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The betAV performance series

admin — Wed, 08 May 2013 11:43:31 +0000

Léon McCarthy’s betAV audio-visual performance series is his effort to make audiences aware of the impact that industrial fishing practices are having on the seas and our world at large. Taking his lead from the 2009 documentary ‘The End of the Line’, Léon repurposes some of its video content to present his live audio-visual interpretation. Motion graphics illustrate data on the yearly catches of yearly of pelagic fish in the Mediterranean. Further animations present data on the health benefits of eating fish and furthermore, steps we can take to maintain fish stocks into the future.

The series engages with Léon’s PhD research as he his seeking to harness audiovisual performance as a medium for conversation with an audience – and believes he can champion topics of social importance in this manner.

The most recent performance, betAV06, will take place this May 9th in Singapore at the DigitalArtWeeks festival.

Below are links to websites where one can further inform oneself on this topic.

CITES

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)

http://www.cites.org/

Sea Shepherd

An activist group supporting the welfare of the seas

http://www.seashepherd.org/

BiteBack

A movement seeking to halt the killing of endangered fish

http://www.bite-back.com/

International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

http://www.iucn.org/

ICCAT

International Commission for the conservation of Atlantic Tunas

http://www.iccat.es/en/

The End of the Line – documentary film on the overfishing of our seas:

http://endoftheline.com/film

betav03:
A performance at the Sugarclub, Dublin, July 2012, as part of the Dublin as part of European Science Week and the Imagine Film

betaV03 – A live audiovisual performance from CSIS, University of Limerick on Vimeo.

Application Deadline Extended for Master’s in Music Technology

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:00:02 +0000

The application deadline for the MA/MSc in Music Technology has been extended to Friday 12th July 2013. Applicants who meet the entry requirements and apply by this date will be called for interview in late June or early July. Please note that the deadline for the “EU Student Fees Scholarships” has also been extended to this date.

For further details please see how to apply

iNTERFACES Competition

admin — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:13:59 +0000

Bernard Clarke, Masters in Music Technology, composition student and award-winning broadcaster with RTÉ Lyric FM, has been shortlisted for the iNTERFACES 10th Annual International Audiovisual Festival competition. His work, wrecked solitary here was created as part of the composition/dance composition project, a collaboration between DMARCs MA/MSc in Music Technology and the Irish World Academies Contemporary Dance Performance Masters programme. wrecked solitary here is made up of recorded samples of choreographer/performer Talia Marcela’s voice, recorded clips from the great Greek-American Soprano Maria Callas, sound effects such as vinyl crackles and pops, scratches and whooshes, record player turntables powering up and down, plus micro-fragments of Bizet’s Act II Gypsy Song from Carmen slowed down and rescored for reversed breaths and drums. The work was recently show cased at the Irish Contemporary Music Centre’s annual showcase at the National Concert Hall Dublin.

Morphons and Bions selected for MUME weekend, Sydney, Australia

Kerry Hagan — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:12:54 +0000

Morphons and Bions, a real-time Pd composition utilising noise-based synthesis techniques, will be performed 16 June, 4pm, in the event called “Studies in Autonomy.” It will be held in Verbruggen Hall, Conservatorium.

Morphons and Bions marks an abrupt departure from using recorded sounds and moves into sound synthesis. When contemplating what makes recorded sounds so compelling, the immediate realisation was the inherent noise in an acoustic sound: the microfluctuations of amplitude, frequency content, durations, etc. By using white noise generators and digital “clicks,” Morphons and Bions attempts to tap into a new direction for sound synthesis. The noises are mediated by classical synthesis techniques such as additive synthesis, amplitude modulation and frequency modulation. Like earlier works, random and stochastic equations are used. However, in this work, they are used for timing, rhythms and durations, as well as controlling frequencies and amplitudes of modulating waveforms.

More about Musical Metacreation Weekend (MUME)

Listen to the stereo version of Morphons and Bions.

Henry Vega (US), Anat Spiegel (NL) & Emmanuel Flores (MX) performing Wormsongs

admin — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:21:29 +0000

Thursday 4 April at 8pm.

Ormston House, 9/10 Patrick Street, Limerick

ADMISSION FREE.

Ormston House and DMARC are delighted to present Henry Vega (US), Anat Spiegel (NL) & Emmanuel Flores (MX) performing Wormsongs, a new musical work for voice, electronics and live visuals, performed by composer Henry Vega (electronics) and Anat Spiegel (voice), and accompanied by real-time visual projections by video artist Emmanuel Flores.

Wormsongs Preview from Artek Foundation on Vimeo.

Inspired by Spiegel’s distinctive voice and a variety of vocal traditions such as religious intoning and spoken-word, Vega orchestrates streams of automatic sound with vocal parts to match, creating a digital language that spans the spectrum from noise to pure sine in a style he describes as micro-minimal with a passion towards machine-kind.

A preview of the work, along with an interview with the performers can be found at http://vimeo.com/29800578

www.ormstonhouse.com

‘Dreams of the Jailed Dancer’ (2011) – Sazdov, selected for Days of Macedonian Music 2013

robertsazdov — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:39:35 +0000

Sazdov’s composition ‘Dreams of the Jailed Dancer’ (2011) will received its multi-channel premier at this year’s Days of Macedonian Music. The concert will be held in the Museum of Skopje City, Friday 5th of April 2013.

