Concert PACE 1 Wednesday March 18th 7pm MTI Mix 4

Continuing our 15^th birthday celebration – more works from our amazing team. The UK premiere of Simon Atkinson’s GRM (Paris) Commission and works by masters and doctoral students - David Holland’s piece was a finalist for the Bangor Dylan Thomas Prize 2014, Sam Topley performs her invented instruments - audio-visual, performance, acousmatics, story telling, soundscape and more -

Simon Atkinson                  Nocturne aquatique

David Holland                       The Force

Francesc Marti                    Speech 1

Panos Amelides                 The Pain(t)

Sam Topley                          untitled

Sam Warren                                    Shift

Robin Parmar                      Caged Bird

All welcome! Entry Free!

Last opportunity this term for an item for your concert reports! MUST1009, MUST2003 and essential for projects and composers too!

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

MTI Mix 2 - Concert Pace 1 Wednesday 12th November 7pm

Wednesday November 12^th, 2014 7.00pm

PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

MTI Mix 2

We continue our 15^th Birthday Season celebrating our members’ great success over the last year – and introducing some new members.

Michael Young                                    Piano Prosthesis

Michael recently joined DMU as Pro-Vice Chancellor (Teaching and Learning). He performs this interactive piano/computer piece himself.

Virginie Viel                                    Nuage Noir

Virginie recently joined MTI as a research student after a Masters at Mons (Belgium) including studies with Annette Vande Gorne and Elizabeth Anderson.

Simon Atkinson                                    afterimages

A new work evoking the rich and mysterious sounds of nature, exploring composition as landscape.

Louise Rossiter                         Cyclic Motions

Louise is a PhD research student in MTI - she has just returned from a composing residency in Montreal.

Marinos Giannoukakis                        Musica Universalis

A new work for computer-generated graphics and 8-channel sound. Marinos is a PhD research student in MTI.

All welcome! Entry Free!
This is another event for the concert reports for MUST1009, MUST2003, MUST2007 and essential for MUST3000/3024 too!

Watch this space for our continuing MTI events series

http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/must/

Audiovisual concert and seminar: Raúl Minsburg

Tuesday 5 November in PACE Studio 1, 7pm, MTI welcomes visiting Argentine composer Prof. Raúl Minsburg (National University of Lanús and National University of Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires) who will present his large-scale audiovisual work reflecting on the personal and cultural experience of memory and the human condition: La Memoria del Tiempo, co-authored with video artist Nicolás Testoni.

See a preview at http://vimeo.com/42866691

This is followed on Wednesday 6 November, in Queen's 1.12, 1-2pm when Prof. Minsburg will present a talk ‘From Texture to Form’—a discussion of issues in the creation and reception in electroacoustic music.

 

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 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!