New Album by Louis Sterling

Louis Sterling will have his debut record ‘Adisceda’ released on David August’s 99CHANTS label on April 12th.

‘Adisceda’ takes the form of an act of remembrance, and all the joy and sorrow that can bring. Gloriously deep ambient electro-acoustics that you can get lost in.

Listen to the track ‘The Black Gate to Utopia’:

Olivia Louvel Performance at Hello Goobye Show.

Listen to Olivia Louvel performing a live set at Resonance FM’s “Hello Goodbye Show” presented by deXter Bentley, aired on Saturday 16th March 2019.

PLAYLIST

Lunatraktors – Black Raven

Rip, Rig & Panic – The Blue Blue Third

Mark Springer – Teatro Castagnoli di Scansano II

Olivia Louvel – Langside 1568 (LIVE SESSION)

Olivia Louvel – Deploy (LIVE SESSION)

Olivia Louvel – The Veil (LIVE SESSION)

Olivia Louvel – Battlefront (LIVE SESSION)

Olivia Louvel – February 8th 1587 (LIVE SESSION)

Olivia Louvel – ‘interview’

Agathe Max – Rêves Perdus

Misha Gray’s Prehistoric Jazz Quintet – Colossus Of Rhodes

The Comet Is Coming – Summon The Fire

Map 71 – Gyrate Formidable Receptors

Robert Sotelo – Bronte Paths

Hygiene – Holloway Road

ILL – Bus Shelter

Presented by deXter Bentley

Live sound engineers: Julian Sander, Nick Cron, Girish Rambaran & Pip McKenzie

DMSA Alumni, Students and Staff showcased @ IWD2019

As part of the International Women’s Day 2019 campaign to #BalanceforBetter, Sound and Music showcase the profiles of 31 composers and their unique contributions to composition in the UK. Alumni Akiko Haruna and Guoda Dirzyte, current student Jade Gunner and DMSA Course Leader Dr Maria Papadomanolaki are profiled in the showcase that is part of the online archive of British Music Collection.

British Music Collection provides unparalleled access to the modern history of composition in the UK. Established in 1967 as a means for contemporary composers to deposit scores and recordings for performers to access, it now consists of almost 70,000 works and recordings from over 3000 20th and 21st century composers and sound artists.

The value in the collection is undeniable – providing access to over 50 years of contemporary composition – but it’s not without fault. The underrepresentation of female composers, or those who identify as female, across the original collection is stark, and a reminder of the progress that has been made, and must continue to happen, in and across new music.

Much of the British Music Collection now exists here online, and this provides a great opportunity to readdress this imbalance and the original aim of the collection: providing access to the work of contemporary composers.

OPENING NIGHT: All That Scratching Is Making Me Itch

ICA THEATRE
20:00 | Fri 11 Jan 2019
BOOK TICKETS

All That Scratching Is Making Me Itch is a en event curated by Stephen Mallinder featuring films by our students Aki Purser, Jedd Winterburn along with a fine selection of Scratch Video films, live music and more.

More info:
https://shortfilms.org.uk/lsff2019/events/2019-01-11-opening-night-all-that-scratching-is-making-me-itch

Olivia Louvel & Louis Sterling are recipients of awards

Two of our Level 5 students have received awards for their outstanding performance on the course as part of University of Brighton’s annual Student & Staff Celebration Event.The event is an opportunity for the University to thank their donors for their fantastic, generous support and to celebrate the achievements of students, Olivia Louvel has been awarded the Norman Cook Digital Music and Sound Arts Breakthrough Award and Louis Sterling an Employability Fund Award!

‘Training Ground’ @ KOMEDIA | 10/12/18

Monday 10th December 2018 | 8pm – Late
KOMEDIA Brighton

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Successfully running for its 10th year, the student-led DMSA club night is happening again on the 10th of December at Komedia, one of Brighton’s established music venues.

More infor below and on the facebook event page.

EXPERIMENTAL | LIVE PERFORMANCES | ELECTRONICA | DJ’S

Training Ground is a fun live performance night in the heart of Brighton at Komedia.
There will be a variety of performances all showcasing different elements of music, sound and image.

***8-Late
***£5 On the door

INCLUDING
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Experimental Music
Live Performance
DJ’s Set
Acoustic sets
Noise Music
Ambient Music
Techno Music
Projections

PERFORMANCES:
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Jack & Jordan
Vince Vanity
George Sparrow
Josh & Ryan
Luke Josper
Cyphon
Sunday, Early Morning (+Tarek)
Tarek (+ Sunday, Early Morning)
Onism

DJ’s
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Javier
Matthew
Jack A
Donald

Masterclass with Olivia Louvel: Document and Construct: sound, women and battles.

Monday 3rd December 2018, 4:30-6, Performance Studio, GP

Our current student Olivia Louvel will be leading the next masterclass on a very inspiring range of topics: sound women and battles.

About the session

Document and Construct: sound, women and battles.
I will explore the relationship between documentation and creation throughout my most recent works, Data Regina, inspired by the reign and writings of Mary Queen of Scots as well as the audiovisual piece, Afraid of Women, produced to bring awareness to Rojava, the autonomous region in Northern Syria.

Finally I will share my experience as a member of female:pressure, the international network of female, transgender and non-binary artists in the fields of electronic music and digital arts founded by Electric Indigo.
The session will be punctuated by sound intermission and live performance.

