Wednesday 4 May 2022, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Freeman Edwards is a composer whose central focus is creating pieces as electric guitar recordings, which are freely distributed and intended for private playback. These works tend to be concise, and explore continuous pitch space using special tools and extended techniques. Freeman will talk about his process, […]
Wednesday 27 April, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Oli Julian is a composer for film and TV, working most extensively in comedy and comedy drama. Based in Sheffield, he has worked on a wide range of projects including Sex Education, Motherland, Catastrophe & Plebs. He will be discussing his process from being hired on the job […]
Wednesday 6 April, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Since almost two decades my compositions often included visual components. While for a long time I focused on specific relationships between the visual and sonic layer – audiovisual composition in a strict sense – in more recent works the inclusion of other disciplines led me to abandon standard […]
Wednesday 30 March 2022, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Ioannis Panagiotou will present his work, which explores and recreates lost memories through a transdisciplinary approach. This work takes the form of installations, video works, books, concert music, performance art and community works for prisons and refugee camps. He will introduce the concept of Pinecone Structures as […]
Wednesday 23 March, 12-2pm [online via Minerva and in CM223] Jake Gaule (he/him) is a freelance Composer & Sound Designer who hates writing in the third person. Currently I work mostly within gaming industry. I love playful, whimsical, gentle, ambient, natural sounds, and big, brash, janky, electronic weirdness in equal measure. I like to work […]
Wednesday 16 March 2022, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Robin Rimbaud – Scanner will present his body of work over the last thirty years that has slipped between the borders of performance, installation, music and art, from scanning mobile phone networks, composing the world’s first VR Ballet, soundtracking the dead, and collaborating with fashion designers, choreographers, […]
Wednesday 9 March 2022, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Through 30 years of practice making music through improvisation with electronics as well as building large interfaces for audience experience, often on the street, Kaffe Matthews is back finding an essence in being live on stage. At her talk on Wednesday, she will take us through the […]
Wednesday 2 March, 12-2pm (online via Minerva) Eleanor Alberga will discuss her thoughts on composition with specific reference to her new symphony, ‘Strata’, which will receive its premiere on 5th March at St George’s Bristol by the Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra conducted by Andres Kaljuste. The symphony was specially commissioned by the BHCO in memory of […]
Wednesday 23 February 2022, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] – rescheduled from last year Sara will be discussing recontextualization as a compositional strategy, pop-culture nostalgia, translation as extended authorship, and the juxtaposition of these processes, while showcasing both video (This Champagne Is Burned, popfem #2) and acoustic pieces (Artefacts 2, Latitudes, Im Stein) from 2018 to today. Sara Glojnarić is a composer based in Stuttgart, Germany, […]
Wednesday 16 February 2022, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Nina Whiteman discusses her shifting approach to notation since 2018, beginning with TOMB (2018) and its underground moving images. Work since has explored video scoring as a playful means of communicating with musicians who might not read staff notation (e.g. I’m not a robot, 2020) as well […]
Wednesday 19 January, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Richard Scott is a composer and improvisor residing in Berlin, who has been navigating the nether regions of free improvisation, jazz and avant-garde composition for some four decades. For the last few years he has been mostly focused on developing a personal and quite visceral approach to the […]
Wednesday 12 January, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Restrictions on live performance over the past two years gave rise to some quite extensive rethinking of my approach to composition, starting from a desire to produce work which made creative use of a different set of possibilities, rather than a simulation of pre-pandemic circumstances. This led to […]
Wednesday 8 December 2021, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Composer Charlie Sdraulig will propose ways of reimagining how performers and audiences relate to one another, as explored in his series one to one (2018-20). He will discuss aspects of participation, nonverbal interaction, and entrainment. Charlie Sdraulig’s music often draws attention to the social dynamics of musical situations, focusing […]
Wednesday 24 November, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] I have about 10 years of experience working in audio for games, film and other media. I spend about 70% of my time in the studio where I do sound design, music composition and implementation mostly in the video games industry. The remaining 30% I spend organising and […]
Wednesday 17 November 2021, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Laura Steenberge’s work as a performer and composer is informed by the study of iconography, music and psychoacoustic phenomena that have represented imaginary and supernatural voices through the ages. For this talk, she will discuss several recent pieces alongside banderoles, necromancers, and medieval chant. Laura Steenberge is an […]
