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Friday, 25 February 2011
S.LOW documentary FILM and Mark Pilkington's Camera Down presented at the GEM Days Huddersfield
S.LOW - vip lounges are for ALL - a dynamic documentary film
Presented by Ricardo Climent
Duration: 42 minutes film - 30 minutes discussion
Synopsis: S.LOW - vip lounges are for ALL is a non-linear non-directed documentary film as a 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' during such project, 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.
web: s.low-low.org
Bio: Ricardo Climent works in areas of music composition and interactive media, involving the use of audio and visual metadata. Currently, he serves as Co-Director of the NOVARS Research Centre, University of Manchester and he previously held a Lecturing position at SARC, Queen's University of Belfast. Ricardo has also served as resident composer and researcher at the JOGV Orchestra in Spain, Conservatorio of Morelia in Mexico, Sonology - Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo, LEA labs, at the Conservatorio of Valencia, the Cushendall Tower- In you we trust, Northern Ireland, at CARA- Celebrating Arts in rural Areas, cross-border Ireland and N.K. Berlin. He was involved in the creation of a number of collaborative projects, such as, The Microbial Ensemble, (repertoire for a bunch of microbes, with Quan Gan), The Carxofa Electric Band (a children's project using vegetables and Electronics with iain McCurdy), The Tornado-Project (a cross-atlantic set of commissioned works for flute, clarinet and computer for American wind virtuosi Esther Lamneck (clarinet) and Elizabeth McNutt (flute)), Drosophila (a dance-theatre tour of a blind fly with KLEM and Idoia Zabaleta), Ho- a sonic expedition to Vietnam, (a 3D interactive interface project for planetariums), project manager for S.LOW, (a cross-disciplinary project in Berlin) and Manchester Sonic meta-ontology (Audioguides in collaboration with Mantis and NoTours among others)
web: sonorities.org
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Camera Down (audio/visual) Mark Pilkington
Duration 13m18s.
The piece shares a symbiotic connection to the auditory and visual senses prescribe in the composition, a sort of a metaphysical convergence, an interplay between the two perceptual organisms of the eye and the ear. The sound world of the piece represents a dualistic approach between naturalistic and synthetic sound and visual materials. Roller coaster ride through a landscape of sound and light energy patterns; revealing unfamiliar and familiar places. A dialogue between action and re-action a consequence of events through time. Impossible physical scenarios arise from a maelstrom of evocations placed between desire and experience, the interpenetrations and displacements which occur between various stimuli. Hopefully, the piece has the ability to generate overwhelming emotional impact exclusively from cinematic and electroacoustic methodologies, not thematic content. Sound material comprises of field recordings from rock quarries, farm machinery, birds, metallic impacts and synthesised sounds.isual material comprises of computer generated graphics, original oil paintings and found film footage.
Realised at NOVARS Research Centre - The University of Manchester (UK).
http://www.novars.manchester.ac.uk
Bio
Mark Pilkington is a performer, composer and lecturer in electronic and electroacoustic music. PhD. candidate at the University Of Manchester UK - NOVARS. MA in electroacoustic composition, the University of Huddersfield in the UK 2004. He is interested in fusing together digital 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. Experimental filming-maker and visual artist.
http://thought-universe.co.uk
http://tnovars.org
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Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Gavin Osborn's Live interactive workshop - Ideal for UGs and PGs working for instruments and electronics
Pictured above, Gavin Osborn (left) with the group of students attending his Interactive workshop at NOVARS.
Scheduled 15 February 2011 from 10:00 to 12:00
Studio Cluster
The workshop was divided in three 30 minute blocks with some space for questions:
1- Sounds
2- Spaces
3- Notations
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Sunday, 13 February 2011
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