Research Seminar - SARC

On December, 12th 2007 I gave a research seminar to staff and postgraduate students at the Sonic Arts Research Center about network performance.
The seminar gave insights into the cultural implications of the network as a site for performance, and discussed vital issues which arise when playing music with others in disparate sites. (Sorry, the keynote file is too big to upload).

Disparate Bodies- a multi-site networked performance

As part of a three year European Culture network project CO-ME-DI-A
(directed by IRCAM with partners here in Belfast as well as in Graz, Prague, Genoa, Budapest and Hamburg), we have just completed a huge network performance (29th of November 2007).

The performance took place in Belfast - SARC, in Hamburg and in Graz as well as in SecondLife.
More info on the Disparate Bodies webpage.

Here is the slide show that was cast into SL:



Great success!!! A short movie with picts from the performance:




And here on youtube:

Faint - new trio

The new trio CD Faint is out on the creative sources record label.

Video of the CD launch
(11th October 2007 at the Sonic Arts Research Center in Belfast)

ICMC 07 Presentation

The paper I co-wrote with Alain, Pedro and Fernando was presented at the 2007 ICMConference in Conpenhagen in August 2007. (ICMC2007 page)

ADDRESSING THE NETWORK: PERFORMATIVE STRATEGIES FOR PLAYING APART

This is a paper about the APART study carried out at SARC in April.
It is published by the International Computer Music Conference 07.

APART Study

We have just completed a network study here at SARC.
Three musicians were placed into three different sites and several different network conditions were tested.
With this project we wanted to examine performers' complex cues in a network environment. We were particularly interested in how the network might suggest strategies for ensemble playing which might differ from those commonly used
on the traditional stage.

AHRC Fellowship

In April 2006 I will commence investigations on performance issues in networked environments. This work is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and will take three and a half years.

Two Thousand + SEVEN

The second edition of the Two Thousand Symposia Series is ahead.
For this years' one-day event we will have performative and theoretical papers elucidating issues in networked performance environments.

I am proud to announce two keynote speakers, George Lewis from Columbia University and Steven Connor from Birkbeck College, London.

The symposium will close with a panel discussion with local and remote speakers. Remotely we will be joined by Chris Brown and Chris Chafe at CCRM (Stanford University California). The discussion will be led by Director of Research at SARC, Dr. Pedro Rebelo.

Sounding Out Sonorities

The Sonorities Festival at SARC in Belfast is coming to a close today.
All (but not everybody) is invited to join the final musical (?) event which aims at promoting chance encounters between a variety of people.

The BBQ beforehand at SARC is particularly recommended!!!

Contemporary Music Review

The double issue for the Contemporary Music Review that I guest-edited is about to come out.
Here a preview of the cover page:

I think the articles are unique. So, enjoy!

s h l >>> p l s

This is the title of a new CD/DVD project that I will be doing in 2006.
Five Belfast based composers from the Sonic Arts Research Center will be writing exciting new works for saxophones and live-electronics which I will be recording in 2006.
You can get a "wee" taste during the Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music (www.sonorities.org.uk), in which I will showcase some of those works.

Red Spandex

I think I have acquired a better look in Second Life.
I am still pregnant...and am eyeing off some of those nice red spandex body suits.!!!

Two Thousand + SIX

This new international performance technology conference will kick off as part of next year's Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music and will take place at the Sonic Arts Research Center in Belfast: www.qub.ac.uk/sonorities.

The conference will bring together, for the first time, performers, composers, academics and thinkers, as well as every one else who feels outside those categories, in order to discuss a wide variety of topics on performances that are informed by new technologies.

The conference is planned for Saturday, the 29th of April 2006 at SARC in Belfast for just one day with paper sessions in the morning and the afternoon, with two keynote speakers, a lunchtime performance and a free evening concert for registered conference guests featuring Fred Frith with the Ulster Orchestra.

Further information on the conference will be posted in December 2005 on the SARC website: www.sarc.qub.ac.uk.

ICMC 2005

ICMC - the big International Computer Music Conference has started in Barcelona today !!! Without my physical presence...

My thanks go to Pedro who is there and who will read out my paper
"The Deleuze-ian/Guattarian Performance: performancing at n-1 dimensions" on Thursday, the 8th of September.






So, don't forget to go there and email me if you want to have a copy of the paper.

Ferrari

Presque rien demeure, sauf l'intensité sonore Ferrarien!

Luc Ferrari died on the 22nd of August 2005:
It is with great disbelief and shock that I take in the sad news...

I only recently had the opportunity to talk to him and to hear his works live at the 2005 Sonorities Festival in Belfast.
He was so easy to talk to,
always had a smile on his face
and I felt very privileged to hear his music live.
My thoughts go to Brunhild.

Pict from: http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Ferrari.shtml

Contemporary Music Review

I am currently guest editing an issue on the body and the instrument for the Contemporary Music Review Journal (Routledge).
An exciting piece of work, which has attracted lots of interest.
So, keep your eyes peeled; there will be some great articles to read soon!

Second Life

I now navigate as sikChick Sachertorte in Second Life.
Come and talk to me there...
or just look...




Also:
Watch out for the virtual performance that I intend to stage there with the
duo l a u t.

So, wait for it...

Quirky

tranfinite schizophrenia !

transgress and disobey !!

possess and assault !!!



This is not a S&M site, but then who knows...

maX

maX, our new baby son, finally arrived on the 26 | 09| 2006, at 7.52am in Belfast.
A 3.78 kg boy emerged from the warmth of the water...

Lukas the Lego Legend

I have built a Lego tower taller than myself!!!