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Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
PhD at NOVARS Sam Salem 2nd Prize at L'espace du Son Competition
Musiques & Recherches Announces the Winners of Espace du son
The first prize of the competition spatialisation Espace du son 2010 was awarded ex-aequo to Julien Guillamat, and Sebastian Peter and the second prize went to Sam Salem
For more about L'espace du Son. click here
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Aberdeen's Electroacoustic Fair Family photo!
How many UK-based EA composers can you recognise in this picture?
sound 2010: Electroacoustic Fair curated by Pete Stollery
On Saturday 13 November, Aberdeen-based composer Pete Stollery turned the whole of the MacRobert Building on the University of Aberdeen campus into a hive of interactivity with no less than 5 performances, 2 workshops and many installations, demos and sonic 'rides' to take part in!
Artists included: MTI-DMU (De Monfort University), MANTIS (Manchester University), BEAST (Birmingham University), Sound Emporium (Aberdeen University), invisiblEARts and James Dashow.
Monday, 15 November 2010
Aesthetics and Analysis Master Class in Manchester University's Access Grid
Postgraduate students and staff at the NOVARS Research Centre, University of Manchester were linked virtually with colleagues and students in Sheffield and Leicester Universities via Manchester's Access Grid.
The Access Grid may be thought of as a prototype for "next generation video conferencing". The aim of the inventors of Access Grid (at the Futures Lab, Argonne National Laboratory) was to implement a technology that could support productive meetings between remote participants that are as effective as face-to-face meetings - all using commodity hardware. This can only happen if one is able to forget the technology and concentrate on the meeting itself.
Features of the Access Grid are:
- Very high quality audio
- Big display to enable full-size people shots and simultaneous viewing of all remote sites
- Multiple cameras to show groups and multiple viewpoints
- Collaborative software to enable remote participants to share and interact with data
- Usage of IP multicast, to enable bandwidth-efficient networking
For more information about the Access Grid, visit this link
Wednesday, 10 November 2010
Matinee Live-broadcast: 'The Acousmatic and Imagination' by composer Suk-Jun Kim (Korea)- THURSDAY 11th NOVEMBER 2010 @12noon UK time
'The Acousmatic and Imagination' by composer Suk-Jun Kim (Korea).
Date: THURSDAY 11th NOVEMBER 2010
Time: Starts at 12 noon (sharp!) and for 1 hour
Place: Studio ONE, NOVARS Research Centre
Suk-Jun Kim - NOVARS MATINEE - "The Acousmatic and Imagination" from NOVARS Research Centre on Vimeo.
Activate the Live podcast below (Stream available from 11:45 am)
http://www.novars.manchester.ac.uk/research/matinees/index.html
For technical questions related to connecting to the audiovisual stream, please contact music technician Andy Davison - > andrew.davison@manchester.ac.uk
Suk-Jun Kim’s music mainly focuses on the sense of places that are fantastic, imaginary, magical, and realistic, in which listeners can visit, stop by, and dwell. Having won several international composition awards and attracted commissions, Kim’s music has been performed worldwide and can be heard on ICMC, IMEB, and SEAMUS labels, and M&R. His research focuses on acousmatic reasoning, imaginal listening, phenomenological approaches to the aesthetics of electroacoustic music, space and place, platial memory and sound, and magical realism in electroacoustic music among others. Kim’s interest in platial memory and sound has also led him to expand his medium to installations. He recently had his first solo exhibition in Berlin, Germany.
Suk-Jun Kim studied theology at Yonsei university, South Korea and Recording Engineering at OIART (Ontario Institute of Audio and Recording Technology). He earned a master’s degree in Music Technology in Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in composition at the University of Florida. In 2009, Kim was invited to Berlin by DAAD for its Artists-in-Berlin programme, and now is a Leverhulme visiting fellow at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He shares his life with Sungeun Kim, his wife, and Mei and Ami, two most beloved cats.
For more about Suk-Jun-Kim, click here
Interactive Sound Installations 'Pondlife III' and 'Ho' go to Aberdeen's Electroacoustic Fair
13th November 2010- Aberdeen. Curated by Pete Stollery
A theme park of sound. For one day the MacRobert Building will be turned into a hive of interactivity with performances, workshops, demos and sonic "rides" for everyone to take part in.
For details click here
PondLife III by Patrick Sanan and Sam Salem : (opening 5/08/10) - Sound Installations @ S.LOW from S.LOW on Vimeo.
AUDIOVISUAL INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION POND LIFE III
by Patrick Sanan and Sam Salem
Pond Life III: Following on from our success with Pond Life II, we plan to create a new version of the work, developing the themes and technologies of the piece further. Pond Life is a generative audiovisual laboratory that encourages audience exploration and participation. Pond Life II has been exhibited in Montreal (ICMC 2010), in New York (NYCEMF2) and in S.LOW Projekt Berlin 2010, (thanks to Antonia Schwarz)
Ho - a sonic expedition to Vietnam (demo reel) from Surround Wunderbar Studio on Vimeo.
