Archived News & Events: 2008 - 2009
Large Scale Immersive Audio Experiment
Tuesday 20 October - Saturday 7 November 2009, running daily on the College Green at Goldsmiths.
An installation of Duran Audio's Intellivox DSP controlled beam steering loudspeakers, placed in the four corners of the College Green, in conjunction with Illustrious's 3D Audioscape software platform.
Featuring
works by Ain Bailey, Lucia Chung, John Levack Drever, Liam Fletcher,
Wojciech Franke / Leo Merz, Tyler Friedman, Tom Slater, Emmanuel
Spinelli and Martyn Ware/ Illustrious.
A collaboration between Duran Audio, Illustrious, Sound Practice Research and The Screen School.
Art and Soundscapes:
Hildegard Westerkamp
Monday 20 April 2009
14:00 - 17:00, Small Hall, Richard Hoggart Building.
Composer and acoustic ecologist Hildegard Westerkamp will present and discuss
her compositional work.
Biography:
Hildegard Westerkamp emigrated to Canada in 1968 and gave birth to her daughter
in 1977. After completing her music studies in the early seventies her ears
were drawn beyond music to the acoustic environment as a broader cultural context
or place for intense listening. Whether as a composer, educator, or radio artist
most of her work since the mid-seventies has centred around environmental sound
and acoustic ecology.
She has taught courses in Acoustic Communication at Simon Fraser University
(1981-1991) in Vancouver (BC) and [is giving lectures and] conducting soundscape
workshops internationally. She is a founding member of the World Forum for
Acoustic Ecology (WFAE, 1993) and was the editor of The Soundscape Newsletter
between 1991 and 1995 and is now on the editorial committee of Soundscape—The
Journal of Acoustic Ecology, a new publication of the WFAE.
Her compositions have been performed and broadcast in many parts of the world.
The majority of her compositions deal with aspects of the acoustic environment:
with urban, rural or wilderness soundscapes, with the voices of children, men
and women, with noise or silence, music and media sounds, or with the sounds
of different cultures, and so on. She has composed film soundtracks, sound
documents for radio and has produced and hosted radio programs such as Soundwalking
and Musica Nova on Vancouver Co-operative Radio.
This event is co-sponsored by the Noise Futures Network.
Sebastian Lexer - piano+
Monday 23 March 2009
19.30-21.00, Great Hall, Richard Hoggart Building.
Featuring MPhil/PhD student Sebastian Lexer, this concert will be exploring an extended instrumental space of the acoustic piano. Within both a solo and ensemble setting, the improvisatory approach will unlock the potential and embedded contingencies in sonic responses and demonstrate the formation of a new performance practice incorporating the acoustic and the electronic augmentation as one entity.
Art and Soundscapes: Barry Truax
Wednesday 18 March 2009
13:30 - 16:00, Room 167, Richard Hoggart Building.
Title: Interacting with Inner and Outer Sonic Complexity: from Microsound to Soundscape Composition
It is possible to think of the two extremes of the world of sound as the inner domain of microsound (less than 50 ms) where frequency and time are interdependent, and the external world of sonic complexity, namely the soundscape. In terms of sonic design, the computer is increasingly providing tools for dealing with each of these domains, such as granular synthesis and multi-channel soundscape composition. The models of interaction involved with the complexity of each of these domains are instructive, and will be presented with sound examples.
Website: www.sfu.ca/~truax/bios.html
The talk will include performances of several multi-channel compositions.
Biography:
Barry Truax is a Professor in both the School of Communication and the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University where he teaches courses in acoustic communication and electroacoustic music. He has worked with the World Soundscape Project (WSP), editing its Handbook for Acoustic Ecology, and has published the book Acoustic Communication dealing with all aspects of sound and technology. As a composer, Truax is best known for his work with the PODX computer music system which he has used for tape solo works and those which combine tape with live performers or computer graphics. He releases many of these works on the Cambridge Street Records label which he founded in 1985. In 1991 his work Riverrun was awarded the Magisterium at the International Competition of Electroacoustic Music in Bourges (France), a category open only to electroacoustic composers of 20 or more years experience. He is also the recipient of one of the 1999 Awards for Teaching Excellence at Simon Fraser University. Barry Truax is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre (CMC) and a founding member of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) and the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE).
Organised by the Unit for Sound Practice Research
Electronic Music Studios Concert IV
Saturday 30 May 2009
19.30-21.00, Great Hall, Richard Hoggart Building.
Featuring works by students working in the Electronic Music Studios, including
pieces for multi-channel sound diffusion and live electronics. All welcome, entrance
free. Part of the Pure
Gold Festival.
Electronic Music Studios Concert
III
Friday 1 May 2009
19.30-21.00, Great Hall, Richard Hoggart Building.
