Ignacio Pecino: Matinee on Game engines: OpenSim

Manchester Distractfold Ensemble's first concert at the Northern Quarter

PhD Composers at the NOVARS Research Centre Mauricio Pauly and Sam Salem present:

Join us next Wednesday June 1st at 20.30 (doors 20.00)

Distractfold Ensemble
launch - coffee concert
at North Tea Power (36 Tib Street, Manchester)

an evening of recent chamber music, multi-speaker diffused sound and video projection in the Northern Quarter.

Richard Craig - flutes
Rocío Bolaños - clarinet
Linda Jankowska - violin
Emma Richards - viola
Alice Purton - cello
Mauricio Pauly - composer
Sam Salem - composer

Program:
‘Druckabfall’ for tape solo by Dominic Thibault
‘To what depths of dark pigment’ for cello, diffused audio, and video by Mauricio Pauly and Sam Salem
‘Streamforms’ for flute by Dominik Karski
‘Champs de fouilles’ for tape solo by Martin Bédard
‘Waggle Dances’ for viola and cello by Nina Whiteman
Also works by Giacinto Scelsi and Stefano Gervasoni

No-Tours Workshop at NOVARS by Composer/ Sound Artist Enrique Tomas -- 18th May 2011

PROJECT SPONSORED BY CITIES@MANCHESTER

Pictured above Composer/Sound Artist Enrique Tomas

NOTOURS WORKSHOP Wed 18th May 2011 (from 10 am)

Invited Guest: Enrique Tomas (Notours) -

Attendees: NOVARS Postgraduate only and invited guests (book in advance needed)

Where: STUDIO ONE

Note for participants:

Please bring

- your laptop

- headphones (small jack)

- brief report of your piece (location, sounds, work in progress, ideas)

- and also your phone (only if you have an Android with GPS)

You can still attend the workshop as a listener, even if you are not participating (ignore the above)

Audioguides:

- 1x NOVARS ACER smart phone

- 1x HTC smart phone

- 2x Notours smart phone Audioguides

PROGRAMME

9 am to 10 am - Technical Setup RC/ET only

10 am Workshop starts (ALL)

10:00-11:00 am Presentation of Notours Project and Escoitar.org

11:00-12:00 noon Presentation and discussion by atendees' works writing for the Audioguides

(Compositional and technical hurdles but also possibilites etc)

coffee break (15 min)

12:15 -13:15 Outdoors Audioguide tests (bring umbrellas...?)

13:15 Lunch break

2 pm: Visit from Cities@manchester to film / interview project participants

Only for survivors:

2:30 pm Audioguide tests in the city centre or other parts in town (we may split in small groups) and return to the studios at around 4 pm.

4 pm Workshop ends

In preparation for the workshop, please have a look at this:

http://www.notours.org/

Escoitar.org

Wednesday 11 May – Saturday 14 May: Cities of Sound @ Kraak Gallery

Wednesday 11 May – Saturday 14 May: Cities of Sound @ Kraak Gallery

Opening Night

Join the Raise Your Voice En­semble from 6:30pm on 11 May for a spe­cial per­formed in­tro­duc­tion to the ex­hib­i­tion, fea­turing new com­pos­i­tions, im­pro­visa­tions and ex­per­i­mental elec­tronics, plus a laptop and Bug­brand Mod­ular Syn­thes­izer set from spe­cial guestRichard Scott re­flecting on the sounds of Manchester past and present.

Art­works

Pond Life III — Patrick Sanan & Sam Salem

A col­lab­or­a­tion between Cali­for­nian math­em­atician Patrick Sanan and Manchester-based com­poser and artist Sam Salem, Pond Life presents viewers with a tactile in­ter­active ex­per­i­ence. Using pro­gram­ming that mimics evol­u­tionary sys­tems, the lu­minous in­ter­face pro­jected onto a tank of water al­lows vis­itors to in­teract with an eco­system whose be­ha­viour re­veals per­haps the paths of humanity’s earliest mi­gra­tions and the first found­a­tions of set­tle­ments as the di­gital or­gan­isms gather around pre­cious nat­ural re­sources, rep­res­ented by dif­ferent col­oured light. [http://www.sanansalem.com/]

Hô: a Sonic Ex­ped­i­tion to Vi­etnam — Ri­cardo Climent

Hô presents the gal­lery vis­itor with the op­por­tunity to nav­igate their way through an ima­ginary sonic ex­ped­i­tion to Vi­etnam. Using a large steering wheel re­min­is­cent of that of an old sailing ship, the viewer moves their way through a series of au­di­ovisual puzzles un­cov­ering in the pro­cess the unique sound­world and cul­ture of Vi­etnam.

Hô em­ploys open-source soft­ware tech­niques to offer the gal­lery vis­itor a computer-game-like ex­per­i­ence in which the usual visual para­meters are re­leg­ated in im­port­ance in fa­vour of a focus on acoustic exploration.

A Scrap­book of Metro Sounds — Kaho Cheung

Whether known as le métro or the un­der­ground, the subway or rapid transit, the sound of trains rat­tling through tun­nels is a key fea­ture of the sound­scapes of many of the world’s biggest cities. From 2007 to 2010, artist and com­poser Kaho Ch­eung trav­elled around the world col­lecting re­cord­ings of these trans­port sys­tems. The in­stall­a­tion A Scrap­book of Metro Sounds al­lows the gal­lery vis­itor to make vir­tual acoustic jour­neys between Hel­sinki, Tokyo, Bangkok, London, Berlin, Stock­holm, Hong Kong, New York, Athens, Bar­celona, San Fran­cisco and Valencia, re­vealing in the pro­cess a glob­al­ised net­work of sim­ilar sounds, but also the subtle cul­tural vari­ations in the de­ploy­ment of this most everyday of technologies.

Plus: Field re­cord­ings and tape music