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MESSAGE FOLLOWS:
A reminder that tomorrow, 2nd Nov at 3:00pm, Charlie Inskip will present
the seminar 'Organising music for movies: from academic research to
professional practice'.
The talk will take place in room 207 in the Electronic Engineering
building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS.
Directions on how to access the building can be found at
http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/about/campus-map.php. If you experience
problems entering, the lab phone number is +44 (0)20 7882 5343 and if I am
not available, anyone else in the lab should be able to help. If you are
coming from outside Queen Mary, please let me know, so I can make sure
no-one is stuck outside the doors. Details of future seminars can be found
at http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/newsevents/researchgroupevents.php?i=12.
All are welcome to attend. For those unable to do so, a video recording of
the seminar will be available online after a few days.
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Wednesday's seminar (2nd November, 3:00pm):
Title:
Organising music for movies: from academic research to professional
practice
Speaker:
Charlie Inskip
Abstract:
Music is widely used to accompany moving images, in films, advertising,
television programmes and computer games. The process of choosing and
using a piece of pre-existing commercial music for this purpose is known
as synchronisation. The addition of music to a piece of film enhances the
final work with cultural meaning, and generates additional income for the
rights holders. This talk discusses the information needs of professionals
involved in the selection of music, including Users from the advertising
and film communities and Owners from the recording and publishing
industries. Four discourses, or interpretive repertoires, are identified,
which carry conflicting meanings of music and are employed throughout the
community, although relative emphases vary according to the viewpoint of
the stakeholder. A comparison is drawn between the emphasis of the
repertoires and the precision of bespoke music search engines. This is
used to make recommendations on how to improve the disintermediated
communications process, by emphasising the repertoires employed by the
Users rather than those of the Owners.
In this talk a cataloguing scheme informed by this research and designed
to reflect the Users' way of thinking about music is presented and
discussed. This scheme has been manually applied to a collection of 3.5k
commercially available recordings as part of the ongoing development by an
independent record company of a web-based application to aid in the search
for music to accompany moving images.
Bio:
Charlie Inskip worked in PR and artist management in the music industry
for twenty years. He recently took a Masters in Library and Information
Science. This was swiftly followed up with an AHRC-funded PhD which
investigated the communications processes and information needs of
creative professionals in the music and media industries when searching
for and using music to accompany moving images. This allowed him to spend
time combining his inside knowledge of the music and media industry with
more recently acquired understanding of state-of-the-art information
management theories and practices. Since he was awarded his doctorate
Charlie has been working with a record company on the development of a
web-based application to aid in the search for music for moving images. He
is also a Senior Lecturer in Music and Media Management at London
Metropolitan University.
C4DM Website : http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/index.html
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Peter Foster
Postgraduate Research Student
Room 103, Electronic Engineering Bldg
Centre for Digital Music
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
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