Join us for live Music every Wednesday!
26th March 12-1pm, Galvanising Shop.
Come and experience mixed weekly programmes from our fabulous BMus performers. All welcome!
Final Platform of Spring Term..
Performers
Tonights Research Seminar we present Jean Martin.
Contemporary art music in the context of film and moving image.
Bridge Wardens College, Lecture Theatre
6-8pm
Tuesday, 25th March, 2014
Jean Martin will present some ideas from his recent book ‘Filmgeräusch – Wahrnehmungsfelder eines Mediums (co-authored with Frieder Butzmann).
“Much of music composed in history related to specific activities in the world: It supported religious practice, dance, dramatic opera, funerals, military or stately events. Only occasionally music was purely self-referential as in the scholasticism of late Renaissance music, or the experimentations of New music in the 20th Century. I want to look at the specific case of film music and sound design and music for media. Composing music and sound design for films poses specific challenges. The raison d’etre for any music and sound design, in fact for the soundtrack as a whole is the narrative and the image track of the film. This poses constraints for the timebased art of music. Film music can never follow its own logic freely developing themes or sound textures as long as it takes. It is limited by the duration of a scene which it supports or comments. In my analyses of films I observed that film composers adopt two fundamental musical approaches: on the one hand the thematic concept of music using thematic Leitmotifs and harmonic tonality. On the other hand composers practice a timbral or spectral aesthetic which expresses itself through complex textures and drones.
It is closely linked to sound design, which emerged from the electro-acoustic music tradition and the 20th Century aesthetic of musicalising environmental, indeed any recorded sound or noise.”
This event is FREE to attend and open to Staff and Students.
Please bring your University ID to access the Dockyard.
Open call for Artists to be part of an international event.
FIVE is a new international videoart project created by Magmart.
26-30 May 2014 @LV21
24-30 June 2014 @ROOM (Historic Dockyard)
If you are a visual artist, a sound artist, a performer, a writer, a dancer, a musician or a ‘creative’ of any other sort… if you are inspired by the five senses and interested in getting involved with this Sensory Experience in Medway, please get in touch.
Email: five.medway@gmail.com
Website. http://www.f-i-v-e.net/
In association with School of Music and Fine Art, Light Vessel 21 and Magmart.
Painting and Sculpture Award and Exhibition 2014. Entry now open.
The LLST and AfJ award is open to all artists aged 18 and over.
The theme is ‘Injustice’.
Following prizes will be awarded:
Prize for Painting
Prize for Sculpture
and People’s Prize.
Download the poster – Call for artists Feb2014
The theme for the exhibition ‘INJUSTICE’ we hope will inspire artists to get creative and enter for the LLST and AFJ Charity Painting and Sculpture Awards.
All you need to be is age 18 or over at the time of registration and not have submitted the work for any other prize or competition. We can accept digital images (high resolution jpeg please) of up to, and including, four works per artist by the 31st May 2014.
For more details go to:
http://londonlegalsupporttrust.org.uk/our-events/just-art-2014/faqs/
Selected works will be exhibited at prestigious La Galleria between 29th September – 3rd October 2014 inc. La Galleria is just a stone’s throw from the iconic National Gallery in Trafalgar Square.
This is an ideal opportunity for artists to showcase and sell their works to the legal and business communities and the general public.
To express your interest, or for further information email sabina@llst.org.uk
To register and upload your works please go to:
http://londonlegalsupporttrust.org.uk/our-events/just-art-2014
CCA Symposium Uncertain Ground: Landscape, Memory and Theatres of Conflict, featuring film screening of Shona Illingworth’s film ‘Balnakiel’.
Sunday, 23rd March, 2014
2-5pm
Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) Glasgow.
The CCA Symposium, programmed in association with Film and Video Umbrella, as part of 25 Frames, celebrating 25 years with their 25 selected films and with thanks to the Wellcome Trust, School of Music and Fine Art lecturer, Shona Illingworth will be attending the CCA Glasgow on Sunday 23rd March for the screening of her film Balnakiel.
