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The Sonic Arts Research Centre is proud to be the first Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC) "Artist in Residency". The MAC opened in April 2012 and is Belfast's brand new arts venue. The world class building in Belfast's Cathedral Quartet will be home to all kinds of exhibitions, blockbuster performance, experimental works and endless goingson...
The Artist in Residency programme includes four groups from SARC who will be working at the MAC for two weeks at a time and presenting work publically in the form of workshops and performance during four weekends between May and June 2012.
Residency Schedule:
Inside/Out
John D'Arcy and Rob Bentall
5 and 6 May 2012
Performance times 11.30am, 12.30pm, 2.30pm and 3.30pm.
Stories of the City: Sailortown
Isobel Anderson and Fionnuala Fagan
19 and 20 May 2012
Performance times 1-2pm and 5-6pm
Making Visuals Sound
Emily Robertson and Franziska Schroeder
2 and 3 June 2012
Workshop times: 11am-12:30pm and 2-3.30pm
Amalgam: Collaborative techniques within Co-operative Spaces
Aidan Deery, Michael Dzjaparidze, Robin Renwick
16 and 17 June
Worlshop times 11.30am, 12.30pm, 2.30pm and 3.30pm
Sounds of the City is a community project and exhibition commissioned by the MAC (Metropolitan Arts Centre) and led by artists from the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), Queen’s University Belfast.
The project explores the relationship between sound and community, uncovering the sounds of everyday life and the ever-changing Belfast soundscape.
Over four months, the SARC artists worked with two intergenerational groups in Belfast to capture the unique sonic qualities of our city’s places, events and stories.
The project has been brought to life via five sound installations that you can hear throughout the MAC. The installations explore daily life in Belfast from our industrial heritage, to the local family home through identity and memory. The exhibition is shaped by past and present experiences of workshop participants from Dee Street Community Centre in East Belfast and Tar Isteach in North Belfast.
SOUNDS OF THE CITY was created by Pedro Rebelo, Rui Chaves, Matilde Meireles and Aonghus McEvoy.
Dates: 20th April 2012 – 19th June 2012
For more information visit www.soundsofthecity.info
SARC'S BLISS (Belfast Legion for Improvised Sights and Sounds) will join 6 laptops ensembles and orchestras for a concert for the first Symposium on Laptop Ensembles and Orchestras (SLEO) at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.Roger Dannenberg, associate research professor of computer science, music and art at Carnegie Mellon, will direct FLO’s multi-city “collective improvisation” from Baton Rouge.
FLO will include live performances by laptop orchestras in Baton Rouge and at Carnegie Mellon, Stanford University, Texas A&M University, the University of Colorado, the University of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England, and Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The performances will be streamed online; information will be available prior to the performances on the SLEO website, http://sleo2012.cct.lsu.edu/.
BLISS
Belfast Legion for Improvised Sights and Sounds
The Legion does not prescribe its sights or sounds; they are the product of digital and contra-digital networks of gates, tables, switches, speaker objects, cabling and data... The Legion is not a band, we don't play at weddings, BUT we like playing in the network.
For more information visit http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2012/april/april3_laptoporchestras.html
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.
Available from the App Store
Share your sound world live!
Liveshout is a mobile streaming app that allows for single orsimultaneous multiple user broadcast. Liveshout works with Icecast streaming technology which allows for flexibility both in terms of access and usage. The app is designed for locative media, sound and transmission art practitioners as well as amateur broadcasters.
Stream live soundwalks with high quality audio, collect multiple audio live streams for concert presentation or recording, use it as a baby monitor and much more… Try it and let us know about your projects using Liveshout!
List of Features :
- High quality mono one-way stream
- Ogg encoding
- Based on Icecast streaming server technology
- Single or simultaneous multiple user broadcast architecture.
- Streams accessible though embedded web player, pure data or VLC
- Works with wifi or 3G networks
- Compatible built in or external iPhone microphones for high quality audio capturing
Liveshout was commissioned by CO-ME-DIA, a Culture 2007 European Union project, developed by Ecliptic Labs and based on research currently being carried out at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast.
Get it here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/liveshout/id469761290?mt=8
For more information on Liveshout including a how to guide and examples of projects using the application please visit http://www.somasa.qub.ac.uk/~liveshout/
Brain Jog consists of 4 mini games designed to test 4 main areas of cognition: Spatial ability, working memory, arithmetic ability and verbal fluency. Games for seniors have steadily been gaining in popularity. Now research is being conducted to identify exactly what it is that seniors want. Brain Jog’s design is unique in that it is the result of one and a half year’s research and collaboration with those over the age of 50. To participate, simply download the application for free (link below). Start it, answer a few questions, then play the games. It’s as easy as that. There are no obligations, play as frequently as you like and stop whenever you choose.
Researcher, Donal O’Brien says; “Your participation will help us create a fantastic game experience for those over 50 and bring us one step closer to finding out whether or not ‘brain training’ can act in preventing cognitive decline / dementia”.
Contact:
Donal O’Brien
Re: Brain Jog App
Tel: +44 (0) 754 299 1371
donal@brainjog.org
www.brainjog.org
Brain Jog can be downloaded from here for free:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/brain-jog/id414035111?mt=8&ls=1.
A video of Brain Jog can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mfWv8WWKOo
