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Provisional Programme

[Thursday] [Friday] [Saturday] [Sunday] [Installations] [Shop]

Thursday 10th April 2003

• 18:00 – 20:00, CCCH Foyer, School of Music, University of Leeds.
  Registration. Welcome and Wine Reception.
  
• 18:30 – 20:00, CCCH Foyer, School of Music, University of Leeds.
  6x4 – Free Improvising Acoustic Guitar Quartet,
  featuring Neil Carver, Stephen Chase, John Jasnoch and Hervé Perez.
  
• 21:00 – 23.00, MAXIS PICOFEST at WARD 13 (basement), George Hotel, 69 Great George Street, Leeds, LS1.
  • CORE SONIC, Adrian Alvey
    Circuit Bent electronic instruments and manipulation of the core (the soldered bits!) by Adrian Alvey.
  • LO SCI-FI, Scott Hawkins
    Cut-up Vs cut out! Scott Hawkins presents live audio-visual machinations from out of this world and the next. Where puppetry meets sound art, meets Science Fiction, meets non-linear story telling.
  • ADHERENCE, Matt Butt
    Matt Butt creates live music and virtual dance performance using projected imagery controlled via human and automatic interfaces responding to movement and acoustics in given space.

Friday 11th April 2003

• 08:30 – 09:00, CCCH Foyer, School of Music, University of Leeds.
  Registration.
  
• 09:00 – 10:30, Room G13 – Lecture Theatre 1, School of Music, University Of Leeds.
  Paper Session 1 (Chair: Scott Hawkins)
  • Towards the English Earbook, Duncan Marshall
  • Postmodern geography of sound: place, non-place and ”genius loci” in conceptual music, Slavo Krekovic
  • Uh? The Sound of Thought, Scott Hawkins
  • Sound, Installations and Music, John Dack
• 10:30 – 11:00, BREAK

• 11:00 – 12:30, CCCH Concert Hall, School of Music, University Of Leeds.
  Stereo Concert 1
  • Fermento Celeste - 08:13, J.G. Excudero
  • Winter Nocturne - ??:??, Mark Chambers
  • Extended Moment - 12:23, Peter Conegliano
  • INTERVAL - 10:00
  • Violin Suite - 07:48, Nick Collins
  • Rebar - 11:54, Robert Scott Thompson
  • Little Star - 12:00, Neil Webb
  • FlatWorm -2.5D - 10:00, Peter Lennox
    
• 12:30 – 13:30, LUNCHTIME

• 13:30 – 15:00, CCCH Concert Hall, School of Music, University Of Leeds.
  • BLACK SUN, BLOODY MOON 10:00, Coryn Smethurst and Duncan Marshall
    Metal percussion, live electronics and tape music by Coryn Smethurst with visual stimulus provided by hand-made 35mm slides by Duncan Marshall.
  • EIGHTH NERVE (for prepared guitar, computer, and multi-channel sound system), Thomas Ciufo
    Improvised, live performance piece that explores non-traditional playing techniques, physical treatments applied to the guitar, and sonic transformations provided by interactive computer-based digital signal processing.
  • INVITING THE BELL TO SOUND (for tibetan bowl, computer, and multi-channel sound system), Thomas Ciufo
  • 13 VOLTS AND 1 CARROT - 10:00, Eva Sjuve
    
• 15:00 – 15:30, BREAK
  
• 15:30 – 17:00, Room G13 – Lecture Theatre 1, School of Music, University Of Leeds.
  Paper Session 2 (Chair: Andrew Hugill)
  • Sound Capture and Real Time Composing in Inter-disciplinary Live Performance, Barry Edwards and Ben Jarlett
  • Evolutionary Form in a Network Composition, Andrew Hugill
  • Emonic Environment – Implementation Report, Paul Nemirovsky, Richard Watson and David Dickinson
  • Design Concepts and Control Strategies for Interactive Improvisational Music Systems, Thomas Ciufo
    
• 17:00 – 19:00, DINNER TIME
  
• 19:00 – 20:00, CCCH Concert Hall, School of Music, University Of Leeds.
  • BIKE WHEEL MUSIC – 15:00, Aldous Layman
    Improvisation with found objects, obsolete mechanical components and analogue electronics.
  • MASCHINENRAUM - 45:00, khmfn, Karl-Heinz Mauermann and Frank Niehusmann
    Audio-visual performance with video-feedback-loops and industrial noise music.
    
