Hallucination Machines, Psychogeophysics, and Recrystalisation

Doctoral student Ryan Jordon ran over nine solo and eight collaborative workshops over the last year, while organising eight other workshops held at noise=noise/nnnnn. Here's a small sampling:

• DIY Hypnosis and Hallucination Machines, ISEA, Istanbul, Turkey
• Low Budget Hydrophone and Canoeing, nnnnn, London
• Ghost Architecture, nnnn, London (An experimental workshop in spirit detection, dowsing, abstract electronics, and ghost hunting)
• Channelling Interference, nnnnn, London (exploring biofeedback and the body's crude replication and integration into electronic circuits – focusing on neural circuits)
• School Of Meat Cutting, nnnnn, London w/ Andy Bolus (A workshop in low life circuit bending, blasting, and building. Using the circuits from various electronic detritus and raw meat to build your own synth.)

More details on the workshops and projects can be found at Ryan's homepage.

Luca Forcucci Exhibition in Basel

Doctoral student Luca Forcucci will be part of an exhibition entitled Sensing Place, which will be held in Basel, Switzerland, at the House of Electronic Arts. The performance will occur on the 25th of October and will feature field recording works from the Brazilian Amazon and the city of São Paulo. Participants will include the MIT Media Lab and Christina Kübisch. Link.

Simon Emmerson - UK première - 25th June

Kings Place
90 York Way, London, N1 9AG.
Box Office on 020 7520 1490.

Jane Chapman: A Shimmering Microcosm
Out Hear Music / Monday, 25 June 2012 - 8:00pm / Hall Two

Mark Wingfield/Jane Chapman Parallel Time*
Roger Redgate Residua (First complete performance)*
Duncan Macleod The New Atlantis
Sohrab Uduman Derrière le Mirroir*
(Live visuals by Jon Barraclough)
Images by Norman McBeath (during the interval)
Stockhausen Nachtmusick (Aus den sieben Tagen)
Simon Emmerson Dreamscape**
(Live visuals by David Bickerstaff)
Wingfield Smouldering Bridge*

*World premiere **UK premiere

Performer(s):
Jane Chapman harpsichord (percussion)
Kate Ryder piano
Mark Wingfield electric guitar

'There came a moment of madness when the feeling harpsichord thought that it was the only harpsichord in the world, and that the whole harmony of the universe resided in it.' Diderot (1769)

Pioneering harpsichordist Jane Chapman brings together ground-breaking performers and visual artists in a unique collaboration, exploring ideas of existence and reality through state-of-the-art technology and dramatic innovation.

Jane Chapman gives the first complete performance of Roger Redgate's Residua, unadulterated essence of harpsichord, and continues her 'cinematic' collaboration with electric guitarist Mark Wingfield, in a sensual symbiosis of resonating strings stretching the edges of sound. Sohrab Uduman and Jon Barraclough explore the energy generated from the fusion between live performance, live computer transformation of sound and moving image, bringing to life an aural and visual theatre of gesture, movement and allusion. In Duncan MacLeod's The New Atlantis the harpsichord is suspended in a utopian world. Pianist Kate Ryder and harpsichord then play a strange sonic game in Simon Emmerson's Dreamscape for live electronics and vocalisation, with interactive visuals by David Bickerstaff. Performers come together in text inspired works by Stockhausen, and Norman McBeath shows vibrant and luminous images.

"Cinematic eloquence" (Wingfield/Chapman)
The Guardian

"Britain's most progressive harpsichordist"
Independent on Sunday

"Her virtuosity commands attention"
BBC Music Magazine

http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on-book-tickets/music/jane-chapman-a-shimmering-microcosm

Anna Meredith with Dirty Electronics Ensemble

De Montfort University,
Music, Technology and Innovation
Events Series 2011-2012

Dirty Electronics with Anna Meredith
'Light, Paper, Sound'
Wednesday 30th May
7.00 pm
PACE Studio 1, Richmond St, Leicester
FREE


Anna Meredith joins Dirty Electronics with a new commission for electronics and large group. Small intimate jewellery boxes, each with their own unique character, house oscillators and lights, and are opened and closed by performers to create choral-like chords, sequences and flashes of light. The concert will also feature a premier of Light, Paper, Sound by Jim Frize (for multiple optical pianolas), a performance with the Dirty Electronics 7-Segment Display, and new work by Max Wainwright.

