Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2016

Frontiers: expanding musical imagination

Promoted in partnership with Plymouth University’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR).

Festival directors:

Simon Ible, Director of Music, Peninsula Arts, Plymouth University
Eduardo Reck Miranda, Professor of Computer Music, Plymouth University

The theme of the 2016 edition of the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival is Frontiers: Expanding Musical Imagination.

It will showcase extraordinary new technologies and approaches to composition and performance that are pushing the boundaries of music and promoting widening participation in the art of creating music.

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR) at Plymouth University is developing extraordinary musical instruments controlled by brain signals, biological interactive computers and technology to enable audiences to actively influence musical compositions and performances.

With music representing the energy of dark matter and biological organisms, to audio-visual performances exploring the electrical activity of the nervous system and computer-generated narratives, this year’s festival will be a truly guided tour at the frontiers of musical imagination.

The festival welcomes back Plymouth University alumni David Everson and Lithuanian guest composer, Linas Baltas.

Friday 26 February
18:00 | Free event | 1st Floor Foyer, The House
Festival launch

19:30 – 20:00 | Free event | IVT/The Dome
Nuria Bonet Filella: Sonification of Dark Matter

Saturday 27 February
14:00 – 14:30 | Free event | IVT/The Dome
Nuria Bonet Filella: Sonification of Dark Matter

15:30 – 16:30 | Free event | Jill Craigie Cinema:
Talk and screening of a short documentary film: Eduardo Reck Miranda.
The Paramusical Ensemble Project: towards novel creative opportunities for motor-disabled individuals.

17:30 | Free event | Crosspoint, Roland Levinsky Building
Marcelo Gimenes: Embodied iSound introduction/instruction

18:00 – 18:45 | Free event | Crosspoint, Roland Levinsky Building
Embodied iSound performance

19:30 – 21:30 | Tickets £10, £8 Peninsula Arts Friends, SPiA, Artory | The House
Gala Concert with Ten Tors Orchestra
Simon Ible, conductor
Pierre-Emmanuel Largeron, violin
Esther Coorevits, viola
Federico Visi, electric guitar

Eduardo Reck Miranda: Shockwaves
Linas Baltas: Shadows
Federico Visi: Kineslimina
David Everson: Dreamscape

Sunday 28 February
11:00 | Free event | Upper Lecture Theatre, Sherwell Centre
Pierre Largeron and Marcelo Gimenes:
Performance without borders introduction/instruction

11:30 – 12:15 | Free event | Upper Lecture Theatre, Sherwell Centre
Performance without borders: performance

13:00 - 14:00 | Free event | Theatre 1, Roland Levinsky Building
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Biocomputer Rhythms
Edward Braund, biocomputer engineer

15:00 – 15:45 | Free event | The House
Joel Eaton: A Stark Mind
Esther Coorevits, viola

16:00 - 16.30 | Free event | IVT/The Dome
Nuria Bonet Filella: Sonification of Dark Matter

18:00 - 19:00 | Free event | Theatre 1, Roland Levinsky Building
Alexis Kirke: Bat Wars: The Four Awaken
Pierre-Emmanuel Largeron, violin
Marcelo Gimenes, piano

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