Creating Ho has been a full-of-fun journey and a very stimulating project. Ho is an imaginary sonic expedition to Vietnam, plenty of adventures and drama. Although it is immersed in a three-dimensional visual environment, it has a focus on sound. In Ho, the performer, sound artist or casual visitor, becomes ‘the captain of a ship,’ who controls a sound-wheel interface inspired by maritime navigation. While 'navigating', he/she leads listeners to an aural journey with critical stops at specific locations. Such scenes are my personal imaginary reconstruction of a number of sketchy stories with unique sound interest and located in Vietnam. Audiovisual scenarios vary from a rickshaw trip finding your way out of a sonic-maze, to experiencing a zebra crossing in a jungle of cars and mopeds, or even having an argument in a restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City, because you dislike eating live giant squids...
This Research Diary provides a contextualisation for the concept of navigation through sound and identifies new research and creative questions arising, which may be solved with creative practice. However, at the end of the day it is simply a piece of creative work, which I hope you enjoy!. Ricardo Climent
To read Ho's reserch diary, go to this link: http://wunderbarlaboratorium.blogspot.com/
Ho in Aberdeen - 13th Nov. 2010 - Test from Surround Wunderbar Studio from Surround Wunderbar Studio on Vimeo.
A few of us from NOVARS @ Manchester (UK) are heading to Aberdeen (Scotland) to run a few pieces (Ho is one of them). This is in celebration of Pete Stollery's 50th birthday. It's going to be fun.
This is a test with some improvements from last time. It has proved to be hard to get back to blender when one leaves it for a while!
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Hồ - A Sonic Expedition to Viet nam 2009 (Ricardo Climent)
The Navigation System Through Sound is a new sonic-GPS orientation tool created to assist dynamic compositional musical methods on a live performance. It aims to help general audiences to understand and enjoy more the language of electroacoustic music and to provide them with an enhanced surround sonic experience, inspired by that achieved on the visual sensory system in planetariums and three-dimensional cinemas. It also aims to increase the awareness, for example, on areas of sound pollution, with potential for expansion beyond typical territories of acoustic ecology. The performer/composer, as ‘the captain of the ship,’ controls the interface of a 'sound- wheel’ inspired by maritime navigation, leading audiences to an aural journey with critical stops at specific locations with unique sonic interest. Ho is a full-of-fun, but also drama, sonic-cartographic expedition to Vietnam combining composed sounds with game engine technologies and the use of audiometadata. Acknowledgments: great thanks for the open source blender community (blender.org)
For more about Ho, please visit its research blog - http://wunderbarlaboratorium.blogspot.com/
Thursday, 4 November 2010
Chris Swithinbank selected for 'Adopt a Composer scheme'
Former NOVARS student Chris Swithinbank has been selected to take part in 2010-11 'Adopt a Composer' scheme, funded by the PRS for Music Foundation and run by Sound and Music, in association with Making Music. The scheme pairs up composers with amateur ensembles to collaborate on new music and Chris will be working with the orchestra of King Edward Musical Society in Macclesfield.
In the coming months Chris will be getting to know the orchestra and writing a new piece to be performed at Macclesfield Parish Church on Saturday 18 June 2011 as part of the Macclesfield Barnaby Festival and the celebration of the 750th anniversary of the town's royal charter.
The NUStival, electro-acoustic/improvised music at The Noise Upstairs, co-organised by Rodrigo Constanzo
Programme:
Wednesday 10th - John Jasnoch(guitar/ud) & Charlie Collins(drums) @ The Riverside (Sheffield) (FREE)
Thursday 11th - Martin Archer(laptop/sax) & Herve Perez(laptop/sax) @ Fuel Cafe (Manchester) (FREE)
Friday 12th - Workshop with Yuri Landman (previous signup required)
Saturday 13th - Performance featuring Yuri Landman & Workshop attendees @ TBA (£5/4)
Sunday 14th - Kacper Ziemianin(objects/electronics) & friends, and Takahashi's Shellfish Concern (Live Painting + Electronics)(I'm part of TSC) @ Kro Bar (across the academy) (£5/4)
Rodrigo Constanzo is currently pursuing a MusM in Electroacoustic composition at University of Manchester
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Clinamen, Clinamen, Clinamen by Mauricio Pauly, selected for the 2011 MATA Festival, New York
Mauricio Pauly's work for violin, viola, mandolin and accordion entitled Clinamen, Clinamen, Clinamen has been chosen among 450 applications, to be performed by L'Arsenale and ACME Ensemble at the 2011 MATA Festival. The festival will be held on May 10th at (le) Poisson Rouge, in New York City.