About Olivia

Olivia Louvel is a French-born, British composer, producer and artist whose work draws on voice, computer music and digital narrative. She operates on the frontier of art and electronic music. Her work also ranges from video art to live performance. Over the last decade, she has released six solo albums published on various labels, Angelika Koehlermann (Austria), Optical Sound (France) and on Cat Werk Imprint, her own production tool.
Her largest project to date Data Regina is a multimedia suite in which she explores the reigns of Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I, delivering her own singular transposition through an interactive digital platform and a cd publication. She was featured with Data Regina in The Wire magazine.

Her work has been supported by the Arts Council of England. In 2011, she was awarded the Qwartz Album for Doll Divider at the Qwartz Electronic Music Awards.

Olivia Louvel has received extensive airplay on significant radio programs such as BBC Radio 6’s Freak Zone, BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, Resonance (UK), RTE Lyric FM’s Nova (Ireland), Radio Eins’s Elektro Beat (Germany), NRK’s Harald Are Lund (Norway), RTVE Radio 3’s Fluido Rosa, RTVE Radio 3’s Atmosfera (Spain), RAI 3’s Battiti (Italy), and France Musique’s La Matinale.

She has presented her work at venues and festivals such as Spirit of Gravity (Brighton 2017), Nawr (BBC Hall, Swansea 2017), Brighton Digital Festival (2017), Iklectik (London 2016), CTM (Berlin 2016), Dear Serge (De La Warr, Bexhill 2015), Culture Night (Dublin 2015), Earsthetic Festival (Brighton Dome 2013), at Tri XL (Antwerp 2010), Le Cube (Paris 2009), Ososphere Festival (Strasburg 2009), Electron Festival (Geneva 2008). She has opened for artists such as Japanese avant-garde artist Phew at Iklectik London, Planningtorock at the Earsthetic Festival Brighton Dome and Recoil for various concerts on the European ‘Selected’ tour.

LINK http://www.olivialouvel.com

Imagined Title Sequences at CINECITY

Please pop in to the opening event of Imagined Title Sequences by School of Media students, which will be running in rotation from 4.30-6.00pm this Thursday the 22nd in the foyer of Edward Street.

The project was produced in association with CINECITY The Brighton Film Festival. All of the sequences have been made by the BA Design for Digital Media students in Level 5. Some of the students have used footage kindly leant by Screen Archive South East and some of the sequences have been made in collaboration with Level 5 students on the BA Digital Music and Sound Arts course.

It will also be screened on Fri 23rd, Sat 24th & Mon 25th Nov 10am-5pm.

L5 Collaborative Work Shown as Part of Brighton Illustration Fair

L5 students from BA Design for Digital Media have completed a collaborative joint animation and sound project, ‘DOT – 2 – DOT’ with L5 BA Digital Music and Sound Arts students.

The animation showreel will be shown in room G5 in Grand Parade on Sat/Sun this weekend, as part of BIF (Brighton Illustration Fair).

BIF (Brighton Illustration Fair) runs all weekend in the Sallis Benney Theatre and adjoining rooms.

Follow BIF
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wearebif/?hl=en
FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2072514956097050/

DMSA Feature: PJ Davy

PJ Davy’s ‘Heads In The Cloud 2.0’ opens tomorrow at The Basement in Brighton as part of the Exploring Boundaries exhibition, Brighton Digital Festival. We briefly talk to PJ about his background, his creative vision and projects his is currently working on.

DMSA: Where do we find you now?

PD: I recently moved to London where I’ll be starting a new role as a Production Technician Intern at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. I’ll be helping the production team provide sound and lighting for contemporary dance, orchestras, and operas. I’m looking forward to getting stuck into London, for a while. I miss the sea and fresh air, already, though.

DMSA: Three important words that represent you as a creative person

PD: Always be yourself.

DMSA: When did you start working with sound and music?

PD: I started working with sound and music, electronically, when I was 14 years old. A friend introduced me to Fasttracker 2, and I was hooked. It’s interface looked like the Matrix. You had to program in volume, panning, and other effects by sequencing numbers that scrolled up or down the screen. It forced some pretty nifty creativity within its limitations, but that’s always where the good stuff comes from.

DMSA: In what ways has the DMSA course supported or helped you to develop into who you are today creatively and professionally?

PD: DMSA opened up my eyes and ears to areas of sound and music I’d not yet explored. It broadened my horizons and opportunities to work with amazing artists I never thought I’d be working with, in worlds I’d never associated myself with. It challenged me to focus my time and effort into projects in a professional way, but always with experimentalism at its heart, and never in a direction that felt forced upon me. I feel like the course has developed my creativity to push my own work within the global art and music community.

DMSA: Other plans for the future? projects, events, visions?

PD: I’ll be with Trinity Laban until next September, so I’m currently looking for a masters program to continue studying in 2019. I have some projects I’m currently working on that I’m really proud of, something very personal, and some others I look forward to being able to share, nearer completion. On the 4/5/6th of October, I’ll be exhibiting my multichannel sound and light installation, Heads in The Cloud 2.0, for Exploring Boundaries at The Basement, in Brighton, at part of Brighton Digital Festival 2018. This second iteration of my installation will focus more on the traces of memories left behind once time has passed since originally posted. It’s easy to forget what of ourselves we’ve submitted onto the world wide web, but we leave behind our ghosts in the machine, possibly forever.

I aim to remain focused, be productive, and keep learning.

Heads In The Cloud 2.0 opens tomorrow and will be running till Saturday 6th.

PJ’s website: www.pjedavy.com