[PD-announce] LICA-MANTIS Joint Festival 2008 /28 February - 1 March, UK

Ricardo Climent ricardo.climent at manchester.ac.uk
Tue Feb 19 09:34:14 CET 2008


Dear Pure Data community,

Apologies for cross-posting

LICA-MANTIS Electroacoustic Music Festival 2008
28 February - 1 March  - ENGLAND, UK

Presented by Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts (LICA),  
Lancaster University, in collaboration with MANTIS; NOVARS Research  
Centre for Electroacoustic Composition, Performance  and Sound Art,  
University of Manchester, UK.
The Universities of Lancaster and Manchester have joined forces to  
produce a unique collaborative event.  By sharing efforts, logistics,  
research and compositional ideas, the two artistic communities and  
Special Guests will push their creative boundaries further,  
challenging new and existing audiences. The Manchester Theater in  
Sound (MANTIS) Diffusion System will travel to the Great Hall Complex  
at Lancaster University to celebrate the event. All welcome!!

Guest Artists:
  Cort Lippe (composer, University at Buffalo, The State University  
of New York)
  Claude Gaçon (sculptor/gastronomy manager, Basel, Switzerland)
  Markus Buser  (multi-media artist/musician, Basel, Switzerland)
  Ailís Ní Ríain (composer/writer, Littleborough, North West England)

Guests Performers:
  BBC Singers, Ensemble Psappha, Kairos Electronic Ensemble,  
Christophe de Bezenac (Saxophone),  Christion Sebille (Computer),  
David Lewis (Percussion), Tom McKinney (Guitar), Luo Chao-yun (Pipa)  
and Chen Wai-kai (Tai-chi dance improviser)

Diffusion System: MANTIS Surround System (30 channels+),  Novars  
Research Centre, University of Manchester, UK

Lancaster Box Office [telephone: 01524 594151,  
email:boxoffice at lancaster.ac.uk]
Venues:   Great Hall Complex and Jack Hylton Room, Lancaster  
University, UK
Admission: free (except Concert 1 on February 28)

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For further information, please keep reading below, or visit:

http://www.novars.manchester.ac.uk/mantis/08licamantis/index.html

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FINAL CONCERT PROGRAMME

LICA-MANTIS Electroacoustic Music Festival 2008

*GH= Great Hall     JHR= Jack Hylton Room

Concert 1:  28 Feb.  19:30 - 21:30   @GH  (Lancaster International  
Concert Series)
      BBC Singers with Psappha conducted by Nicholas Kok
  Programme:
   Claude Vivier    Et je reverrai cette ville étrange -1981-
   Claude Vivier   Shiraz (piano) -1977-
   Claude Vivier     Glaubst du and die Unsterblichkeit der Seel -1983-
   Claude Vivier    Journal -1977-

Concert 2:  29 Feb.  18:30 - 19:45   @GH
      Piano: Adam Greig
      Voice: Amy Slater

  Programme:
   Cort Lippe     Tapewalk I   -1981-            ca.  7’
   Phil Reeder    By Response for piano and computer   -2008-    ca.10’
   Manuella Blackburn Origami   -2008-             ca.15’
   Oliver Carman   Metamorphosis I for fixed media   -2007-      8’22”
   Chris Robson   new work for voice and computer   -2008-     ca.10’
   Cort Lippe    Music for piano and computer   -1996-      ca.16’

Concert 3:  29 Feb.  20:00 - 21:00   @GH
      Saxophone: Christophe de Benzenac
      Piano: Matt Bourne
      Computer: Christian Sebille
  Programme:  Improvisation

Concert 4:  1 March  14:00 - 15:30   @GH
      Marimba: David Lewis
      Bass Guitar: Mauricio Pauly
  Programme:
   Diana Simpson   Spindlesongs (part 1)   -2008-          ca.  8’
   Kaho Cheung   Fishy bahn for fixed media   -2007-        9’48”
   Sam Salem    They Sing for Themselves   -2008-        ca.  8’
   Josh Kopeckek   It implies paranoia for Laptop + bass guitar    
-2008-   ca.10’
   Heather Bamfort  Campanology   -2007-            ca.  4’
   George Dennis    I Was Fat. But Then I Got Thin   -2007-        
ca.  5’
   Alexis Guneratne  L'Homme   -2007-               7’20”
   Mauricio Pauly   Club de doñas for amplified marimba,  
almglocken    ca.  5’
           			and drumset with computer   -2007/8-

Concert 5:  1 March  18:30 - 20:30   @GH
      Guitar: Tom McKinney
      Percussion: David Lewis

  Programme:
   Cort Lippe       termites   -2006-             ca. 9’
   [zygote] - Saario & Iddon                      ca.12’
          Proposition 6A: ceci n'est pas une machine de guerre (Refrain)
           for fixed media, amplified piano, and live electronics -2008-
   Ricardo Climent  A Gravidade Liberta             ca.10’
           for marimba and prepared mallets   -2003-
   Takayuki Rai   Facade for guitar and computer   -2003-      ca.11’
   Chikashi Miyama  Mutation for guitar and computer   -2002-     ca.10’
   Ailís Ní Ríain   StreetSong   -2006-            ca.  5’
   David Berezan   Styal - Electroacoustic music without instruments  
-2004-  ca.13’
   Cort Lippe    Music for hi-hat and computer   -1998-      ca.13’


Closing Festival Concert:  1 March  21:00-   @JHR
      Kairos Electronic Ensemble
      Pipa: Luo Chao-yun
      Tai-Chi Dance: Chen Wai-kai
  Programme:  Improvisation

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SEMINARS

Lecture 1:  29 Feb.  15:15 - 16:00   @JHR
   Cort Lippe
     Composing for Acoustic Instruments and Real-Time Computer Systems
Lecture 2:  29 Feb.  16:00 - 16:45   @JHR
   Neil Boynton & Emma Rose
     The making of threshold: A video setting of a poem by Ruth  
Fainlight
Lecture 3:  1 March  15:45 - 16:30   @JHR
   Claude Gaçon and Markus Buser
     Sense and Noise: In search of non-illustrative relations between  
image and sound
Lecture 4:  1 March  16:30 - 17:15   @JHR
   Ailis Ni Riain
     Into the Sea of Waking Dreams
Lecture 5:  1 March  17:15 - 18:00   @JHR
   Luo Chao-yun
     The Pipa Instrument in Traditional and Contemporary Contexts

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INSTALLATIONS

Claude Gaçon and Markus Buser  un-stet.02 (un-steady.02)
Patrick Sanan          IDEAL
	(on e-campus)

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ORGANISERS:

  Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University
   Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YW        tel: 01524 592702 (main office)
   http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/lica/

  Novars Research Centre, University of Manchester
  Bridgeford Street, Manchester M13 9PL       tel: 0161 275 4982  
(main office)
  http://www.novars.manchester.ac.uk/

For further  festival details, visit:

http://www.novars.manchester.ac.uk/mantis/08licamantis/index.html




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Dr. Ricardo Climent
NOVARS Research Centre
for Electro-acoustic Composition, Performance and Sound-Art
School of Arts, Histories and Cultures-Music
The University of Manchester
Bridgeford Street, Manchester M13 9PL, UK

Telephone: 0161 275 4982 (main office)
Fax: 0161 275 4994
phone: 0161 - 275-3246 (direct)
email: ricardo.climent at manchester.ac.uk
http://www.novars.manchester.ac.uk
Personal web: http://www.electro-acoustic.com

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