Sonic Arts 62a: The Assembly Line
Monday 14 March 2011
Concert Room, School of Music, UEA Norwich
Sonic Arts 62
Monday 7 March 2011
Concert Room, School of Music, UEA Norwich
Trio Scordatura: featuring Bob Gilmore
A programme of vocal and instrumental music, with and without electronics,
featuring an internationally renowned Amsterdam-based trio who specialise in
music in a broad range of musical styles making use of microtonal techniques
and tunings, including that of Harry Partch.
Sonic Arts 61
Monday 31 January 2011
Concert Room, School of Music, UEA Norwich
Percussion, electronics and mixed media: featuring Simon Limbrick
Simon Limbrick – percussion Edward Kelly – live electronics
Alex Read – sound diffusion
Programme:
Speckle
Vibes, KAT, laptop/MAX
James Carpenter
8 mins
manipulated vibraphone samples, unique sound placement
James Carpenter (born 1982) composes in a variety of electronic styles, ranging from
Acousmatic to Breakcore. He is currently undertaking a PhD at The University of
Birmingham with Jonty Harrison.
Workout(revised)
Marimba,KAT,laptop
Vic Hoyland
10 mins
Extended marimba samples performed on double keyboard set-up
Vic Hoyland composed the piece in 1988 in Ferrara. Simon commissioned me to
write a work specifically for Marimba plus KAT, as part of a research project that he
had undertaken at City University (London). It has been revised recently. Workout
belongs to a period in my work where line became uppermost in my compositional
thought .The linear aspect is then infused with ever more problematic activities for
the performer to undertake.The MalletKAT appeared to create activities that, in any
case, echoed my compositional methods of addition.
Lovesongs
Maracas with triggers,laptop/MAX
Michael Wolters
8 mins
Combination of layers; semaphore and rhythm notation with
triggering of speech
Michael Wolters (born 1971 in Mönchengladbach, Germany) studied Applied
Theatre Studies in Germany and Composition in Huddersfield and at the University
of Birmingham. His works have been performed in the UK, Germany, the
Netherlands, Russia, New Zealand, the USA and Canada. He lives and works in
Birmingham.
Islands
Vibes,KAT,laptop/Pure Data
Ed Kelly
10 mins
Live performance read from real-time generated score that parallels
synchronous processing
Edward Kelly is a composer who lives and works in London. He studied at
Hertfordshire and UEA, and teaches at the London College of Communication and
Camberwell College of Art. Islands is the first piece performed with the experimental
live music notation system called Gemnotes, created by the composer.
Asi el Acero (revised) Tenor steel-pan,electronics
Javier Alvarez
9 mins
Virtuosic contemporary pan technique integrated into compact
rhythmical treatment
Javier Alvarez has used electroacoustic media extensively in his compositions. His
first electroacoustic works include “Temazcal” (1984), for maracas and tape, and
Papalotl (1987), for piano and electroacoustic sounds . This work won the 1987 ICEM
Prize in Paris as well as awards from the Bourges International Festival and Austria’s
Prix Ars Electronica. Offrande” (2001), a more recent work, offers a mix of
Caribbean steel pans and electronically processed rhythmic patterns. He has
composed five works for Simon Limbrick. He now lives in Mérida, Yucatán, based as
a freelance composer.
Sonic Arts 60
Monday 22 November 2010
Concert Room, School of Music, UEA Norwich
Sound and Image: featuring Joseph Hyde
A programme of acousmatic and electroacoustic music (for diffusion through a
multi-channel surround sound loudspeaker system) with integrated video or
animated image, presented and curated by one of the UK’s leading practitioners.
Sonic Arts 59
Monday 18 October 2010
DeepSpace, Ars Electronica Centre, Linz, Austria
Sonic Intermedia 2010:UEA
The electroacoustic music studios of the University of East Anglia have
maintained a position with regard to music’s engagement with technology out of
all proportion to their scale. From the early 1970s the studios promoted multiloudspeaker sound diffusion for the performance of electroacoustic music,
initiating the longest continuously-running concert series of such music in the
UK (still running today as the Sonic Arts series). During the 1980s the then studio
director Denis Smalley introduced the notion of ‘spectromorphology’ which was
to provide critical and descriptive tools for the genre. In the 1990s under new
director Simon Waters the studios were quick to adopt new approaches
involving both high-tech (real-time and networked performance) and low-tech
(hardware hacking) solutions to musical problems. The introduction in 2009 of a
new undergraduate programme in Music and Technology has brought the
combination of experiment and rigour which characterised the studio’s research
programmes to a much wider audience of potential students. This concert results
from an invitation from the Ars Electronica Center – the home of the pre-eminent
festival of electronic arts in Europe – and the Bruckner University in Linz, to
showcase work from UEA.
Associates and alumni of the UEA studio have a history of association with Ars
Electronica, most notably Denis Smalley’s Golden Nica award in 1988 (for
Clarinet Threads) and Jonathan Impett’s prize for Mirror-Rite, a work for
metatrumpet, in 1994.
The programme for this Sonic Intermedia concert includes a new work for cello
and electronics by current studio director Simon Waters (featuring Anton
Lukoszevieze, cellist and director of new music ensemble Apartment House). In
addition work by current and recent research students will be featured.
Sonic Arts 58
15 March 2010: As I Have Now Memoyre
School of Music, UEA
As I Have Now Memoyre: Nicholas Brown
A site-specific installation-performance about singing and the passing of time,
featuring Linda Hirst and Natasha Lohan. This 2008 work by Nicholas Brown is
performed to mark his recent joining of the faculty of the School of Music.
Sonic Arts 57: Seanchaí
Monday 25 January 2010
School of Music, UEA
Seanchaí: Jason Dixon
A new work for voices, chamber ensemble, electronics and video. Seanchaí explores
the traditional Irish storytelling tradition and proposes the contemporary Irish author
and poet as seanchaithe. The story of how the story was told becomes the story. The
Seanchaí works like a blacksmith, forging and sculpting language to fit narrative
shapes, twisting time and memory as he takes the listener on wild journeys of fantasy.
Lore of the land delivered, tradition upheld. Speaking. Digging.
Jason Dixon follows the success of his epic multimedia performance based on the
writings of physicist Richard Feynman with another large-scale work…
Sonic Arts 56: Jean Michel Van Schouwburg
Monday 23 November 2009
School of Music, UEA
Jean Michel Van Schouwburg, Marjolaine Charbin and
Dario Palermo
Improvised and composed works for voice, piano and live electronics. UEA
composer Dario Palermo uses a variety of strategies - pre-composed, real-time
and algorithmic – in duos with extraordinary Belgian vocalist Jean Michel and
trios with pianist Marjolaine.
Sonic Arts 55: Sound Machines
Monday 12 October 2009
School of Music, UEA
Sound Machines: Dot-Machine and Trimachineochord
Two contrasting approaches to the machinic in music. Simon Limbrick’s ‘DotMachine’ involves live performers and on-line visual information, while Dave
Meckin’s ingenious ‘Trimachineochord’ uses a digital system to activate physical
sound-making objects.
Monday 23 February 2009 SONIC ARTS 54: Martin Parker computers don't
breathe (2008-9)
(for reactive visuals, surround sound, voice, percussion and laptops)
School of Music, UEA
computers don’t breathe is a reflection on the situation of the Hikikomori, a Japanese
term that means "to put away". An increasing number of young people in Japan have
been putting themselves in self-imposed and extreme isolation over the last two
decades. While some of the peculiarities of this kind of shut-in are unique to Japan,
people disappear into themselves the world over. The pressure applied from the
media and technology that surrounds us aids much of this loneliness: our Internet is
immersive, computer games are addictive and television is habit-forming. The
obsessive-compulsive acts of writing and listening to music with computers provokes
the question, what kind of technology is music?
Monday 26 January 2009 SONIC ARTS 53: The Electronic Hammer
School of Music, UEA
The dynamic Amsterdam-based percussion computer music trio perform some of
their most recent work. Their CD How to philosophise with a Hammer exemplifies
the approach of the ensemble, formed in 2003.