“Shona Illingworth’s moving-image and sound work engages with the complexities of memory, and explores the intersections and instabilities between memory, history, subjectivity and place as they evolve over time. Set in the far north of Sutherland, in a place marked by the tectonic forces of military/cultural history, her film Balnakiel provides the stimulus for a symposium on the Scottish landscape and its historical and contemporary aesthetic and political resonance.”
The event runs from 2-5pm, with Balnakiel screening at 2.10pm, followed ‘in conversation’ afterwards with Shona Illingworth and Head of Psychology at City University.
“Cognitive neuropsychologist Martin A. Conway, one of the foremost international experts in the field of Autobiographical Memory, and a close collaborator in Illingworth’s work; Hebridean psychologist Catriona Morrison, Head of Psychology at Heriot Watt University, who is known for her work on memory and language; Issie MacPhail, a cultural geographer, focused on culture and development in north west Sutherland, and a Research Fellow at the UHI Centre for Rural Health and Honorary Research Fellow at The School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, and Andrew Hoskins, Media Sociologist at the University of Glasgow whose work explores the intersections between media, war and memory. Chaired by Steven Bode, Director of Film and Video Umbrella.”
Film and Video Umbrella: 25 Frames
CCA Glasgow
Join us for live Music every Wednesday!
19th March 12-1pm, Galvanising Shop.
Come and experience mixed weekly programmes from our fabulous BMus performers. All welcome! (Music starts 12 noon)
View the website
Performers
Nathan Songer piano
Saif Rahman guitar
Jeremy Harley vocals
Sharon Siew Yee piano
Chris Thorpe guitar
Syazmin Saprunin vocals
Alistair Milne guitar
Ray Lawrence vocals
Jake Heath sax * Glasunov Concerto*
This Wednesday we have a very special visit from UoK Chamber Choir with conductors Daniel Harding and Matthew Bamford
Music from 6.30pm, Galvanising Shop
| William Byrd:1540-1623 | Ave Verum Corpus |
| Paul Pattersonb. 1947 | Salvum Fac Populum Tuum Domine |
| Thomas Vautorc.1580- ? | Mother, I Will Have a Husband |
| Johannes Brahms 1833-1897 | Seven Lieder op.621. Rosmarin (Rosemary)
2. Von alten Liebesliedern (Before my fair one’s window) 3. Waldesnacht (Gloom of woods) 4. Dein Herzlein mild (Thou gentle girl) 7. Vergangen ist mir Glück und Heil (Of ev’ry joy I am bereft) |
| Eric Whitacreb.1970 | Lux Aurumque |
| Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525-1594 | Alma Redemptoris Mater |
| Orlande di Lassus1532-1594 | Chi Chi Li Chi |
| arr. Bob Chilcottb.1958 | Steal Away |
| Peter Warlock1894-1930 | Yarmouth Fair |
| Arthur Sullivan1842-1900 | The Long Day Closes |
| John Rutter | Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron |
| b.1945 | |
| Tom Cunninghamb.1946 | The Good-Bye Jazz |
Design a poster or a sound track for Oxfam shops – entries before 11th April.
Oxfam wants to communicate with the UK public about the work they do in developing countries.
Can you produce a soundtrack using a variety of music which can be overlaid with sound bites about Oxfam’s work? Or, can you design an eye catching poster with information about Oxfam’s work?
The 2 winners ideas will contribure to the final piece which will be used by Oxfam nationally. They will also receive a prize of £100 each and the School of Music and Fine Art Community Engagement Prize.
Entries must be received BEFORE the end of spring term on 11th April, 2014. Please submit to MFAReception@kent.ac.uk
Further information please email putting ‘OXFAM PROJECT’ in the subject header.
Good luck folks!