CMC New Music Marathon 2013

admin — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:35:42 +0000

Four MA/MSc Music Technology students, Caitlin Woods, Ian Fleming, Bernard Clarke and Michael Dean present compositions at the National Concert Hall as part of the Contemporary Music Centre New Music Marathon 2013. Two of these works will include performances developed in conjunction with UL’s Irish World Academy MA in Contemporary Dance Performance as part of the collaborative composition/choreography programme in Semester 1 and will involve dancers Talia Marcela (Mexico) and Kimberley Kendall (UK).

For more information: http://cmcireland.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/cmc-marathon/

Jurgen Simpson presents at Cinesonika 3

admin — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:05:38 +0000

Jürgen Simpson presents at Cinesonika 3 (The Third International Film and Video Festival of Sound Design) conference

“The Dance of Making – The expanded role of sound in multi-screen film”

This paper discusses the challenges of composing and designing sound for multi-screen film and presents these in the context of “The Dance of Making”, a three-screen film installation by Mary Wycherley and Jürgen Simpson.

‘The Dance of Making’, a three screen HD Video Installation by Mary Wycherley with sound design by Jürgen Simpson, will be installed at the Foyle Arts Building University of Ulster from 15th to 17th February.

Seminar & Concert wt Christopher Williams | 13th February

admin — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:38:17 +0000

Seminar: Wednesday February 13th, 2013

3.00pm Computer Science Auditorium (CSG-01)

Bass Playing in the Wild: making music with instruments and field recordings

This presentation will introduce three very different recent projects that integrate my own contrabass playing in combination with other instruments and environmental recordings:

1) Arcanum 17, a multimedia composition for contrabass, microtonal tuba, conch, voices, and field recordings after André Breton’s book of the same name, set in Charlie Morrow’s True 3D immersive sound environment. www.arcanum17.wordpress.com

2) BERLIN QUELQUE PART, an audiovisual project with members of the phonographie collective Ouie/Dire and contrabass clarinettist Chris Heenan. http://ouiedire.com/creations/berlin-quelque-part/

3) Groundwave Rondo, a semi-improvised piece for solo contrabass with stereo playback of AM radio feedback recorded on trains throughout Europe, to be performed at my concert in Limerick.

Discussion will focus on both the practical and conceptual aspects of creating pieces that extend the compositional world to variables of social, acoustic, and electromagnetic environments.

Concert: Wednesday February 13th, 2013

8.00pm ICO performance space

The concert will include solo pieces for bass and bass with electronics. Composers include Christopher Williams, Jeffrey Treviño, Kerry Hagan and Yoav Pasovsky. It will take place in the main space of the Irish Chamber Orchestra building at 8pm.

Kor, Yaov Pasovsky
Groundwave Rondo, Christopher Williams
(bass), Kerry Hagan

Bio
Christopher Williams is a Berlin/ Barcelona-based composer, bassist, and organizer originally from San Diego (California), where he he studied at the University of California with Chaya Czernowin, Bertram Turetzky, Charles Curtis, and others. Additional teachers include John Rahn, Erik Ulman, and Mark Dresser.

He has musicked with Derek Bailey, LaMonte Young’s Theatre of Eternal Music, Mary Oliver and Rozemarie Heggen, trigger ensemble für aktuelle musik, Hans W. Koch, Tom Djll and Matt Ingalls, Barbara Held, Charles Curtis, ensemble chronophonie, Maggie Nicols, NOISE Ensemble, visual artist Tanja Smit, and dancers Martin Sonderkamp and Justin Morrison; has recorded for the Incus, Steady Beat, and Eclipse record labels; has written articles for Open Space and The Improvisor; and has received scholarships and prizes from the University of California, the Darmstadt Summer Courses, the Arts Council of Catalunya and the Festival Acanthes composers’ workshop.

Recent projects include participation in Possibility of Action: the life of the score, a collective exhibition of musical scores at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art; a premiere of works by composer Benjamin Carson at Columbia University; a monthlong stay at Hotel Pupik, an international artists’ residency at Schloss Schrattenberg, Austria; the premiere broadcast of The Hispaniola: a webradio play for flutist on VPRO Radio 6 (Holland); and organizing the Festivalet d’Hivern, an annual festival of improvised and experimental music in Barcelona.

Christopher is a member of Associació Musical l’Embut and the Metro i Mig Cycle Club, the Institute for Intermediate Studies, and a Maker’s Mark Embassador.

www.nauchristopher.thenthis.org

“Williams knows how to create a dialogue with his sonic environment in which he actually manages to say musical things – something few improvisors, outside Lol Coxhill, are rarely capable of.”

– Ben Watson, critic and author of Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation.

Sazdov on the Board for the Struga Musical Autumn 2013

robertsazdov — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:31:00 +0000

Robert Sazdov has been invited by the Composers’ Association of Macedonia to join the artistic board and organising committee for the Struga Music Autumn 2013. The conference is the longest running music conference in the Republic of Macedonia and deals with a broad range of themes, including Byzantine music, ethnomusicology, and contemporary music.

http://www.plusinfo.mk/vest/67591/Strushka-muzichka-esen-si-dobi-nov-Odbor