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Elena Rykova will share her recent work and talk about monochrome composition. She will focus on the following creations: Asymptotic Freedom II for six electric guitars recently premiered in Darmstadt, Silenced for two timpani and electronics, and 101% percent mind uploading for three performers inside a piano. A composer and artist, Elena Rykova, […]
Wednesday 3 November 2021, 1-2pm [online via Minerva] *Please note the later start time* Library music composer and label owner Dan Graham will respond to questions about library music drawing on his extensive industry experience. As well as working as a composer himself, Dan runs the production music library Gothic Storm, providing trailer music for […]
Wednesday 27 October 2021, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Rylan Gleave reimagines Cherubino’s aria from Le Nozze di Figaro, recontextualising the trouser role through a trans lens, in a dissection of his upcoming work In chemical transit. The piece for current and previous voice, with ensemble and electronics, explores the opera’s original text, literal translation, and Voi che […]
Wednesday 20 October 2021, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Stefan will talk about two pieces in which the electric guitar is central: an ‘early’ piece (Not I, for e-guitar and live-electronics) and under_current, his electric guitar “concerto”, which will have been premiered, a few days before the talk, in Donaueschingen. He will discuss the e-guitar in […]
Wednesday 13 October 2021, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Kathy Hinde will share recent installations, performances, participatory works and research from her current practice. She will include details of recent collaborations with environmental scientists, and outline her motivations and aspirations to engage people with critical issues around climate change through embodied experiences via artistic media and […]
Wednesday 19 May 2021, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] In this session I’ll talk through and play music from some current projects and some things from a few years back. I’ll also say a bit about ideas for the future. I’ll touch on technique, collaboration, Italo Calvino, dance, and recording. I’ll also talk a little bit […]
Wednesday 12 May 2021, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Peter Albrechtsen is a Danish sound designer, re-recording mixer and music supervisor based in Copenhagen and working on both feature films and documentaries. Among Peter Albrechtsen’s recent doc credits are the festival favorites Bill Nye: Science Guy, Land of the Free and True Conviction. Recent fiction credits […]
Wednesday 28 April 2021, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] A combination of discussion of some recent works, a polemic, and a plea: on the importance of the body and its motions, postures and rhythms in everything to do with notated music: not only the performance, not only the material, but the score and even the act […]
Wednesday 21 April 2021 [2-4pm, online via Minerva – NOTE CHANGE OF TIME] Michael will talk about and play some recent (and not so recent) work that attempts to touch the infinite stream of the world with multitudes of small sounds. Michael Pisaro-Liu (born 1961 in Buffalo, New York) is a long time member of […]
Wednesday 14 April, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Catherine Lamb talks about the in-between, notions of impurities, perspectivism, Sruti as harmonic thinking, spirals, and multi-dimensional realities. We will also listen to some music. Catherine Lamb is an active composer exploring the interaction of tone, summations of shapes and shadows, phenomenological expansions, the architecture of the liminal (states […]
Wednesday 17 March 2021, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Matthew Shlomowitz will discuss ways he sets up a quasi-theatrical scenario through music and sound, without recourse to image or text, in his recent composition Graveyard and Slot (with guest appearance). In advance, you can look at a performance of the work given by Ensemble Nikel at the 2020 […]
Wednesday 10 March 2021, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] How is it possible to enter a different cosmos of time beside our very own time and life? What is that limbo that we can get thrown into in a concert – who is responsible for that? The music? The score ? The performer? The listener? Or […]
Wednesday 3 March 2021, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Simon Holt is a composer whose music demands unusual commitment from his interpreters – his intricate sound-worlds often comprise complex, rich textures, offset by ‘still centres’ – for the purpose of making music which speaks with extraordinary power. He was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 21 February, […]
Leo Chadburn talks about his work from the last decade: music that is concerned with the musicality and theatricality of the speaking voice, found text, lists and stream-of-consciousness writing. He has drawn upon models borrowed from visual art, such as the installation work of Susan Hiller and the films of John Smith and Peter Greenaway, […]
BSAD have sound artist and Bath Spa graduate Kathy Hinde visiting on Monday 22 February at 5pm, and the session is open to everyone. To join, use this link: https://meet.google.com/rpv-aaes-yqw Kathy will share her current research as a Data fellow with South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN).She has been researching methods to experience water “data sets” […]
