IFAI 2014 Timetable

THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR ARTISTIC INNOVATION

10–14 MARCH 2014 PROGRAMME OF EVENTS

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DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR ARTISTIC INNOVATION

The International Festival for Artistic Innovation (IFAI) is concerned with how interdisciplinary approaches to artistic practice play an increasing relevance to our consumption of aural and visual arts. It recognises that music can’t simply be compartmentalised.

Whilst compartmentalisation may be convenient for general discussion, it does not explain cross genre influences and interdisciplinary practice; why shouldn’t that vast landscape we call popular music be performed with that aesthetic we call jazz? Last year Soweto Kinch did this for us in concert.

We can go onto to look at what is loosely described as contemporary music that originates from the post renaissance tradition, with its approaches from the use of traditional classical instruments, through to mixed-media pieces that include audio-visual technologies. Here we find interesting ways to extend performance techniques and engage the audience in both aural and visual stimuli; how might this then relate to the work produced with live electronics and its similarities to left-field popular electronic music?

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Music cannot simply be compartmentalised and it is hoped that the programme will stimulate discussions, but equally to stimulate the aural and visual senses of all attendees and participants.

Along with a range of paper discussions including pedagogical concerns, the festival has a number of interactive presentations, workshops and concerts.

Attendees can visit open workshops, where songwriter Iain Archer will be working with conservatoire students. We have exciting cross-disciplinary keynotes Gabriel Prokofiev, Gwilym Simcock, Jan Younghusband and Robin Rimbuad (AKA Scanner).

Gwilym will also perform with his flagship band ‘The Gwilym Simcock Quintet’ here at the conservatoire; Gabriel Prokofiev will be joining composers and musicians for the Nonclassical club night at the Cockpit; Robin Rimbaud will be performing live at the Belgrave Music Hall. After Robin’s performance there will be performances by other live electronic acts.

There will also a number of concerts featuring acousmatic, audio-visual and contemporary music throughout the week.

I hope that you enjoy the experience.

VENUES

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WEL–– –COME THE RECITAL ROOM THE VENUE THE ROBERT TEBB ROOM (LEEDS COLLEGE OF MUSIC)

THE COCKPIT (SWINEGATE, LEEDS, LS1 4AG)

THE BELGRAVE MUSIC HALL & CANTEEN (1A CROSS BELGRAVE ST, LEEDS, LS2 8JP)

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MONDAY

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10–3–2014

09:30 – From the Delta to the Download: Influence & effects of technology in the blues Tom Attah (University of Salford)

Recital Room (219)

10:00 – Translating Nightports’ electronica into instrumental music (or how an aesthetic of restriction fares in the translation from illusion to reality) Adam Martin (Leeds College of Music) & Mark Slater (University of Hull)

Recital Room (219)

10:30 – Practice-based simulation model: the future of popular music studies in higher education Paul Oliver (Perth College, University of the Highlands and Islands)

Recital Room (219)

11:00 – Iain Archer Open workshop for observers

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10–14 MARCH 2014

As curator, Iain will direct a variety of ensembles, pausing mid-way to lead an interactive discussion of the process of re-interpretation.

The Venue

11:15 – Can folk performance be popular?

Can music research be art?

Lucy Wright (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Recital Room (219)

11:45 – ‘The Song of a Thousand Songs’: Popular music as a distributed model of collaboration Robert Wilsmore (York St. John University)

Recital Room (219)

12:15 – Embodied knowledge in popular music ensembles J Murphy Mcaleb (Kidderminster College)

Recital Room (219)

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14:00

13:45 JAN YOUNGHUSBAND – KEYNOTE THE VENUE

15:00 11:00 – Iain Archer Open workshop for observers See 11:00 for details The Venue 16:00

15:00 – The one man band resurgence: innovation, modernisation, or continuum?

Matt Brennan (Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh)

Recital Room (219)

15:30 – How might we analyse popular music performance?

