Time Change Sunday Oct 27

Remember that British Summer Time ends on Sunday and that your clocks need to 'fall back' one hour...  Particularly important for folks with Monday classes.

John Young at Espace du Son, Brussels

John Young will give two concerts at the Espace du Son Festival in Brussels in November, on the 54-channel acousmonium in the Théâtre Marni. One performance is devoted entirely to his own work and in second show he will present a recent work by Pete Batchelor alongside pieces he has selected by Brazilian and US composers. Other composers performing in the Festival are Åke Parmerud (Sweden), Flo Menezes (Brazil) and Yves Daoust (Québec).

Week 6: 4th-8th November: Form Your Future week!

Designed to enhance your skills and employment opportunities! We hope to see you all at a range of events!

Monday 4th November
09.30-10.00: Introduction to Week 6 – Hugh Aston 3.04
13.00-14.00: ClaSS workshop on Time Management/working SMARTER – Clephan 0.17
14.00-17.00: Workshop PACE1 – John Richards & Dirty Electronics

Tuesday 5th November
10.00-13.00: Workshop PACE1 – Performing Sound in Space – hands on the PACE rig with Pete Batchelor, Simon Emmerson & Louise Rossiter
13.00-14.00: CLaSS workshop on Writing Literature Reviews and Workplans, for Year-3 students – Clephan 2.32
14.00-15.00: Personal tutor sessions for Year 1 students, schedule to be announced
15.00-16.00 Introductions to Work Placements – Hugh Aston 3.02
19.00-20.00: Concert PACE1 Visiting artist Raúl Minsburg from Argentina performs new Audio Visual work : "La memoria del Tiempo” (2011)

PLUS "Jobs in Media Event" by Go Think Big, for the Leicester Media School
http://www.gothinkbig.co.uk/opportunities/jobs-in-media-event-in-leicester-5th-november-2013

Must register for all activities.
11.00-12.00 Registration – Hugh Aston 3.03
12.00-13.00 Workshops (various locations)
14.00-15.00 Lecture – Hugh Aston 3.03
13.00-15.00 Workshops (various locations)

Wednesday 6th November
13.00-14.00: Visiting artist research seminar: Raúl Minsburg ‘From Texture to Form’ - a discussion of issues in the creation and reception of electroacoustic music. Queens Building 1.12
14.00-15.00: How to Get Work Experience, Workshop by DMU Careers – Hugh Aston 0.08
15.00-16.00: Interview Skills and Placement session – Campus Centre 2.02/2.01
16.00-17.30: Personal tutor sessions for Years 2-3 students (contact tutor to request an appointment)

Thursday 7th November
12.00-13.00: Library Induction for Year 1 students (if you missed it during Induction Week) – library
12.00-13.00: CLaSS workshop For Year 2 students ‘Stepping up to Year 2; Using Feedback’ - Hugh Aston 0.10
14.00-15.00: Graduate Job Search and Applications, for Year 3 students – Hawthorne 0.45

Friday 8th November
11.00-13.00: Clephan 2.3 - Alumni presentations and workshops: employability and “What Next?” day (visiting alumni and postgrads discussing their career and life paths) –Simon Atkinson and visitors.
15.00–16.00: CV Writing Workshop by DMU Careers – Hugh Aston 3.05
19.00-21.00: PACE1 – private MTI concert from a well-known alumnus!

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Reminder - WEDNESDAY: Concert in PACE 1 - part of MUST1009, MUST2003 assessments and Research Seminar in Queens 1.12

Wednesday October 23rd, 2013 7.00pm

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)

All welcome! Free! [SE]

ALSO: 1-2pm Queens Building Room 1.12 - research seminar -

Neal Spowage (DMU, PhD candidate): 'The Speaker Bra and Wireless Shovel Controller'— This paper was recently presented to the Fascinate Conference at Falmouth University discussing sound, the body, democratic roles and physical objects.

Ben Ramsay (Staffordshire University and DMU PhD candidate): ‘Fixing the live, “Living” the fixed.’

Opportunity to work with children for Black History Season

We have just received an invite for interested MTI/MTP student(s) to contribute a special event for Black History Season, aimed at community children ages 1-12/13. This will be Tuesday, 22 October 2013, 10 am - noon. A Family Support Worker below is looking for someone who can perform some music so vulnerable children can "see live music and possibly giving them  the opportunity to take part in the singing, aimed at "inspiring dreams and hopes". Email Bret Battey (bbattey@dmu.ac.uk) if you are interested, and he can fill you in.

Reminder - Concert TONIGHT in PACE 1 - part of MUST1009, MUST2003 assessments

See entry below but here's a summary - MTI staff and students perform!

Wednesday October 9^th, 2013 7.00pm

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)

All welcome! Free! [SE]

Dirty Electronics @ DMU

Dirty Electronics will resume regular activities at De Montfort University, Leicester every Thursday evening 6:00 – 8:00, PACE Building, Studio 1. The first session will be Thursday, 10 October. Participation is open to all. Information on a selection of previous concerts and events can be found at: www.dirtyelectronics.org

If you have any questions email John Richards: jrich@dmu.ac.uk