Air India [redacted] – an opera by composer Jürgen Simpson and librettist Renée Sarojini Saklikar – 6th to 11th November In 1985, the bombing of Air India Flight 182 resulted in a Boeing 747 crashing off the coast of West Cork killing 329 people. Thirty years later, an Irish-Canadian artistic collaboration responding to the tragedy…
Seminar: Ed Devane
Wednesday September 23rd 3.00pm
Computer Science Auditorium (CSG-01)
Ed will present a selection of his recent music and installations and give a demonstration of his percussion sound design processes using effect feedback and sampling in Ableton Live.
Simon Fraser University 50th Anniversary Celebration Concert features works by Jürgen Simpson
Simon Fraser University Vancouver’ 9th Sept. 50th Anniversary concert focused on a collaboration between DMARC member Jürgen Simpson and Canadian poet Renée Sarojini Saklikar.
ISSTC 2015
The Irish Sound, Science and Technology Association returns to Limerick this year for its fifth annual Convocation (ISSTC 2015) on August 12-13. The theme, “Resonance and Recapitulation: Echoes of a Renaissance,” focuses on Limerick City, the place of the first Convocation ever held and City of Culture for 2014.
Open Call: Light Moves festival of screendance
Following the open call for films, Light Moves Festival of Screendance is pleased to announce its call for presentations and paper proposals for inclusion at the Light Moves Symposium 2015: ‘Peeling away the layers’
DMARC Students Collaborate with Dance Limerick artist in residence.
Tickets are available for Marble and Bread, a new promenade style dance performance created by Dance Limerick artist in residence Meghan Kennedy. Sound design for the work was created by DMARC students as part of the Masters Programme in Music technology. The play takes as its starting point a psychiatric hospital. It has been created by…
Seminar: Hilmar Thordarson
Tuesday March 24th @ 14.00 in CS2-045
Hilmar Thordarson was born in Akureyri Iceland in 1960. After graduating from The Reykjavik College of Music in Theory and Music Composition he went to USA for further studies. He holds a MFA in Composition from California Institute of the Arts and MA from Yale School of Music. During the years of 1992-1995 Mr. Thordarson worked as a composer in residence at Center for New Music and Audio Technology (CNMAT) in Berkeley California. During that time he had a unique opportunity to work some experiment with music and computer technology.
Seminar: Slavik Kwi
Friday 6th March 11:00 to 13:00
Room SG20 Schumann Building
University of Limerick
A workshop/presentation with composer Slavek Kwi with a special focus on Field Recording. The workshop will be in surround sound.
Multi-channel Concert of Irish and Canadian Composers
Monday 9th March, 7pm
Irish Chamber Orchestra Building, University of Limerick
Admission: Free
The Irish Sound, Science and Technology Association (ISSTA) and the Spatialization and Auditory Display Environment (SpaDE, CSIS) is hosting a concert of 8-channel music resulting from the residency of Darren Copeland from New Adventures in Sound Art (Toronto, Canada). Works feature Irish and Canadian composers working in multi-channel sound. Irish composers include Brona Martin, Fergus Kelly, Aidan Deery and Slavek Kwi.
Scholarships: Master’s in Music Technology Programme
DMARC is pleased to announce scholarships for both EU and non-EU students on the Master’s programme in Music Technology at the University of Limerick for 2015-2016. For EU students a fees-only scholarship is available for the Master’s in Music Technology programme. For non-EU students wishing to undertake the Master’s in Music Technology a number of…