From the Sex Pistols to the Rolling Stones Peter Smith (University of Sunderland)

Recital Room (219)

16:00 – Pedagogy of creativity Andrew West (Leeds College of Music)

Recital Room (219)

17:00 16:45 – Nick Katuszonek (Leeds College of Music) Working with Nick in this live performance, Leeds College of Music students will present their interpretations of unfinished Arcade Fire songs

The Venue

18:00

EVENING EVENTS 18:30 – Concert: Seeing Ghosts Iain Archer & Leeds College of Music students

The Venue

Evening

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TUESDAY 11–3–2014

09:30 – An examination of the processes of the undergraduate musician shifting from an individual to a collaborative culture of online learning Ruth Clark & Christine Bates (Leeds College of Music)

Recital Room (219)

10:00 – Popular music pedagogy: assessment, evaluation and context Sean McLaughlin (University of the Highlands) & Zack Moir (University of Edinburgh)

Recital Room (219)

10:30 – Malandros and Otários: The use of Samba in Tropa de Elite and Tropa de Elite: O Inimigo Agora É Outro Hans Hess, (University of Bristol)

Recital Room (219)

11:30 – The PRAISE project is a €3m EU funded technology project which aims to develop new pedagogies and tools for music tuition. Within this is the development of a technological platform and associated pedagogies which enable social, blended learning with a focus on the provision of timely and effective feedback.

Teaching music as a foreign language – using a sax led trio format to encourage language

13:30 – A pedagogical framework for enabling creative collaboration within the undergraduate music curriculum, with a specific focus upon collaborative composition Christine Bates (Leeds College of Music)

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Recital Room (219)

15:30 GWILYM SIMCOCK – KEYNOTE

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16:00

THE VENUE

EVENING EVENTS

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12–3–2014

09:00 – Nick Katuszonek (Leeds College of Music) Workshop focusing on Jazz, Pop, Improvisation and the Role of the Contemporary Musician

The Venue

11:15 – Newport Up! Liveness, Artifacts and the Seductive Menace of Jazz Recordings Revisited Katherine Williams (University of Bristol)

The Robert Tebb Room

11:45 – The Myth of the Symmetrical Diminished Scale: Playing What You Hear Roland R Davis (New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music and Five Towns College)

The Robert Tebb Room

13:30 – Afternoon Concert (Mixed Media)

The Venue

19:00 – Gwilym Simcock Quintet

WEDNESDAY

Recital Room (219)

Ed Jones (Leeds College of Music), Matthew Yee-King & Mark d’Inverno (Goldsmiths, University of London).

13:30 – Tori Freestone Trio Workshop

09:00

17:00

17:00

Evening

Evening

Evening

Evening

• Dart (Tom Williams, Coventry University) - Cello (Ben Swartz) • Hats 2010 (Brigid Brurke, UTAS University of Tasmania) • Drum and Code Improvisation #2 (Alex McLean, University of Leeds & Matthew Yee-King, Goldsmiths) • No one can hear you dream (Mark Zaki: Rutgers – Camden)

15:45 – Sorabji, Xenakis, Scores and Performers: An Experiment Lukas Huisman (Ghent University, Belgium)

Recital Room (219)

16:15 – Ligeti’s White on White: Embodied Cognition of the Compositional Process Zvonimir Nagy (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)

Recital Room (219)

Recital Room (219)

15:45 – Performing the Jewish Archive: Implications and Responses for Today David Fligg (Leeds College of Music), Stephen Muir (University of Leeds), Lisa Peschel (University of York) The Robert Tebb Room

16:45 – Showing a new film of George Aperghis’s ‘Le Corps a Corps’ by Damien Harron & Jacqui Siler.

Roland R Davis (New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music and Five Towns College)

Recital Room (219)

The Venue

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THURSDAY 13–3–2014

09:30 – Conductive Music Enrico Bertelli (Independent)

The Robert Tebb Room

09:30 – A New Approach to 21st-Century Modern Piano Performance and Recording, taking account of 18th- and 19th-Century Performance Practice

Beth Pei-Fen Chen (Independent)

10:00 – Composers on stage - the resurrection of the author?

Sanne Krogh Groth (Roskilde University, Denmark)

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10:00

Recital Room (219)

14–3–2014

09:45 – The Studio As Instrument In The Compositional Process and to What Extent Has the Technology Influenced the Composer Who is Also a Producer.

Kent Macpherson (Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton, NZ)

The Robert Tebb Room

10:30 – 1914: ‘Pierrot’ And His War: Reaching out for new audiences Matthias Wurz (University of Bangor)

FRIDAY 10:15 – Collaborative Project: An Educational Perspective on the Role and Purpose of Music Production/Technology Courses

Craig Golding & Adam Martin (Leeds College of Music)

Recital Room (219) 11:00

11:00

The Robert Tebb Room The Robert Tebb Room

09:45 – Spectromorphological approaches to structural coupling: Exploring material in electro-instrumental composition.

