Josh Kopecek starts residency at the EMS Institute for Electroacoustic Music in Sweden

Funded by SAHC's postgraduate bursaries at University of Manchester, UK

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» 23 Mar 2010.

Oliver Carman and Sam Salem arrived to New York to present their works at NYCEMF

March 25th, 2010

Installations 9:00 AM–7:00 PM

* Sam Salem, Pond Life II - Room 5489

Pondlife II - ICMC 2009 from Windfarm Music on Vimeo.

March 27th March 2010

Concert 13: 11:00 AM–12:00 PM, Segal Hall
* Oliver Carman, Metamorphosis I

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The Tornado Project in full at NYCEMF. New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival

Friday 27th March, 2010.

Concert 8: The Tornado Project: 2:15 PM–3:15 PM, Segal Hall
Performed by Esther Lamneck, Clarinet and Elizabeth McNutt, Flute

* Robert Rowe, Primary Colors
* Eric Lyon, Trio
* Paul Wilson, Beneath the Surface
* Andrew May, Still Angry
* Ricardo Climent, Russian Disco

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NYCEMF. New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival

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Lighting Ensemble featuring Evan Parker at Manchester, UK

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David Berezan leads NOVARS /MANTIS-in-motion concert at IDKA, Sweden

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MANTIS at -PUSH- IDKA International Festival 2010

Concert 1: Friday 19 March 18.30

Baoding (2002) David Berezan 7:22 stereo
Metamorphosis (2008) Oliver Carman 9:00 stereo
Karita oto (2009) Manuella Blackburn 15:00 8-channels
Unplucked (2009) Thomas Bjekleborn 8:00 5.1 channels
Sir George (2008) Ricardo Climent 9:00 8-channels
Hannibal (2006) David Berezan 7:00 stereo

Concert 2: Saturday 20 March 18.00

Cyclo (2003) David Berezan 10:40 stereo
The Last Castrati (2004) Ricardo Climent 9:00 stereo
Badlands (2008) David Berezan 10:40 5.1-channel
Topographia (2008) Diana Simpson 10:00 stereo
Nijo (2009) David Berezan 13:00 8-channel

Dr Stuart Colam of Arup Acoustics - Special guest at the Acoustic Class, BMus in Music

Dr Stuart Colam in Studio one (NOVARS) with the Class.


Dr Stuart Colam in The Cosmo Rodewald with the Class.




Dr Stuart Colam Lecturing in the Electroacoustic Studio Cluster

Dr Stuart Colam, acoustic engineer of Arup Acoustics delighted second year undergraduate students with a masterclass about acoustics and room acoustics. The class followed with a visit to the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall and Studio One at NOVARS, where he explained and discussed the main acoustic features of each space.
Arup Acoustics are responsible for the acoustic design of The Electroacoustic Studios at University of Manchester (home of NOVARS Research Centre), The Cosmo Rodewald, The Bridgewater Hall and Wales Millennium Centre.

More about Arup: Founded in 1946 with an initial focus on structural engineering, Arup first came to the world’s attention with the structural design of the Sydney Opera House, followed by its work on the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Arup has since grown into a truly multidisciplinary organisation. Most recently, its work for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing has reaffirmed its reputation for delivering innovative and sustainable designs that reinvent the built environment.
Arup brings together broad-minded individuals from a wide range of disciplines and encourages them to look beyond the constraints of their own specialisms.
This unconventional approach to design springs in part from Arup’s ownership structure. The firm is owned in trust on behalf of its staff. The result is an independence of spirit that is reflected in the firm’s work, and in its dedicated pursuit of technical excellence.

Quatuor Danel Seminar-workshop with PhD composers Mauricio Pauly, Soojung Park and Josh Kopecek

Pictured above Quatuor Danel discussing three string quartets specially written by PhD composers for the workshop.Photos © R.Climent
Danel's workshop:
Date: Thursday, 11th March 2010
Time: 14.30 (after the lunch time concert)

Quatuor Danel Seminar/workshop (for Doctors and Philosophers of Composition)

Place: The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, University of Manchester, UK

Works by composers: Mauricio Pauly, Soojung Park and Josh Kopecek

All welcome!

Composer Forum: Rodney Lister (USA) at University of Manchester, UK.