• 21:00 – 01:00, MAXIS PICOFEST at WARD 13 (basement), George Hotel, 69 Great George Street, Leeds, LS1.
  • POSTCARDS, Barry Moon
  • HINTERLAND, Bocman
    A myriad of sounds from life’s backwater exposed to the assembly through laptop, portable Theremin and CDs players.
  • ELEKTRONENGEHIRN, Malte Steiner
    Metainsrument concert featuring complex Max / MSP patches to generate sonic structures controlled by the player with a wind-controller.
  • ACOUSTIC MAGNETIC SCULPTED THEORIES, Subdivi5ion, Oliver Knight, Jamie Hughes and Tamlin Renwick
    

Saturday 12th April 2003

• 08:30 – 09:00, CCCH Foyer
  Registration.
  
• 09:00 – 10:30, Room G13 – Lecture Theatre 1
  Paper Session 3 (Chair: John Dack)
  • Automatic Synchronisation Based On Beat Tracking, Ivan Bruno and Paolo Nesi
  • LEGO Music, Winslow Burleson
  • A Technology for Creation of Organ Sound, Lucy Comerford and Peter Comerford
  • In Transit or Realising one’s aesthetic when the technology finally catches up, Leigh Landy, Evelyn Jamieson and Kia Ng
    
• 10:30 – 11:00, BREAK
  
• 11:00 – 12:30, CCCH Concert Hall
  Stereo Concert 2
  • Empty Piano - 07:57, Hervé Perez
  • Black Sun, Bloody Moon - 10:00 (stereo version), CRRS
  • Tongue – 13:47, John Young
  • Gwerz - 12:00, Elsa Justel
  • INTERVAL - 10:00
  • Erwin’s Playground - 9:12, Rajmil Fischman
  • Joyce’s Vision - 4:06, Robert Mackay
  • Hampshire Sounds…ok - 5:02, Charlotte White
  • Let’s Find Peace - 19:38, Matthew Marth
    
• 12:30 – 13:30, LUNCHTIME
  
• 13:30 – 14:00, Room G13 – Lecture Theatre 1
  • Convolution, Malte Steiner
    Lecture on a sound spatialisation and design method
    
• 14:00 – 14:30, B01 (basement)
  • Augmented Drum, Ian Symonds, Richard Sage and Kia Ng
    Performers: Rick Kershaw and Richard Sage
    Drum brushes with embeded sensors for additional functionalities and capabilities.
    
• 14:30 – 15:00, CCCH Foyer
  • In Transit
    Leigh Landy, Evelyn Jamieson, Kia Ng, Garth Paine, Paul Godden
    Dancers: Penny Caffrey, Holly MacArthur, Rachel Wynn
    A collaboration of like-minded artists/scientists from a range of backgrounds to create performances where sounds, images, movement and drama are imaginatively combined. The work encompasses the ordinary, the extraordinary, discovery, enjoyment and humour. In Transit has been made possible with funding from Yorkshire Arts and support from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts as well as De Montfort and Leeds Universities.
    
