Opening the Creative Studio
We would like to invite you to join us in 'Opening the Creative Studio'.
Opening the Creative Studio is a hybrid activity comprising presentations
and workshops organized by the Royal Academy of Music, and supported by the
AHRC ICT Methods Network. It takes place from 12 October - 23 November 2007
and all events are free to attend.
This series of presentations and workshops aims to explore and reflect upon
the design, development, and creative application of new technology in the
musical practices of performance and composition. The four-day events series
will take themes from the Royal Academy of Music's research network
'Modelling Creativity in Music', presenting a number of current
collaborative activities as case studies that will act as the focus for
debate and critical reflection upon the relationships between musical and
technological innovation.
Events
All events will be held from 12.30 to 8.00 pm in the Piano Gallery at the
Royal Academy of Music.
Events are free and no tickets are required.
Friday 12 October 2007 - Opening the Creative Studio 1
Simon Shaw-Miller (Academy Honorary Research Fellow and Birkbeck College)
and Mike Allen (Birkbeck College) discuss the interactions between music and
visual media and explore the creation of new audio-visual art forms. The day
will conclude with the screening of collaborative projects by students at
the Academy, Bristol School of Animation, and Leeds Metropolitan University,
presented by Philip Cashian.
Friday 2 November 2007 - Opening the Creative Studio 2
This research day brings together composers, performers, and electronics
experts to question the relationships between performers and instruments.
Neil Heyde, David Gorton, Milton Mermikides, Michael Casey (Goldsmiths), and
Paul Archbold (Kingston), will explore the potential for the extension of
acoustic instruments with live electronics, and the interaction of live
instrumental performance with intelligent computer systems.
Friday 9 November - Opening the Creative Studio 3
The third research day of the 'Opening the Creative Studio' series will
focus on digital resources that allow musicians to create their own personal
trace through sources and events. Tim Crawford and Geraint Wiggins will
present recent work from the Intelligent Sound and Music Systems Group
(Goldsmith's College), wheras Antony Pitts, Hannah Riddell, and John
Drinkwater will discuss the Academy's innovative 'RAMline' online musical
archive.
Friday 23 November - Opening the Creative Studio 4
In the final event of this series, Geraint Wiggins (Goldsmith's College),
Milton Mermikides, and Academy Honorary research fellows Simon Shaw-Miller
(Birkbeck College) and Vincent Walsh (UCL) explore the questions raised from
investigating creative translations between music and scientifically derived
data. The day will conclude with a roundtable discussion, hosted in
association with the Institute of Musical Research, summarising the issues
raised throughout the series.
For further information and updates go to
http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/activities/act26.html
or contact David Gorton ([log in to unmask]).
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