DMSA DAY 2019 with Guest Speaker Kathy Hinde

Posted on by Maria Papadomanolaki

Wednesday 5th June | 12-8pm
Performance Studio, Grand Parade
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Join Us for this year’s DMSA DAY, a full day of presentations, talks and performances, showcasing the work of our 1st, 2nd and 3rd year students, including experimental music, diffused audio pieces, experimental film, sound & moving image collaborations, sound art and radio art pieces as well as DYI and interactive instruments and processes.

This year we have the honour to have Kathy Hinde as our guest speaker.

Kathy Hinde’s work grows from a partnership between nature and technology expressed through audio-visual installations and performances that combine sound, sculpture, image and light. Drawing on inspiration from behaviours and phenomena found in the natural world, she creates work that is generative; that evolves; that can be different each time it is experienced. Kathy aims to create work that gives rise to a poetic and reflective experience that enriches an appreciation of the everyday, inviting a heightened awareness of the world around us.

http://kathyhinde.co.uk/

Also, Radio Cascabel will be coming down to Brighton for a brief presentation of a new project space and sound art venue to be launched in London and to seek collaborations and proposals from our students.

The event will close with immersive audio-visual performances by Tarek, Luke Vosper and Jack Cleary. The performances start at 5pm.

The event is sponsored by the Creative Sound & Music Research Group (School of Media, University of Brighton).

Poster Design: Fraser Owen

DMSA Alumni, Students and Staff showcased @ IWD2019

Posted on by Maria Papadomanolaki

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.

Outlands

Posted on by Stephen Mallinder

OUTLANDS  

De la Warr Pavillion on Friday Feb 15

Free entry, free gallery tour, Q&A with the artists and free coach there and back for DMSA students: departing Brighton 5pm and returning 10.30pm

Limited seats book your place – email me: 

s.w.mallinder@brighton.ac.uk

See Trailer:

Ecstatic Material is a newly commissioned dynamic sound sculpture by musician and producer Beatrice Dillon and visual artist Keith Harrison which will expand and contract over back to back performances at venues across England.

This live experiment with sound and substance will be conducted through a modular system made up of malleable plastics, coloured light and multi-channel audio which is constructed, choreographed and diffused by the artists into the performance space.

Tour support comes from DJs Copper Sounds who spin copper dubplates, ceramic pots, and heavy icelandic rocks, using these materials to create a primitive and tactile form of turntablism.

Timings:

6pm – 8pm  Still I Rise exhibition tour

7.30pm           Auditorium bar opens

8pm                Copper Sounds (foyer bar)

9.15pm           Beatrice + Keith (auditorium)

10.15pm         Copper Sounds (foyer bar)

 

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