More info: http://www.electronichammer.com/main/index.php
Saturday 22 November 2008 SONIC ARTS 52: Sonic Arts at St Peter Mancroft
St Peter Mancroft Church, Norwich
A concert including Kaija Saariaho’s XXXX performed by UEA Chamber Choir
(cond. Nanette Nielsen), Nic Collins’s XXXX for cornetto and skipping CD player
(cornetto – J. Impett), and a new work by Jonathan Impett for trumpet and electronics
(check).
Sonic Arts 51: David Behrman
UEA School of Music Concert Room
27 October 2008 19:30
Renowned as a composer, improvisor and developer of sound installations,
Behrman founded the Sonic Arts Union in 1966 with Alvin Lucier, Gordon
Mumma and Robert Ashley, performing with them for ten years. Subsequently he
has toured extensively with Merce Cunningham Dance Company as a
composer/performer in addition to developing a body of work for solo
performer and small ensemble. Tonight’s performance includes work for cello
and electronics (Anton Lukoszevieze – cello) as well as examples from
Behrman’s solo repertoire.
revised Program notes for Norwich, Oct. 27
music by DB, performed by Anton Lukoszevieze and DB.
Cello with Melody-Driven Electronics (1974)
Interspecies Smalltalk (1984)
Long Throw (2007)
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Cello with Melody-Driven Electronics
In this piece from 1974, an interactive relationship was set up between one
performer who handled a homemade electronic synthesizer and a cellist. It was
made for David Gibson and was first performed by the two of us at Phill
Niblock's Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York.
The piece is notated, with both performers following a score in which slow
phrases succeed one another. The rhythmic pace of the phrases is partly
determined by timers that react when the cellist plays a few special pitches
which are "sensed" by the electronics. As the cellist "hits" those sensed pitches,
timers go off and clusters of triangle wave generators change their pitches in
patterns that lag behind the cellist's phrases.
The homemade synthesizer consisted of pitch-sensitive triggers, triangle wave
generators, voltage-controlled amplifiers and logic gates. I was one of a few
musicians who built special-purpose circuits in the Sixties and Seventies to
realize particular musical ideas. Others among them were my friends and
colleagues David Tudor and Gordon Mumma.
The piece and some others like it were performed a few times in the midSeventies and then forgotten until, in the late Nineties, two younger artists, Ron
Kuivila and Mark Trayle, came up with the idea that pieces made in the Sixties
and Seventies with homemade circuitry could be translated into software that
could run on the fast portable computers that were newly available.
Interspecies Smalltalk, commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Company as
music for the dance Pictures in 1984, was made with Takehisa Kosugi's inventive
violin performance styles in mind. The score consists only of graphics on a
computer screen showing interaction between performer and software, and
progress through 11 parts, some of which may be skipped in a given
performance. The piece was played many times during a six-year period when it
remained in the Cunningham Company repertory; it was revived briefly in 2002.
I've revived it again this year, with a couple of 21st-century features added to
give new resources to the performer.
Long Throw was commissioned by the Cunningham Company for the dance
eyeSpace, first performed in 2007.
The title Long Throw refers to the long history of the Company. The piece
includes references to a 1947 piano piece by John Cage, Music for Marcel
Duchamp. It reflects the six-decade time span from 1947 to 2007 by combining a
piano part, with preparations similar to those used by Cage in his "Duchamp"
piece, with current-day music software and sound-sensing technology.
Long Throw was made with performance roles for the core musicians of the
Cunningham Company in mind: Christian Wolff, Takehisa Kosugi, John King and
Stephan Moore. It can be performed by several musicians playing violin, viola,
electric guitar and piano.
Sonic Arts 50: Garth Knox (viola)
21 April 2008: 19:30
UEA School of Music Concert Room
Garth Knox – viola and electronics
Gérard Grisey
Salvatore Sciarrino
Kaija Saariaho
Garth Knox
Prologue for viola and electronics (1991)
Tre Notturni Brillanti (1975)
Vent Nocturne for viola and electronics (2006)
Compositions and Improvisations
Garth Knox has been a member of two of the world’s most significant groups in
contemporary music: Pierre Boulez’s Ensemble Intercontemporain and the
Arditti Quartet. He is now the foremost exponent of the contemporary viola,
combining musicianship, virtuosity, technology and improvisation in a
programme that brings together the most significant strands of recent European
composition.
Tkts: £6. Concessions: £4.40. Students £3
Sonic Arts 49: Paul Stapleton
18 Feb 2008: 19:30
UEA School of Music Concert Room
Sonic Arts 48: Six Easy Pieces
26 Nov 2007
19.30 MUS Concert Room –
Six Easy Pieces (after Richard Feynman) - Jason Dixon/Apartment House
For cello, bass clarinet, oboe/cor anglais, tape, electronics, animations and
narrator.
Jason Dixon’s Six Easy Pieces are based on the book of the
same name by physicist Richard Feynmann. The six pieces
are drawn from a set of lectures Feynman delivered to
undergraduate students at Caltech in an attempt to get
them interested in theoretical physics. This is the first
performance of a new audiovisual work commissioned for
the ensemble Apartment House from Jason Dixon – a
current PhD student in UEA’s School of Music.
Mon 12 Nov
17.30 MUS Studio 1
SEMINAR Ed Kelly (LCC),
Metastudio, Speechcutter and some other
territories in Pure Data.
Lone Shark "Aviation" out now on
http://www.pyramidtransmissions.com
http://www.myspace.com/sharktracks
Performance Ecosystems: Virtual/Physical Feedback
08 November 2007: Norwich Arts Centre 21:00-23:00
UEA School of Music in collaboration with Aurora International Animation
Festival
The community of musicians based around the University of East Anglia’s longestablished electroacoustic music studios have a unique reputation for
consistent exploration of the potentials of musical technologies, both physical
and virtual. In a performance which incorporates composed and improvised
elements, some of the key players from this community bring together a variety
of hybrid physical/virtual instruments, including the metatrumpet and the
feedback flute.
Performers including John Bowers, Liam Wells, Luke Abbott, Simon Waters,
Jonathan Impett and Jason Dixon
Mon 05 Nov 2007
D’Escrivan (Anglia
17.30 MUS Concert Room SEMINAR
Julio
Ruskin) Imaginary Listening -The
definition of the four
listening modes by Schaeffer
presupposes that sound is
encountered and that
composers react to it. This
explanation
seems to cast the composer or sound artist
in a
passive role. What the modes don’t seem to deal
with is the sound which is dreamt up in order to
accompany a visual image or an evoked mental image;
a sound with no real source. Through reviewing
cinematic instances such as the nightmarish
sound
world created for the transformation of
Dr. Jekyll into
Mr. Hyde in the 1931 film by
Reuben Mamoulian and
the electronic sounds of
futuristic space age machines
in Maetzig’s Spaceship
to Venus (1960), amongst
others, this
paper seeks to show how the work of sound
artists in film
precedes and then shadows the work of
electroacoustic composers as they endow their sound
creations with causal and semantic cues, through
imaginary listening.
Mon 22 Oct 2007 17.30 MUS Studio 1
SEMINAR Ambrose Seddon
(City Univ) talks about his recent compositions and compositional
strategies.
Sonic Arts 47: Powerplant (percussion and electronics)
and New Noise (oboe, percussion and electronics)
featuring Joby Burgess (percussion) and Janey Miller
(oboe)
17 Oct 2007
UEA School of Music Concert Room
Sonic Arts 46: Roberto Fabbriciani
Date: 23rd April 2007
Time: 19:30
Location: Concert Room, School of Music, UEA
Tickets: Tickets £8 Concessions £4.50 Students £3
Flutes with live electronics
Roberto Fabbriciani is the greatest exponent of contemporary flute
repertoire and techniques and the dedicatee of works by composers
such as Berio and Stockhausen. Among other works he will perform
Luigi Nono's Das Atmende Klarsein for flutes and electronics, which
was written for him in 1981.
