Download Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2006

Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2006
Friday 24, Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 February 2006
Voices
Festival Directors:
Simon Ible, Director of Music, University of Plymouth
Eduardo R Miranda, Professor of Computer Music, University of Plymouth
The weekend festival of performances, lectures, demonstrations and workshops
explores contemporary music for “voices” and showcases computer music research
and new creative developments at University of Plymouth.
Friday 24 February, 7.30pm
Upper Lecture Theatre, Sherwell Centre, University of Plymouth
CONCERT Tickets £7 (students free)
Kate Westbrook, Mike Westbrook and Marcelo Gimenes
Kate Westbrook, internationally acclaimed vocalist and Mike Westbrook, the
UK’s foremost jazz composer, big band leader and pianist perform original
songs, jazz ballads and music theatre.
Marcelo Gimenes, superb Brazilian pianist and improviser performs piano
pieces by: Jonatas Manzolli: Heptaedro, Eduardo R Miranda: Carnival for
Piano and Heitor Villa-Lobos: Ciclo Brasileiro
Saturday 25 February
10.00am
LECTURE Free event
Stonehouse Lecture Theatre, Portland Square, University of Plymouth
Eduardo R Miranda
Artificial Phonology: On Composing Music with Surreal Languages
and Disembodied Voice
Professor Miranda examines some of the techniques used to create an
artificial phonological system for Sacra Conversazione, a short opera in five
acts featuring human singers, artificially synthesized voices and
complementary synthetic sounds. It introduces some of the most
significant techniques for computer simulation and manipulation of voice
used to produce materials for the piece. The lecture concludes with a
discussion of lessons learned throughout the process of composing music
with such techniques.
12.00
WORKSHOP Free event
Stonehouse Lecture Theatre, Portland Square, University of Plymouth
John Matthias
Remix Workshop
Doctor Matthias, Senior Lecturer in the School of Media and
Photography at the University of Plymouth, will work with 10
participants in a live workshop looking at ways in which the
participants might write/produce a short (2 minute) piece
involving words/music, which will be performed at 5.00pm.
1.00pm
SOUND DIFFUSION Free event
Stonehouse Lecture Theatre, Portland Square, University of Plymouth
Electroacoustic Voices
Electroacoustic vocal pieces for loudspeakers featuring compositions by
David Evan Jones, Jaap Blonk & Radboud Mens, Peter Beyls and Trevor
Wishart.
2.00pm
LECTURE Free event
Stonehouse Lecture Theatre, Portland Square, University of Plymouth
Frances M Lynch
The Electric Voice
Vocal and microphone techniques and singing with recorded music explored
through the works being presented in the programme. How to sing with
different kinds of fixed microphones and exploit their attributes, whilst,
avoiding the many pitfalls. How to synchronise with recorded music, and how
this differs from composer to composer. How the electronics work and what is
available. How to decipher scores.
3.00pm
LECTURE Free event
Stonehouse Lecture Theatre, Portland Square, University of Plymouth
Karen Wimhurst
Transformations: from the kitchen sink to the bowl of the Universe
Composer Karen Wimhurst will talk about compositional processes and the
intimacy of the female in creativity.
5.00pm
PERFORMANCE Free event
Stonehouse Lecture Theatre, Portland Square, University of Plymouth
John Matthias Remix Workshop Performance
7.30pm
CONCERT Tickets £7 (students free)
St Matthias Church, North Hill, Plymouth
Frances M Lynch: Electric Voice Music
Voces: A capella choral music directed by Martyn Warren
Concert of vocal and electronic music including Karen Wimhurst: Phoenix,
Eduardo R Miranda: Requiem per una veu perduda, Andrew Lovett: The
Daughters of Sarah and Alejandro Vinao: Hildegard’s Dream, and choral
works by Karen Wimhurst, settings of words by Emily Dickenson and Avo
Part sacred music.
Sunday 26 February
Room 105, Scott Building, University of Plymouth
10.00am
WORKSHOP Free event
Frances M Lynch
Your Electric Voice
The workshop offers an opportunity for all-comers to have a go at singing and
recording with microphones. It will be of interest as much to complete
beginners as to experienced voice practitioners. We will be exploring the
voice as an instrument – extending it using the electronics, having fun with it
and creating some pieces of music together which use both pre-recorded &
live sounds, based on the music that forms part of my programme.
1.00pm
CONCERT Tickets £5 (students free)
Daniel & Matthew Smith remix performances
John Matthias songwriter and performer
Brothers Matthew and Daniel Smith are pleased to present VOXSONICS.
An amalgamation of audio snapshots collected and dissected from between
the years 1987 to 26/2/06 10-am! Nine pieces of music / art are mixed to
create a fluid texture with a heavy vocal slant. Expect the humorous
alongside the strange. The works include sounds from early childhood
recordings / local operatic vocalists, samples of amateur cb radio enthusiasts
from around the Devonshire area. Titles include: Dirty Suit, Birdman, Potato
Feet and Linalool Static Kebab.
John Matthias has collaborated with many internationally renowned recording
artists including Radiohead and Matthew Herbert. His first solo studio album,
Smalltown, Shining, was released by Accidental Records (Lifelike) in 2001
and was heralded by Time Out (London) as one of the first examples of a
new genre of song-writing.
The Fire Engine, One Sunny Morning and Vipers’s Nest performed by John
Matthias, Nick Ryan and Jez Taylor.
Ends approximately 2.15pm
For more information contact:
Peninsula Arts
University of Plymouth
2 Endsleigh Place
Drake Circus
Plymouth
PL4 8AA
For further details and ticket information please contact Alison Whitehouse
Tel: 01752 238117 Email: [email protected]
http://www.peninsula-arts.co.uk/