Jessica Aslan (University of Edinburgh)

10:15 – Genre Hybridisation in Acousmatic Composition Robert Bentall (Queen’s University, Belfast)

10:45 – Socio-Sonic: An ethnographic methodology for electroacoustic composition Tullis Rennie (Queen’s University, Belfast) 11:15 – Innovative teaching through peer collaboration - A three way model involving transatlantic peer-working and employer-orientated assessment Mark Thorley (Coventry University)

12:00

The Venue

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15:00

Nathanael May (Missouri Western State University, USA) 16:15 – Props on Stage: Using Haptic and Kinetic Control Devices to Empower the Opera Singer

Eve Klein (University of New England, Australia)

The Robert Tebb Room

16:45 – The Art of Sonification Rose Dodd (University of Huddersfield)

The Robert Tebb Room

15:45 –The role of creativity in the performance of Tan Dun’s Water Music

Luis Bittencourt (Universidade de Aveiro)

Singing Songs with 19 Tones Graham Hair (University of Glasgow)

Recital Room (219)

19:30 – Nonclassical Clubnight with Gabriel Prokofiev Juice Vocal Ensemble, Luis Bittencourt, Enrico Bertelli, Jason Alder, Robert Ratcliffe DJ Sets by Gabriel Prokofiev, Damien Harron, DJ Nwando Ebizie

16:00

The Venue

14:00 – Afternoon Concert 2 • Balconry (Aidan Deery, Queen’s University, Belfast) • Circles (Mark Pilkington & Richard Scott, dbs Music Berlin, STEIM) • The Battle (Adrian Moore, University of Sheffield) • Selaron: a great madness (Tullis Rennie, Queen’s University, Belfast)

The Venue

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THE VENUE 16:30 – Similarity Based Audio Compression as a Tool for Glitch Composition Stuart Cunningham & Jonathan Weinel (Glyndwr University)

Recital Room (219)

16:45 – Exploring the Language of Audiovisual Composition Ewan Stefani (University of Leeds)

Recital Room (219)

EVENING EVENTS 18:30 – Late Afternoon Concert 3 Odessa (Gerard Gormly, Queen’s University, Belfast) Derive (Sam Salem, Leeds College of Music) Home (a Replacing) (Tom Williams, Coventry University) Surfer Stem (Jon Weinal, Glyndwr University) Deaf John’s Dark House (Dale Jonathan Perkins Remix)

Evening

The Venue

The Cockpit Evening

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15:15 ROBIN RIMBAUD (SCANNER) – KEYNOTE

16:00

Evening

Recital Room (219)

EVENING EVENTS 18:00 – Evening Concert • Triptych (Eve Klein: University of New England, Australia) • Foraging music no. 1 (Rose Dodd: University of Huddersfield) • Lokale Orbits/Solo 5 (Daniel Mayer: University of Music and Performing Arts Graz) • Tilt Zero AV (Dale Perkins, Damien Harron (Leeds College of Music) & Michael Brown, University of Derby)

The Robert Tebb Room

12:00 – Afternoon Concert 1 • Flinch-Rest (Ben Ramsay, Staffordshire University) • Sounds Seen (and some not quite…) (Mark Zaki, Rutgers – Camden) • Collage 3 (Juan Carlos Vásquez) • Legendary Psychasthenia (Brett Gordon, University of Hull) • Summer Anthem (Robert Bentall, Queen’s University, Belfast)

THE RECITAL ROOM (219)

The Robert Tebb Room

Recital Room (219)

15:00

14:00 GABRIEL PROKOFIEV – KEYNOTE

15:45 – Ascendency of the “New Music Festival”: An examination of its role in the advancement of composers and their music.

Recital Room (219)

12:00

13:30 – Afternoon Concert • Energy Efficient (John D’Arcy: Queen’s University Belfast) • Ideomas (Steve McCourt) • Not Missing You (Amanda Stuart) • Elegeia (Nikos Stavropoulos: Leeds Metropolitan University) • Modular Void: Movement 2 (Stephan Pearse: University of Sheffield)

Recital Room (219)

The Venue

20:00 – Concert: Scanner

Belgrave Music Hall & Canteen

21:30 – Live Electronics Clubnight The Conventional Deviant: A Guided Tour - Paul J Abbott & Annabeth Robinson Richard Scott - Resonating Bodies (dbs Music Berlin, STEIM) Alex McLean - Live Coding (University of Leeds)

Belgrave Music Hall & Canteen

Evening

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