BY LEE MILLER It’s ten years since Practice as Research in Performance (PaRIP for short) ended its five year project. Launched in 2001 with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Board, PaRIP’s remit was ‘to investigate creative-academic issues raised by practice as research, where performance is defined, in keeping with AHRB and RAE documentation,… Continue reading Talking About Practice (as Research)
Month: March 2016
Katherine Williams’ co-edited volume ‘The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter’ has been published
Dr Katherine Williams‘ co-edited volume The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter was published in late February. This book explains the historical contexts, musical analyses, and theoretical frameworks of the singer-songwriter tradition. Divided into five parts, the book explores the tradition in the context of issues including authenticity, gender, queer studies, musical analysis and performance. Leadbelly, Dolly Parton, Billy… Continue reading Katherine Williams’ co-edited volume ‘The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter’ has been published
Moving Image Arts researchers at Arnolfini
Moving Image Arts research co-ordinator Dr Kayla Parker and MIA associate Stuart Moore each delivered a paper on Sunday 6 March at PARALLEL – ICO Art + Cinema Weekend 2016, hosted by Arnolfini, Bristol. The event is a festival of artists’ moving image, presented as part of the Independent Cinema Office’s Artists’ Moving Image Network project, in partnership with artists’… Continue reading Moving Image Arts researchers at Arnolfini
Professor Eduardo Miranda is a visiting scholar at Harvard University
Professor Eduardo Miranda is currently on a mission to the United States as a visiting scholar at Harvard University and invited speaker at MIT Media Lab. He is working in the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition (HUSEAC) on a new composition for choir and electronics, which is scheduled for premiere at the Peninsula… Continue reading Professor Eduardo Miranda is a visiting scholar at Harvard University
Feature: “The Poems of Ossian and early Geomorphology: the start of an interdisciplinary conversation?”
BY DAFYDD MOORE James Macpherson’s Poems of Ossian (1761-3) present themselves as the poetic remains of the third-century Celtic prince and bard Ossian (in fact they were inspired, as we might say, by the Gaelic heroic verse Macpherson collected in the Highlands of Scotland but were for the most part more down to him than… Continue reading Feature: “The Poems of Ossian and early Geomorphology: the start of an interdisciplinary conversation?”
Plymouth University Researchers perform at INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR ARTISTIC INNOVATION
After its successful premiere at this year’s Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival, Federico Visi (electric guitar, motion sensors, live electronics) and Katherine Williams (saxophone, motion sensors, live electronics) are performing Visi’s composition,11 degrees of dependence, this week at The International Festival for Innovations in Music Production and Composition (iFIMPaC) organised by Leeds College of Music. … Continue reading Plymouth University Researchers perform at INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR ARTISTIC INNOVATION
10 March 2016: Lunchtime Talk on Sound and Music in Science
“Can we really listen to the Higgs Boson? Sound and music in science” Speaker: Nuria Bonet Filella (PhD Candidate, ICCMR) 10 March 2016, 1 – 2 pm in the Portland Square Building Room C1 at Plymouth University ALL WELCOME! FREE! (Cake & tea provided!) At Plymouth we have a vibrant postgraduate student community that… Continue reading 10 March 2016: Lunchtime Talk on Sound and Music in Science
22 April 2016: ‘What has stand-up ever done for qualitative inquiry’ research seminar
You are welcome to attend the following research seminar: What has stand-up ever done for qualitative inquiry? led by Jonathan Wyatt (University of Edinburgh) and presented as part of the Plymouth Institute of Education Research Seminar Series on 22 April 2016 at 2 pm in Rolle 206, Plymouth University Abstract: I am working on a book,… Continue reading 22 April 2016: ‘What has stand-up ever done for qualitative inquiry’ research seminar
Developing a new performance with a new quantum computer
Dr Alexis Kirke, a Senior Research Fellow of the ICCMR (Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research) at Plymouth University, has begun a two-week residency at the University of Southern California (USC) in the Quantum Computation and Open Quantum Systems (QCOQS) group. Alexis has been invited to collaborate with this world-leading research group to develop a musical performance using its $15m… Continue reading Developing a new performance with a new quantum computer
Feature: “Painting radioactivity: How to represent the unrepresentable”
By Jody Patterson In the aftermath of unleashing a new arsenal of atomic weaponry on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 American artists struggled with the question of how to respond to the unprecedented atrocities of nuclear warfare. What could they say in the wake of the carnage wrought by the militarization of science for… Continue reading Feature: “Painting radioactivity: How to represent the unrepresentable”