LLEAPP Festival, March 4 - 6th 2015

PACE, Phoenix Café Bar & Leicester Hackspace

LLEAPP (Laboratory for Laptop and Electronic Audio Performance Practice) is a collective of musician-researchers based in Edinburgh. It is run on the basis of a 3-day practice-led symposium, discussing tactics and strategies for collaborative play, a series of open rehearsals, and finishes with a performance each day.

LLEAPP started in 2009 at the University of Edinburgh, has since been held at different universities across the UK, and is being hosted this year by De Montfort University, Leicester.

Among featured guests will be Hong Kong-based Takuro Lippit (aka DJ Sniff), a turntablist working in the field of improvised and experimental music; cellist and string arranger Audrey Riley whose work ranges from The Smiths to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; Swedish noise artist Max Wainwright; mobile artist Steranko; and John Richards with members of the Dirty Electronics Ensemble.

LLEAPP all participants: Owen Green, Taku Lippit, Max Wainwright, Steve Jones, J Richards, Amit Patel, Jim Frize, Sam Topley, Audrey Riley

Schedule

Wednesday 4th March 2015

13:00 -14:00 – Seminar with Takuro Lippit + Owen Green (University of Edinburgh) MTIRL, Clephan Building

14:00 -18:00 – Open rehearsals in the PACE Studio 1

19:00 – Concert 1, PACE Studio 1 (all LLEAPP)

Thursday 5th March 2015

9:00 -12:00 – Breadboard Workshop with Jim Frize (Sonodrome) + DMU students at Leicester Hackspace (meet PACE @ 9.00 am)

9:00 -15:00 – Open rehearsals PACE Studio 1, DMU (LLEAPP)

21:00 - 21:30 – Q&A with Jenny Walklate + LLEAPP musicians + The Real Junk Food Project, Leicester in the Phoenix Café Bar.

21.30 - late – Concert 2, feat DJ Sniff + Breadboard Workshop + LLEAPP musicians in the Phoenix Café Bar.

Friday 6th March 2015

9.00 - LLEAPP get-in/rehearse PACE Studio 1

10:30 - 12:00 – Open rehearsals/workshop (MUST1008). Mobile music feat Steranko, Dushume, DMU students, PACE Studio 1

12.00 - 13.00 Pay-As-You-Feel Food provided by The Real Junk Food Project, Leicester on the PACE Mezzanine.

13:00 - 14:30 – Lunchtime Concert 3, PACE Studio 1 + mobile music performances

14:30 - 15:00 – Breakdown

17:00 - Social

Links

Leicester Hackspace is a venue for makers of digital, electronic, mechanical and creative projects. http://leicesterhackspace.org.uk/

The Real Junk Food Project is a pioneering UK movement that re-purposes food thrown away by supermarkets. http://www.therealjunkfoodproject.co.uk

For further information and details of featured artists, please contact Steve Jones at steve@amancalledadam.com Jack Richardson jack.richardson@dmu.ac.uk or John Richards jrich@dmu.ac.uk

Leicester Media School - Music, Technology and Innovation New Media Events 2013-2014 - Launch Party Events

The Music, Technology and Innovation Department and Research Centre launch the public events of the Leicester Media School with two showcases of their wide ranging recent creative output. These two concerts cover audio, audio-visual, dirty electronics, surround sound immersion and much more … on PACE 1’s purpose built multichannel system. It’s a party - come along – free!