Pictured above Rodney Lister at University of Manchester. © R. Climent

COMPOSERS’ FORUM
Thur 11 March 2010
Rodney Lister
(New England Conservatory / Harvard University)
‘Virgil, Arthur, Ruth...and me’
4.15pm in G16

Rodney Lister received his early musical training at the Blair School of Music in Nashville, Tennessee. He was a student at the New England Conservatory of Music (Bachelor of Music degree, with honors) from 1969 to 1973 and at Brandeis University (Master of Fine Arts degree) from 1975 to 1977. In between his stay at those two institutions, he lived in England, where he studied privately with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. He subsequently was a member of Davies's composition seminar at the Dartington Hall Summer School of Music (1975, 1978, 1980-82). He was a Bernstein fellow at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood in 1973. His composition teachers, aside from Davies, have been Malcolm Peyton, Donald Martino, Harold Shapero, Arthur Berger, and Virgil Thomson. He has also studied piano with Enid Katahn, David Hagan, Robert Helps, and Patricia Zander.
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NOVARS Resident perfomer Gavin Osborn @ York's Electroacoustic Weekend. Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate; Saturday, 8th May 1:00pm

Gavin Osborn

'This concert includes two electroacoustic works written for me by great up-and-coming young composers, Manuella Blackburn (recipient of multiple international prizes) & Alexis Guneratne (boulanger sonore), as well as a classic from one of Britain’s foremost electroacoustic composers, Simon Emmerson (a piece premiered in the the year I was born). These pieces are set against two acoustic works – one by a composer who is no stranger to electronics, Tristan Murail, and a composer whose soundworld could be said to bridge the gap – Toshio Hosokawa.' - Gavin Osborn

Manuella Blackburn	in response…
Tristan Murail	Unanswered Questions
Simon Emmerson	Spirit of ’76
Toshio Hosokawa	Atem-Lied
Alexis Guneratne	je me nuit

Electroacoustic Weekend @ the Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate; YORK, UK
Saturday,
8th May 2010
1:00pm

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11th March 2010: DIPS 4.0 workshop by Prof. Takayuki Rai @ NOVARS

Pictured above, DIPS in action. © DIPS creation.

Composer Takayuki Rai will deliver a workshop on DIPS 4.0 (Digital Image processing with sound), an open-source patch distribution for Max5 to do interactive graphics with sound (*)

Date: Thursday 11th March 2010,
Time: from 11:30 an
Duration: ca. 90 minutes.
Location: Studio Cluster, NOVARS Research Centre
(*) open to PG composers and last year UG students taking EA courses.

DIPS was developed at the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo and version 4 is quite amazing for those working or willing to learn about real-time visuals and audio within Max5.

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From DIPS's website: 'DIPS, "Digital Image processing with Sound", is the set of Max objects that handles the realtime visual image processing events and OpenGL functions in the Max/MSP GUI programming environment. It enables the interaction between audio events and visual events in the Max patch, thus strongly supports composers and artists to realize realtime interactive multimedia art.
DIPS was developed in 1997 by Shu Matsuda for SGI computers, and in 2006 we released the third generation of DIPS 'DIPS3' for Max/MSP running on Macintosh computers. Since DIPS is based on OpenGL technology, a certain knowledge of OpenGL is essential. However, nowadays, less and less composers and creators practice not only OpenGL programming but also common computer language programming while we intend to employ more and more complicated image processing technique as well as signal processing in real-time. Therefore, in this release, the second version of DIPS3 for Max/MSP, we introduce much more user friendly programming environment with two of DIPS sub-patch libraries (Dfx and Dlib) as well as include the OpenGL Shading Language programming environment for advanced DIPS OpenGL user'

DIPS Development Group; T.Rai, S.Matsuda, C.Miyama, Y.Morimoto, T.Fukuda, T.Hamano, K.Takahashi.

Pictured below, the workshop.

Climent's The Last Castrati show with acoustic instruments by the New Music Ensemble at NYU, New York.

NYU New Music Ensemble Soloists

Acoustic instruments and electronic music

Esther Lamneck, Artistic Director

LOCATION: NYU
Seminar time:

Thursday, March 4th at 6:30 pm, followed by performance.
Conducted by Esther Lamneck
Seminar talk: R. Climent

Programme improvised by the NME; EA pieces (Ricardo Climent's The Last Castrati and others)

Berezan's Baodin at Sonic Fingerprints: 20 years of empreintes DIGITALes, Birmingham

Saturday 6th - Sunday 7th March 2010

Sonic Fingerprints: 20 years of empreintes DIGITALes, plus Kontakte

CBSO Centre, Berkley Street, Birmingham B1 2LF

Saturday 6 March 2010, 18:00-22:00

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