of talks and a concert of experimental film and audio-visual works that champion the soundtrack and explore the relationship between sound and the moving image. An afternoon seminar brings together three of the UK's leading practitioners to discuss their current work in restoring, creating and performing audio-visual works - Dr Joseph Hyde, Bath Spa University; Dr Mick Grierson, Goldsmiths College University of London; Dr Louise Harris, Kingston University. This is followed by a concert screening of works, curated to demonstrate the historical legacy of sound and image practice, bringing contemporary works and those from the BFI archives together in a diverse and rich programme.



Perpetual Motion (2011) - Andrew Hill
Trade Tattoo (1936) - Len Lye
Cs2 (2013) - Louise Harris
Delusions of Alien Control - Mick Grierson [Live Performance]
End Transmission (2012) - Jo Hyde
In Absentia (2000) - Quay Brothers & Karlheinz Stockhausen

The event has been curated by the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre (De Montfort University), in partnership with Phoenix. The afternoon talks are free and will take place in the Courtyard Rooms between 3-5pm. The concert screening will take place in Screen Two from 6.30pm.

Andrew Lewis / Wellcome Trust Concert PACE 1 Wednesday January 16th 7pm

Wednesday January 16th, 2013 7.00pm

PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

Andrew Lewis – Wellcome Trust concert

“Andrew Lewis’s new audio-visual work Lexicon is based on a poem written by a 12-year old boy, Tom, in which he tries to articulate his personal experience of dyslexia. By presenting an imaginary sonic and visual journey through the text of the poem, Lexicon explores not only the challenges, but also the life-affirming creative potential that dyslexia, and a fuller understanding of it, can bring. Lexicon is supported by the Wellcome Trust's 'Engaging Science' programme, which aims to use artistic creation as a means of raising public awareness of biomedical science.”

Andrew Lewis (Bangor University) will perform this audio visual work and other acousmatic from the Bangor studio; also the world premiere of Pulse from MTI’s Peter Batchelor who studied with Andrew Lewis.

Pre-concert talk by Andrew Lewis at 3pm in PACE 1.

Andrew Lewis - Dark Glass

Kimon Emmanouil Grigoriadis - Peri-Phonis

Andrew Lewis - Lexicon

Peter Batchelor - Pulse

Andrew Lewis - Penmon Point

Entry Free!

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.