B. Maderna
Musica su due dimensioni (1958) per flauto e nastro magnetico
A. Clementi
magnetico
Fantasia su roBErto FABbriCiAni (1981) per flauto e nastro
L. Nono
Das atmende Klarsein, fragment (1981) per flauto basso e
nastro magnetico
Born in Arezzo, Roberto Fabbriciani has opened up new dimensions to flute playing
with his sensational virtuoso playing and innovative technical approach. He has played
for the most important Festivals (Biennale di Venezia, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino,
Paris, Bruxelles, Donaueschingen, Köln, München, Berlin, Edinburgh, London, Holland
Festival, Music Biennale Zagreb, Warsaw, Granada, Madrid, Luzern, Salzburg, Wien,
Lockenhaus, St. Petersburg, Tokyo) and with prestigious Orchestras, such as the
Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Accademia of Santa Cecilia in Rome, RAI
Orchestras, ECYO, London Sinfonietta, SWF Baden - Baden, RTL Luxenbourg, BRTN
Brussel, Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie, WDR Köln, Deutsches SymphonieOrchester Berlin, Bayerischer Rundfunks, Münchener Philharmoniker, and others. He is
a passionate interpreter of the New Music and collaborated with composers such as L.
Berio, S. Bussotti, P. Boulez, J. Cage, A. Clementi, L. de Pablo, F. Donatoni, B. Ferneyhough,
J. Françaix, T. Hosokawa, E. Krenek, G. Kurtág, B. Maderna, O. Messiaen, E. Morricone, L.
Nono, G. Petrassi, W. Rihm, S. Sciarrino, K. Stockhausen, T. Takemitsu, I. Yun, who have
dedicated to him some works among the most significant of the flute literature. He has
also worked with Conductors such as C. Abbado, L. Berio, E. Bour, S. Comissiona, P.
Eötvös, V. Fedoseyev, D. Gatti, G. Gavazzeni, M. Gielen, C. Halffter, D. Kachidse, P. Maag, B.
Maderna, I. Metzmacher, R. Muti, Z. Peskó, J. Pons, D. Shallon, G. Sinopoli, A. Tamayo, L.
Zagrosek. He has recorded many Cds and currently teaches at the Mozarteum in
Salzburg.
Tom Davis
SEMINAR
Date: 26th February 2007
Time: 17:30
Location: Studio 1, School of Music, UEA
Tom Davis (SARC) presents his work and thought.
Sonic Arts 45: à~deux2
Date: 19th February 2007
Time: 19:30
Location: Concert Room, School of Music, UEA
Tickets: £8 Concessions £4.50 Students £3
featuring Riccardo Pittau - trumpet and Dario Palermo (computer)
Sardinian trumpeter Pittau has collaborated with many musicians,
including Misha Mengelberg, Roswell Rudd, Tristan Honsinger, Lukas
Ligeti, Steve Lacy, Elliot Sharp, Miriam Palma, Saadet Turkoz, Michael
Riessler, Gianni Gebbia, Paolo Angeli, Antonello Salis, Tanaka Yumiko,
Andy Moor, Phillip Greenlief, Chris Cutler, Lester Bowie, Phil Minton,
and with poets Alberto Masala, Serge Pey, Lance Henson, Jack
Hirshmann and Emanuele Saba. Here he joins UEA-based Dario Palermo
(laptop) in the world premiere of the latter's latest work.
Luke Abbott
SEMINAR
Date: 22nd Januray 2007
Time: 17:30
Location: Concert Room, School of Music, UEA
Luke Abbott (UEA)
Mike Challis
SEMINAR
Date: 15th January 2007
Time: 17:30
Location: Concert Room, School of Music, UEA
Mike Challis (UEA)
XMess '06
Date: 12th December 2006
Time: 18:00 GMT
Location: Concert Room, School of Music, UEA; Sonic Arts Research
Centre, Queen's University, Belfast; CCRMA, Stanford, CA
Tickets: FREE
Kick-start the festive season by joining us for a transcontinental digital
mashup of Christmas sounds old and new.
The Belfast Legion for Improvised Sights and Sounds will be joined by
laptop musicians in Norwich and California - the Foreign Legion for
Improvised Sights and Sounds, if you will. The three teams of
improvisors will each broadcast simultaneously to all three venues, each
team taking a feed from Belfast of well-known, less-known and
downright obscure Christmas Classics as their only source.
See poster.
Richard Coyne
SEMINAR
Date: 11th December 2006
Time: 17:30
Location: Concert Room, School of Music, UEA
Richard Coyne Professor of Architecture, University of Edinburgh
Aggravating the Everyday: Designing with voice in urban environments
I report on a recent exploration into the role of the human voice, in its
various manifestations, and as it features as a consideration in the design
of urban environments. I canvas issues of the priority of vision over
sound in design, and the difficulties of designing with and for the
movement of voice, as well as our exploration of different research
approaches. I begin with the "open outcry" of the marketplace, and
migrate across territory, through inflection, repetition, reproduction, ruse,
ambience, performance, resistance, and the cut. As well as serving as a
medium of communication and a musical instrument, the voice defines
territory. As suggested by Deleuze the voice also deterritorializes.
Liam Wells
SEMINAR
Date: 4th December 2006
Time: 17:30
Location: Concert Room, School of Music, UEA
Liam Wells (UEA)
Sonic Arts 44: Proxemics: The World is a
Deaf Machine
Date: 29th November 2006
Time: from 18:00
Location: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts Galleries and Studio
Tickets: £4/ £2.50 concessions (includes refreshments)
18.30 - 20:00 talk and opening of installation.
A multi-channel sound installation by Simon Waters in response to
sculpture by Ian Tyson. The work involves a fixed element within which
each audience member moves, carrying their own individual portable
component of the overall sound environment.
+ Ian
Tyson and Simon Waters in Conversation
Join Ian Tyson and Simon Waters for an evening of discussion, sculpture
viewing and composition performance.
Ian Tyson is artist in residence at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.
Dr Simon Waters is Director of the Electro-Acoustic Music Studios at the
School of Music, UEA.
Laurie Radford
SEMINAR
Date: 27th November 2006
Time: 17:30
Location: Concert Room, School of Music, UEA
Laurie Radford (City Univ)
Mick Grierson
SEMINAR
Date: 20th November 2006
Time: 17:30
Location: Concert Room, School of Music, UEA
Mick Grierson (Goldsmiths) on the sound/image relationship
"I'll be talking about the trajectory of audiovisual practice, and trying to
illuminate some of the key problems that this practice throws up
philosophically. I'll also be doing some live demonstration, and showing
a few DVD extracts."
Michael Punt
SEMINAR
Date: 13th November 2006
Time: 17:30
Location: Concert Room, School of Music, UEA
Michael Punt (Plymouth) on the 'post-digital'
Ben Watson
SEMINAR
Date: 6th November 2006
Time: 17:30
Location: Concert Room, School of Music, UEA
Marxist critic, author of provocative books on Frank Zappa and Derek
Bailey, and regular contribuitor to 'Radical Philosophy', Ben's
presentation today starts with 'Adorno and Radio'.
Collective participatory improvisation session
Date: 30th October 2006
Time: 17:30
Location: Concert Room, School of Music, UEA
Collective participatory improvisation session - bring 'instruments',
devices, software, strategies for engagement...
Sonic Arts 43: Quasar
Date: 19th October 2006
Time: 20:00
Location: Norwich Arts Centre
Juergen Reble and Thomas Koener
A collaboration with Norwich International Animation Festival.
See
External link: http://www.niaf.org.uk/
Faster Than Sound (23 &) 24 June 2006
To view this in a browser please go to http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk/newsletter/FTS.htm
Saturday 24 June 6.00pm Take-off
Bentwaters Airbase, near Woodbridge, Suffolk
Tickets £25
Book online
Performances from
Andrea Parker Chevron Cynthia Millar David Alberman David Purser DJ Scotchegg
King Edward VI School Choir Luke Vibert Max Tundra Mira Calix Mr Hopkinson’s
Computer Shitmat Solar X Tim Exile vs Bella UEA Electroacoustic Studios Ultre
Venetian Snares Zoë Martlew The Sonic Arts Research Archive
Installations from
Farmers Manual - BuckyMedia Lektrolab - Lektrolab Office Mike Challis - Jets (UEA)
Mileece - The P*4 Project Minimaforms - Smoke Signs Phil Archer - Music boxes (UEA)
SemiConductor - Brilliant Noise Soundintermedia - Outdoor
Faster Than Sound will be the first large-scale music experiment of its kind to feature and bring
together some of the most interesting and ever-evolving artists in electronica and classical music.
