tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46524435718630497512024-02-22T05:54:50.074+00:00Outside the Box<strong>Practice, Participation and Method in Live Electronic Music</strong>
<p></p>Postgraduate Conference, City University London, Department of Music,
November 16, 2009Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4652443571863049751.post-37502508673782214592009-10-12T15:28:00.000+01:002009-10-12T14:15:20.559+01:00IntroductionThis one-day conference will gather together postgraduate researchers in Live Electronic Music and allied disciplines to explore issues and challenges around practice-led research in this area.<br /><br />In addition to paper sessions and opportunities to network with fellow researchers, the conference will feature a workshop on collective electronic play, open equally to beginners and the more experienced.<br /><br />Keynote speaker <a href="http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/%7Ellandy/">Leigh Landy</a> will share with the conference the benefit of his extensive experience of, and insights into, practice-led research in electronic music. <br /><br />In the evening an exciting concert will feature a collective performance of various compositions by a group of special guest researchers from the University of Edinburgh, including <a href="http://www.tinpark.com">Martin Parker</a>, <a href="http://www.pixelmechanics.com/">Jules Rawlinson</a>, <a href="http://sbkw.net/">Sean Williams</a> and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thelaureltree">Lauren Hayes</a>, in collaboration with conference convener, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thelaureltree">Owen Green</a>.<br /><br /><strong>By Way of Explanation </strong><br /><br />Live electronic musical practice has a highly interdisciplinary nature, the types of knowledge that make up practices are embodied in a diffused way across a diverse range of different artefacts, sites and experiences. This presents challenges to researchers in the field when it comes to devising documentary and discursive strategies, especially with respect to collaboration.<br /><br />Whilst discussion and research of technical aspects of practice is well developed and catered for, the collaborative potential and cultural sustainability of the field could be greatly enhanced by the development of recognised good practice in developing research and communication methodologies that address the other aspects of live electronic musicking, especially the interrogation of meta-technical ideas.<br /><br />This conference sets out to explore this issues discursively and practically by considering the following questions:<br /><br /><ul type="disc"><br /><li><strong>Practice</strong>: Is live electronic musical culture fragile with respect to external technological change, incompatibility, obsolescence? Is this exacerbated by an absence of languages (sonic, gestural, verbal) for communicating substantively about our practice to fellow players, other colleagues and audience members? </li><br /><li><strong>Participation</strong>: To what extent are the challenges of collaborative and participatory practice in live electronic music rooted in interpersonal, cultural issues rather than just technical? Could an improved meta-technical discourse help us improve our musicality and our instruments? </li><br /><li><strong>Method</strong>: How might the sites and ways in which knowledge is embodied vary with disciplinary focus? How do colleagues from allied disciplines think about live electronic music?<br /></li></ul><br /><br />The event is made possible with the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), as part of the Beyond Text Programme and City University London.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4652443571863049751.post-11827846851896363292009-10-12T13:52:00.001+01:002009-10-12T13:55:59.636+01:00How to find us...The Music Department is in the College Building of City University <br />London, on St John Street. Enter by the St John Street entrance.<br /><br />Maps here: www.city.ac.uk/maps<br />Transport:<br />10 minutes walk from Angel Station.<br /><br />AG09 is on the ground floor<br />The Performance Space is on the lower ground floor<br /><br /><iframe scrolling="no" width="300" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" src="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?gl=uk&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=103474796426453255376.000475305d07fe18b10b3&ll=51.529011,-0.103598&spn=0.00801,0.012875&z=15&output=embed" height="300" marginwidth="0"></iframe><br/><small>View <a style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left" href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?gl=uk&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=103474796426453255376.000475305d07fe18b10b3&ll=51.529011,-0.103598&spn=0.00801,0.012875&z=15&source=embed">City University London</a> in a larger map</small>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4652443571863049751.post-58335716888982814342009-10-12T11:30:00.004+01:002009-10-12T13:52:24.398+01:00Booking<iframe src="http://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?key=tCZNVXOJLlxBZlDTJj1Spsg" width="760" height="1178" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">Loading...</iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4652443571863049751.post-85776221037959839762009-10-05T16:33:00.040+01:002009-11-10T11:52:13.337+00:00Schedule<strong>Venue</strong><br />All sessions are in the Music Department, City University London, which is in the College Building (entrance on St. John St.). It is 10 minutes' walk from Angel tube. <a href="http://www.city.ac.uk/maps/northamptonsquare/index.html">How to find us</a> <br /><br /><strong>Rooms</strong><br />The Performance Space is in the basement of the College Building. <br />Room AG09 is on the ground floor of the College Building. <br />All rooms will be signposted on the day. <br /><br /><strong>Timetable</strong><br /><div class="post-col"><br /><small><br /><table id="schedule"><br /><br /> <tbody><tr><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">09:30:00</p><br /> </td><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">Registration </p><br /> </td><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">Performance Space Foyer</p><br /> </td><br /><br /> </tr><br /> <tr><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">09:30:00</p><br /> </td><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">Welcome </p><br /> </td><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">Performance Space</p><br /> </td><br /><br /> </tr><br /> <tr><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">10-11:30</p><br /> </td><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="schedule_event" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB"><br /> <b>Paper session 1</b><br /> </p><br /> </td><br /><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">Room AG09</p><br /> </td><br /><br /><br /> </tr><br /> <tr><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p style="margin: 0pt; font-size: 1px;"> </p><br /> </td><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /><br /> <p class="TableContents" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">Caroline Wilkins and Oded Ben-Tal</p><br /> <p class="TableContents" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB"><br /> <b>Instrument(s) in Space</b><br /></p><br /> </td><br /> </tr><br /> <tr><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /><br /> <p style="margin: 0pt; font-size: 1px;"> </p><br /> </td><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="TableContents" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">Bill Vine</p><br /> <p class="Title" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB"><br /> <b>Sound foundations: decreasing the fragility of electroacoustic instruments through taxonomy</b><br /> </p><br /><br /> </td><br /> </tr><br /> <tr><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p style="margin: 0pt; font-size: 1px;"> </p><br /> </td><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="TableContents" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">Tom Mudd</p><br /><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB"><br /> <b>Creative Mapping Techniques</b><br /> </p><br /> </td><br /> </tr><br /><br /><tr><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">11:30-11:45</p><br /> </td><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">Coffee/Tea</p><br /> </td><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">Room AG09</p><br /> </td> <br /></tr><br /><br /> <tr><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">11:45-13:15</p><br /><br /> </td><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="schedule_event" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB"><br /> <b>Paper session 2</b><br /> </p><br /> </td><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">Room AG09</p><br /> </td> <br /> </tr><br /> <tr><br /><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p style="margin: 0pt; font-size: 1px;"> </p><br /> </td><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="TableContents" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">Carla Rees + Michael Oliva</p><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB"><br /> <b>The laptop in chamber improvisation: live electronics in ensemble</b><br /><br /> </p><br /> </td><br /> </tr><br /> <tr><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p style="margin: 0pt; font-size: 1px;"> </p><br /> </td><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /><br /> <p class="TableContents" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">Thor Magnusson</p><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB"> <b>On Epistemic Tools: Thinking through Technology</b></p><br /> </td><br /> </tr><br /> <tr><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p style="margin: 0pt; font-size: 1px;"> </p><br /><br /> </td><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="TableContents" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">Jos Mulder</p><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB"><b>Authentic performance of electro-acoustic music.</b> </p><br /> </td><br /> </tr><br /> <tr><br /><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">13:15-14:15</p><br /> </td><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">Lunch break</p><br /> </td><br /> </tr><br /> <tr><br /><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">14:15-15:15</p><br /> </td><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="schedule_event" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">Keynote presentation: <b>Professor Leigh Landy (</b><b>De Montfort University)</b><b> </b></p><br /> </td><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">Performance Space</p><br /> </td> <br /> </tr><br /> <tr><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">15:15-17:15</p><br /> </td><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="schedule_event" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB"><br /> <b>Workshop: Collaborative play with electronics</b><br /><br /> </p><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">This workshop is for veterans and beginners alike. The aim is to practically explore the challenges of playing electronic music in groups and the types of action that may be used to encourage communication. </p><br /> <p class="schedule_event" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB"><br /> NB This needs to be booked separately, as places are limited.<br /> </p><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">Spectators are more than welcome to come, watch / listen and comment...</p><br /> </td><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">Performance Space</p><br /> </td> <br /> </tr><br /><br /> <tr><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">19:00-20:00</p><br /> </td><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="schedule_event" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB"><br /> <b>Concert</b><br /><br /> </p><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">A concert of group electronics. </p><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">Featuring Sean Williams, Lauren Hayes, Jules Rawlinson (University of Edinburgh) and Owen Green (City University London), this concert will feature various combinations of these musicians playing a combination of new compositions and (variably) structured improvisations on a mixture of laptops, analogue synthesisers and found objects. </p><br /> </td><br /> <td dir="ltr"><br /> <p class="Standard" dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">Performance Space</p><br /> </td> <br /> </tr><br /> </tbody></table><br /></small><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0