Modulation One Dance Performance July 2, 2014

Modulation_one (live-digital dance and augmented sound) asks the dancers to imagine; to be present in the transfer of data; to engage with the mediated/digital as it appears and disappears. 

Modulation_one is the final practical study for Kerry Francksen's PhD and builds upon a recent and developing collaboration with composer Simon Atkinson, film-maker Laura McGregor and dance artist Jodie Davis. Over the past year they have been searching for a way to create environments where acousmatic sound, image and movement can be conceived of as a continually emerging process, where a more dynamic relationship arrives from an engagement in those thresholds in ‘the dimension of the emergent’ (Massumi 2012:34).

PACE Studio 1, 6 pm

July 2, 2014

Sound Sight Space Play 2014 - 18th-20th June

We would like to bring to your attention, the SSSP (Sound, Sight, Space and Play) conference that is taking place at De Montfort University 18-20 June 2014. The conference is ran by postgraduate students in the MTIRL (Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre) and is primarily aimed at postgraduates in the field of sonic art and electroacoustic music, although all are welcome to participate. This years event features a wide range of research papers with keynotes by: Norah Lorway (University of Birmingham), Tullis Rennie (SARC) and Lelio Camilleri (GB Martini Conservatory of Music). There are also installations to be seen alongside two concerts, and a listening room. We are pleased to announce that registration is now open at the following link: http://store.dmu.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=190 A standard rate of £45 will apply. Further details about the conference as well as the preliminary schedule can be viewed on the SSSP website: www.sssp.dmu.ac.uk. Please feel free to disseminate widely. Thank you. Best wishes, SSSP 2014

Landy Residency at Sibelius Academy

Professor Leigh Landy was in residence with the The Centre for Music & Technology at Sibelius Academy of Finland in March 2014, discussing his work as a composer, recent research projects, and the notion of sound-based music, and presenting a solo concert.

Forcucci in Berlin, Basel, Freiburg, Saillon

Doctoral student Luca Forcucci presented his work at numerous events in the first half of 2014:

• Lecture at the Technical University of Berlin — January 30
• Sound Installation at the House of Electronic Arts, Basel — Feb 26 - March 16
• Artist's Talk at the International Symposium Border Sounds, Freiburg — Mar 21-22
• Presentation of M(a)(e)rgin(g)s at the Zentrum Fuer Kunst und Urbanstik, Berlin — May 23. "Soundscapes from the city of Sao Paulo in Brazil have been recorded. The sound is deterritorialised, abstracted from its original ‘milieu’, reterritorialised and attached to the structure of the ephemeral construction built by Studio OSK at ZK/U Berlin. An imaginary territory emerges through the layering of Sao Paulo, Berlin and the structure itself: a sonic Moiré pattern questioning borders."

He has an upcoming concert and seminar at Rencontres AME, Saillon — Aug 27-31, and a presentation at the Electroacoustic Music Studies conference in Berlin — Jun 12.

Sound, Sight, Space and Play Conference 2014

The SSSP (Sound, Sight, Space and Play) conference is taking place at De Montfort University 18-20 June 2014. The conference is run by postgraduate students in the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre and is primarily aimed at postgraduates in the field of sonic art and electroacoustic music, although all are welcome to participate. 

This years event features a wide range of research papers with keynotes by: Norah Lorway (University of Birmingham), Tullis Rennie (SARC) and Lelio Camilleri (GB Martini Conservatory of Music). There are also installations to be seen alongside two concerts, an algorave and a listening room. 

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open at the following link: http://store.dmu.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=190

An early bird rate of £35 will be avaliable until 9 June 2014. Thereafter the standard rate of £45 will apply. Further details about the conference as well as the preliminary schedule can be viewed on the SSSP website: www.sssp.dmu.ac.uk. 

Neal Spowage and Danai Pappa - PACE 1 Wednesday 7th May

PACE Building, Studio 1, 7pm

NEAL SPOWAGE & DANAI PAPPA

Neal Spowage is an artist and musician who builds instruments, which he refers to as junk sculptures, that are designed to force gesture from the performer through perceived and actual affordances of sound and physical presence. Danai Pappa is a dancer whose studies in humanities intend to evoke emotional and psychological states of mind through images, spatial relationships and movement. As a choreographer her goal is to find inventive ways to demonstrate shifting modes of representation and performer/spectator relationships.

Frozen Venus (2013, 14 Minutes)

By Neal Spowage and Danai Pappa

Performance for six shitsticks - dance and live electronic noise sculptures

Each instrument is a domestic plunger with a built in speaker and simple hardware hacked touch synthesiser. It is called a shitstick.

New Track of Unknown Terra (2014, 7 minutes – Film/fixed media)

Created by Neal Spowage

Performance of the beast, a noise sculpture.

The beast is an instrument that amplifies the sound of itself being dragged across the ground. The beast was severely damaged during the making of the film.

Cold Papaya (2013, 7 minutes – live dance and live electronic noise sculptures)

By Neal Spowage and Danai Pappa

Performance for Speaker Bra with Wireless Shovel Controller

The sculpture is a response to Nam June Paik’s Television Bra, fused with a constructivist element that is a shovel. The bra is a construction; the shovel is a construction tool.

All welcome! Entry Free! [SE 30/04]

Meta-3 - MTI undergraduate and postgraduate performances!

Wednesday March 26th, 2014 

PACE Building, Richmond St., Leicester

PACE Studio 2, 6.00-7.00pm

Sam Topley presents a recent installation: e.e.c. (exploded electronic carillon) 

PACE Studio 1, 7.00pm

Current undergraduates Daniel Atherton, Sagnik Basu, Fren Panyawuthirkrai and Anuj Thaker are joined by researcher Si Waite and alumnus Mark Towers to present a concert which celebrates their musical activities on, on the cusp of, beyond, or surrounding their MTI studies. The programme includes:

Daniel Atherton - Little Sounds (voice and guitar)

Sagnik Basu - sarod improv

Fren Panyawuthikrai - Green Peace (fixed medium sound)

Mark Towers (alumnus) - live sequenced techno improv

Anuj Thaker - In The Dark (tabla & fixed medium sound)

Si Waite - instrumental/vocal performance with live electronics

All welcome! Entry Free!