For more details visit:
www.fasterthansound.com
www.aldeburgh.co.uk
www.lumin.org
www.sara.uea.ac.uk
On-site car parking available 24 June. Coaches are available from selected pick up points in
London, Norwich, Cambridge, Ipswich, Woodbridge, Aldeburgh, Leiston and Saxmundham:
Coaches from Ipswich, Woodbridge, Leiston, Saxmundham and Aldeburgh £5
Coaches from Norwich and Cambridge £10
Coaches from London £15
Food and drink available 24 June
Tickets and coaches available only from the Aldeburgh Box Office
Tel: 01728 687110 or email: boxoffice@aldeburgh.co.uk
An Aldeburgh Festival/Lumin co-production with support from the University of East Anglia
Sonic Arts 42: Ludger Brümmer and FURT
Date: 3rd April 2006
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Richard Barrett (Berlin) returns to UEA with Paul Obermayer in FURTthe duo formed in London in 1986. FURT's dense and intricate musical
forms are produced at every level by an interpenetration between free
improvisation and systematic composition, and use primarily concrete
(sampled/processed) materials. This activity is concerned above all with
allying the physicality and expressivity of sound-structures to FURT's
vision - but also with deriving methods of musical production from the
nature of the (electronic) medium itself.
Agostino di Scipio Guest Composer Seminar
Date: 21st February 2006
Time: 12:00
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Sonic Arts 41: Agostino di Scipio
Date: 20th February 2006
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Naples-based composer and performer who has recently worked in
Canada, Finland, France, Germany and the USA. The concert also
includes the premiere of David Casal's new work for pianist and
computer and work from his Pisa-based collaborator-in-research, Davide
Morelli.
Programme
Untitled work for piano and the Frankenstein framework by Davide
Morelli
Soundspotting02 for piano and PureData by David Casal
Three performances of Agostino di Scipio's Audible Ecosystems: Impulse
Response Study, Feedback Study and Background Noise Study
Paysages Historique by Agostino di Scipio
Sebastian Lexer Guest Seminar
Date: 5th December 2005
Time: 17:15
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Sonic Arts 40: Word/Text/Act
Date: 14th November 2005
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Miso Ensemble (Miguel & Paula Azguime)
Henri Chopin
Miso Ensemble (Portugal) bring their electroacoustic theatre/sound
poetry to the UK in a performance of Miguel Azguime's
O AR DO TEXTO OPERA A FORMA DO SOM INTERIOR [2001]
(The Air of the text operates the form of the inner sound) for voice, flute and
electronics.
Henri Chopin, a key figure from the French Avant-Garde and a
celebrated sound poet, is responsible for pioneering work with tape
recorders, studio technologies and the sounds and textures of the
manipulated human voice. His stress on the corporeal aspect of sound is
reminder that language stems as much from oral traditions as from classic
literature.
Sonic Arts 39: Marko Ciciliani
Date: 10th October 2005
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Amsterdam-based Ciciliani is composer, theorist and improvisor. As a
performer Ciciliani (Croatia) has for many years used the no-input mixer
- a mixing board which does not use any external inputs, but where all
sounds are created through internal feedback. As an improviser he has
worked with Fred Frith, Jaap Blonk, Axel Dörner and Sachiko M,
amongst others.
Programme
Solo performance by Sebastian Lexer on piano with live electronics
Mask (2002) for no-input mixing desk by Marko Ciciliani
Solo improvisation for no-input mixing desk by Marko Ciciliani
Duo improvisation by Marko Ciciliani on no-input mixing desk and
Sebastian Lexer on piano
? Sonic
Arts 38: Circuits of Malpractice
Date: 3rd October 2005
Time: Installations from 18:30. Concert at 19:30.
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
New performance and installation work curated by John Bowers,
featuring Phil Archer, André Bosman, Laura Cannell, Mike Challis,
James Dexter, Jonathan Impett, Nick Melia, Alex Sanders, Tom
Simmons, Cesar Villavicencio, Simon Waters and Liam Wells.
Improvisation strategies. Enhanced and reduced instruments. The VirtualPhysical Feedback Orchestra. Water and electricity. Ad hoc interfaces.
Liminal performance. Rough rides and aerial views.
The support of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
and the Arts Council is acknowledged.
External link: http://www.studios.uea.ac.uk/com
Tickets: All tickets £3
Sonorities Festival, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s
University, Belfast
‘UEA Electric Orchestra’
13:00 02 May 2005
performers in order of appearance:
Nic Collins (Art Institute of Chicago), Jonathan Impett (UEA), Simon Waters
(UEA), Cesar Villavicencio (UEA), Phil Archer (UEA), James Dexter (UEA)
‘Open Fader’
22:00 02 May 2005
performances:
Nic Collins - ‘Pea Soup II’ with Jonathan Impett
John Bowers (UEA) and Alex Sanders (UEA)
Shigeto Wada (UEA/Dublin Institute of Technology)
Phil Archer (UEA)
David Berezan (University of Manchester) – ‘Styal’
dis*playce – ‘Das Ende von Amerika’
Sonic Arts 37: Tony Conrad
Date: 25 April 2005
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
A rare performance by the seminal American minimalist.
Sonic Arts 36: Frame Shift
Date: 21 February 2005
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Frances-Marie Uitti (cello) and Joel Ryan (computer and sound
processing) from Amsterdam.
Sonic Arts 35: Connection/Reaction
Date: 8 November 2004
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Featuring composer/saxophonist Michael Edwards, composer/improvisor
Martin Parker, and violist/improvisor Mark Summers. The concert will
include recent works by Edwards - skin (2003-4) for 7 string bass viola
da gamba and computer, featuring extraordinary violist Mark Summers,
and breathing Charlie (2004) for saxophone and computer - Edwards'
elaboration on Charles Bukowski and Charlie Parker, plus Martin
Parker's Spectral Tourist (2003) for joystick and computer and AutoRoute (2004) - for automated viol responder, which builds on a Marin
Marais Fantaisie.
Sonic Arts 34: LAUT
Date: 11 October 2004
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Composer/digital artist Pedro Rebelo and saxophonist Franziska
Schroeder begin their mini-residency at UEA with a performance of
recent and current work. Pedro and Franziska are now based at SARC the recently-opened Sonic Arts Research Centre - in Belfast.
Concert for Retiring Saxophonist
edited by l a u t
Franzlska Schroeder - saxophones | Pedro Rebelo - digital media
This event uses six works as raw materials for a cinematic style of
editing. The pieces (scenes) are cut with a view to exploring
juxtapositions and discontinuities. Mauricio Kagel's "Atem" frames the
event of juxtaposed actions while at the same time exposes the ritual of
inhalation and exhalation - the core activity of the instrumental act. In
tonight's event inhalation and exhalation will last about 50 minutes.
Programme
laut[omata].3 (2002) for digitial media by Pedro Rebelo
Atem für einen Bläser (1969/70, version by l a u t) for alto, soprano sax,
kazoo and electronics by Mauricio Kagel
Air (2001) for alto sax and live electronics by l a u t
Saxatile for soprano saxophone and tape by Jean-Claude Risset
Ikas (1984) for alto sax by Hans-Joachim Hespos
SancBecK (2004) for sax mouthpiece and live electronics by l a u t
ALVIN LUCIER, NIC COLLINS, OTOMO YOSHIHIDE, TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA, KNUT
AUFERMANN et al live in
FEEDBACK: Order from Noise
As featured in the cover story of the current issue of The WIRE
Saturday 26 June 2004 7.30pm at the School of Music, University of East Anglia,
Norwich (OR WAS IT MON 26 JULY 2004 – check)
Tickets from 01603.508050/592450 or on the door. As the number of seats is
strictly limited early booking is advisable.
