Sonic Symposium
Sonic Symposium: a look at current and future trends in music technology, presented by The Superposition and Leeds Digital Festival.
Join us as we discuss how advances in music technology influence music composition and performance, taking a glimpse at ambisonic sound, gestural controllers and interactive technology.
Presentations from Martyn Ware (Heaven 17 & The Human League), Vicky Clarke (Noise Orchestra) and Adam Stark (MI:MU). Followed by discussion panel and Q&A.
Friday 26th April.
Doors 6pm in the bar with DJ set from NikNak Presentations commence at 7pm in the Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds. Finish 10pm.
FREE tickets.
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Martyn Ware
Heaven 17 & The Human League
As record producer and artist has featured on recordings totalling over 50 million sales worldwide during a 40 year career to date. Heaven 17 and BEF continue to tour and thrive. Martyn founded Illustrious Co. Ltd. with Vince Clarke in 2000 to exploit the creative and commercial possibilities of their unique 3DAudioScape immersive sound technology in collaboration with fine artists, the performing arts and corporate clients around the world.
Vicky Clarke is a sound artist working with sound sculpture, DIY electronics and field recordings. Her work explores methods and systems of experiencing material sound; manifesting in performances, installations and self-built machines.
On her recent R&D project ‘MATERIALITY: Exploring sound sculpture to interface the physical and digital in music making’ funded by Arts Council England, she created a performance system for sound sculpture, materials and live electronic music, working with researchers at the National Graphene Institute to create a graphene musical interface for Ableton Live.
Adam Stark is a computer scientist, researcher and musician based in London. He is the Managing Director of MI·MU, a company dedicated to placing human expression at the heart of music technology. He has overseen the development of the MI·MU Gloves and is one of the key developers of the MI·MU software ‘Glover’.
MI·MU is a team of artists, technologists and designers developing cutting-edge wearable technology for the performance and composition of music. Founded by Grammy award-winning musician Imogen Heap.
MI·MU Gloves are now used by a community musicians worldwide, ranging from pop star Ariana Grande to beatboxers, classical pianists, film composers and visual artists.
Sonic Symposium: Martyn Ware, Vicky Clarke, MI:MU, Adam Stark.
Sonic Symposium is organised by The Superposition, an Art Science and Maker collective based in Leeds http://www.thesuperposition.org . Supported by the School of Music, University of Leeds and funded by Arts Council England.
The event is hosted as part of Leeds Digital Festival 2019 https://leedsdigitalfestival.org/ Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall School of Music University of Leeds Cavendish Road Leeds LS2 9JT