Wednesday 17 February 2021, 12-2pm, online via Minerva. Exploring the ready-made scores through speculative listening to create sound compositions that demands other listening spaces. A Kurdish composer, improviser and sound artist, Hardi Kurda began his music education at the Institute of Fine Art, Slemani (violin). He obtained his BA (2009) and MA (2012) degrees in […]
Wednesday 26 January, 12-2pm (online via Minerva) Lim’s Sex Magic was premiered by American flutist Claire Chase on Dec 18 2020 and livestreamed from The Kitchen in New York. It is a 50-minute work for contrabass flute, electronics and an installation of kinetic percussion, about the sacred erotic in women’s history. Please see links for […]
Wednesday 20 January 2021, 12-2pm [Online via Minerva] Tom Johnson discusses his latest mathematical music, not with 12-tone rows, but with (12,4,3) block designs. The 12 notes all have equal importance, but there is no octave equivalence and the rules are quite a bit more rigorous than in the Second Viennese School. Tom Johnson, born […]
Wednesday 13 January [online via Minerva] Jock McKenzie is leading composer of educational music, specialising particularly in brass and wind. In this short presentation, Jock will talk about his approach to writing educational brass music (from beginner to diploma level), with a special emphasis on the new and different formats and resources necessitated by the […]
Wednesday 6 January, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] For a long time I considered my work to be about the relationship between sound, history and memory, using recorded spoken word and field recordings as my primary materials. However over the last decade or so, I realise that my recent work is all about stories – the […]
Wednesday 9 December, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] In this presentation, Australian composer and performer Cat Hope talks about her animated notation practice and how it is used to facilitate the inclusion of electronics in a series of small and large scale works. Originally engaged to enable a focus on very low sound, glissandi and long […]
In this talk I will present resent research that explores how contemporary music technologies trace their ancestry to previous forms of instruments and media. I will look at how new digital music technologies have origins in traditional instrument design, musical notation, and sound recording. The scope will range from ancient Greek music theory, medieval notation, early […]
Wednesday 25 November 2020, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Anna will be chatting through some of the range of projects she’s worked on in recent years including opening up her work beyond commissioned acoustic/orchestral etc work to include writing albums and performing with her band, writing for film and tv and installation work. She’ll also talk […]
Wednesday 18 November 2020, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Some of my music includingsome general thoughts about:Instruments as objectsandObjects as instrumentsAbout composing pitches versus composing sound complexes, composing video, composing light, composing performance. Michael Maierhof is a composer based in Hamburg. He studied mathematics and music in Kassel and art history and philosophy in Hamburg. He […]
Wednesday 11 November, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Aaron Cassidy will discuss two recent quartets based on the work of the painter Gerhard Richter—Self-Portrait, Three Times, Standing (15.3.1991–20.3.1991) (2018–19) and Self-Portrait, 1996 (2020)—that together form the collection A way of making ghosts. Since he has given some recent online lectures about the relationship between the pieces […]
Wednesday 28 October 2020, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Graham Fitkin talks about his compositions and long-standing musical inclinations, including use of patterns, information flow and juxtaposition. Along the way excerpts from a number of pieces will be heard showing how his work has changed over the years. I compose for live performance, dance, media and […]
Wednesday 21 October, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Following his recent articles for The Guardian and BMC, composer Daniel Kidane discusses his recent compositional practice in relation to his mixed heritage and identity, exploring these themes in relation to his recent pieces Woke (BBC Commission for The Last Night of the Proms), Foreign Tongues (for string quartet), […]
Wednesday 14 October, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Everything from why I started working with words, how working with words allowed me to find my musical voice, how I choose texts, how I adapt them to work for me, how I set them, how I collaborate with living writers, setting texts out of copyright, translations….I will […]
Wednesday 7 October 2020, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Ryoko Akama will present some recent projects, and will consider the way her work has developed over recent months without the possibility of live performance. Ryoko Akama works with installations and sounds and approaches listening situations that magnify silence, time and space. Her sculptural work engages with mundane objects and […]
Wednesday 30 September 2020, 12-2pm [online via Minerva] Composer Laurence Crane will show a selection of his music. Drawing on over 35 years of work in composition, he will talk about some of his recurring preoccupations as a composer over this period. Laurence Crane was born in Oxford in 1961 and studied composition with Peter […]