A Contemporary Music Network/ARiADA-UEA co-promotion
with support from LMC/Radio3/The Wire/ArtsCouncilEngland
4 May 2004
Sonic Arts 33: Kreepa
Music Centre Concert Room: 7.30
Improvisation and Electronics from
Amsterdam-based trio Kreepa, with special
guest Paul Dunmall (sax and Northumbrian
pipes)
Hilary Jeffrey - trombone
Cesar Villavicencio - contrabass recorder
John Richards - electronics
Sonic Arts 32: ???
Date: 23 February 2004
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
19-23 Jan 2004
Nic Collins Residency: Hardware Hacking
Week
24 November 2003
Michael Casey seminar
Sonic Arts 31: ???
Date: 3 Nov 2003
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
13 October 2003
Sonic Arts 30: Grand Mal
featuring Justin Bennett, Stephie Büttrich and
Anne Wellmer
A concert to inaugurate their week-long
residency at UEA
30 April 2003
Slade Round Table UEA with animator Clive
Walley
Sonic Arts 29: Sound and Image (Sound Art,
Sonic Art, Aural Cinema)
Date: 29 April 2003
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Programme
Symbiont (2002): Image - Miles Chalcraft, Sound - Mathew Adkins
Right Foot Lower than Left (2002-3): Sound and Image - Mike Challis
Aerial (2002-3): Sound - Mathew Adkins
Daylights (2001): Image - Sarah Watermann, Sound - Elise Chohan
Escape (2001): Image - James Padley, Sound - Ed Kelly
Matryoshka (2001): Image - Leigh Hodgkinson, Sound - Barnaby
Templer
Divertimento #3 (2002) World Première (in this form): Image - Clive
Walley, Sound - Elise Chohan
Personal Cinema by Tom Simmons (with thanks to: Barbara Butcher,
Sam Barnes, Ellie White, Clive Walley, Stef Edwards, Laura Piras, Lizzie
Hayes)
i New York 1980/81 (2003) World Première: Image and Sound - Tom
Simmons
ii The Woman and the Ape (2001): Sound - Tom Simmons
iii Personal Cinema (2003) World Première: Real-time Image and Sound
- Tom Simmons
iv Love Song (2002) World Première (in this form): Image - Clive
Walley, Sound and real-time processing - Tom Simmons, Voice - Stef
Edwards, Flute - Laura Piras
fpeak290403 (2002): Real-time Sound - Shigeto Wada
Installation by Jon Manton: Performance (2003) - an installation in which
the characteristic sounds of the peripheral spaces of the theatre move
centre stage.
28 April 2003
Mathew Adkins seminar
8 April 2003
19:30 School of Music Concert Room
Neil Rolnick
7 April 2003
19:30 School of Music Concert Room
Christian Calon
A concert to celebrate and conclude his week-long residency at UEA
31 March 2003
Bennett Hogg seminar
Sonic Arts 28: Mieko Kanno
Date: 24 February 2003
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Mieko Kanno - violin (Durham), Neal Farwell - Max/MSP (Bristol),
James Wood - Max/MSP, John Bowers Max/MSP and amplified objects,
Graham Halliwell - sax
Programme
untitled for sax-generated feedback, amplified materials and real-time
computer transformation by Graham Halliwell and John Bowers
Autumn Voices for violin and electronics (2001) - commissioned by the
BBC for Mieko Kanno by James Wood
Chaconnes for violin and electronic sounds (2001, world première) by
Neal Farwell
Three Friends for tape (1997-2000, UK Première of complete work) by
Neal Farwell
27 January 2003
17:30 School of Music
Michael Alcorn seminar
20 January 2003
17:30 School of Music
Malcolm Haylock seminar (vsamp.com/Auralia) programmer from Australia
2 December 2002
17:30 School of Music
Peter Nelson seminar
Sonic Arts 27: UEA in Newcastle
Date: 28 November 2002
Time: 13:00
Location: Kings Hall, Music Dept, University of Newcastle
11 November 2002
School of Music Concert Room
Phill Niblock
Sonic Arts 26: Nic Collins
Date: 04 November 02
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Sonic Arts 25: Justin Bennett
ARiADA/UEA Studios
present: Sonic Arts 25
Justin Bennett (NL), Stephie Büttrich (D) & Matt
Rogalsky (USA/CDN)
The Concert Room, The Music Centre, University of East Anglia,
Norwich, UK, 7.30pm Monday 14 October 2002
"borders and places"
Justin Bennett
short pieces based on field recordings.
Interval
untitled
collaborative performance with
Justin Bennett (electronics, objects)
Stephie Büttrich (voice, objects)
Matt Rogalsky (electronics, objects)
Justin Bennett, born 20-07-1964 in the UK, is an artist working with sound and visual media. Best
known for his work with field recordings and installations, his solo work has been exhibited and
broadcast widely. He has played percussion and electronics solo and with, among others, Grand Mal,
Fiber Jelly, MIMEO, Joel Ryan, The Orgone, The Anti Group, Hula & Fabricata Illuminata. He is a
founding member of the performance group BMB con. He lives and works in The Hague, The
Netherlands.
Stephie Büttrich was born on the 4th of July in 1968 and decided to become a
professional user of her vocal cords right after her first scream. After studying
music in Köln, she went to Berlin with the musical group College of Hearts.
Besides music, her passion has always been theatre. During the past few years
she has performed in various experimental music/theatre works by Piotr
Klimak, Matthew Ostrowski, Anne Wellmer, Scott Blick, and Paul Doornbusch. In
addition she was featured as a soloist with the Gelsenkirchener Ensemble für
Neue Musik. Since October 1997 she has been a member of the Crash Ensemble
in Ireland, a group devoted to the promotion of contemporary music involving
interactive multimedia. Since 1998 she has worked together with the German
director U. Kirsten-Hanne and the Swiss choreographer C. Gehrig-Binder as a
singer, actrice and composer. In 1999 she started the Trio Grand Mal with Justin
Bennet and Anne Wellmer. In 2000 she performed Spi, an electroacoustic cantate
by Y. Kyriakides. In conjunction with her performance skills, Stephie Büttrich is
an avid organizer and concert producer, directing and managing performances in
Holland, Ireland, and Germany.
Sonic Arts 24
Date: 30 April 2002
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Featuring Ron Kuivila and Jem Finer.
Programme
FontanaNet by Matt Rogalsky
Improvisation by Jem Finer
Technoirama by Ron Kuivila
Outgoing message by Ron Kuivila
The beatification of the facsimile tone by Ron Kuivila
Tickets: £5 (concessions £4, students £3)
Tuesday 30 April 2002. UEA Music Centre Concert Room. 19.30
SONIC ARTS 24: featuring RON KUIVILA and JEM FINER
U.S. artist Ron Kuivila’s work focuses on the ephemerality of technology and
technological innovation in musical practice over the last 40 years. Using
unusual home-made and home-modified electronic instruments his work
explores same vein as that of David Tudor and Alvin Lucier, with whom he
studied. He was among the pioneers of the use of ultrasound and of sound
sampling, and more recent pieces have explored compositional algorithms,
speech synthesis and high voltage phenomena.
Kuivila has performed and exhibited installations throughout the U.S., Canada
and Europe, and has collaborated with other composers, artists, and
choreographers including Anthony Braxton, Rudy Burckhardt, Nicolas Collins,
Merce Cunningham, Hugh Davies, Douglas Dunn, Susan Foster, and Larry
Johnson.
Jem Finer, sometime member of the Pogues, is now best known for his ongoing
project LongPlayer, a thousand year long musical composition/installation which
was commissioned for the Millenium celebrations by Artangel. His performance
will include a collaboration with UEA’s Matt Rogalsky in a networked realisation
of Cage’s Fontana Mix – FontanaNet, commissioned from Rogalsky for a recent
Berlin Festival. This will also feature Anne Wellmer, who was also a participant
in the first performance in Berlin, performing live from Middletown, Connecticut.
