Author Archives: Martin Parker

Keynote – Simon Waters

Inhabiting Sound Seamus Heaney – ‘Clearances’ In Memoriam M.K.H., 1911-1984 She taught me what her uncle once taught her: How easily the biggest coal block split If you got the grain and the hammer angled right. The sound of that

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Keynote – Simon Waters

Inhabiting Sound Seamus Heaney – ‘Clearances’ In Memoriam M.K.H., 1911-1984 She taught me what her uncle once taught her: How easily the biggest coal block split If you got the grain and the hammer angled right. The sound of that

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Sean Williams – From centimetres to seconds: sound design’s shift from technical serialism to musically informed performance practice in the 1950s WDR Studio, Cologne

Music made in the West Deutsche Rundfunk Studio for Electronic Music in the 1950s was characterized by a strict serialist determination of all sound parameters. In Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Studie II, and Gesang der Jünglinge, sounds as short as 0.05 seconds

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Sean Williams – From centimetres to seconds: sound design’s shift from technical serialism to musically informed performance practice in the 1950s WDR Studio, Cologne

Music made in the West Deutsche Rundfunk Studio for Electronic Music in the 1950s was characterized by a strict serialist determination of all sound parameters. In Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Studie II, and Gesang der Jünglinge, sounds as short as 0.05 seconds

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Richard Coyne – Why sound reaches the parts architecture can’t

“Physical spaces are charged with meaning and emotion for most of us — some spaces more than others. But it’s rare to enter a building or encounter spectacular scenery and experience the same intensity of emotion many of us feel

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Richard Coyne – Why sound reaches the parts architecture can’t

“Physical spaces are charged with meaning and emotion for most of us — some spaces more than others. But it’s rare to enter a building or encounter spectacular scenery and experience the same intensity of emotion many of us feel

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Not a Concert – drinks reception and installation launch

Drinks reception in B28, 6pm Attendees are welcome to this  reception in room B28, a room filled with loudspeakers and currently used to support NESS (Next generation Sound Synthesis), an ERC funded project concerned with sound synthesis, effects processing and

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Not a Concert – drinks reception and installation launch

Drinks reception in B28, 6pm Attendees are welcome to this  reception in room B28, a room filled with loudspeakers and currently used to support NESS (Next generation Sound Synthesis), an ERC funded project concerned with sound synthesis, effects processing and

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Concert – fractions and factions

Tonight’s concert will feature Jules Rawlinson’s Please use the tramps provided, a wacom-tablet driven piece of live electronics. Lauren Hayes will perform an improvisation called contactor. playRoom Martin Parker’s anti-sweetspot rant has been cancelled. Please come to Inspace for 8pm,

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Concert – fractions and factions

Tonight’s concert will feature Jules Rawlinson’s Please use the tramps provided, a wacom-tablet driven piece of live electronics. Lauren Hayes will perform an improvisation called contactor. playRoom Martin Parker’s anti-sweetspot rant has been cancelled. Please come to Inspace for 8pm,

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Keynote – Joe Banks – Sound Art as Mainstream Cultural Commodity

Author and sound artist Joe Banks argues in his book “Rorschach Audio – Art & Illusion for Sound” that “the earliest form of sound recording technology was not a machine but was written language”. Extrapolating this argument, Joe Banks discusses

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Keynote – Joe Banks – Sound Art as Mainstream Cultural Commodity

Author and sound artist Joe Banks argues in his book “Rorschach Audio – Art & Illusion for Sound” that “the earliest form of sound recording technology was not a machine but was written language”. Extrapolating this argument, Joe Banks discusses

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Peter Nelson – Phrase and Gesture: the timing and syntax of sounds

“How do sounds add up? What pulls moments together into meaningful strands? Whether sounds are static, rhythmic or fleeting, they carry us with them in ways that determine senses of speed, character and emotion. This talk concerns not just sounds

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Peter Nelson – Phrase and Gesture: the timing and syntax of sounds

“How do sounds add up? What pulls moments together into meaningful strands? Whether sounds are static, rhythmic or fleeting, they carry us with them in ways that determine senses of speed, character and emotion. This talk concerns not just sounds

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Craig Martin – Listening with Michel Serres: Sounding Objects

In his recent book Biogea the philosopher Michel Serres makes the case for the need to listen to the world. Rather than following the lengthy traditions of human-centred domination of the material and natural world Serres calls for the need

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Craig Martin – Listening with Michel Serres: Sounding Objects

In his recent book Biogea the philosopher Michel Serres makes the case for the need to listen to the world. Rather than following the lengthy traditions of human-centred domination of the material and natural world Serres calls for the need

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Panel discussion – sound design and violence

Sounds are made when surfaces meet and resist. If the resulting vibrations are constrained, funnelled and pressurised down tubes, across vent holes and around resonant cavities we can design either a musical instrument or a sonic weapon. Sound touches at

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Panel discussion – sound design and violence

Sounds are made when surfaces meet and resist. If the resulting vibrations are constrained, funnelled and pressurised down tubes, across vent holes and around resonant cavities we can design either a musical instrument or a sonic weapon. Sound touches at

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Concert – Audiovision

This concert will feature recent work by location recordist, sound designer and composer Chris Watson and expanded percussionist Christos Michalakos. Christos Michalakos – Trrraction Trrraction is a new improvised work using the Augmented Drum-Kit, a personal electro-acoustic instrumental formation based

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Concert – Audiovision

This concert will feature recent work by location recordist, sound designer and composer Chris Watson and expanded percussionist Christos Michalakos. Christos Michalakos – Trrraction Trrraction is a new improvised work using the Augmented Drum-Kit, a personal electro-acoustic instrumental formation based

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