The School of Music and Fine Art would like to welcome a new member of staff to our Sound-Image-Space Research Centre SISRC. Dr Freya Vass-Rhee.
Dr Freya Vass-Rhee, also a new member of staff, lecturing in Drama and Theatre for The School of Arts in Canterbury, joins SISRC to bring a new area of research into the Centre.
Dr Vass-Rhee’s primary focus is Visuo-Sonic analysis of dance and theatre performance from cognitive interdisciplinary perspectives and is also a member of the Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics & Performance, based at Canterbury, where she is in the process of organising a visit in later this spring by Kate Stevens (MARCS Auditory Labs, U. Western Sydney), who is a specialist in music and cognition with an avid interest in dance and sound.
Dr Freya Vass-Rhee Profile:
Freya studied Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of California, Los Angeles before completing a PhD in Dance History and Theory in 2011 from the University of California, Riverside with the dissertation “Audio-Visual Stress: Cognitive Approaches to the Perceptual Performativity of William Forsythe and Ensemble.” From 2011 to 2013, Freya was an Associate Researcher with the Dance Engaging Science workgroup of the Motion Bank project (The Forsythe Company, Frankfurt). Her research has appeared in Dance Chronicle and in edited volumes on dance dramaturgy and the work of William Forsythe.
Prior to her academic career, Freya worked as a professional dancer, ballet mistress, teacher, and choreographer with companies in Europe and the U.S. Her training includes classical/neoclassical ballet, contemporary and modern dance, period styles of musical theater dance, jazz, and tap dance.
From 2006-13, Freya served as dramaturg and production assistant to choreographer William Forsythe. She has also freelanced as dramaturg for choreographers including David Dawson.
The School of Music and Fine Art are delighted to welcome artist David Cross in the next Fine Art Visiting Artist Talk on Thursday March 20th.
Cornford & Cross
It happened Here 2012
Laying the turf fom Ulster at The Commandery Courtyard, Worcestershire
The site of the defining battle of the English Civil War
Thursday March 20th 6pm
Bridge Wardens College
Lecture Theatre
David Cross has collaborated with Matthew Cornford since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1991. Because Cornford & Cross respond to the intrinsic problems of particular contexts and situations, each of their projects has been different in form and content. A wide range of people have helped to realize their projects, which aim to stimulate discussion and debate on issues of public concern, including environment, development and social justice.
Cornford & Cross maintain that in addition to producing aesthetic experiences, a key function of contemporary art is to test concepts, assumptions and boundaries. Yet while such testing is necessary, it is not sufficient: art practice should expand the ability to envision alternative possibilities, and to choose from amongst them as an act of free will. The book Cornford & Cross (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2009) includes critical essays by John Roberts and Rachel Withers, and sets out a chronology of their projects as a basis for examining the aesthetic and ethical concerns of their practice.
David Cross Profile:
David Cross is a Reader and Pathway Leader for MA Visual Arts (Graphic Design) at Camberwell. Since setting up the MA in 2004, David has challenged the notion of professional neutrality in graphic design, encouraging instead an ethos that is interdisciplinary, research-oriented and socially engaged.
David has given lectures internationally, and chaired events at the South London Gallery, Tate and Whitechapel.
Download the Poster – David Cross
Visit the School of Music and Fine Art – Fine Art ‘ Visiting Artists Talks’ webpage
University of Kent ‘Little Big Band’
Thursday 13th March 6pm,
Galvanising Shop
Join us for live Music !
Come and enjoy a selection of Big Band repertoire and jazz standards, Directed by Lisa Davies
Performers
Drums and percussion – Cameron Cole, Sam Nsiah and Emmanuel
Piano – George Kyriakakis
Guitars – Allan Dymond and Jim Lidster-Browne
Bass – Craig Stalker
Saxes – Garrick Wareham, Lindsay Edmondson and Rhian Powell (with support by local player Brian Hatcher)
Trumpet – Esther Kiburi