• 15:00 – 15:30, BREAK
  
• 15:30 – 17:00, Room G13 – Lecture Theatre 1, School of Music, University Of Leeds.
  Paper Session 4 (Chair: Leigh Landy)
  • Voulez-vous changer votre paradigme avec moi ce soir?, Leigh Landy
  • Tongue-A Compositional Approach to Sound and (Non)sense, John Young
  • Big Bang and Beyond! Scott Hawkins
  • VJ Technology and Techniques, Douglas Nunn
    
• 17:00 – 19:00, DINNER TIME
  
• 19:00 – 20:00, Room G13 – Lecture Theatre 1, School of Music, University Of Leeds.
  FILMS (I)
  • BLUE BLOODED SPICE - 08:00, Paolo Girol
  • MORAITO - 04:00, Paolo Girol
  • 8 BITS OR LESS - 05:00, Patrick Lichty
  • WRISTFUL OF BITS - 05:00, Patrick Lichty
  • ANNIE CREEK - 02:06, Timothy Nohe
  • EMPTY VESSEL, SPEAKING VOLUME – 02:30, Scott Hawkins
  • POLYGON SWAB - 05:00, Brown Sierra
  • ROAD SURFACE - 06:00, Brown Sierra
  • SEIZED - 08:00, Brown Sierra
  • LAMICTOGEN - 05:00, Brown Sierra
    
• 21:00 – 01:00, MAXIS PICOFEST at WARD 13 (basement), George Hotel, 69 Great George Street, Leeds, LS1.
  • OUTSIDER, Shawn Decker
    An experimental hybrid electro-acoustic system using a fiddle and laptop.
  • THE DUO, Joe Hardy and Hervé Perez
    Electro-acoustic music and digital technology. With an organic flow, using spontaneity and the narrative movements of free improvisation, featuring guitar and laptop, the pieces transport the audience on a journey.
  • BROWN SIERRA, Paddy Collins and Pia Gambardella
    Using adapted electronics and alert sounds, test electronics, Dictaphones, Walkman, employing techniques such as cut ups inching to record and play back sounds during performances.
  • PARA-MUSICAL ENSEMBLE, Scott Hawkins and Richard Head
    In this performance Scott will be using his self-styled Triple Sprung Guitar (TSG) in a rare flat-picking extravaganza.
    

Sunday 13th April 2003

• 05:00, SOUNDRISE
  The Devils Arrow, Boroughbridge, Yorkshire.
  
• 10:00 – 10:30, Room G13 – Lecture Theatre 1
  FILMS (II)
  • SPIRITUS –15:12, Lennart Westman (music) and Gunnar Jutelius (visual)
  • TRUCE - 21:00, Emmanuelle Waeckerle
    
• 10:30 – 11:00, BREAK
  
• 11:00 – 12:30, CCCH Concert Hall
  Stereo Concert 3
  • And I think to Myself… - 21:26, Rajmil Fischman
  • Tilt - 12:00, Ewan Stefani
  • INTERVAL – 10:00
  • Inner Cities - 08:45, Diego Garro
  • Rain - 11:58 (4 Channel), Fergal Dowling
  • Platone’s Iterations - 5:30, Paolo Girol
  • Submarine - 9:00, Dale Perkins
  • 3112 - 09:34, Franco Degrassi
    
• 12:30 – 13:30, LUNCHTIME
  
• 13:30 – 15:00, Room G13 – Lecture Theatre 1
  Paper Session 5(Chair: Paddy Collins / Kia Ng)
  • Responses to Silence, Paddy Collins
  • The Sound Box: an Acousmatic Approach to Sound Composition, Morten Breinbjerg
  • Aesthetics, Meaning and the Funneling Effect: Approaches to “K…”, an Electronic Opera, Momilani Ramstrum
  • Reconsidering the Instrument, Neil B. Rolnick
    
• 15:00 – 15:30, BREAK
  
• 15:30 – 17:00, CCCH Concert Hall
  • K..., Opera in 12 Scenes for singers; orchestra, and electronics in realtime, Prelude Composer: Philippe Manoury - 5:48, Momilani Ramstrum
  • THE SOUND BOX, Rasmus B. Lunding
  • NEIGHBOURHOOD EARS - 11:00, Neil B. Rolnick
    Laptop based real-time performance derived from daydream and rumination on sonic moments.
  • same ground, stirring under our feet - Homage to Foucault – 12:00, Mic Spencer, Richy Craig, Owen Sutton, Dom Halliday, Andy Bayly, Adam Longbottom, Achilleas Sourlas and Wendy Wang
    A work for flute, violin, accordion and metal percussion instruments (including JCB digger bucket), 2 phonograms (i.e. vinyl record players) all with amplification, and video loop.
  • Thews and Sinews - 14:21, Matthew Marth
    
