Programme &
Registration
Registration is now open!
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or email speec@music.ox.ac.uk
if you
have any queries
The SPEEC committee are delighted to announce a packed programme of paper sessions, keynote contributions, and lecture-performances from all over the UK and as far afield as Canada, Gent, Padua and Oslo, including:
|
‘Speecer’ |
(Affiliation) |
Title/Topic/Performance |
|
Eric Clarke |
(University of Oxford) |
Distributed creativity in musical performance |
|
Liza Lim |
(University of Huddersfield) |
Tongue of the Invisible – Co-creative processes between composition, performance and improvisation |
|
Matthew Shlomowitz and Mark Knoop |
(Composer/Pianist) |
Shlomowitz and Knoop will discuss and present excerpts ahead of their evening performances; Knoop performs Shlomowitz’s Popular Contexts and Ablinger’s Voices and Piano |
|
Ben Hebbert |
(University of Oxford) |
An instrument maker's perspective on "building an instrument" |
|
Sam Hayden (University of Durham) and Mieko Kanno |
(University of Durham) |
Towards musical interaction: Sam Hayden’s compositions for e-violin and computer |
|
Caroline Wilkins and Oded Ben-Tal |
(Brunel University, Kingston University) |
Zaum: Beyond Mind (sound theatre) |
|
Tom Davis |
(University of Bournemouth) |
The Loop: A distributed instrument approach to networked performance |
|
Roger Thomas |
(Bishopsgate Institute, London) |
The instrument as relationship: improvising with SARAH |
|
Alexander Refsum Jensenius |
(University of Oslo) |
Motion capture in musical performance |
|
Martin Blain |
(Manchester Metropolitan University) |
Issues in instrumental design: the ontological problem (opportunity?) of ‘liveness’ for a laptop ensemble |
|
Brian Lock |
(Royal Holloway University) |
Music for iPad, Flute, Birds and Memoryscapes |
|
Trevor Wishart |
(Composer) |
Tools for fashioning voices (TBC) |
|
James Saunders |
(Bath Spa University) |
Specific objects? Distributed approaches to sourcing sonic materials in open form compositions |
|
Martin Vishnick |
(City University) |
Exclusive usage of extended guitar techniques |
|
Scott McLaughlin and Iain Harrison |
(University of Huddersfield) |
Multiphonics in composition and varying approaches to multiphonic notation |
|
Eleri Ann Evans |
(University of Huddersfield) |
Can you still hear me? An exploration into the dynamic capabilities of the saxophone |
|
Richard Hoadley |
(Anglia Ruskin University) |
Notating Algorithms |
|
Ian Burleigh |
(University of Lethbridge, Canada) |
Computer-assisted Tone Arrangement Using Calculated Consonance |
|
Robert Bentall |
(Queen’s University, Belfast) |
Dislocated Gesture: Composing with Dynamic Shape in Acousmatic Composition |
|
Samuel Wilson |
(Royal Holloway University) |
Building an Instrument, Building an Instrumentalist: Helmut Lachenmann’s Serynade |
|
Luk Vaes |
(Orpheus Institut, Gent) |
Revisiting the Luthéal and Prepared Piano to bring the original repertoire back to the stage |
|
Sarah Nicolls |
(Brunel University) |
‘Inside out’ Piano |
|
Laura Zattra |
(University of Padua) |
Analytical and philological approaches to the study of A Pierre (1985) by Luigi Nono: A Collaborative Approach to Composition |
|
Isabel Stoppani de Berrie |
(University of Oxford) |
Acoustic Synthesis: The Ensemble as Super-Instrument |
|
John Dack |
(Middlesex University) |
Instruments from an instrument: Schaefferian ‘instrumental analysis’ and Berio’s ‘Sequenza V’ for solo trombone |
|
James Mooney |
(Leeds University) |
The Instrument is the Score: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on the Relationships between Instrument, Score and Performer |
|
Lauren Hayes |
(University of Edinburgh) |
Haptic Augmentation of the Hybrid Piano |
|
Simon Waters |
(University of East Anglia) |
The VPFI (Virtual/Physical Feedback Instrument) Flute: A Performance Ecosystem |
|
Leigh Landy |
(De Montfort University) |
music Technology, Music technology or Music Technology? |
As well as Shelley James (Royal College of Art), presenting her glass sculpture instrument designs and a complimentary ticket to the concert performance on Friday night at the Jacqueline Du Pre music building by accomplished new music performers:
- Mieko Kanno performing music by Hayden on electric violin and electronics
- Pianist Mark Knoop performing music by Shlomowitz and Ablinger
Accomodation
It is anticipated that there will be some accomodation available on
the
Friday night at St Hilda's College (who are also hosting an optional
conference dinner for delegates). However, delegates and visitors may
also wish to
book accomodation via OxfordRooms.co.uk
- the University network which offers a variety of good quality and
nearby accomodation (at time of writing there are 72 rooms available
from £35 and upwards on
Friday 6th January).
