Psappha Beat the Rush Hour concert - Friday 30th April 2010, 17.00

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One of the UK’s leading new music ensemble is at it again, premiering cutting-edge works by emerging postgraduate composers from the University's Music Dept. Be prepared to hear highly original and memorable music while the rest of the world whizzes by.

La Prisa Educable (Mauricio Pauly) - with electronics
Looking over the Land (Soojung Park)
The Warrior Fallen (Josh Kopeček)
Wegen & Waldstille (Chris Swithinbank) - with electronics
Multiple Infection (Yvonne Eccles)

Dov Goldberg clarinet
Richard Casey piano
Tim Williams percussion
Chris Hoyle cello

Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall - University of Manchester, UK

Specialising in the performance of music by living composers and that of the 20th and 21st centuries, Psappha was formed in 1991 by its Artistic Director Tim Williams. The ensemble has an extensive and exceptionally varied repertoire of hundreds of works and a reputation for technical assurance and interpretive flair. It won the Manchester Evening News Award for Opera in 2000 and has been shortlisted for a prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society award on two occasions.

Psappha has commissioned and premiered many works by a wide range of composers including the award-winning music-theatre work, Mr Emmet Takes a Walk, by its Patron Peter Maxwell Davies, released on the ensembles own label.

Psappha has appeared throughout the UK, at most of the country's major music festivals, including the BBC Proms, in special Henze and Maxwell Davies portrait series in London's South Bank, and in a residency at the St. Magnus Festival, Orkney in 2009.

It has made highly successful tours to North and South America, Australia, Belgium, France, Holland, Ireland, Jersey, Portugal and Spain. In addition to six recordings on various labels, it launched its own CD label in 2004 with Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King and Miss Donnithorne's Maggot.

Psappha is developing its online presence with a number of concerts available to view as webcasts and also the development of its composition Lab for 12 - 18 year olds. Education projects for people of all ages represent an important part of Psappha's schedule both in the UK and abroad. It was awarded the Swatch City Life Award for Best Concert Series and Education Work and is currently The University of Manchester's Contemporary Ensemble in Association.

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MusM Concert - Engines of Invention at Manchester University in collaboraton with MOSI

Centre for Screen Studies Screen Symposium at the Martin Harris Centre, MANCHESTER, UK

Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 1:00 to 6:00 pm

John Casken Lecture Theatre, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama

The aim of this symposium is to bring together University of Manchester staff members working in various aspects of Screen Studies, and to foster a dialogue reflecting on the history and present of Screen Studies at Manchester, as well as to consider possible future trajectories.

This half-day symposium will take place as a round table, and hear from speakers across the range of screen studies at SAHC, SLLC and SoSS, including panels on the staff and student experience, screen practice, interdisciplinary screen initiatives, and television and new media studies.

Key areas for discussion will include:

• Providing an overview of Screen Studies at Manchester in terms of its recent history and future directions
• Creating a sense of identity for Screen Studies at Manchester, in order to address the sometimes fragmented staff and student experiences of Screen Studies at Manchester
• Identifying and promoting potential future collaborations between colleagues working in different areas in Screen Studies
• Identifying differences and similarities in terms of the role and scope of Screen Practice, and Practice as Research at Manchester
• Beginning to explore a collective strategic response to any possible forthcoming Faculty initiatives regarding Screen Studies at Manchester.

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TORNADO PROJECT IN ARIZONA, USA

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Thursday 22nd April: Matinee @ NOVARS by Christian Eloy (Scrime, France)

Pictured above Christian Eloy. © C. ELoy

Christian Eloy, composer and artistic director of SCRIME, Bordeaux University visits University of Manchester to participate on a Matinee.

Date: Thursday 22nd April 2010
Time: 11:30 - 1 pm
Place: Studio 1, NOVARS Research Centre

Programme:
1 - presentation of SCRIME, an atypical research and creation center in Bordeaux, France.
2 - Christian Eloy, from acousmatic to mixed music and vice versa, classifying problematic and strategy, scores and examples.

For more information about Christian Eloy, click here or here
For more about Scrime, click here

Please not that matinees is an exclusive event for Manchester Unviersity students and staff.

N.K. Berlin- Presentation - 04/04/2010, 19:00 h

N.K.
N.K.
Non Korrosiv,
Nicht Korrekt,

Neue Kölln

PRESENTATION | 04/04/2010, 19:00 h

Ricardo Climent Artist Presentation

Ricardo Climent will discuss his new research in music composition and new media, involving the use of audio metadata and 3D game-engine software.

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Ricardo Climent at Komponistenportrait in Vienna - MANTIS-in-MOTION concert

17.4. Samstag 16.00 LQ

ELEKTRONISCHER FRÜHLING Komponistenporträt Ricardo Climent. Volkmar Klien (Kurator, Präsetation)

Ricardo Climent, der aus Spanien stammende und seit vielen Jahren in England arbeitende Komponist, stellt sein Stück MANTIS-in-motion vor, das die im Manchester Theatre in Sound (MANTIS) gebündelten Aktivitäten der am NOVARS Research Centre tätigen KomponistInnen und KlangkünstlerInnen vorführt. Climent unterrichtet an der Universität Manchester, wo er auch Kodirektor des NOVARS Research Centre for Electroacoustik Composition, Performance an Sound Art ist.

Programme Draft:

Ricardo Climent - Manhattan Minuit - 1:00
David Berezan - Baoding -7:20
Kaho Cheung - La possibilité de la metropia -10:24
Diana Simpson - Topographia - 9:31
Manuella Blackburn - Karita - 15:00
Oliver Carman - Metamorphosis - 8:30
Sam Salem - Public Bodies - 12:26
Ricardo Climent - Last Castrati - 9:00
David Berezan - Hannibal -6:36

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Oliver Carman, third prize at The Diffusion Prize 2010 International Electroacoustic Music Composition Competition

Diffusion Prize 2010 Results

The Diffusion Prize 2010 International Electroacoustic Music Composition Competition jointly presented by RTÉ Lyric fm and the Digital Media and Arts Research Centre (DMARC), University of Limerick – Ireland, aim is to promote ‘up and coming’ composers regardless of age or nationality. This year the Diffusion Prize 2010 received a total of 142 entries from 30 countries.

The First Prize was awarded to:

Loup Mormont (Belgium) for "Belle Inconnue"



2nd Prize was awarded to:

Rohan De Livera (Sri Lanka) for "Haiku"



3rd Prize was awarded to:

Oliver Carman (NOVARS Research Centre, UK) for "Saxy"

The Jury for the Diffusion Prize 2010 consisted of Robert Normandeau, Bernard Clarke, Jürgen Simpson and Robert Sazdov.