Wednesday October 9^th, 2013 7.00pm

PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

Pete Batchelor Kaleidoscope: Cycle - Pulse + Fuse (8 channel surround sound)

Louise Rossiter SiO₂ (8 channel surround sound)

Louise Rossiter/Andrew Connor Teahouse Memories (audio-visual)

John Young 5 Versions of Reality (multi-speaker diffusion)

Wednesday October 23^rd, 2013 7.00pm

PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

Simon Atkinson Three Modulations for Mute Synth II (multi-speaker diffusion)

Amit D Patel aka Dushume-Svaramaya Bass In The Pace.... (bespoke instruments create noise beneath the surface)

Ben Ramsay Flinch-Rest (multi-speaker diffusion)

John Richards Mute Synth live (with Dirty Electronics)

Audio-Visual concert Wednesday 13th February

Wednesday February 13th, 2013
Phoenix Square (Film & Digital Media)

Midland Street, Leicester, LE1 1TG
 
Visible Bits, Audible Bytes

Seminar: 3pm – 5pm

Concert & screening: 6.30pm - 8pm

Location: Phoenix seminar rooms and cinema
 
Concert tickets: £5 (£3 conc.) - seminar free entry
Call the box office on 0116 242 2800 to reserve your free place on the afternoon seminar or to book a ticket for the concert - or book online (http://phoenix.org.uk/)



Visible Bits, Audible Bytes presents a series of talks and a concert of experimental film and audio-visual works that champion the soundtrack and explore the relationship between sound and the moving image. An afternoon seminar brings together three of the UK's leading practitioners to discuss their current work in restoring, creating and performing audio-visual works - Dr Joseph Hyde, Bath Spa University; Dr Mick Grierson, Goldsmiths College University of London; Dr Louise Harris, Kingston University. This is followed by a concert screening of works, curated to demonstrate the historical legacy of sound and image practice, bringing contemporary works and those from the BFI archives together in a diverse and rich programme. 



Perpetual Motion (2011) - Andrew Hill
Trade Tattoo (1936) - Len Lye
Cs2 (2013) - Louise Harris
Delusions of Alien Control - Mick Grierson [Live Performance]
End Transmission (2012) - Jo Hyde
In Absentia (2000) - Quay Brothers & Karlheinz Stockhausen

The event has been curated by the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre (De Montfort University), in partnership with Phoenix. The afternoon talks are free and will take place in the Courtyard Rooms between 3-5pm. The concert screening will take place in Screen Two from 6.30pm.

This is part of the concert report series for MUST1009, MUST2003 and MUST2007.

Concert Wednesday January 16th PACE1 7pm

 
Andrew Lewis – Wellcome Trust concert

“Andrew Lewis’s new audio-visual work Lexicon is based on a poem written by a 12-year old boy, Tom, in which he tries to articulate his personal experience of dyslexia. By presenting an imaginary sonic and visual journey through the text of the poem, Lexicon explores not only the challenges, but also the life-affirming creative potential that dyslexia, and a fuller understanding of it, can bring. Lexicon is supported by the Wellcome Trust's 'Engaging Science' programme, which aims to use artistic creation as a means of raising public awareness of biomedical science.”

Andrew Lewis (Bangor University) will perform this audio visual work and other acousmatic from the Bangor studio; also the world premiere of Pulse from MTI’s Peter Batchelor who studied with Andrew Lewis.
Pre-concert talk by Andrew Lewis at 3pm in PACE 1.

Andrew Lewis - Dark Glass

Kimon Emmanouil Grigoriadis - Peri-Phonis

Andrew Lewis - Lexicon

Peter Batchelor - Pulse

Andrew Lewis - Penmon Point

Entry Free! MUST2003 and MUST2007 - part of your concert report assignment!

Concert Wednesday December 5th 7pm PACE Studio 1

Final concert of term!
A performance of audiovisual works by John Cousins

'Choke' (8 channel)
'Between Floors' (16 channel)
'Say' (stereo)

John Cousins is New Zealand’s leading sonic artist.  In a career spanning more than 40 years his output embraces instrumental and vocal music, live art, photographic installations, audiovisual and acousmatic electroacoustic music.  In this concert he will present three audiovisual works in an immersive sound environment.

Preceded 3-4.30pm by a research seminar on Cousins’ audiovisual work 'Aria', in the PACE, Studio 1.

Entry Free! All Welcome!