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CeReNeM Newsletter - March 2010

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Newsletter: March 2010

CeReNeM Publications

The CeReNeM Journal, Issue One, has been published online.

Issue One is edited by PhD candidates Robert Dahm and Ray Evanoff and comprises interviews, articles and scores with a focus on intersections between postgraduate research and the 2009 Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music.

CeReNeM Journal, Issue Two, will comprise peer-reviewed articles edited by Dr Monty Adkins and Dr Scott McLaughlin who have put out a call for papers addressing the themes of Physicality and Tactility in Contemporary Electronic Music (publication, July 2010).

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The CeReNeM-HCR Extended piano disc by Sebastian Berweck is now available for purchase through the University of Huddersfield Online Store and through Amazon.co.uk

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Research Festival 2010

elisionens-thumbAs part of the 2010 Huddersfield University Research Festival, CeReNeM is co-presenting a showcase of four Huddersfield composers: Bryn Harrison, Aaron Cassidy, Mary Bellamy and Liza Lim on March 15th at Kings Place in London.

The compositions performed are an outcome of research funded by a University Research Grant which has supported ELISION as CeReNeM Ensemble in residence.  Following the concert, these works will be recorded for DVD in London and for CD at the legendary Sendesaal Studios of Radio Bremen in Germany.

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CeReNeM Staff News

Congratulations to research fellow, Dr Julie Wilson-Bokowiec on her recent grant success in the last Arts Council of England funding round and publication, together with Mark Bokowiec, of an article in Intermédialités, the Canadian journal of cross-disciplinary arts practice.

Dr Geoffrey Cox’s documentary and multimedia work, made in collaboration with film maker Keith Marley, was given a major showing during the GEMdays Festival in January in Huddersfield.

Dr Bryn Harrison’s large-scale work, Repetitions in Extended Time, originally commissioned by the 2008 Huddersfield Festival, will be performed on April 12th by Ensemble Plus-Minus at Kings Place London.

limProf Liza Lim has signed a new publishing contract with Ricordi Munich Verlag with two works: Invisibility, for solo ‘cello (2009) and Pearl, Ochre, Hair String, for large orchestra (2010).  The orchestral work is a joint commission from the Bavarian Radio Orchestra and West Australian Symphony Orchestra and will be premiered in Munich in July 2010.

Dr Philip Thomas has initiated a new Research Group in Experimental Music Performance. His book, Changing the System: the music of Christan Wolff, co-edited with Stephen Chase, will be published by Ashgate in Summer 2010.

Dr Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, currently on sabbatical, is working on a commission as part of a residency at Lisbon’s Miso Music before heading to Berlin to work in the studios of the Technische Universität Berlin on a collaborative project with composer/laptopist Helena Gough.
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Other News

Please see the CeReNeM website for other news and research student news

Enquiries: Prof Liza Lim, l.lim@hud.ac.uk

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CeReNeM Newsletter - November ‘09

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Staff Research News

Please see http://mhm.hud.ac.uk/cerenem/category/news/ for latest news of CD releases and performances of work by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay and Liza Lim, Aaron Cassidy’s AHRC grant success and international conference and concert activity by Monty Adkins and Rose Dodd. Since the beginning of the academic year, staff researchers have been active in Amsterdam, Paris, Toulouse, Buenos Aires, Stockholm, Rome, Groningen, New York, San Diego and Houston.

Launch of Huddersfield Contemporary Records (HCR)hcr-launch-flyer

Extended Piano, a CD of new works for piano and analogue electronics performed by Sebastian Berweck, will be launched on Tuesday 24 November, 10pm in Phipps Hall. This marks the launch of a new CD and DVD label formed by CeReNeM in partnership with Huddersfield University Press and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.


2009 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival begins on Nov 20th with a jam-packed programme of concerts, talks, exhibitions, workshops and masterclasses. Full details can be found at www.hcmf.co.uk

CeReNeM staff and student researchers are involved in the following events:

Concerts

  • Friday 20, 8pm, Bates Mill -Richard Barrett Opening of the Mouth, ELISION
  • Saturday 21, 1pm, Phipps Hall - Pierre Alexandre Tremblay Un clou,son marteau, et le béton, Sarah Nicolls (piano with electronics)
  • Sunday 22, 9.30pm, Lawrence Batley Theatre - For Braxton, Philip Thomas (piano) plays with Apartment House; ELISION
  • Monday 23-Friday 27, 11am daily, CAB Atrium - Michael Pisaro pi(1-2594,) Philip Thomas (piano), Monty Adkins (electronics)
  • Monday 23, 1.40pm, hcmf shorts , Phipps Hall - Richard Glover Bi-linear, Jonathan Sage (clarinet)
  • Monday 23, 7.30pm, St Paul’s Hall - Ben Isaacs new work, Het Nieuw Ensemble
  • Tuesday 24, 1pm, Phipps Hall - Liza Lim weaver-of-fictions/ the long forgetting…, Genevieve Lacey (recorders)
  • Tuesday 24, 4pm, Phipps Hall - Joe Kudirka fidelity, Philip Thomas (piano recital)
  • Tuesday 24, 10pm, Phipps Hall - Sebastian Berweck (piano recital and launch of his ‘Extended Piano’ CD)
  • Thursday 26, 1pm, St Paul’s Hall, ELISION - Works by Aaron Cassidy, Bryn Harrison, Liza Lim, Timothy McCormack, Einar Torfi Einarsson
  • Friday 27, 1pm, Phipps Hall - Liza Lim The Four Seasons (after Cy Twombly), Rolf Hind (piano)
  • Saturday 28, 7pm, St Paul’s Hall - Richard Glover new work, Liza Lim Songs found in dream, Musik Fabrik

Hcmf Talks

Monday 23, 12 noon, CAM G/03 Lefteris Papdimitriou (hcmf/CeReNeM scholarship winner)

In conversation with Graham McKenzie & Liza Lim

Hcmf/CeReNeM Symposia

  • Tuesday 24, Friday 28 & Saturday 29, 9.00-10.45am Castle Hill Suite - Postgraduate students in discussion with Liza Lim, Jonathan Harvey and Rebecca Saunders
  • Friday 27, 12 noon, CAM G/01 - Liza Lim interviewed by Sara Mohr-Pietsch (BBC Radio 3)

Further enquiries: Prof Liza Lim, l.lim@hud.ac.uk