School of Creative Arts

SEMINAR SERIES: PhD Roundtable

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Speakers: Kevin McCluskey, Joseph Greenwood, Niall Rea

1) “They’ll all have seen King Kong”

2) ’Tis the changing of the times’

3) Towards an Obscenography: Queering Performance Design. 

Venue: 12 University Sq, Room 101
Booking info: Free admission

PLAY: WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY by Brian Clark

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5th - 7th March 2013 7:30pm

Adapted from his TV movie of the same name, Brian Clark's Whose Life is it Anyway? is the story of sculptor Ken Harrison who, after a car accident, finds himself quadriplegic. After coming to the realisation that he will never move again, Ken decides to start putting together a legal case that will allow him his ultimate peace. Clark presents a gripping and honest tale about one man’s battle to make his life his own. As he stays in the hospital Ken forges a close friendship with Doctor Scott who finds herself in emotional turmoil as she battles between her conscience and her Hippocratic oath, Clark presents us with arguments both for and against euthanasia. But surely, if you're clever enough to put up an invincible case for suicide then that demonstrates you ought not die?
5th - 7th March 2013 7:30pm

Venue: Brian Friel Theatre
Booking info: £7/£5 Book tickets by emailing studentshows@qub.ac.uk

SEMINAR: Stumbling' - David Fennessy discusses his recent music

Description: Speaker: David Fennessy

Venue: McMordie Hall
Booking info: Free admission

CONCERT: Breanndán Ó Beaghlaoich, Tommy Peoples, and Laoise Kelly

Description: A trio of Irish traditional music’s finest join forces, with three very distinct regional styles bringing adventure to every set of tunes. Representing the Dingle Peninsula is Breanndán Ó Beaghlaoich, whose fiery button accordion playing and heartfelt singing echo the stormy beauty of the West Kerry coastline. He has three acclaimed solo albums to his name, as well as numerous recordings with the groups Boys of the Lough. The legendary Tommy Peoples brings the rabble-rousing Donegal fiddle style to the party. Tommy became renowned as a founding member of The Bothy Band and half of a powerful duet with Chieftains flute player Matt Molloy. He subsequently moved to County Clare, and in more recent years has performed primarily as a solo musician. His most recent recording was ""The Quiet Glen,"" which includes a number of his own compositions. Equally influential is virtuoso harpist Laoise Kelly, who has breathed new life into the national instrument with her reinterpretation of dance music and the O'Carolan canon. A founding member of The Bumblebees with whom she recorded two albums and toured worldwide, she collaborates regularly with Scottish Gaidhlig singer Kathleen MacInnes and Clare fiddler Michelle O’Brien.
Venue: Harty Room
Booking info: Free admission

Big Ears - Sonic art for public ears - Panel Discussion

Description: Sound Art and Community Engagement
Venue: Sonic Lab
Booking info: Free admission

CONCERT:Big Ears - Sonic art for public ears - final showcase event

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The Big Ears training course runs March 8-10, 2013. The showcase will take place at 7pm on Sunday, March 10, in the Sonic Lab. Big Ears is a public engagement training course for PhD students in the UK. It provides an opportunity for sonic arts researchers and local children to learn from each other, while producing a unique showcase event in the cutting-edge performance space of the Sonic Arts Research Centre. Big Ears is facilitated by Northern Ireland's leading children's arts organisation, “Young at Art” (www.youngatart.co.uk), and it allows 8 funded researchers to work alongside the renowned Belfast Children’s Festival. Supported by experts in the areas of performance, composition, mobile and gaming technologies, community projects, and public engagement, Big Ears enables participating children and researchers to play with sounds, images and lots of gadgets in a collaborative environment. Together, they produce ear-opening audio stories of faraway worlds, incredible adventures, gooey monsters, and sonic dragons. The project was funded by the HEA and conceived by Dr. Franziska Schroeder. Two PhD researchers, Emily Robertson and Enrico Bertelli, are leading the 2013 event. For more information, see the Big Ears website (www.bigearsbelfast.tumblr.com and http://www.somasa.qub.ac.uk/~BigEars/index.html

Venue: Sonic Lab
Booking info: Please Email: bigearsconference@gmail.com as tickets for this event are limited.

