NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY

A reminder to all third years to please complete the National Student Survey. It only takes five minutes and is invaluable to us in terms of telling us what you have liked about the course and what you think could be improved. 

You can access the survey here.

We would very much appreciate your feedback.

Should the opportunity to benefit future students not be sufficient motivation for you to complete the survey, the university is attempting to incentivise you with Kinder Eggs and fizzy drinks. The window of opportunity for procuring these pleasures is narrow, though, so you should make your way to FOTAC as soon as possible if you are desirous of them. You will be provided with a workstation where you can gorge while ticking boxes. 

Alternatively, just pop online while you’re having a cup of tea at home.

John Fass

Visiting Lecture

Open to all

PACE Studio 1

Thurs, 12 Feb

10.30 -12.00 

John Fass will discuss his work in the field of interaction design and sound projects he has run for students at the Royal College of Art, London. He will also presents ideas on de-computation and slow-tech.

“De-computation is an approach to using computational thinking. It’s about de-mystifying, de-constructing, de-composing, de-coding, de-programming machines, minds, space, and time. It’s about observing people, places and systems and applying a design method to create new forms … De-computation is a new methodology for understanding, and questioning an increasingly computer-controlled world.”

http://www.rca.ac.uk/more/staff/john-fass/

Get your Dissertation or Extended Report Sorted

Working on your dissertation or extended report and need to get it sorted?  Then please join CLaSS for this free student conference.  Open to all students.

Wednesday 25^th February 2015

9am-1pm in the Hugh Aston Building 3.03

The Conference includes:

Keynote presentation:  D for Dissertation: ‘Dread’, ‘Deliberate’, ‘Delay’, ‘Damn!’, Deadly’, ‘Determined’, ‘Done!’, ‘Delighted’

• Dr Debbie LePlay, Head of Quality in the Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities
• Choice of two workshops from:  Finding excellent research, How to write a literature review, Developing a convincing argument, Writing when you don’t want to write, Structuring your dissertation or extended report, How to sound critical in your writing
• ‘Ask the Marker Panel’:  Your chance to ask questions of dissertation module leaders from a range of subjects about what makes excellent work

Refreshments will be provided.

To book a place, please go to: www.library.dmu.ac.uk/link/CLASS

Organised by the ‘Centre for Learning and Study Support’

Library and Learning Services

Concert PACE 1 Wednesday 11th February 7pm

The Birmingham Ensemble for Electroacoustic Research (BEER) was founded in 2011 as a research project to explore aspects of realtime electroacoustic music making. Particular interests include networked music performance over ad hoc wi-fi systems, and live coding (programming music in real time using algorithms that can be altered while they are running). In keeping with post-free jazz developments in improvisation (e.g. John Zorn, Anthony Braxton), we create structures in software that impose limitations and formal articulations on the musical flow (with networked software systems serving as intervention mechanism / arbiter / structural provocateur par excellence).
Musical influences run the gamut from Iannis Xenakis to Journey. Members include Norah Lorway, Konstantinos Vasilakos, Luca Danieli, Tsun Yeung, and Scott Wilson. For this performance BEER presents a selection of pieces from the ensemble’s repertoire, including the premiere of a new work by Norah Lorway.
All welcome! Entry Free! Essential for MUST1009, MUST2003, MUST2007, MUST3000/3024 concert reports, programmers, composition etc.!

At 1pm that day (MTI Research Lab, Clephan 0.19) Nick Collins and Scott Wilson present their ideas in a Research Seminar -

Dr Nick Collins (Durham) - 'Large-scale corpus analysis of electronic music'
In which researchers on an AHRC funded mini-project attempt to build a larger scale (circa 2000 piece) audio corpus of electronic music from 1948-2000, and run automatic machine analysis experiments.
Dr Scott Wilson (Birmingham) - ‘Free as in BEER’
The Birmingham Ensemble for Electroacoustic Research (BEER) was founded in 2011 as a research project to explore aspects of realtime electroacoustic music making. Particular interests include networked music performance over ad hoc wi-fi systems, and live coding (programming music in real time using algorithms that can be altered while they are running).

All Welcome!

MUST2003 Assessment 1/2 deadline extended one week

I noticed an anomaly in the schedule for MUST2003 Assessment 1/2. The aim was to have three tutorials for this assessment but HALF of you will only have had two. So to be fair I will extend the deadline for this assessment by one week to give you all equal tutorial time. You do not have to wait and can hand in early to get going on the next assignment sooner if you wish! This means that Tuesday 3rd February and Tuesday 10th February tutorial sessions are equally the third and final tutorial on assessment 1/2. The new deadline is thus FRIDAY 13th February at 4pm. Sorry I did not spot this sooner! [SE 02.02]

Succesful Writing Week

Monday 2^nd February to Friday 6^th February in the Kimberlin Library

Centre for Learning and Study Support (CLaSS)

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

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

2^nd February: Structuring your work effectively

2^nd February: Finding your voice: from reading to writing and back again

2^nd February: Using Web 2.0 tools for academic research

3^rd February: How to write up scientific experiments

3^rd February: How to sound critical in your writing

4^th February: Developing an argument in your dissertation or extended reports

4^th February: Avoiding plagiarism through effective referencing

4^th February: Planning and writing your report

4^th February: Polishing your assignment

5^th February: Writing in Science and Technology

5^th February: Writing introductions and conclusions

5^th February: The power of words

6^th February: Writing with style

6^th February: How to write when you don’t want to write

6^th February: Using evidence in your writing: paraphrasing and quotations

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

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

Bauer Media London Open House

OPEN OFFER to any and all broadcast and print media related programmes and their students:

EVENT: Bauer Media London Open House
DATE: Wednesday 5th March 2015
TIME: 3pm-6pm

Fancy getting the inside line on one of the UK's biggest and most diverse media production companies?

From top-flight brand radio and television operations to myriad household-name magazine publications, Bauer Media is offering an exclusive opportunity to DMU students, spending an afternoon meeting programming, presentation, production, social media and sales and marketing teams at their new base at 1 Golden Square, Soho, London.

To take advantage of this exclusive offer, please send an email, including your particular areas of interest, to Nicky Tranter. Please CC your email to Simon Walsh.

Delegates are expected to make their own travel arrangements.

Students will find it useful to join the Creative Media Lab Facebook Group, to keep across the range of events and happenings in this exciting and dynamic area.

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