2022 events

Atomic flute and p5.js visualisation: Update on a Sounds, Voices and Technology project

A discussion session led by Jake Adams (PhD composer)

Coding session 5: Review of coding this term

Pete Dale puts the record straight by discussing how DJing can be used a tool to boost engagement in music education.

Music technology research and human-computer interaction domains (HCI) have seen the emergence of several tools for designing expressive gestural interactions with digital sounds.

This talk will consider compositional practice in relation to Timothy Morton’s ideas surrounding the hyperobject.

Krisztian Hofstadter (School of Arts and Creative Technologies) joins us to present "Developing brain-computer music interfaces for meditation."

Join us as Scott McLaughlin discusses what does a national repository need for practice research.

Join composers Alan Bullard, Kristina Arakelyan and Association Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) Partnerships Manager and composer James Welburn as they explore the world of composing to a brief with ABRSM.

Mary Stewart-David: Making Musicals in the Metaverse

Details to be confirmed nearer the time.

This workshop explores DJ skills in schools and beyond, and the variation of hip hop and related music around the world.

Coding session 4: Next steps in p5.js and Tone.js.

This discussion session led by PGR Music students with Professor Christopher Fox explores the question: 'What is the nature of the 'new' in 'new music'?

Coding session three: Tone.js.

Graham Fitkin talks about his work, including his new piece, BLA BLA BLA, for pianos, samplers and spoken voice (York Concert Series: The Fairy Relentless Fitkins).

Session three: Interactive pop music infilling interface in Ableton with Rui Guo (University of Sussex)

Sue Miller explores improvising Sabor in the streets of New York.

Boston (USA) based composer Roustom will share his experiences of his journey exploring identity through music.

Music Coding Collective week 2: JavaScript and p5.js

Listen to Sarah Waltz discuss why it's not the 'Kretzer' Sonata.

This session will explore the 'spaces' in which contemporary music practices can or might take place. Questions might include: Where is there space 'for' contemporary practice? How does the choice of context shape or change practice?

Autumn term session one, 'Introduction to JavaScript and p5.js.'

Please note this seminar has been CANCELLED.

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

The composer and improvising-trombonist joins us to discuss his recent work.

Please note that this event has been cancelled.

Join us to find out more about an exciting new duet composition and pedagogy project: Òran Fìdhle / Violin Song

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

Discussion and workshop of a new collaborative work exploring ideas of restraint, physicality and technique around piano and toy piano performance.

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

A session exploring roles of composition, collaboration, AI and experimental aesthetics with musicians who identify as disabled, Deaf and/or neurodivergent.

Part of our weekly Music Research seminar series

Dr Tom Collins will be discussing 'Data sonification: an Introduction'.

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

A session exploring iterative methodologies, composer/scientist collaborations, distributed creativity and technological hybridity.

Philip Harrison: Research and high-performance computing for Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

Join us for a double bill of engaging seminars exploring 'robot ears' and composition.

Jemily Rime: Quantum computer music

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

Join us for a double bill of engaging seminars exploring Karl Popper and John Coltrane

Kyle Worrall. Technical sound design in Unreal Engine, including syncing sound to animations

Part of our weekly Music Research seminar series

Join us for this double-bill of engaging seminars

Coding session 4: JUCE for bridging audio and machine learning, part II

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

Adrián Barahona Ríos. Machine learning for procedural audio

Coding session 2.5: Debugging Matlab, querying Spotify’s API

Composer Florence Anna Maunders presents a guided exploration of her recent work, which draws upon influences from the worlds of drum 'n' bass, contemporary jazz, Persian folk music and American minimalism.

Coding session 2: More JavaScript and p5.js (continuing from previous session)

In this seminar, celebrated Brazilian-Canadian pianist Luciane Cardassi will perform live for the audience and talk about the different paths music collaboration have opened in her artistic journey.

Coding session 1: Introduction to JavaScript and p5.js

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

In 2010, Hans Zender commented: 'the past is not past, we can take it up again and send it in a different direction’. Can we? How? To what purpose? Join Dr Mark Hutchinson in this engaging seminar to find out.