SEMINAR: The Digitisation of the Abbey Theatre's Archive

Description: Speaker: Dr Patrick Lonergan, NUI Galway

Venue: House 12, University Square, Room 101
Booking info: Free admission

CONCERT: Royal String Quartet

Description: The Royal Quartet continue their Polish + season with Gorecki's 1st Quartet, Gra yna Bacewicz's prize winning 4th quartet and Borodin's 2nd Quartet.
Venue: Great Hall
Booking info: Free admission

SEMINAR: Performance practice and distributed creativity in Stockhausen’s...

Description: SEMINAR: Performance practice and distributed creativity in Stockhausen’s Gesang der Jünglinge.
Speaker: Dr Sean Williams (Edinburgh)
Through interviews, documents, recordings, and practice led research I discuss some of the creative relationships between Tonographie Apparatebau, Rohde und Schwarz, Maihak, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Heinz Schütz, Hugh Davies, Josef Protschka and Karlheinz Stockhausen that have contributed to what we know as Stockhausen’s Gesang der Jünglinge. ////// Dr. Sean Williams is a Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh, researching by practice the live and studio performance practices of early electronic music, mainly that made at the WDR Studio for Electronic Music, Cologne from 1952 to 1974. He builds electronic instruments with which he makes sound art and also performs in various ensembles. He has produced and presented a radio show Voice On Record, for Resonance FM and has DJed and performed his own electronic music In Europe, Japan and the USA.
Venue: Sonic Lab
Booking info: Free admission

CONCERT:Franziska Schroeder performes new works by PhD composers

Description: Since 2009, Franziska has been presenting an annual showcase of new works by PhD composers from the School of Creative Arts. This initiative was developed to showcase current compositional work, but more importantly to allow PhD students to work closely with a performer on the development of their creative practice.The main stipulation for this process is that the works be written in close contact between the composer and the performers involved. In this way, the performers can provide input into the creative development of the work, record source sounds, and develop notational strategies for the pieces. Franziska's interest in new technologies and digital media has been a driving factor for this working process, and as such composers are encouraged to explore their musical language in this context. In recent years, the showcase concert has included works for the four main saxophones (soprano, alto, tenor and baritone), accordion, bagpipes, live- electronics, visuals, networked instruments, resonating metal plates and cardboard boxes. All compositions have been premiered in the world-renowned Sonic Lab. Today's concert will include works that explore the timbral idiosyncrasies of the saxophone through extended techniques and live electronics as well as more traditional approaches to the instrument. For more info and archived recordings, please see: http://www.somasa.qub.ac.uk/~fschroeder/Showcase.html
Venue: Sonic Lab
Booking info: Free admission

PLAY: SHOOT/GET TREASURE/REPEAT

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19th –  21st March 7:30pm

‘The Odyssey’, ‘Yesterday an Incident Occurred’, ‘War and Peace’ & ‘Love (But I won’t do that)’ from SHOOT/GET TREASURE/REPEAT by Mark Ravenhill

19th –  21st March 7:30pm £7/£5

Venue: Brian Friel Theatre
Booking info: £7/£5 Book tickets by emailing studentshows@qub.ac.uk

SEMINAR: Myths and Miracles: Quatuor pour la fin du Temps as Musical Icon'

Description: Speaker: Dr Caroline Rae

Venue: McMordie Hall
Booking info: Free admission

CONCERT: ‘Before And After The End Of Time’

Description: FIDELIO TRIO, ROBERT PLANE (clarinet)
This, the first of two exciting concerts by Fidelio Trio and Robert Plane (clarinet), forms part of a study programme on the impact of Messiaen’s 'Quatuor pour la fin du temps', perhaps the most enduring chamber work of the last century. The mini-festival also includes a keynote talk at 1pm today by Messiaen authority Dr Caroline Rae, a young composers’ workshop and, as climax, a performance in tomorrow’s lunchtime concert of the Quatuor itself. Fidelio Trio are among the leading younger new music ensembles of today, taking a huge repertoire of new and commissioned works around the world; currently the Trio is the ensemble in residence at St Patrick’s Drumcondra (Dublin City University). Robert Plane is one of Europe’s most celebrated clarinet soloists, as well as being principal clarinet of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales; a frequent visitor to these shores, he was from 2002 to 2009 an artist in residence in Queen’s School of Music and Sonic Arts.
Venue: Harty Room
Booking info: Free admission

