PACE 1, Wednesday December 4th, 7.00pm

Music, Technology and Innovation with

The Performance Research Group

From hypermedia to DIY

Contrasted works from DMU’s eclectic creators! A preview of Craig Vear’s new hypermedia concerto for Audrey Riley (cellist with the Merce Cunningham Company Ensemble). And two works from the Spowage/Pappa collaboration for DIY constructed instruments and dance.

Craig Vear Black Cats and Blues a hypermedia concerto for 'cello and digital technology, with Audrey Riley (cello).

Neal Spowage & Danai Pappa

Frozen Venus (2013) for six plungerphones with dance

Cold Papaya (2013) for speaker bra and wireless shovel controller with dance

And – earlier:

Research seminar: 1-2pm, DMU Clephan Building 0.19

Dr Craig Vear (DMU): Black Cats and Blues what is a hypermedia concerto?

All welcome! Entry Free!

John Young at Espace du Son, Brussels

Professor 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).

Neal Spowage The Big 30 to Miami New Media Festival

PhD student Neal Spowage was invited to devise and perform alongside dancers, choreographers and musicians including Reynaldo Young, Petra Soor, Annelie Nederberg and Antonio De La Fe at an event curated by Agony Art to celebrate 30 years of experimental dance at Chisenhale Dance Space on Friday, 18th October, 2013 at Chisenhale Dance Space, London.

The event was called There may be Trouble Ahead and was transmitted live for the Miami New Media Festival, via Skype. The feed was displayed / projected real time at Hardcore Contemporary Art Miami and simultaneously re-transmitted through the LiveStream Chanel set for this event; the same feed was also transmitted by Hoeksteen Live.

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).