Jem Finer will present a seminar in the Music Centre the evening prior to the
concert at 17.00.
21/02/02 UEA at The Slade: Voice Conference/Performance
details to be added
Work in Progress: Sonic Arts 23
Recent work from Trevor Wishart and UEA students
The Concert Room, The Music Centre, University of East Anglia,
Norwich, UK, 7.30pm Monday 18 February 2002
Title
Shigeto Wada 2001
electroacoustic music (c11’00”)- sound diffusion: Simon Emmerson
Title
Stef Edwards 2001
for electroacoustic sounds (c5’00”) - sound diffusion: Mike Challis
Pea
Nick Melia 2001
for electroacoustic sounds (c8’00”)- sound diffusion: Nick Melia
INTERVAL: 20 mins
Fabulous Paris
Trevor Wishart 1997
for electroacoustic sounds (xxx) - sound diffusion: Trevor Wishart
Electric Freestyle
Phil Archer 2000
for performer and ‘Supercollider’ (c5’00”) electric guitar: Phil Archer
Two Women
Trevor Wishart 1998
Four ‘voiceprints’ (xxx) - sound diffusion: Trevor Wishart
Points of Continuation
Simon Emmerson 1997/2000
Points of Continuation (electroacoustic music) is the second part of Points
Trilogy. Points of Departure (harpsichord & live electronics) was written
for Jane Chapman in 1993 and Points of Return (kayagum & live electronics)
for Inok Paek in 1998. Points of Continuation links these two works and is
based on the sounds of the two instruments extended in the many ways
available through digital sound processing. Both instruments are plucked
and have a characteristic sound profile which after a strong attack dies
away quite quickly. Yet within the sounds' evolution there are great
contrasts. The work has a narrative form intended to be heard as a journey
through a soundscape - a landscape and seascape - as a pioneer traveller (a
Marco Polo, perhaps) hearing the cries of unknown creatures and the sounds
of unknown cultures for the first time. We enter a realm in which the
instruments breath and speak.
The work plays continuously but is formed of an introduction - 'Memory of
Departure' - and five scenes: 'Starting points: inside sounds', 'The
journey begins: flight over ocean space', 'Spins and circles: hover over
ocean space', 'Desert landscapes: talking winds and animal sounds',
'Arrival: resonances and harmonies'. It lasts just over ten and a half
minutes.
Points of Continuation was commissioned by the Institut International de
Musique Electroacoustique, Bourges and first performed at the Festival
Synthè se in Bourges on the 5th of June 1997. It was revised in November
2000.
© Simon Emmerson 1997/2000
Stone
Mike Challis 2000
Stone was originally conceived as the soundtrack to a video but grew into a
piece in its own right. You are invited to imagine the images as you listen
to the piece.
Mike Challis has composed for dance, theatre video and the concert stage
since 1990. Works for dance include Dunwich for Splinters Dance Company,
Sharp Intake of Breath and Rain for ID Dance Company and The Great Rain for
the Laban Guild. Performances include those at The Place, Bury Festival,
Norwich Festival, Snape Maltings, UEA Norwich and the Albert Hall, London,
Stockholm and New York,.
Works for video include sound for the dance video Playing in a Field of
Time. Electroacoustic pieces for concert include Next, Hunting the Bullace
and Arboretum the latter receiving an honourable mention in the Stockholm
EMS competition.
Current interest lies in integrating live and pre-recorded material,
videodance, continuing work with training teachers and students in the use
of technology for artistic ends and continuing to make work for the concert
stage.
Mike is presently studying for a M.Phil with Simon Waters at the
University of East Anglia. Mike Challis lives and works in Suffolk England
E-mail: Mike.Challis@btinternet.com
0(n)
Nick Melia 2000
Brought to you by the number ‘0’ and theletter ‘n’. Nick melia lives and works in
Norwich.
Two Women
Trevor Wishart 1998
Electric Freestyle
Phil Archer 2000
for performer and ‘Supercollider’ (c.5’00”) electric guitar: Phil Archer
This piece is a 'duet' for live performer and realtime signal manipulation, processed by
a purpose-written patch for SuperCollider. The program uses sampling, granulation
and delay-line principles to produce results which have a predetermined structure and
definable character, but which vary dramatically depending on the input. This allows
the performer to be influenced by the processed result as much or as little as they like,
improvising freely and 'trading ideas' with the program, or strictly following a set
score. Equally as important as this flexibility is the inherent time-scale to which the
performance operates, hopefully reducing the chances of long-winded self-indulgence
Phil Archer was born in 1975, started guitar lessons aged 7, and began writing music
shortly afterwards. He performed in Rhys Chatham's Warehouse of Saints in 1994
and went on to study music at the University of East Anglia. Here he held the Joyce
Harris bursary for musical performance and developed an interest in electroacoustic
composition, writing music for live instruments and pre-recorded tape. Currently
undertaking an MPhil degree in composition under Dr Simon Waters, his music has
been performed and broadcast around the country and abroad, released on the CD by
the Sonic Arts Network, and was awarded a prize at the 1999 Bourges Festival.
Fabulous Paris
Trevor Wishart 1997
hy/brids festival
Date: 6 - 8 July 2001
Location: University of East Anglia
A free-flowing weekend festival celebrating the innovative edges and
fault-lines of music and digital technology - genuinely interactive
systems, real-time and just-in-time composition solutions, generative
music, circuit bending, web-based and network distributed performance.
28 events on four stages in three days
See the SARA record for this event for further information on the
programme and for images and other items.
Tickets: Festival Pass £30 (£20 concessions/SAN members)
External link: ARiADAtexts 3: hy/brids Documentation
Sonic Arts 20: INTERactions 2
Date: 1 May 2001
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
A concert featuring real-time composition/electronics from Jonathan
Impett + mystery guest, with other recent UEA Studio composition.
Tickets: £5 (concessions £4, students £3)
Sonic Arts 19
Date: 19 February 2001
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Simon Limbrick, one of the UK's most inventive percussionists, returns
to UEA to present a lively programme including Javier Alvarez's
'Shekere' and works by Andrew Poppy, Robert Keeley, ex-UEA
composer Pedro Rebelo, and current UEA research students.
Tickets: £5 (concessions £4, students £3)
Solo Percussion/Electronics
19 February 2001
Simon Limbrick
John Innes Centre, University of East Anglia
Juegitos
Dissimiliar Similarities
Robert Keeley
Sebastian Lexer
Entanglement
Ed Kelly
Tag
Philip Cashian
Interval
Double Take
Markus Trunk
Accidental Flight
Sadie Harrison
Personal Space
Shekere
Alistair Gedge
Javier Alvarez
Sonic Arts 18: A Birthday Tribute to Simon
Emmerson
Date: 4 December 2000
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Featuring recent work by internationally known composer Trevor
Wishart (performed by the composer) and work for live and real-time
electronics in a tribute to UK live electronics pioneer Simon Emmerson.
Tickets: £5 (concessions £4, students £3)
Sonic Arts 17: INTERactions
Date: 23 October 2000
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
A concert of electroacoustic and interactive music and sonic art featuring
'underdreaming' - a work for piano and tape by Newcastle composer Tom
Simmons (based on Peter Greenaway's 'The Pillow Book' and performed
by Geoff Hannan) and work for the trumpet and real-time electronics by
Jonathan Impett - recently appointed to UEA's Music Faculty.
Programme
underdreaming for piano (Geoff Hannan) and tape by Tom Simmons
Inside-Out for eight-channel digital tape by Edward Kelly
Electric Freestyle for performer (electric guitar: Phil Archer) and
'Supercollider' by Phil Archer
Venezia for trumpet (Jonathan Impett) and skipping CD player by
Nicolas Collins
underdreaming for piano (Geoff Hannan) and tape by Tom Simmons
...ricercare una melidoa for trumpet (Jonathan Impett) and 4 channel
delay by Jonathan Harvey
Inside Drum/Mad Things for 'metatrumpet' (Jonathan Impett) and live
electronics by Jonathan Impett
Tickets: £5 (concessions £4, students £3)
Sonic Arts 16
Date: 8 May 2000
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
A celebration of the best work by current postgraduate students from the
UEA studio and work by spectacularly successful ex-students now
working elswehere.
