3 May 2017: Artistic research seminar on archives and digitality

Steven Paige, "Antinous/Acrobats", 2015

Please join us for the next PEP Talk, the seminar series of the Performance.Experience.Presence research group Plymouth University, all welcome: Steven Paige: “Anxious Archives? How we might try and not forget, and it does not always have to be digital” Wednesday, 3rd May 2017, 4.30 – 5.30pm In Roland Levinsky Building (RLB) 306, Plymouth University Does the… Continue reading 3 May 2017: Artistic research seminar on archives and digitality

Plymouth PhD researcher awarded Composer Residency with British Paraorchestra

Amble Skuse

Amble Skuse, who is a PhD candidate at Plymouth University, has been selected for a prestigious composition residency with The British Paraorchestra. The British Paraorchestra is the world’s first, large-scale professional ensemble for musicians with disabilities. Just as the Paralympics have achieved so effectively in sport, the British Paraorchestra has shifted perceptions of disability and disabled people by… Continue reading Plymouth PhD researcher awarded Composer Residency with British Paraorchestra

Plymouth PhD candidate hosts event at British Library on Multi-media theses

Plymouth University PhD candidate, Coral Manton, will be chairing a Digital Conversation event at the British Library on Thursday 29th September from 6 to 8 pm. This free event will explore the growing trend toward non-text and multimedia research outputs being submitted as part of PhD theses and the challenges that this posses to researchers,… Continue reading Plymouth PhD candidate hosts event at British Library on Multi-media theses

New filmwork by Claudia Pilsl made in response to Brexit

Still from Claudia Pilsl's 'Walking the Line' (2016)

Walking the Line, a new filmwork made in response to Brexit by Claudia Pilsl, is screening  on 16/17 July 2016 at the x-24 2016 24-hour cinema festival. This free festival, in Gainsborough, features more than 100 videos from over 100 artists from over 30 countries. It is curated and produced by Fenia Kotsopoulou and Daz… Continue reading New filmwork by Claudia Pilsl made in response to Brexit

Feature: “Generative Orchestration with Musical Timbre”

BY AURÉLIEN ANTOINE   Technological advances, and more specifically computers, have been leading the evolution of music for the last 60 years, impacting on the ways we compose, perform and listen to music. For example, composers use notation software or Digital Audio Workstations (DAW). They also employ computers as sources of musical inspiration. During my Masters in… Continue reading Feature: “Generative Orchestration with Musical Timbre”

Arts PhD researchers win prestigious placements

Two doctoral researchers in the arts at Plymouth University have been awarded prestigious placements to complement their programmes of study. Coral Manton has been awarded a placement by the British Library to investigate possibilities for the PhD thesis in multimedia and non-text forms, and how a national database of UK doctoral theses can record and make accessible… Continue reading Arts PhD researchers win prestigious placements

Artist Film Screening by Steven Paige, 5-14 April 2016 at Plymouth Arts Centre

Steven Paige Let’s Go Bowling 5 – 14 April 2016 at Plymouth Arts Centre Free entry Steven Paige employs re-enactment and performance to examine relationships between film, instruction, leisure and individuality. His latest moving image project, made as part of his PhD research, is a reworking of a 1950s film featuring American bowling techniques. Through a process… Continue reading Artist Film Screening by Steven Paige, 5-14 April 2016 at Plymouth Arts Centre