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The brochure for Autumn events 2013 is now available to download and view on our website. There is a packed programme of performances, screenings, demonstrations and talks on offer, covering every aspect of the School's work in Music, Drama, Film and Sonic Arts.
Some highlighted events include our quartet-in-residence, the Royal Quartet and seminar and concert by Chris Watson whose television work includes many programmes in the David Attenborough 'Life' series. Also, we will be presenting a special event by Danish artist Jacob Kierkgaard with his ‘Recomposing the City’ event series and at the end of October (28 Oct - 3 Nov) we demonstrate the talent of the retrospective of scholar, poet, playwright, and music critic Stuart Parker.
Second year film student from Queen’s University, Amy Moore has been selected to represent QFT and the UK in the Europa Cinema “27 Times Cinema” event at the prestigious Venice Film Festival which takes place from 28 August - 7thSeptember 2013. QFT is one of 27 cinemas from across the European Union states to be selected to send a young movie goer to spend ten days at the Festival watching the “Venice Days” selection and share opinions and ideas.
Following a tough selection process Amy was the one successful candidate selected from the UK and she is looking forward to the experience, “This is such an incredible opportunity. I am a true cinephile and watch between eight and ten movies a week. To have the chance to attend one of the best Film Festivals in the world and also to be part of a team of reviewers from all over Europe is extremely exciting. This will be a great introduction for me to the real world of film as I think about my future career as a film-maker”
Commenting on Amy’s success is Professor of Film Studies at Queen’s University, Cahal McLaughlin “We are immensely proud that Amy will be representing the University, QFT and Northern Ireland at this event. It is a great achievement to be selected and we know that Amy will do us proud. Queen’s University boasts the unique combination of a strong School of Creative Arts and Northern Ireland’s leading cultural cinema – QFT. Working together with QFT we are able to offer these unique opportunities to our students and Amy has grasped this opportunity with both hands.”
Susan Picken, Head of QFT recognises how important opportunities like this can be, “To have the chance to attend such a prestigious Film Festival in this way at the start of your career is priceless. The experience and the networking opportunities that this presents are not to be taken for granted and I know that Amy will make the most of every moment.”
Amy departs on 28th August and will be keeping everyone updated on her progress via the Europa Cinemas Blog.
Further information from: Marion Campbell/07814 944020
What is the Innovation Academy?
The Innovation Academy is a joint venture between Queen’s University Belfast, University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin. The Academy offers PhD students an opportunity to embrace new, innovative ways of thinking through the completion of a Postgraduate Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The purpose of this certificate is to transform some of the brightest scholars in these institutions into energetic and resourceful entrepreneurial thinkers.
The modules focus on problem-based learning within multi-disciplinary teams. We also encourage students to engage in a real-life challenge facing an organisation, for which they are asked to propose an innovative solution.
The certificate is comprised of several modules, covering topics such as Opportunity Generation and Recognition, Financing Your New Venture and Creative Thinking and Innovation.
Queen’s developed and hosted its first module of the Innovation Academy, entitled Leadership Development, in January 2013. The module took place in Riddel Hall and was facilitated by the Leadership Institute. You can find out more about the Leadership Development module in this Queen’s Now article.
Applications are now being taken for the May Turtle Award - a scholarship upto the value of £1000 to fund further study of Music at a place approved by the Head of the School of Creative Arts.
The Scholarship is tenable by the following graduates of the Queen's University of Belfast:
- (a) Bachelors of Music
- (b) Bachelors of Arts who have taken Music as one of the subjects of their final examination and
- (c) Bachelors of Science (Music Technology)
Closing date: 13 June 2013
May Turtle 2013 Open
A major new initiative to boost Belfast’s cultural engagement with the public has been launched through the combining of two existing programmes at Queen’s University and Belfast City Council.
The very popular Literary Belfast project and Belfast Soundwalks will combine to enhance cultural engagement with citizens and tourists alike. In a unique twist this new initiative will engage the public through novel ways of disseminating creative writing and sonic arts associated with the city.