Tickets: £6 (concessions £5, students £3)
Sonic Arts 15: Live & Real Time
Date: 28 February 2000
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Electroacoustic music from Gregg Wagstaff, Pedro Rebelo, Matt
Rogalsky and others, making use of real-time computer transformation of
sound.
Tickets: £6 (concessions £5, students £3)
Sonic Arts 14: Narrative, text and texture
Date: 13 December 1999
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Electroacoustic works by John Drever, Nick Parkin, Jo Hyde/Alaric
Summer and others.
Tickets: £6 (concessions £5, students £3)
Sonic Arts 13: VideoPLUS
Date: 8 November 1999
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Electroacoustic video - including work by Jo Hyde, Mathew Adkins,
Sianed Jones / cris cheek / Martin Sercombe, and selected work from
among the latest Sonic Arts Network commissions.
Programme
Abridged, Collaborative Year 3 UEA Project by Katie Wesley & Matt
Norman
A Naked Lunch, Collaborative Year 3 UEA Project by Alistair Gedge &
Karen Hodson
Sunayani, Video & Sound by Sofia Pileci & Mark Webber (A Sonic Arts
Network and Central St. Martin's School of Art Collaborative Project)
Zoetrope, Video & Sound by Joseph Hyde (Dartington College of Arts)
In Credo, Collaborative Year 3 UEA Project by Stef Edwards & Peter Jay
Untitled, Collaborative Year 3 UEA Project by Ioanna Apostolou & Jo
Atkinson
K2Y/Breaking, Sound: Mathew Adkins; Video: Simon Hyde;
Choreography: A. Vahla (A Shinkansen Production)
Tongues Undone, Sound & Performance: Sianed Jones & cris cheek;
Video: Martin Sercombe
Terrorvision, Sound: Martin Archer; Video: andysbirds@yahoo.com (A
Sonic Arts Network and Central St. Martin's School of Art Collaborative
Project)
Tickets: £6 (concessions £5, students £3)
Sonic Arts 12: Space, Screen & Image
Date: 3 May 1999
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Electroacoustic music and video/animation.
Tickets: £5 (concessions £4, students £3)
Sonic Arts 11: Hybrid Worlds
Date: 15 February 1999
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Electroacoustic music which has absorbed aspects of drum and bass and
trip-hop, featuring ex-UEA oboist Dominic Kelly - now a rising
international star.
Programme
Brixton Quatrain by Tom Wallace
Kung Fu by Phil Archer (first performance)
Collage by Chris Marr (first performance), oboe: Dominic Kelly
Block Groove by Nick Melia & Ed Kelly (first performance)
Walkabout by Paul Koonce
Collage by Chris Marr (second performance), oboe: Dominic Kelly
Tickets: £6 (concessions £5, students £3)
Sonic Arts 10: Wired Women
Date: 23 November 1998
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Electroacoustic music by or featuring women, sometimes including the
human voice, staring solo performer Sianed Jones (voice/violin) in her
latest work 'Longsong'.
Programme
Wien West Bahnhof (1998) an installation by Gabriele Proy (Austria)
Li Shin Chuen (1998) by Paulina Sundin (Sweden); sound diffusion:
Simon Waters
DEHS (1996) by Peter Green (UK); sound diffusion: Phil Archer
Catalysis (1996) by Akemi Ishijima (Japan/Sweden/UK)
Calling the Changes (1998) for amplified voice, amplified violin and
sampled sounds by Sianed Jones (UK)
Currents (1996-98) (8 channel version) by Paulina Sundin & Jens
Hedman (Sweden)
Tickets: £6 (concessions £5, students £3)
Sonic Arts 9: The Ambient Landscape
Date: 26 October 1998
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Electroacoustic and ambient music which features landscapes and
environments, acoustic and virtual, natural and man-made.
Programme
cats/adrift by Simon Atkinson
Batista!(Lament) by Ed Kelly
Currents by Paulina Sundin & Jens Hedman
Towards the light by Chris Marr
Drift by Simon Waters
3 shorts about noise & rhythm by Pedro Rebelo
Tickets: £6 (concessions £5, students £3)
Sonic Arts 8: Selected by...
Date: 27 April 1998
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Simon Waters and the Sonic Arts Network Projects team select a
programme of electroacoustic music and performance based on the best
of Sonic Arts Network's recent commissions.
A co-poromotion with Sonic Arts Network.
Programme
Equal by Sten-Olof Hellström
Con la Mano de Dios by Sebastián Castagna
appel by Benjamin Thigpen
dust by Benjamin Thigpen
Alias by Åke Parmerud
Environs by Robert Mackay
Tickets: £5 (concessions £4, students £3)
Electronic Percussion Project
Date: 4th March 1998
Time: 14:00 - 17:00
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
A performance/education project by Simon Limbrick
The Electronic Percussion workshop will be appoximately divided into
four different areas of work described as follows:
• Performance of complete composition created by Simon Limbrick.
• Performance and discussion of techniques for a new piece by Javier
Alvarez that will be used as source material for demonstration of
system operations; this will also include other systems that might
not make it into either parts 1 or 2. These will include use of lightbeams to trigger treatments of acoustic sounds and real-time
control of delay and gate times.
• Play-through of brief materials by student composers/performers. A list
of equipment and layout as shown below. (Please keep these pieces
short and simple. It will be better to try out one idea than run out of
time and not complete anything satisfactorily.)
A hands-on period in which individuals can play, trigger, strike etc. to
understand some of the qualities of performing on electronic percussion.
Sonic Arts 7: Selected by...
Date: 16 February 1998
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Sainsbury Centre Director Nichola Johnson and UEA Electroacoustic
Studio Director Simon Waters co-programme a concert of recent
electroacoustic music and performance.
Programme
Arboretum by Mike Challis
Con la mano de Dios by Sebastián Castagna
A Moment of Intrigue by Phil Archer
DEHS by Peter Green
Three Fados by Pedro Rebelo
Mambo a la Braque by Javier Alvarez
Tickets: £5 (concessions £4, students £3)
Sonic Arts 6: Judith Mitchell (cello)
Date: 1 December 1997
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
This oustanding cellist returns to UEA to première a new commission
from Michael Rosas Cobian, a new work for cello and tape by Mathew
Adkins, and recent solo cello works by Richard Barrett and Roger
Redgate, in the presence of at least three of the composers.
(Judith Mitchell will also be presenting a composers' workshop on the
contemporary cello ... please phone for details.)
Programme
reBecCa for solo tape by Neal Farwell
Postcard to Pedro for solo tape by Neal Farwell
Excess Pitch for solo tape by Rose Dodd
Ne Songe plus à fuir for amplified cello by Richard Barrett
Quietness Drowning for cello & live electronics by Mathew Adkins
Stroke for solo cello by Magnus Lindberg
Intemperie for solo tape by Sebastiàn Castagna
Feu la cendre for amplified cello by Roger Redgate
Tickets: £5 (concessions £4, students £3)
Sonic Arts 5: Selected by...
Date: 27 October 1997
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
International prizewinning composer Mathew Adkins programmes a
concert of electroacoustic music including the best of this summer's
international competitions.
Tickets: £5 (concessions £4, students £3)
1 July 1997
Joseph Anderson seminar
24 June 1997
Alejandro Vinao seminar
Sonic Arts 4: The Spectral Oboe
featuring Dominic Kelly (oboe)
9 December 1996
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Sonic Arts 3: The Sonic Voice
3 February 1997
UEA Drama Studio
with
cris cheek (voice)
and Sianed Jones (voice)
Sound diffusion
by Mathew Adkins and Simon Waters
Technical support
by Alan George and Nick Clarke
Drama Studio, UEA
Monday 3 February 1997: 7.30 pm
Programme
Les Objets Obscurs
Tongue Und(r)one
New Broadcast, from the canning town chronicle
....