CONCERT: Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du Temps

Description: As the final event of our feature around a great classic, this programme presents that single work, Messiaen’s 'Quatuor pour la fin du temps', perhaps the most enduring chamber work of the last century. Despite the immense influence of the work and its famously unusual birth, premiered in freezing conditions in a Silesian prison camp, a live performance is a rare treat and certainly a major event, given the work’s eight-movement substance. In the final movement, Louange a l’Éternité de Jésus, the solo violin rides into the ether upon a pulsating halo of shining chords, and musical time is truly suspended. It is an unmissable experience.
Venue: Harty Room
Booking info: Free admission

SEMINAR: Cities of Memory: Performing and Media Arts in the Post-Conflict City

Description: Cities of Memory: Performing and Media Arts in the Post-Conflict City

Speaker: Professor Thomas Elsaesser (University of Amsterdam) Dr Colin Graham (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) Professor Jane Taylor (University of Chicago)

Developing from the work of the Belfast-Sarajevo Initiative (2007-2010), the School of Creative Arts at Queen's, in association with the British Academy, is hosting this conference to examine how theatre, performance, film, and the visual arts address post-conflict situations. We will consider proposals that focus on any post-conflict city, or region, and intend the Cities of Memory project to encourage interdisciplinary discussion on the contemporary arts and their relation to issues of testimony, witnessing, forgetting, representation, healing, reconciliation, agency, and metaphor. QUB Drama is delighted to host Professor Shaun Richards who will deliver the Fourth Annual Brian Friel Lecture. Shaun Richards is a recognised authority on Irish drama and has published on the subject in major journals and edited collections. His latest book is on Space, Place and Time in Irish drama which is being co-authored with Professor Chris Morash for publication by Cambridge University Press in 2013. He has lectured on Irish drama at a number of European and international universities, including the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Waseda University, Tokyo. In 2012-2013 he held visiting research fellowships at NUI Galway and Trinity College Dublin. He is on the editorial board of Irish Studies Review, the editorial advisory board of Irish University Review and a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and the IRCHSS Postgraduate International Panel. He is also an elected member of the council of the British Association for Irish Studies and the executive of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. His publications include: The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama which he edited in 2004 and Writing Ireland: Literature, Nationalism and Colonialism (1988) which he co-authored with David Cairns.
Venue: To Be Confirmed
Booking info: Free admission

CONFERENCE: Ethnomusicology in the Digital Arts

Description: Queen's University, British Forum for Ethnomusicology:
www.bfe.org.uk
www.ictm.ie
Venue: Please refer to the programme links for more information
Booking info: Free admission

SEMINAR: Experiment and Experimental Music

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Speaker: Fernando Iazzetta

Within the MOBILE Project we have produced a series of works that result from academic research coupled with the development of creative processes in which scientific experiment and aesthetic experimentalism are interwoven. After presenting some of these works and processes we will discuss the convergence between academic research and artistic creation.

Venue: Sonic Lab
Booking info: Free admission

The Annual Brian Friel Lecture

Description: Speaker: Professor Shaun Richards
QUB Drama is delighted to host Professor Shaun Richards who will deliver the Fourth Annual Brian Friel Lecture. Shaun Richards is a recognised authority on Irish drama and has published on the subject in major journals and edited collections. His latest book is on Space, Place and Time in Irish drama which is being co-authored with Professor Chris Morash for publication by Cambridge University Press in 2013. He has lectured on Irish drama at a number of European and international universities, including the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Waseda University, Tokyo. In 2012-2013 he held visiting research fellowships at NUI Galway and Trinity College Dublin. He is on the editorial board of Irish Studies Review, the editorial advisory board of Irish University Review and a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and the IRCHSS Postgraduate International Panel. He is also an elected member of the council of the British Association for Irish Studies and the executive of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. His publications include: The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama which he edited in 2004 and Writing Ireland: Literature, Nationalism and Colonialism (1988) which he co-authored with David Cairns.
Venue: Brian Friel Theatre
Booking info: Free admission

CONCERT: Transparency

Description: MOBILE: Fernando Iazzetta et al.

