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LICA-MANTIS Electroacoustic Music Festival 2008
28 February - 1 March  - ENGLAND, UK

Presented by Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts (LICA), Lancaster University, in collaboration with MANTISNOVARS Research Centre for Electroacoustic Composition, Performance  and Sound Art, University of Manchester, UK. 
The Universities of Lancaster and Manchester have joined forces to produce a unique collaborative event.  By sharing efforts, logistics, research and compositional ideas, the two artistic communities and Special Guests will push their creative boundaries further, challenging new and existing audiences. The Manchester Theater in Sound (MANTIS) Diffusion System will travel to the Great Hall Complex at Lancaster University to celebrate the event. All welcome!!

Guest Artists: 
 Cort Lippe (composer, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York)
 Claude Gaçon (sculptor/gastronomy manager, Basel, Switzerland)
 Markus Buser  (multi-media artist/musician, Basel, Switzerland)
 Ailís Ní Ríain (composer/writer, Littleborough, North West England)

Guests Performers:
 BBC Singers, Ensemble Psappha, Kairos Electronic Ensemble, Christophe de Bezenac (Saxophone),  Christion Sebille (Computer), David Lewis (Percussion), Tom McKinney (Guitar), Luo Chao-yun (Pipa) and Chen Wai-kai (Tai-chi dance improviser)

Diffusion System: MANTIS Surround System (30 channels+),  Novars Research Centre, University of Manchester, UK

Lancaster Box Office [telephone: 01524 594151, email:boxoffice@lancaster.ac.uk]
Venues:   Great Hall Complex and Jack Hylton Room, Lancaster University, UK
Admission: free (except Concert 1 on February 28)

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For further information, please keep reading below, or visit:

http://www.novars.manchester.ac.uk/mantis/08licamantis/index.html

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FINAL CONCERT PROGRAMME

LICA-MANTIS Electroacoustic Music Festival 2008

*GH= Great Hall     JHR= Jack Hylton Room 

Concert 1:  28 Feb.  19:30 - 21:30   @GH  (Lancaster International Concert Series) 
     BBC Singers with Psappha conducted by Nicholas Kok 
 Programme: 
  Claude Vivier    Et je reverrai cette ville étrange -1981- 
  Claude Vivier   Shiraz (piano) -1977- 
  Claude Vivier     Glaubst du and die Unsterblichkeit der Seel -1983- 
  Claude Vivier    Journal -1977- 

Concert 2:  29 Feb.  18:30 - 19:45   @GH 
     Piano: Adam Greig 
     Voice: Amy Slater 

 Programme: 
  Cort Lippe     Tapewalk I   -1981-            ca.  7’ 
  Phil Reeder    By Response for piano and computer   -2008-    ca.10’ 
  Manuella Blackburn Origami   -2008-             ca.15’ 
  Oliver Carman   Metamorphosis I for fixed media   -2007-      8’22” 
  Chris Robson   new work for voice and computer   -2008-     ca.10’ 
  Cort Lippe    Music for piano and computer   -1996-      ca.16’ 

Concert 3:  29 Feb.  20:00 - 21:00   @GH 
     Saxophone: Christophe de Benzenac 
     Piano: Matt Bourne 
     Computer: Christian Sebille 
 Programme:  Improvisation 

Concert 4:  1 March  14:00 - 15:30   @GH 
     Marimba: David Lewis 
     Bass Guitar: Mauricio Pauly 
 Programme: 
  Diana Simpson   Spindlesongs (part 1)   -2008-          ca.  8’ 
  Kaho Cheung   Fishy bahn for fixed media   -2007-        9’48” 
  Sam Salem    They Sing for Themselves   -2008-        ca.  8’ 
  Josh Kopeckek   It implies paranoia for Laptop + bass guitar   -2008-   ca.10’ 
  Heather Bamfort  Campanology   -2007-            ca.  4’ 
  George Dennis    I Was Fat. But Then I Got Thin   -2007-       ca.  5’ 
  Alexis Guneratne  L'Homme   -2007-               7’20” 
  Mauricio Pauly   Club de doñas for amplified marimba, almglocken    ca.  5’ 
           and drumset with computer   -2007/8-     

Concert 5:  1 March  18:30 - 20:30   @GH 
     Guitar: Tom McKinney 
     Percussion: David Lewis 

 Programme: 
  Cort Lippe       termites   -2006-             ca. 9’ 
  [zygote] - Saario & Iddon                      ca.12’ 
         Proposition 6A: ceci n'est pas une machine de guerre (Refrain) 
          for fixed media, amplified piano, and live electronics -2008- 
  Ricardo Climent  A Gravidade Liberta             ca.10’ 
          for marimba and prepared mallets   -2003- 
  Takayuki Rai   Facade for guitar and computer   -2003-      ca.11’ 
  Chikashi Miyama  Mutation for guitar and computer   -2002-     ca.10’ 
  Ailís Ní Ríain   StreetSong   -2006-            ca.  5’ 
  David Berezan   Styal - Electroacoustic music without instruments -2004-  ca.13’ 
  Cort Lippe    Music for hi-hat and computer   -1998-      ca.13’ 


Closing Festival Concert:  1 March  21:00-   @JHR 
     Kairos Electronic Ensemble 
     Pipa: Luo Chao-yun 
     Tai-Chi Dance: Chen Wai-kai 
 Programme:  Improvisation 

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SEMINARS

Lecture 1:  29 Feb.  15:15 - 16:00   @JHR 
  Cort Lippe 
    Composing for Acoustic Instruments and Real-Time Computer Systems 
Lecture 2:  29 Feb.  16:00 - 16:45   @JHR 
  Neil Boynton & Emma Rose 
    The making of threshold: A video setting of a poem by Ruth Fainlight 
Lecture 3:  1 March  15:45 - 16:30   @JHR 
  Claude Gaçon and Markus Buser 
    Sense and Noise: In search of non-illustrative relations between image and sound 
Lecture 4:  1 March  16:30 - 17:15   @JHR 
  Ailis Ni Riain 
    Into the Sea of Waking Dreams 
Lecture 5:  1 March  17:15 - 18:00   @JHR 
  Luo Chao-yun 
    The Pipa Instrument in Traditional and Contemporary Contexts

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INSTALLATIONS 

Claude Gaçon and Markus Buser  un-stet.02 (un-steady.02) 
Patrick Sanan          IDEAL 
(on e-campus)

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ORGANISERS:

 Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University
  Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YW        tel: 01524 592702 (main office)
  http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/lica/

 Novars Research Centre, University of Manchester
 Bridgeford Street, Manchester M13 9PL       tel: 0161 275 4982 (main office)
 http://www.novars.manchester.ac.uk/

For further  festival details, visit:

http://www.novars.manchester.ac.uk/mantis/08licamantis/index.html

 


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Dr. Ricardo Climent
NOVARS Research Centre
for Electro-acoustic Composition, Performance and Sound-Art
School of Arts, Histories and Cultures-Music
The University of Manchester 
Bridgeford Street, Manchester M13 9PL, UK

Telephone: 0161 275 4982 (main office)
Fax: 0161 275 4994
phone: 0161 - 275-3246 (direct)
email: ricardo.climent@manchester.ac.uk
http://www.novars.manchester.ac.uk
Personal web: http://www.electro-acoustic.com