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, DINNERTIME
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, DINNERTIME
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, DINNERTIME
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
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