MANTIS FESTIVAL - [SPRING]: 7-8 March, 2009 and the NWNW  Conference, UK

NOVARS RESEARCH CENTRE, MANCHESTER; REINO UNIDO
Nota: Esta edicion de MANTIS ha sido organizada por los estudiantes de doctorado (bajo tutela)

(disculpas, la informacion esta solo disponible en Ingles)

Saturday 7th March 2009

1pm Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall

A concert of works from the Postgraduate Student Call for Works. In association with the North West-North Wales Music Exchange Conference

10_35_70 - Ambrose Seddon
Night Dream - Jon Weinel
Decomposing the Light - Andrew Hill
Point of Departure - Adam Stansbie

7:30pm Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall

A Concert of works by MANTIS composers + guests
Guest Composers: Barry Truax and Thomas Bjelkeborn

Für Leslie - Ricardo Climent
The Shaman Ascending - Barry Truax
The Next Station is… - Ka-ho Cheung
The Soul Weeps - Joshua Kopecek
Cajón - Manuella Blackburn
Interval
Piece for Baritone Saxophone and Fixed Media - Oliver Carman
Points and Lines - Mark Pilkington
Topographia - Diana Simpson
Unplucked - Thomas Bjelkeborn
Poor but Sexy in Berlin - Sam Salem

Please also see the information about the North West-North Wales Music Exchange taking place during the day.

Sunday 8th March 2009

1pm Special MANTIS Matinee
(University of Manchester staff and students only) - Viktor Eriksson will talk about the work of IDKA, The Institute for Digital Arts in Gävle, Sweden www.idka.net
Live laptop improvisation Night.
Nexus Art Café, Dale Street, The Northern Quarter, Manchester 7pm
A night of experimental music featuring Findlay/Hunter/Cottrell, Svefn, Dirty Benderrzzz, Mark Pilkington, MANTIS’ home-grown Bling this Story and special guests BNUNC (Sweden).

North West—North Wales Music Exchange Conference - University of Manchester, UK - March 7, 2009

North West—North Wales Music Exchange Conference
University of Manchester
Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, Room G.16

7 March 2009
11:00    Tom Shave (Keele University)—Cats in the Academy: Combining Popular and Art Music    through Form and Function
11:30    Matti Gardner (University of Huddersfield)—A Non-contact Diffusion System for    Multichannel Performance
12:00     Miranda Polzer Crowdus (University of Wales, Bangor)—Soundscapes and    Wordscapes in Nyman’s Six Celan Songs
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1:00    Electroacoustic Concert (Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall)—featuring works by postgraduate electroacoustic composers from the UK and utilising the MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) 40+ channel diffusion system
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2:30     Elina G. Hamilton (University of Wales, Bangor)—British Pianofortes: An Inquiry into    18th Century British Musical Culture Surrounding the Pianoforte Industry

3:00     Siân Derry (University of Manchester)—Hidden Amongst the Sketches: Beethoven’s    Octave Figurations for Piano

3:30    Tea/coffee break
4:00    Sam Ellis (University of Wales, Bangor)—Arthur Bliss: Heroic Modernist or    New    Romantic?
4:30     Wimberly Grace Thomas (University of Wales, Bangor)—Tintinnabulation: Discovering    the Bells in Arvo Pärt
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5:30    Barry Truax (School of Communication & School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon    Fraser University)—Interacting with Inner and Outer Sonic Complexity: from    Microsound to Soundscape Composition
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7:30     Concert (Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall)—featuring works by guest composers Barry    Truax (Canada) and Thomas Bjelkeborn (Sweden), as well as new works by MANTIS staff and postgraduate students
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MANTIS FESTIVAL SPRING EDITION