Mauricio is currently pursuing PhD in Electroacoustic Composition at NOVARS Research Centre, University of Manchester, UK
MATA
293 Warren St. #2
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tuesday, 2 November 2010
OFF-MANTIS events at MADLAB, Manchester
As part of the MANTIS October 29-31 2010, Fall Festival at NOVARS University of Manchester (http://www.novars.manchester.ac.uk/mantis/10Bassal/index.html) you are invited to the MANTIS-in-motion at Madlab (http://madlab.org.uk/) between 7.30pm and 11.00pm on Sunday 31/10/10.
The artist/s taking part -
Rodrigo Constanzo and Maurico Pauly - Live improvisation.
Rodrigo Constanzo is a Spanish-American performer and composer living in Manchester, England. He is an avid improviser and performs regularly using home made electro-acoustic, and modified electronic instruments. He has performed at the FUTURESONIC and Manchester Jazz Festivals in Manchester, the SOUND Festival in Aberdeen, and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. He has released several CDs including an improv duo CD with Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, and most recently, I AM YOUR DENSITY, a large ensemble improv composition which includes the graphic score with it. He is currently involved in several projects including Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern, an improv based performance-art group, and Deaf To Van Gogh’s Ear, a minimalist math/pop band. He also co-runs The Noise Upstairs, an improv collective and label which puts on monthly nights and quarterly workshops in Manchester.
For the performance I would be doing a "table top" type setup with Mauricio very similar, if not identical, to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYlZmCD5Qzo
Mauricio Pauly was born in San José, Costa Rica. His music has been performed in England, Germany, France, Hungary, Russia, Paraguay, Spain and the United States by ensembles including the JACK Quartet, the Ikarus Chamber Players, Tres Americas Ensemble, New York Miniaturist Ensemble, Juilliard Pierrot Ensemble, Iturriaga Quartet and Psappha Ensemble. Pauly is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Manchester. He has previously studied in San José, Miami, Boston and The Hague with Fredrick Kaufman, Lukas Foss and Richard Cornell and has attended lessons with Marco Stroppa, Michael Jarrell, Jonathan Harvey, Hugues Dufourt, and Andrea Szigetvari. Mauricio was awarded the Staubach Honoraria for a new work which was premiered in Darmstadt, 2010. Past awards include the Esther Kahn Career Entry award 2004, the Pablo Sorozabal Composition Competion 2005 and the Budapest Clavicembalo Foundation Composition Prize 2005. Mauricio is a founding member of the Altavoz composers with whom he has recently released a compliation CD. He lives in Manchester, UK and teaches at the Royal Northern College of Music.
As a performer Mauricio mostly plays electric bass but often includes the use of other instruments, amplified objects, sampling and live computer processing.
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Brona Martin - composer
"Missing" is a short, non linear, experimental film by Holly Kennedy with an Electroacoustic Soundtrack by Brona Martin. "It is a personal expression of loss, a sense of missing , the cycle of life, death and grief. It is a reflection of the distortion of time, the darkness and abstractness of the mind in the wake of death. It was created in direct response to a personal loss" Holly Kennedy
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Solitude-Silence A/V piece with a live soundtrack by Thomas Bjelkeborn and Mark Pilkington. Video edit by Michael Larsson.
Duration 25 minutes.
“Solitude Silence has a desolate setting, it is vast and empty. A white washed-out surface and the slow structures gives a sense of dislocation and disappearance ”
Mark Pilkington is a performer and composer of electronic and electroacoustic music. Interested in fusing together audio/visual structures that can be manipulated from a score or improvised in real-time thus presenting performances that question traditional concepts of art, music and technology. He works in the areas of screened works, recordings, installation and live performance. Currently a PhD candidate at the University of Manchester (UK).
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Ricardo Climent - composer.
Pre-release / private rough-cut screening of: S.LOW - vip lounges are for ALL
Presented by Ricardo Climent
Duration: 30 minutes film - 15 minutes discussion => 45 minutes
Synopsis: S.LOW - vip lounges are for ALL is a non-linear non-directed film as the result of the S.LOW Projekt (Berlin). In the summer of 2010, about forty international and national visual artists, music composers working with electronic media, musicologists, performers, engineers, physical scientists and film-makers met in Berlin to discuss the concepts of low and slow in the context of the city.
The film explores how art can survive outside the comfort of large institutional support and if as a result, artists can change the rules of engagement with audiences by giving the latter equal importance in the process of sharing and making arts. With an emphasis on people and by documenting 'the things in between' while the S.LOW projekt lasted, this audiovisual work allows listeners to navigate through a number of values and concepts such as, trust, believes, authorship, excellence, art-killing rules, dream-cities, time-to-share or being-faithful, as seen by the artists.
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