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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 MANTIS; NOVARS 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

=========================================================== 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

--------------------------------------------------------- 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