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 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 […]
Composer Bryn Harrison will discuss aspects of time, memory and repetition in his recent compositional output, drawing in particular on how these ideas relate to the materiality of sound in his recent Piano Quintet (2017). He will demonstrate his approach to cyclical pitch structures and illustrate how these have been applied to works of extended duration. […]
Gavin Morris has an MA in Digital Media and makes digital interactive installations. Through Nesta funding 10 years ago he created the Digital Funfair, a festival-based interactive entertainment experience which comprises a collection of interactive multi-media installations masked as old style fairground entertainment. The Digital Funfair has toured across the UK and Europe, including Glastonbury, […]
Wednesday 3 October, 12-4pm (CM.107) The first lab of the year features a visit from composer-performer Laura Bowler, who will talk about extremes and autobiography in her work. In the second half of the lab, Alex Mah and Harry Matthews report back from the KLANGRAUM and CAMP summer schools that they attended this year, and will […]