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.

Neal Spowage: The Dys-Appearing Body Project

Doctoral student Neal Spowage has composed music for a short film that has been produced by Ania Sadkowska as a part of her MA degree in fashion at DMU. The project is an attempt to stimulate discourse about how the human form is represented by the fashion industry as it ages. It is called the Dys-Appearing Body Project and will be presented at the Faculty MA show 6th-11th September.

John Richards: New Dartington Commission and Video

This summer John Richards completed and premiered Charge/Discharge, a commission from the Dartington Summer School. Recently completed doctoral student Andrew Hill created the following documentary on the development of the work and its performance by a special Dartington incarnation of the Dirty Electronics Ensemble.


Charge/Discharge (2012) by John Richards [Documentary & Performance] from Andrew Hill on Vimeo.

Neal Spowage: Gestures, Affordances and Sculpture

Doctoral Student Neal Spowage recently co-authored a paper, "Gestural Musical Affordances", which was presented at the Sound and Music Computing 2012 conference, held this year in Copenhagen. The paper documents a study that he devised jointly with staff and students at Newcastle Culture Lab. It compared the physical, gestural and cultural attributes of two modern design classics, the iPhone and Wii Remote, as Live Sound Control Interfaces.

On the 8th September, Neal will be performing sib Conduit (video available here). This is his recent collaboration with London based Choreographer Danai Pappa from the Agony Art collective. It will take place at the Live Interfaces conference, Leeds University School of Music. 'sib Conduit' explores the gesture and movement that is generated by sonically indeterminate sculptural instruments.

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

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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