Transparency is a performance that brings some of the artistic outcomes of MOBILE, a research project focused on exploring interactive processes in artistic creation. The project is carried out at the University of São Paulo, Brazil under the direction of Fernando Iazzetta. One of the main goals of this project is to create an interface between technological research, critical reflection and the exploration of creative processes. The interdisciplinary nature of the group is revealed by its academic production as well as by the collaborative processes that give rise to artistic works.
Venue: Sonic Lab
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Jaap Blonk in concert and conversation

Description: Experimental vocalist Jaap Blonk will give a concert followed by a Voice / Text-Sound / Improvisation Workshop (All welcome)
Venue: Sonic Lab
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SEMINAR: "Roger Casement: Controversies in Script and Image"

Description: Speaker: Jeff Dudgeon

Roger Casement: Controversies in Script and Image No Irish revolutionary and certainly no gay Irishman (Wilde excluded) has had more books written about him than Roger Casement, the latest being Dream of the Celt by the Nobel prize winner, Mario Vargas Llosa. Casment has attracted the best writers and historians: Brian Inglis, Séamas O Síocháin, Roger Sawyer, Montgomery Hyde, and some less so. Five TV programmes have been made about his career though none have touched on his Ulster politics or his gay life, just the diaries, whose authenticity continues to be a subject of heated dispute. Portraits, by Sarah Purser, when alive, and mostly hagiographic since death, are rarer; feature films never materialised as family and friends successfully objecting to Hollywood biopics, and we have only 30 seconds of actual moving images of Casement, in Berlin in 1915. Casement sometimes turns up incognito, as in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness or Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World. However David Rudkin’s Cries of Casement as his Bones are Brought to Dublin’ is a rare theatrical production, outside of the court room or condemned cell, that captures Casement as human rather than heroic, although never as villain. Jeffrey Dudgeon MBE was the successful plaintiff at the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg in a six-year case whose 1981 judgment relating to the right to a private life led to the 1982 law decriminalising male homosexual behaviour in Northern Ireland. The case started after his arrest in 1976 and the rounding-up that year of all the members of the two fledgling gay groups in Belfast. Jeff’s book on the life of Roger Casement and the authenticity of his famous diaries was published in 2002, entitled Roger Casement: The Black Diarie and deals extensively with their authenticity. See jeffdudgeon.com
Venue: 12 University Square, Room 101
Booking info: Free admission

PLAY: ENDGAME by Samuel Beckett

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Showing 23rd - 25th April, 7:30pm

In Endgame, Samuel Beckett’s famous characters, Hamm, Clov, Nag and Nell engage us in fundamental questions about the nature of existence. What is it to be human? Are we moral beings? Is there a purpose? Can we be free of suffering? Endgame tries to rid itself of all meaning, except the one: Everything is meaningless.  
Showing 23rd - 25th April, 7:30pm

Venue: Brian Friel Theatre
Booking info: £7/£5 Book tickets by emailing studentshows@qub.ac.uk

Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music

Description: Soundscape and beyond This year’s festival takes Soundscape, in the broadest sense, as its starting point, featuring works which exemplify the genre and critical responses to the concept. Barry Truax – one of the original members of the World Soundscape Project, and pioneer of granular synthesis – premieres his latest 8-channel work Aeolian Voices in the Sonic Lab, and performs his From the Unseen World for piano and six digital soundtracks.
Agostino di Scipio presents some of his Audible Ecosystemics, and there are concerts from metatrumpeter Jonathan Impett and virtuoso hurdy-gurdy player and violinist Stevie Wishart. The festival moves outside SARC in variety of ways, featuring Luke Abbott’s beautifully heard electronica, and installations in local gallery spaces and outside.
A symposium on Saturday 27 April will include papers from Barry Truax, and other practitioners and theorists engaged with soundscape.
Venue: See the Sonorities website for more information http://www.sonorities.org.uk
Booking info: See programme for full information