Dirty Electronics @ Phoenix Arts

Yet more wounded furniture

Dirty Electronics present an evening of musical non-events and curious where the subversive and the ridiculous collide with electronic sound and the technological unknown.

Thurs, 11 Dec
9.00 - late
Phoenix Arts
Entry Free

http://www.phoenix.org.uk/event/yet-more-wounded-furniture/

Concert PACE 1 Wednesday 10th December

The Dirty Electronics Ensemble & Marij van Gorkom

Marij van Gorkom (bass clarinet and electronics) plays new works written specially for her. She has an international reputation as an exponent of this instrument in new music. Marij has recently joined MTI as a research student.

Paul Wilson - Dark Mission [2013]

Adam Basanta - Synchronicity ain’t no thing [2014]

Kasia Glowicka - Midnight Choirs [2014]

Gleb Foulga - Substances [2014]

Kajsa Lindgren is an exchange student composer from The Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm. She has been working with MTI’s Dirty Electronics Ensemble (director John Richards) which makes a uniquely innovative contribution to musical life!

Kajsa Lindgren - Coalesce (five performers and 8-channel electroacoustic material)

All welcome! Entry Free! Your last opportunity for a Term 1 concert report for MUST2003, MUST2007 - essential for all MUST3000, MUST3024 and MTP students!

At 1pm that day (MTI Research Lab, Clephan 0.19): Marij van Gorkom and Steve Jones will present in the Postgraduate Seminar series.

Watch this space for our continuing MTI events series

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

CLaSS: Students’ Top Ten Workshops!

Monday 1^st December – Friday 5^th December 2014 in the Kimberlin Library

Centre for Learning and Study Support (CLaSS)

http://www.library.dmu.ac.uk/link/CLASS

CLaSS delighted to offer a series of workshops of interest to students who want to improve their study success this year. Come along and meet the CLaSS and Library teams who can support you in your work.

1^st December: Interpreting and planning your assignments

1^st December: How to get the most out of your lectures and seminars

2^nd December: Taking a critical approach to your work

2^nd December: Planning and writing your report

3^rd December: Thinking about your dissertation: writing the proposal

3^rd December: Polishing you assignment

4^th December: Writing in an academic style

4^th December: Planning and Structuring your literature review

4^th December: Writing introductions and conclusions

5^th December: An introduction to verbal presentations

For further information and to book a place, click on link:

http://www.library.dmu.ac.uk/Home/Calendar/

Concert Wednesday 26th November PACE 1

MTI/MTP & alumni Mix – curated by Pete Batchelor

PACE Studio 1a, 6.00-7.00pm
Rob Martland presents Lysik’s, an audio-visual installation considering one person’s experience of the neurological sense fusing condition of synaesthesia.  
PACE Studio 1, 7.00pm
Current students are joined by friends and recent alumni to present a concert which celebrates their musical activities on, on the cusp of, beyond, or surrounding their MTI/MTP studies. The programme includes:
Holy Bones (Paul Keene and Ben Stirk): formed in 2007, Holy Bones 'take the old and create the new, ripping apart vinyl from jumble sales and crate digging until fingers are sore!'
Banderbear (Rob Martland and Ethan Wallace): a collaboration established during undergraduate studies at MTI. They describe their music as being wilfully 'brooding and intense'.

All welcome! Entry Free! Essential for MUST1009, 2003, 2007, 3000, 3024 - just come along and see what some alumni are up to!

Slight change to concert schedule Wednesday! Read on ...

Marinos Giannoukakis's Musica Universalis will run in the small studio PACE 1A right next to the main space at 6.30pm. Depending on demand it might run twice and possibly again after the concert.
Marinos is working on a version with 3D graphics for the occasion! Come along! [SE 10.11]

Refresh Your Learning! - Workshops at CLaSS

Monday 17th November – Friday 21st November 2014 in the Kimberlin Library

Centre for Learning and Study Support (CLaSS)
http://www.library.dmu.ac.uk/link/CLASS

We are delighted to offer a series of workshops of interest to students who want  to refresh their learning. Come along and meet the CLaSS and Library teams who can support you in your work.

17th November: Practice, practice, practice – getting to grips with numerical reasoning questions
17th November: Finding images using databases
17th November: Mind over matter: use your imagination for study success
17th November: New ways of seeing: assignment planning, research and discovery with a visual twist
18th November: Questionnaire design
18th November: Successful writing as an Art and Design student
18th November: Using electronic newspapers as a resource for your assignment
18th November: Word art: expressing your ideas in the creative industries
18th November: Be more productive and manage your stress
19th November: Visual approaches for effective learning
19th November: How to write when you don’t want to write
19th November: Taking a critical approach to your work
20th November: How to thrive as an introvert
20th November: How to make group-work work
20th November: Writing in Science and Technology
20th November: Confident communication
21st November: Taming your calculator
21st November: Using social media to raise your online profile
21st November: Thinking about your dissertation: writing the proposal
21st November: I wish I didn’t do that! Bad study habits and how to change them.

For further information and to book a place, click on link:
http://www.library.dmu.ac.uk/Home/Calendar/

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/