Meredith is one of the UK's most in-demand young composers. Her music is widely performed around the world and she is a regular judge, guest and commentator on BBC Television and Radio 3 and 4. Her most recently piece - HandsFree - a no-instruments piece for the National Youth Orchestra has been called "mesmerising" and "exhilarating" by The Times, "a tour de force" by the Guardian and "wicked" by the Independent and will continue to be performed by NYO throughout 2012 as part of the 20x12 Cultural Olympiad commissions. As well as her acoustic commissions, Anna has recently turned her focus to performing her eclectic electronic music and has already supported These New Puritans, James Blake, Shlomo, Broadcast and Mira Calix, performing material from her debut EP - Black Prince Fury.

www.annameredith.com
www.dirtyelectronics.org

New Multimedia Tools Symposium 3 Wednesday June 20th

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.

Symposium 3: Wednesday 20th June 2012
Theme: ‘Analysis: application, workshop, discussion’

Location: Clephan Building, Bonners Lane, De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH (Room 0.01)
Time: 10.30-13.00 and 14.00-17.00
Chair: Simon Emmerson
Invited participant observer: Gary Kendall (Queens Belfast)

10.30-13.00 Application
Contributions from -
Leigh Landy (DMU) - The Next Step
David Hirst (La Trobe, via Skype) - The SIAM Framework: Segregation, Integration, Assimilation and Meaning
John Ferguson (Kingston) - Some initial thoughts on ‘Wig Wag’ (Waisvisz/Sehnaoui)
Simon Emmerson (DMU) – Capturing interaction and response
Andrew Hugill (DMU) - Towards an analysis of Papa Sangre, an audio-only game for the iPhone/iPad
Mike Gatt (DMU) - The future of OREMA

14.00-16.00 Workshop
Pierre Couprie (DMU): EAnalysis demonstration & hands on workshop
(http://logiciels.pierrecouprie.fr/?page_id=402)

OREMA participants travel bursaries available.
(http://www.orema.dmu.ac.uk/)

16.00-17.00 Discussion
Project summary, critique and future developments.

All comers welcome!
Your participation in this Symposium presupposes your consent to it being video and audio recorded.
Your contact: s.emmerson@dmu.ac.uk

Xenakis & Co with Amelides and Tzedaki

The audiorama in Stockholm is presenting a two-day tribute to Xenakis on May 4 & 5, 2012. One concert is dedicated to young Greek electroacoustic composers, including pieces by DMU postgrads Panos Amelides (Ritual Attacks and Agoras I) and Katerina Tzedaki (Reverberations).

Visible Bits, Audible Bytes

Music, Technology and Innovation
De Montfort University, Leicester
New Media Events 2011-2012

Wednesday April 25th, 2012 7pm
Phoenix Square (Film & Digital Media)
Midland Street, Leicester, LE1 1TG

Visible Bits, Audible Bytes 2

Join Phoenix Square for a compelling showcase screening of works from an eclectic group of audiovisual artists from around the world. Ranging from the playful and sensuous to the edgy and experimental, these artists and their works are redefining the potentials of sound and image in the 21st century. Curated by Bret Battey and presented by the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at DMU.

Flat-E (images) + Ultre (music): Ionisation (2005)
Jean Piché (images and music): OCÉANES (2010-11)
Bret Battey (images and music): Clonal Colonies (2011)
Glenn Marshall (images) + Peter Gabriel (music): The Nest That Sailed the Sky (2009)
Candaş Şişman (images and music): FLUX (2010)
Jean Piché (images and music): Ange (1979/2012)
Numbercult (images and music): EVE (2009)
Robert Seidel (images) + Heiko Tippelt & Philipp Hirsch (music): _grau (2004)
Candaş Şişman (images) + Egidija Medeksaite (music): EFF-FLUX (2011)

Tickets: £6 (£3.50 conc. - £2.50 for DMU staff and students) please call the Box Office (0116-242-2800) or book online (http://phoenix.org.uk/).