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2023 events

Friday 15 December 2023 11.30am

Informal catchup/organisational meeting for the CCC members

Tuesday 12 December 2023 3pm

Please join us for this week's CMRC Seminar–Concert with Spirited Winds

Friday 8 December 2023 11.30am

Creative Coding Collective

Tuesday 5 December 2023 2pm

Please join us for this week's CMRC workshop for composers with Spirited Winds

Friday 1 December 2023 11.30am

Creative Coding Collective - Open Session, research/work show and tell

Tuesday 28 November 2023 4pm

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.

Friday 24 November 2023 11.30am

Creative Coding Collective

Tuesday 21 November 2023 4pm

Please join us for this week's CMRC seminar with composer, educator and researcher, Kirsty Devaney

Tuesday 21 November 2023 2pm

Please join us for this week's CMRC workshop with Kirsty Devaney

Friday 17 November 2023 11.30am

Creative Coding Collective - Martin Suckling (UoY)

Tuesday 14 November 2023 4pm

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.

Friday 10 November 2023 11.30am

Creative Coding Collective - Abi Evans (UoY)

Tuesday 7 November 2023 4pm

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.

Friday 27 October 2023 11.30am

Putting the DISC in digital creativity and coding

Tuesday 24 October 2023 4pm

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.  

Tuesday 17 October 2023 4pm

Please join us for this week's CMRC seminar with Chilean composer Carlos Zamora.

Tuesday 10 October 2023 4pm

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.

Tuesday 3 October 2023 4pm

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?

Friday 23 June 2023 11.30pm

Federico Reuben and Kate Ledger

Friday 23 June 2023 1pm

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.

Friday 16 June 2023 11.30pm

Kyle Worrall presents: Game audio in Unreal Engine, part II: Music

Friday 16 June 2023 1pm

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.

Tuesday 13 June 2023 4pm

Join us for a discussion session on considering improvisation in contemporary music practice and research

Tuesday 13 June 2023 2pm

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.

Friday 9 June 2023 11.30pm

Tom Collins presents Planning meeting for next semester's Music Coding Collective

Friday 9 June 2023 1pm

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.

Tuesday 6 June 2023 4pm

Join us for this session in which Federico Reuben (composer) and Kate Harrison-Ledger (piano) discuss their recent collaborative project On Violence.

Monday 5 June 2023 12.45pm

Three artist-scholars will engage you in learning about and joining in with Afro-beat making, AI songwriting and Therapeutic Hip Hop.

Friday 2 June 2023 11pm

Thesis seminar: On deep learning for the synthesis of sound effects

Friday 2 June 2023 1pm

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.

Tuesday 30 May 2023 4pm

Join us for this session in which cellist, composer and arranger Audrey Riley discusses aspects of her work.

Friday 26 May 2023 1pm

Please join us for a range of lightening talks with a number of different speakers

Friday 26 May 2023 11.30am

Adrián Barahona-Ríos and Kyle Worrall present: Previews of Game Audio Symposium talks

Friday 19 May 2023 1pm

Maria A. G. Witek is Associate Professor at the Department of Music, University of Birmingham, UK.

Friday 19 May 2023 11.30am

Kyle Worrall presents: Game audio in Unreal Engine, part I: Sound Design

Tuesday 16 May 2023 4pm

Join us for a discussion session concerning an aspect of contemporary music practice and research – topic to be announced.

Sunday 14 May 2023 10.30am

FREE Illustrated Concert of Baroque and Improvised Music

Friday 12 May 2023 1pm

Breaking the Mold: Embracing Neurodiversity in Musical Thinking and Cognition

Friday 12 May 2023 11.30am

Tom Collins presents: Server-side programming with Node.js in Glitch

Friday 5 May 2023 1pm

All around the world, music is used to connect people, often through shared body movements.

Friday 5 May 2023 11.30am

Dar'ya Guarnera presents: Two solutions to one computer graphics problem

Tuesday 2 May 2023 4pm

Composer Jia Chai discusses aspects of her recent work.

Friday 28 April 2023 1pm

Music is the product of a long evolutionary process that has shaped it for the human mind and its constraints – similarly to language.

Friday 28 April 2023 11.30am

Liam Maloney presents: Max/MSP for sound installations

Tuesday 25 April 2023 4pm

The Garden of Forking Paths project (GoFP) explores how we can compose for contingent instruments that have their own ‘material agency’.

Tuesday 25 April 2023 2pm

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.

Friday 21 April 2023 1pm

Music Cognition is an inherently interdisciplinary field and can be approached from multiple perspectives.

Friday 21 April 2023 11.30am

Dr Jenn Chubb presents: AI, what's that sound? Exploring how composers and artists sonically portray AI in documentary

Tuesday 14 March 2023 4pm

Pianist Matthew Schellhorn discusses his work bringing new music to a wider audience, exploring themes of collaborating with composers and the commissioning process.

Friday 10 March 2023 11.30am

Asset economy in the music streaming business

Tuesday 7 March 2023 4pm

This session will open up discussion around the pros and cons of a knowledgeable audience.

Tuesday 28 February 2023 4pm

Alex Mackay will be introducing the work of a selection of record labels engaging with musical practices outside of the mainstream

Friday 24 February 2023 11.30am

Phillip Harrison will present on 'Explorations in VR'.

Tuesday 21 February 2023 4pm

Composer Sarah Lianne Lewis will discuss aspects of her recent work.

Friday 17 February 2023 11.30am

A-Frame for coding VR experiences, part II

Tuesday 7 February 2023 4pm

Discussion session led by PhD student Kate Ledger

Friday 3 February 2023 11.30am

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.

Tuesday 31 January 2023 4pm

Accordionist Amy Thatcher joins us to present some of her work and composition methods.

Tuesday 31 January 2023 2pm

Accordionist Amy Thatcher will present and speak about her practice.

Friday 27 January 2023 11.30am

Noah Henry discusses how people select music that 'fits' the situation and how this information can be used to answer complex research questions.

Tuesday 24 January 2023 4pm

Matthew Whiteside joins us to talk about his compositions and career as a composer and concert producer.

Tuesday 24 January 2023 2pm

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.

Friday 20 January 2023 11.30am

Tom Smith joins us to discuss A-Frame for coding as part of the spring term Music Coding Collective seminars.

Thursday 19 January 2023 2pm

Maya Verlaak introduces her music and her approaches to composition and collaboration, with opportunities for questions and further discussion.

Tuesday 17 January 2023 4pm

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.

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