• 17:00 – 19:00, DINNER TIME
  
• 19:00 – 20:00, CCCH Concert Hall
  • NINTH (music for Viola & computer), Javier A. Garavaglia
  • WEAR THE MILKBOMB, Simon Orme and Gregg Ramsden
    Audio and Visual site recordings manipulated with redundant technology to reveal the musicality of the world and its environments. Featuring drones, loops and ethereal clatter.
    
• 21:00 – 22:30, MAXIS PICOFEST at WARD 13 (basement), George Hotel, 69 Great George Street, Leeds, LS1.
  • LAST SUPPER, New friends, old acquaintances and residual satiated elements gather for the final free-frequency frenzy.

   

Installations

• Free Roaming
  FRIENDLY SURVEILLANCE, Linda Duvall
  Application and development of visual coding system to provide a written equivalent to subjective experience of sounds, sights and smells. A process of sequentially annotating, in hieroglyphic form, any audio or visual event.
  
• Mezzanine and Stairwell
  CRICKETS, Thunderbolt, Catrin Jones and Zoe Riddell
  A room filled with the sound of Crickets singing. Recordings played repeatedly from multiple portable cassette players which are hidden inside little white bags on the floor.
  
• Rehearsal Hall / B09
  WHERE DOES OUR LOVE LIE? Sophie Brown
  A sonic expanse and meeting point clash of the sound of the span of a love relationship through popular music.
  
• CCCH Basement / B10 on Stage Area
  STACCATO LIFE / DEATH, Ralf Nuhn
  A sculptural collage made of eleven different household objects taken from the Kitchen and set into vibration by the plunger strokes of twelve electromagnets.
  
• Room B11 – Practice Room
  RING BEATS, Scott Hawkins
  A continuation of his work involving the abstraction of sound and music from landscape and ancient megalithic sites. Ring Beats exploits a process involving linear drawing and the manufacture of hand-made vinyl disks as a means to store and reproduce the divined audio.
  
• Room B12 – Practice Room
  INNER VOICES, Emmanuelle Waeckerle
  A hypnotic and abstract melody made of layered spoken words using four distinctively old and mismatched tape recorders.
  
• Room B13 – Practice Room
  APOLOGY, James Brown
  A sequence of ten or more smoke alarms wired together and the test circuit soldered closed for continuous operation. Sharing a reduced power supply subtle anomalies in the consistency and pitch of the audible alarm are produced.
  
• Room B23 – Practice Room
  DEATH WATCH: THE WOODWORM PROBLEM, Scott Hawkins.
  Five years spent renovating his house! This sound work is a tribute to the boring insects and the destruction they cause, evidence found just beneath the visual surface on the day he took occupancy.
  
• Room B24 – Practice Room
  ROTATING MAGNETIC FIELDS, Brown Sierra
  Suspended wire frames counter balance batteries, which power electric fans to cause a slow rotation of the structure. A buzzing sound is produced each time the fan passes over a corresponding electromagnetic pick-up mounted on the floor beneath.
  The speed and intensity of the effect varies as battery power is used up over a longer duration.
  
• Room B25 – Practice Room
  PAPERLESS OFFICE, Ed Carter and Tony Goddard
  Redundant Technology Initiative (RTI)
  "It is easier to move towards a talentless office rather than a paperless office."
  Audio-visual laptop installation looking into various unfulfilled prophecies of the role of IT in the workplace.
  
• Room B26 – Practice Room
  A SPACE TO THINK…, Pete Kelly
  A contemplative space densely filled with spatially diffuse sound. Installation utilises 'hybrid' Ambisonic techniques.
  
  

MAXIS
SHOP / SWOP / DROP

• Room G11
  Paddy Collins / Pia Gambardella / Rich Sage
  
  Opening time: Lunchtime and afternoon breaks
  

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