Featuring works by current undergraduate & postgraduate
students working in the Electronic Music Studios at
Goldsmiths. Programme to be confirmed. All
welcome, free entrance.
Electronic Music Studios Concert II
Friday 13 February 2009
7.30pm, Great Hall, RHB
Featuring works for live electronics, improvisation and multi-channel sound diffusion
by Jane Dickson, Alex Eichenberger, Jonathan McHugh, Tom Mudd, Tristan Shorr,
Emmanuel Spinelli and James Turnbull . All welcome, free entrance.
Electronic Music Studios Concert
I
Friday 16th January 2009
7.30pm, Great Hall, RHB
Featuring works by students working in the Electronic Music Studios, including
pieces for multi-channel sound diffusion and live electronics. All welcome. Entrance
Free.
Launch of SPR - Friday 21 November 2008
6pm, Reception
Senior Common Room
Reception and exhibition of the Daphne Oram Collection in collaboration with Sonic Arts Network.
7.30pm, SPR Concert
Great Hall
Concert of interactive audiovisual performance, live algorithmic music, phonography and sound poetry, including performances by John Drever, Ian Stonehouse and Michael Young, and AHRC Fellows in the Creative and Performing Arts, Mick Grierson and Lawrence Upton.
All welcome. Entrance Free.
EMS
at Collision 08
Friday 12 September 2008, 8.00 - 10.00pm. £5
admission
Area 10 Project Space, Eagle Wharf, Peckham, London, SE15.
Goldsmiths Electronic Music Studios will be performing at Collision 08, an annual
festival of experimental music and film, sound and light installations, performance
art and free public seminars.
[ Collision 2008 ]
Goldsmiths Electronic Music Studios:
40 years
- Dr Michael Young, Dr John
Drever, Dr Mick Grierson, Ian Stonehouse.
Studio report presented at ICMC
2008 International Computer Music Conference, hosted at Sonic
Arts Research Centre, Queens University, Belfast .
download pdf version
Tsai-Wei Chen: Sonic Constellations
Friday 20 June – 27 June 2008, 10.00am – 6pm
Room 2.107, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths
PhD student Tsai-Wei Chen's 33-channel sound installation presents ten sojourners' geographies that exist between homeland and foreign land.
BBC News: Thinking up beautiful music
Dr Mick Grierson demonstrates his Brain Computer
Interface for Music for BBC News (12 June 2008).
[ link ]
The life and work of Daphne
Oram - Symposium
Friday 27 June 2008, 12pm. Free
Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London
Daphne Oram was one of the unsung musical heroines of
our time, a pioneering British composer and electronic musician. This series
of events celebrates the launch of the Daphne Oram Collection at Goldsmiths.
For the past 12 months an Arts and Humanities Research Council grant has supported
the digitisation of almost 700 reel to reel tapes of music.
This symposium considers her place in the history of electronic music, as well
as exploring in academic depth, ideas and tools for graphic sound synthesis
through the drawn sound system she invented and called Oramics. Speakers include
Maddalena Fadagini and Jo Hutton, Professor Peter Manning, Dr Mick Grierson,
and Rob Mullender. Organised in collaboration with Sonic
Arts Network
Oramics: The Life and Works of Daphne Oram
Friday 27 June 2008, 7.30pm. £3/£6
Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London
This concert features unheard music by Daphne Oram, a pioneering British composer
and electronic musician who died in 2003. Much of the music heard in this performance
has been uncovered while digitising her tapes at Goldsmith's College, London
University. Other works, like Sardonica, written with Ivor Walsworth for piano
and tape, receive their first performances in decades and special guest artists
including Andrea Parker, creator of warm electro music, remix Daphne's soundworld
for a new generation, using drawn-sound techniques developed in the 1950s.
Organised in collaboration with Sonic
Arts Network
EMS at The Shunt 2008: (Un)sound
Experiments II
Thursday 5 June, 6.00pm. £5 day membership
The Shunt Vaults, London Bridge Station
Goldsmiths Electronic Music Studios returns to The
Shunt, a unique venue beneath London Bridge Station, to host an evening of
interactive performance, sound art, installations and improvised music.
Part of the Pure Gold Music Festival at Goldsmiths.
Electronic Music Studios concerts 2007-8
These concerts feature works by current undergraduate & postgraduate
students working in the Electronic Music Studios.
Admission is free. All welcome. Further information
please email ems (@gold.ac.uk).
Forthcoming concert dates:
Wednesday 3rd October 2007
Great Hall, Goldsmiths; 7.30pm
Friday 5th December 2007
Great Hall, Goldsmiths; 7.30pm
Friday 8th February 2008
Great Hall, Goldsmiths; 7.30pm
Great Hall, Goldsmiths; 7.30pm