Audiovisual Concert and Seminar

Tuesday 5 November in PACE Studio 1, 7pm, MTI welcomes visiting Argentine composer Prof. Raúl Minsburg (National University of Lanús and National University of Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires) who will present his large-scale audiovisual work reflecting on the personal and cultural experience of memory and the human condition: La Memoria del Tiempo, co-authored with video artist Nicolás Testoni.

See a preview at http://vimeo.com/42866691

This is followed on Wednesday 6 November, in Queen's 1.12, 1-2pm when Prof. Minsburg will present a talk ‘From Texture to Form’—a discussion of issues in the creation and reception in electroacoustic music.

 

MTIRC Research Seminar, 30 October, 2013

Wednesday 30 October, 1 – 2.50pm, Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre (Clephan 0.19)

        ** Please note alternative venue for this week**

Weiwei Jin: A New Opera: Mantegh-O Teyr—The logic of Journey for the Self in The Conference of the Birds.

Marinos Giannoukakis: Musica Universalis: Towards a universal description of a software framework model for art performances—dissecting the project and progress so far.  This project utilizes 3D game engines with real time audio for performance, using different gesture controllers and joysticks, multi-channel sound and the use of cinematic techniques in real time. 

Jack Richardson: Recognition in Sound-Based Artistic Composition: Increasing access through facilitation, understanding and the recognition of sound as music.

Panos Amelides at Medea Electronique Koumaria 2013

MTIRC PhD student Panos Amelides has been awarded a Koumaria Residency by the artist's collective Medea Electronique to create a site-specific sound installation on an organic olive-oil farm in the Greek countryside, close to a small village near Sparta.  The ten-day experimental art residency will culminate in early November with a performance of a new work by Panos, in which life experiences and memories of workers on the farm will be recorded and recontextualised in the olive grove itself.

John Young at Espace du Son, Brussels

Prof. John Young will give two concerts at the Espace du Son Festival in Brussels in November, on the 54-channel acousmonium in the Théâtre Marni. One performance is devoted entirely to his own work and in second show he will present a recent work by Pete Batchelor alongside pieces he has selected by Brazilian and US composers. Other composers performing in the Festival are Åke Parmerud (Sweden), Flo Menezes (Brazil) and Yves Daoust (Québec).

Concert Wednesday 23rd October - MTI Launch Party 2 & Research Seminar

Wednesday October 23^rd, 2013 7.00pm

Simon Atkinson Three Modulations for Mute Synth II (multi-speaker diffusion)

Amit D Patel aka Dushume-Svaramaya Bass In The Pace.... (bespoke instruments create noise beneath the surface)

Ben Ramsay Flinch-Rest (multi-speaker diffusion)

John Richards Mute Synth live (with Dirty Electronics)

All welcome! Free! [SE]

ALSO -
1-2pm Queens Building Room 1.12 - research seminar -
Neal Spowage (DMU, PhD candidate): 'The Speaker Bra and Wireless Shovel Controller'— This paper was recently presented to the Fascinate Conference at Falmouth University discussing sound, the body, democratic roles and physical objects.

Ben Ramsay (Staffordshire University and DMU PhD candidate): ‘Fixing the live, “Living” the fixed.’

 

Leicester Media School - Music, Technology and Innovation New Media Events 2013-2014 - Launch Party Events

The Music, Technology and Innovation Department and Research Centre launch the public events of the Leicester Media School with two showcases of their wide ranging recent creative output. These two concerts cover audio, audio-visual, dirty electronics, surround sound immersion and much more … on PACE 1’s purpose built multichannel system. It’s a party - come along – free!

Wednesday October 9^th, 2013 7.00pm

PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

Pete Batchelor Kaleidoscope: Cycle - Pulse + Fuse (8 channel surround sound)

Louise Rossiter SiO₂ (8 channel surround sound)

Louise Rossiter/Andrew Connor Teahouse Memories (audio-visual)

John Young 5 Versions of Reality (multi-speaker diffusion)

Wednesday October 23^rd, 2013 7.00pm

PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

Simon Atkinson Three Modulations for Mute Synth II (multi-speaker diffusion)

Amit D Patel aka Dushume-Svaramaya Bass In The Pace.... (bespoke instruments create noise beneath the surface)

Ben Ramsay Flinch-Rest (multi-speaker diffusion)

John Richards Mute Synth live (with Dirty Electronics)

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.