The Literary Belfast project (http://www.literarybelfast.org/) already showcases the city’s exciting literary scene through an interactive website and locative media app developed in association with the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s. While Belfast Soundwalks, led by Professor Pedro Rebelo from the Queen’s Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), provides an open platform for communities and visitors to explore the city through sound. (www.belfastsoundmap.org)
Lord Mayor Alderman Gavin Robinson said: "Belfast City Council is delighted to partner Queen's University in this important Creative Arts initiative. This is an exciting opportunity that will undoubtedly lead to a better visitor experience, not only for tourists to the city but also those who live in the city. This initiative builds upon past collaborations between the city council and Queen's and emphasises the importance of ‘town and gown’ working together for the common good of Belfast."
Commenting on the new collaboration Professor Rebelo said: “This is a major cultural boost for the city at a time when it needs it most and as we approach the beginning of the main tourist season. Through the appointment of Dr Sarah Bass, a recent SARC graduate, we will develop an effective strategy for delivering new content in association with the Belfast City Council’s Cultural Strategy and tourism priorities of building cultural tourism, developing tourism products, supporting the evening economy and delivering an authentic European city experience.”
This exciting new project has been supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the newly created Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities, at Queen’s, directed by Professor John Thompson alongside consortium partners for BGP2, Newcastle University (through Cultural and Heritage Studies) and Durham University (through Durham Book Festival).
Dr Eric Lyon, a lecturer from the Sonic Arts Research Centre talks to Cycling 74 about his new book, Designing Audio Objects for Max/MSP and Pd. The book is a practical guide to implementing synthesis and signal processing techniques using the popular software Max and Pd.
Click here to view the interview on the Cycling 74 website
In conjunction with the School of English and Oxford University Press, the School of Creative Arts were pleased to host the launch of Professor Marilynn Richtarik's (Georgia State University) new book 'Stewart Parker: A Life'. The lecture and book launch took place in the Brian Friel Theatre on Wednesday 21st November 2012.
Listen again to the lecture:
http://sp-ce.net/sual/2011/sualaward2011_en.htm
Cormac Crawley and Christopher Haworth, two composers working in electroacoustic music at the Sonic Arts Research Centre secured two out of the three prizes in this international competition. The selection process was anonymous and the jury was composed of Belma Bešlic-Gál (Composer/Pianist. Co-Curator of shut up and listen! 2011), Wolfgang Seierl (Composer/Visual Artist. Founder of the Mittersill Composers' Forum, and of ein klang records, Austria) and Germán Toro-Pérez (Composer. Head of the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology, Zurich University of the Arts).
Cormac Crawley (IE): 'Port of Call'
http://soundcloud.com/cormac-crawley
Port of Call: The port, as an interface, offers access from land to water, from water to land, north to south and east to west. It is the beating heart of many cities, towns and villages. With a broad band of sound such as the roaring of the ocean our ears often play tricks with us. We may imagine sounds; plucked from its vast spectrum of frequencies.The piece offers a chronological description of how the port has had an ongoing effect on the lives around it. Also presented is the effect that those around the port have had on this once tranquil soundscape; previously only disturbed by nature itself. A montage of sounds emerge from the ocean and develop from natural and harmonious to unnatural and sometimes dissonant depicting human interference and pollution of the soundscape. The struggle between human and environment is portrayed as a sway of events throughout the piece; natural and unnatural.
Christopher Haworth (UK): 'Correlation Number One'
http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/sarc/People/PhDstudentsatSARC/ChristopherHaworth/
Christopher Haworth's work explores psychoacoustic phenomena and perceptual idiosyncrasies to call into question common assumptions and received ideas about listening and sonic experience. His recent piece, entitled 'Correlation Number One', uses high frequency tones to generate 'distortion-product otoacoustic emissions' (DPOAEs) in the listener's ears. This means that, in effect, the ear itself becomes an instrument, which the tones coming out of the speakers 'perform' in certain ways to produce sound. What you hear is thus totally subjective, creating a paradoxical situation in which the listener listens to himself listening.
The School of Creative Arts in collaboration with the School of Management proposes to introduce a new MA, entitled . This pathway will take advantage of the strong existing links between Drama, Creative Writing, Film Studies, Music and Visual Arts courses and Belfast’s wider cultural sector. Click here for more information
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