A Partial Site
Gatekeeper
Pagan Circus
Ake
Parmerud
cris cheek
cris cheek
cris cheek
cris cheek
Mathew
Adkins
Sonic Arts 2: Electroacoustic Music + Video
9 December 1996
School of Music Concert Room
Sonic Arts 1: Kaffe Matthews
18 November 1996
School of Music Concert Room
Electroacoustic Music from Canada, Sweden
and UEA
Date: 24 June 1996
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Programme
Prequel for tape by Sten-Olof Hellström
Gipsy Fugue for violin controller by Neal Farwell
Les Corps Éblouis for tape by Christian Calon
From Forking Paths for tape by Pedro Rebelo
From 'The Bait' for violin and voice by Sianed Jones
Grrearra Falcon 111 for tape by Peter Green
Percussion and Electronics
Date: 22 April 1996
Time: 19:30
Location: Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia
The programme will include music for percussion, with and without
electronics, and music for tape.
Tickets: £5 (concessions £4, students £3)
27 February 1996
Ambrose Field seminar
New Electroacoustic Music
Date: 26 February 1996
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Programme
Cloud of Forgetting by John Drever (diffusion: John Drever)
The Little Bird on my Balcony Scratching for Food in the Snow by Chris
Marr (oboe: Dominic Kelly)
Mocangue by Rodrigo Cicchelli Velloso (diffusion: Mathe Adkins)
Still Water by Ambrose Field (diffusion: Abrose Field)
The Oboe Bird by Chris Marr (oboe Dominic Kelly; diffusion: Chris
Marr)
Nautilus 110 by Peter Green & Mike Dred (diffusion: Peter Green)
Tickets: £5 (concessions £4, students £3)
Mono Lake Tour '96
Date: 19th February 1996
Location: School of Music, Univeristy of East Anglia
A unique cross cultural Sound & Language production brings together
"one of Britain's most imaginative and innovative new groups" - SLANT
with Asian percussion virtuoso Ansuman Biswas (Bow Gamelan
Fundamental Dance Continuum) and political Pakistani poet and singer
Samia Malik.
SLANT are cris cheek - radical Sound & Language poet; Philip Jeck rising star of industrial ambient music and creator of Vinyl Requiem;
Sianed Jones - Welsh punk voice and violin Banshee; Jon Wilkinson also known as Dr. Cut.
Funded by The Arts Council of England.
Tickets: £5 (or £2.50 concessions)
The Electroacoustic Video Concert
Date: 9 October 1995
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Presented with the Norfolk and Norwich Festival
A collaboration between Sonic Arts Network and Central St. Martin's
College of Art and Design.
Newly commissioned collaborative works by composers Simon Lee,
Nick Laviers, Natasha Barrett and Neal Farwell with film/videomakers
Miki Yamanishi, Jocelyn Laurent, Michael Cleary and Simon Withers.
The programme also includes new electroacoustic music from Europe.
Tickets: £5 (concessions £3.50)
Electroacoustic Music on the Edge
Date: 17 June 1995
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
In association with BEAST (Birmingham Electro-Acoustic Sound
Theatre).
Programme
There are no sermons in stones by Nick Farwell (world première)
Spin by Rolf Enström (world première)
Sequel by Sten-Olof Hellström (world première)
touching edges by Simon Atkinson
Mélodie by Mike Vaughan (world première)
Talk by David Prior
As part of 3 day Electroacoustic minifestival 16-18 June 1995 involving guests
Rolf Enström, Sten-Olof Hellström and Mike Vaughan.
19 April-7 May 1995 Ulrich Krieger residency
(1 Mar 1995 – Sw’s AfterImage in concert at City University, New Hall,
Northampton Sq w. Eleanor Dawson)
Electronic Music with Eleanor Dawson
Date: 20 February 1995
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Programme
andRain for digital tape by Tom Wallace
Sonata in A minor for unaccompanied flute by CPE Bach
Undercurrents for digital tape by Ambrose Field
Fantasia VII in D major for unaccompanied flute by G.Ph. Telemann
AfterImage for baroque flute and digital tape by Simon Waters
Cymbals: Reminiscence for digital tape by Rodrigo Velloso
Tickets: £5 (concessions £4, students £3)
14 Feb-3 Mar 1995
Mathias Fuchs & Sylvia Eckermann residency
24 January 1995
Electroacoustic Concert (Tues)
7 February 1994
Electroacoustic Concert w Simon Atkinson
The Electroacoustic Voice 1
Date: 1 November 1993
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Frances Lynch (soprano); Sound Diffusion: Alan Burgess, Akemi
Ishijima and Rodrigo Velloso; Technician: Alan George.
Programme
Lady Lazarus for amplified female voice by Daryl Runswick
Ab ovo by Akemi Ishijima (first performance)
Chant d'Ailleurs (Chant from Another Place) for solo voice and computer
by Alejandro Viñao
Cymbals: Reminiscence by Rodrigo Velloso (first British performance)
Borges y el Espejo ('Borges and the Mirror') for solo voice and tape by
Alejandro Viñao
Tickets: £5 (concessions £4, students £3)
Monday 23 Nov 1992
Philip Mead Piano + Electronics concert in UEA Electroacoustic Concert series.
Monday 16 Nov 1992
Philip Mead special guest lecture ‘The Switched-on Piano’ at 17.30 in Music
Centre Concert Room as part of the 1992-3 Special Guest Lectures in Music
Series
Instruments and Electronics II
Date: 18 May 1992
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
Programme
Framing by Simon Waters
Trio by Simon Vincent
Ponto, Linha e Plano (Point, Line and Plane) by Tim Rescala
Valley Flow by Denis Smalley
Give me your hand by Bennett Hogg
Tickets: £4 (concessions £3, students £2)
East West...Old New
Date: 9 March 1992
Time: 19:30
Location: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia
A concert of music for shakuhachi and electronics: traditional and
modern Japanese music for solo shakuhachi: and shakuhachi and
electronics.
Soloist: Yoshikazu Iwamotu
Electronics: UEA Electroacoustic music studio
This concert, presented in collaboration with the Sainsbury Centre for
Visual Arts, is designed to complement the exhibition:
RESTLESS SHADOWS - JAPANESE FIBREWORKS
a stunning collection of large-scale, contemporary Japanese sculptures
created from textiles and fibre, showing in the Sainsbury Centre from 3
March to 3 May.
Tickets: £6 (concessions £4, students £3) exhibition entry included in
ticket price
Monday 22 February 1993
Annette Moreau (Founding director Arts Council Contemporary Music Network,
and Assistant Arts Editor Channel 4 Television) ‘Not Mozart: the true story’
special guest lecture in same series as 16/11/92 above
screening of parts of her prizewinning television commissions for the 1991
Mozart year, combining the work of current composers and directors.
Instruments and Electronics I
Date: 17 February 1992
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
With Rodolfo Caesar (live electronics) and New Music Ensemble.
Programme
First performance of a new work for live electronic percussion by
Rodolfo Caesar
Pendulum Music by Steve Reich
Drift by Simon Waters
Espace/Escape by Francis Dhomont
Tickets: £2.80 (concessions £1.80, students £1.80)
Voice and Electronics
Date: 9 March 1987
Time: 19:30
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
with Elizabeth Byrne (soprano)
Programme
Aria with Fontana Mix
John Cage
Sequenza III for Female voice
Luciano Berio
and new electroacoustic works including
Suspended Animation
Simon Waters
Piano and Electronics
Date: 1 December 1986
Time: 20:00
Location: School of Music, University of East Anglia
with Philip Mead (piano)
pre-concert talk with Philip Mead at 19:00
Programme
Phase Five
Adrian Hunter
(first performance)
Traiettoria...deviata and Dialoghi Marco Stroppa
for piano and computer-generated sounds
interval of 20 mins
Dedans – Dehors
Klavierstück X
Bernard Parmegiani
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Tickets: £2.80 (concessions £1.80, students £1.80)
21 March 1983
UEA Electroacoustic Concert