Author: Mark Pilkington
Foof 8.1 – Shortlisted for ‘Condit’ Electroacoustic Concert in Argentina 2014
Foof 8.1 Multi-channel composition that derives its sonic content from analog synthesisers and redundant audio technologies. The piece was composed at Thought Universe Studio, Manchester and finally completed at Lancaster University. The piece was judged and shortlisted by Jonty Harrison, Dennis Smalley and José Rafael Subía Valdez for the conDiT-Akousmatikon electroacoustic concert in Agentina. The piece […]
Dr. Ricardo Climent – Sound Mapping and Metadata in 3D Virtual Environments.
Title: Interactive Sound Mapping and Metadata in 3D Virtual Environments. Dr Ricardo Climent, The University of Manchester [MUSIC]. Director of Composition and the NOVARS Research Centre. Dr. Ricardo Climent was invited to talk with music students at Lancaster University. His lectured raised an perceptual awareness to the primacy of the ear in order to question visual dominance. By using […]
‘Mesh’ DIEM Electronic Media Project 2013
In October 2013, I was lucky enough to take part in the 5x5x15 Electronic Media Project at DIEM (Danish Institue of Electronic Music) at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, Denmark. The project commissioned five visual artist’s to collaborate with five composers currently studying at DIEM. I worked with Sebastian Edin a Swedish composer on composing a […]
SonicInterMedia/NOVARS 2013
Had a fantastic time visiting ARS Electronica and the Anton Bruckner PrivatunUniverstat in Linz, Austria 13th – 16th October, 2013. I was there to screen my audio-visual composition Birth at ‘Deep Space’ within the ARS Electronica building. The venue features a ultra-high-definition imagery projection system in 16×9-meter format combined with a multi-channel sound system. The […]
A Sense of Language Symposium, The School of Art, MMU, 4th July 2013
Testing Time flyer-back
Birth at ICMC 2013
Birth accepted into the International Computer Music Conference 2013 (ICMC) Perth, Australia. The piece will be screened in the Acousmatic Concert Program 1, between 1 – 2pm on the 12th August 2013.
Turing – Morphogenesis 5.1 at Madlab, June 2013
Invited speaker for the opening of ‘In The Mix HackSpace Weekend’ at Madlab, Manchester 07/06/13. Presented and debated compositional strategies of Turing – Morphogenesis 5.1 (2012). An acousmatic piece of music that conveys the propagation of sound entities perceptually anchored through the continued presence of their energetic characteristics within a multi-channel environment. Commissioned by the […]
Visualisation of Richard Scott’s ‘Several Circles’ (2013)
Several Circles is an stereo acousmatic piece in three parts taking as its starting point the 1926 painting of the same name by Wassily Kandinsky. It was mostly realised on a Serge modular analogue synthesizer though the piece was subsequently montaged and edited in a DAW but a bare minimum of subsequent digital processing were […]
Peterloo 5.1 – Salford Sonic Fusion Festival March 14-24th 2013
Peterloo will be featured in the Salford Sonic Fusion Festival 2013. Peterloo is a 5.1 sound composition inspired by a historical event that came to be known as ‘The Peterloo Massacre’, that happened in Manchester, England on the 16th August, 1819. The sound material consists of location recordings captured from recent student protests held in […]
The School of Sound International Symposium 2011
I was awarded a busary from Dolby Laboratories to attend the School of Sound International Symposium 2011. Attending the event informed my PhD research at NOVARS University of Manchester in audio-visual composition within electroacoustic music. SOS is an annual event offering a series of masterclasses exploring the art of sound in film, the arts and […]