2023 events
Informal catchup/organisational meeting for the CCC members
Please join us for this week's CMRC Seminar–Concert with Spirited Winds
Creative Coding Collective
Please join us for this week's CMRC workshop for composers with Spirited Winds
Creative Coding Collective - Open Session, research/work show and tell
Join us for a discussion session in which we continue last term’s exploration of the workshop format by considering how it might be reimagined in more supportive, empowering, facilitated by Stef Conner.
Creative Coding Collective
Please join us for this week's CMRC seminar with composer, educator and researcher, Kirsty Devaney
Please join us for this week's CMRC workshop with Kirsty Devaney
Creative Coding Collective - Martin Suckling (UoY)
In this seminar, composer Martin Suckling will outline the creative process for the online game, Black Fell, considering ways in which online may be a new 'venue' for music.
Creative Coding Collective - Abi Evans (UoY)
Violinist/violist Marco Fusi presents an investigation of Salvatore Sciarrino's Sei capricci for violin, composed in 1975/76, examining the unique vocabulary of instrumental gestures and musical figures developed in this piece.
Putting the DISC in digital creativity and coding
Composer and performance artist Andy Ingamells talks about the relationships between the different elements of his work, and in particular the ways in whine his recent work develops forms of collaboration and social interaction.
Please join us for this week's CMRC seminar with Chilean composer Carlos Zamora.
Gaia Blandina and Niamh Dell, two practice researchers in music in the School of Creative Arts and Technologies, discuss the role of theory in their creative work.
In this Contemporary Music Research Collective seminar, Eliot Bates examines the social status of musical ‘gear’: why is there such interest, today, in a bulky, expensive and difficult to use instruments like the modular synthesizer?
Federico Reuben and Kate Ledger
In the realm of music cognition, the primary focus of imagery research has been on auditory mental imagery, which refers to the quasi-perceptual experience of sound and music in the absence of related external sensory input.
Kyle Worrall presents: Game audio in Unreal Engine, part II: Music
Research suggests we fail to pay attention to what we are doing as much as 50% of the time, and that the act of music listening is no exception.
Join us for a discussion session on considering improvisation in contemporary music practice and research
Join us for this session with harpist and composer Ruth Lee in which she discusses considerations when approaching writing for the harp and workshops music by student composers.
Tom Collins presents Planning meeting for next semester's Music Coding Collective
The everyday, involuntary imagining of music is commonplace. While this is not usually problematic, there is a need to support individuals who suffer from intrusive musical imagery.
Join us for this session in which Federico Reuben (composer) and Kate Harrison-Ledger (piano) discuss their recent collaborative project On Violence.
Three artist-scholars will engage you in learning about and joining in with Afro-beat making, AI songwriting and Therapeutic Hip Hop.
Thesis seminar: On deep learning for the synthesis of sound effects
Emergence of digitally encoded musical corpora & advanced computational tools has allowed music scientists to dissociate the roles of retrospective surprise & prospective uncertainty in the cognition, composition, & improvisation of musical melodies.
Join us for this session in which cellist, composer and arranger Audrey Riley discusses aspects of her work.
Please join us for a range of lightening talks with a number of different speakers
Adrián Barahona-Ríos and Kyle Worrall present: Previews of Game Audio Symposium talks
Maria A. G. Witek is Associate Professor at the Department of Music, University of Birmingham, UK.
Kyle Worrall presents: Game audio in Unreal Engine, part I: Sound Design
Join us for a discussion session concerning an aspect of contemporary music practice and research – topic to be announced.
FREE Illustrated Concert of Baroque and Improvised Music
Breaking the Mold: Embracing Neurodiversity in Musical Thinking and Cognition
Tom Collins presents: Server-side programming with Node.js in Glitch
All around the world, music is used to connect people, often through shared body movements.
Dar'ya Guarnera presents: Two solutions to one computer graphics problem
Composer Jia Chai discusses aspects of her recent work.
Music is the product of a long evolutionary process that has shaped it for the human mind and its constraints – similarly to language.
Liam Maloney presents: Max/MSP for sound installations
The Garden of Forking Paths project (GoFP) explores how we can compose for contingent instruments that have their own ‘material agency’.
Working through Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening framework, the workshop engages clarinettist Heather Roche and a group of participants in a range of listening activities and scenarios.
Music Cognition is an inherently interdisciplinary field and can be approached from multiple perspectives.
Dr Jenn Chubb presents: AI, what's that sound? Exploring how composers and artists sonically portray AI in documentary
Pianist Matthew Schellhorn discusses his work bringing new music to a wider audience, exploring themes of collaborating with composers and the commissioning process.
Asset economy in the music streaming business
This session will open up discussion around the pros and cons of a knowledgeable audience.
Alex Mackay will be introducing the work of a selection of record labels engaging with musical practices outside of the mainstream
Phillip Harrison will present on 'Explorations in VR'.
Composer Sarah Lianne Lewis will discuss aspects of her recent work.
A-Frame for coding VR experiences, part II
Discussion session led by PhD student Kate Ledger
Hannah Gibbs joins us to discuss her exploration of mixed methods ways of understanding the unconscious shared flow experience in Javanese gamelan as part of the Music Coding Collective seminars.
Accordionist Amy Thatcher joins us to present some of her work and composition methods.
Accordionist Amy Thatcher will present and speak about her practice.
Noah Henry discusses how people select music that 'fits' the situation and how this information can be used to answer complex research questions.
Matthew Whiteside joins us to talk about his compositions and career as a composer and concert producer.
This workshop will give you a broad overview of what steps you need to take to self-release your music to generate income and engagement.
Tom Smith joins us to discuss A-Frame for coding as part of the spring term Music Coding Collective seminars.
Maya Verlaak introduces her music and her approaches to composition and collaboration, with opportunities for questions and further discussion.
In this talk, Alex will compare two pieces from his doctorate portfolio: Ghoulish Airs, an orchestral piece written for the LSO Panufnik scheme, and Jab for solo piano, performed and recorded by Ben Smith.