University of Plymouth
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Plymouth PL4 8AA
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Paving the Way for Tomorrow’s Music
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The relationship between the people who make music happen and computing technologies is pivotal for the future of the music industry.
Computing technology is becoming increasingly ubiquitous in all aspects of music. Smart sound design and synthetic music pervades a wide range of creative practices, from avant-garde contemporary music to entertainment media for mass consumption. Computer technologies are having a profound impact on how music is studied, composed, performed, listened to, stored and distributed. For instance, software sound synthesis techniques offer musicians the possibility of creating bespoke digital musical instruments capable of producing an unprecedented range of novel sounds; and Artificial Intelligence techniques allow for the design of sophisticated composition methods that would have been impossible to conceive otherwise.
ICCMR is now a branch of the newly established Centre for Research in the Humanities, Music and Performing Arts (HuMPA), within the School of Humanities and Performing Arts. This opened a number of new opportunities for interdisciplinary research with Theatre, Dance and Performing Arts.
Masters course in Computer Music - [Click here for more information]
Research into computing at the University of Plymouth has been recently rated as of world leading standards in the recent evaluation of UK academia (RAE2008). Overall, 100% of the research was judged as being of international repute, with 25% of work recognised as of world leading value. This puts Plymouth among the top 15 UK universities for computer science and informatics research.
ICCMR composer has been awarded a prize in Hamburg
PhD candidate, Christian Dimpker, has won the award Klangradar 3000 of the Tonali composition competition in Hamburg, Germany.
Volunteering for the Royal National Institute of Blind People
PhD candidate, Jaime Serquera, has signed up as a volunteer at RNIB in Ivybridge to produce musical scores for partially sighted people.
Barclays Wealth to fund ICCMR-led 'Music and Money' festival in the City
The 'Music and Money' festival, co-organised by ICCMR¹s Dr Alexis Kirke and behavioural finance specialist Dr. Greg B Davies, is set to place in the City of London in Autumn 2012. The festival will include an outcry-driven reality opera by Kirke and talks by Dr. Davies, opera director Alessandro Talevi and Professor Eduardo Miranda, on using sound to monitor and analyse stock markets. Watch this space!
ICCMR’s Brain-Computer Music Interface breakthrough
hits the news worldwide
Leading news article in Nature by Philip Ball.
ICCMR is a pioneer of Music Neurotechnology, which is a new field at the crossroads of biomedical engineering and music technology. Featured on CNN Labs.
ICCMR’s system developed in collaboration with engineers at the University of Essex is reported in Wired.
ICCMR in News Scientist’s CultureLab
Alexis Kirke’s performance of “Cloud Chamber” at Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival is hot topic in News Scientist.
ICCMR in Concert at the Arnolfini, Bristol
Joel Eaton’s performed his ground-breaking new composition “The Warren” live at the Arnolfini, using BCMI technology developed at ICCMR. “The Warren” is Joel’s final project for his MRes Computer Music degree.
ICCMR’s work is featured at Electronica III in London
Charles Hazlewood conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra’s performance of “Sacra Conversazione” by Eduardo Miranda at Electronica III, presented by Jarvis Cocker.
Mozart Mash-up by ICCMR composers for BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Radio 3
As part of BBC Radio 3's The Genius of Mozart season, the BBC Concert Orchestra set a challenge to ICCMR composers and members of the public.
Sound Installation ‘Writing Machine’ at SONICA Festival
PhD candidate Hanns Holger Rutz presented a new generative sound installation at the SONICA Festival Ljubljana.
Waggle Dance for strings and the Soundwall was recently premiered by Heritage Orchestra at the Science Museum in London.
“The Soundwall, which is an extraordinary immersive musical instrument which is being developed with UCL’s Lottolab Studio. During the performance, the live sounds of the strings are relayed to the soundwall placed at a distance, creating a secondary performance/concert space.
Our innovative research activity is often featured
in the international press.
[Click here]
to read Nigel Morgan's review in Computer Music Journal of the Peninsula
Arts Contemporary Music Festival, which took place in Plymouth, in February
2006.
Other news:
ICCMR's subatomic music is featured on Wired
New piece by Kirke for subatomic radioactive particles and a live violinist will be premiered at the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival on 11 February, Plymouth. |
EU Project: Emergent Cognition through
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ICCMR’s Research is featured in BBC World Service
Experimenting with science to create music is the focus of the University of Plymouth’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research. |
Issue 28(3) of Contemporary Music Review on “Exploring Music Through Neuroscience” co-edited by Prof E Miranda is now available from Routledge.
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Live electronic piece ‹Inter-Play/Re-Sound›
This new piece by PhD student Hanns Holger Rutz for amplified broken piano has been premiered at this year's Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival. [Click here] for more information. |
ICCMR's research into Brain-Computer Music Interfacing hits the news in Italy.
Available is a movie [click here] and an article [click here] |
Issue 28(2) of Contemporary Music Review “Aesthetic Decisions in Computer-aided
Composition” is now available from Routledge.
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Etheric Bodies
Etheric Bodies by Antonino Chiaramonte was selected and successfully performed by ..::Electroshop::.. ensemble at EMUFEST 2010 (International Electroacoustic Music Festival of the S. Cecilia Conservatoire, Rome - Italy). Etheric Bodies score (for sounding sculptures, theremin, trumpet, bass clarinet, audio sequencing and live electronics) was produced during 2009 at ICCMR. |
EU-funded project: E-Motion (Electronic Music and use of ICT for Young at Risk of Exclusion).
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ICCMR "Singing Robots" in New Scientist.
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MRes Computer Music student, Peter Votava, has recently performed with his Heart Chamber Orchestra at the festival Musikprotokoll im Steirischen Herbst, in Graz, Austria.
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An ongoing collaboration with UFRGS University in Brazil led to the publication of an special issue of the Journal of Brazilian Computer Society on the theme Music at The Leading Edge of Computer Science
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ICCMR is proud of another successful PhD Accomplishment.
Dr Leandro Costalonga has recently been awarded a PhD for his thesis: "Biomechanical Modelling of Musical Performance: A Case Study of the Guitar". |
ICCMR and CTCN hosted the international Music, Science and the Brain Symposium
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The Faraday 2008 lectures by the Institute of Engineering and Technology on the theme of Technology for Life [Video Link] [How it works]
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ICCMR PhD Thesis hits the World News.
[Click here] to read the leading article in EE Times |
EPSRC project:
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ICCMR was one of the organisers of the "Music, Brain and Cognition" workshop at NIPS 2007
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Digital Music Research Network
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Demo movie of the robotic evolution of music |
Prof Eduardo Miranda has recently been awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s World Class Research Award 2011.
“Eduardo Miranda has made an outstanding contribution to the research and outward-facing agenda of this institution.” |
Dr Alexis Kirke has recently won the Vice-Chancellor’s Community Engagement Award 2011 with his Drive-in-Deco project.
Drive-in Deco was a 2011 site-specific hi-tech multi-media drama which offered social opportunities for the people who live locally, took place in a rundown area of Plymouth and attracted huge media interest and large audiences. |
Sound installation ‹Dissemination›
This collaboration with installation artist Nayarí Castillo has been presented at the SuperCollider Symposium 2010 in Berlin and at Gallery ESC im Labor in Graz. [Click here] for more information. |
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