Abigail Kelly stars in Shirley J. Thompson’s one-woman, one-act opera which weaves together filmic documentary and song in a heart-warming love letter to the resilience of the Windrush settlers. Newly arrived in England from the West Indies, a student nurse, a concert pianist, a cricketer’s wife, and a new bride are faced with the challenge of starting a new life. For […]
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Celebrate the launch of Lucy Ann Harrison‘s book Interactive Sound and Music: Beyond Pressing Play with this interactive event at Soho Poly’s GO TO Exhibition space. Discuss how we interact with sound in art and games through playing within sound and music from games and from the author’s compositional work. Interactive Sound and Music: Beyond Pressing Play provides […]
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Lucy Ann Harrison has published Interactive Sound and Music: Beyond Pressing Play an accessible exploration into the aesthetics of interactive audio, using examples from video games, experimental music, and participatory theatre and sound installations. Offering a practitioner’s perspective, the book places interactive sound and music within a broader aesthetic context relating to key texts and discussion within […]
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Join the Black Music Research Unit’s Mykaell Riley on Saturday 26 October for a day of “Celebrating Liverpool’s Sound System Culture”! Featuring music from the original Strugglers’ Sound System, from the days of The Frontline, Errol Graham of Bozra Man Sound, Dr Mykaell Riley of Formerly of Steel Pulse and Sticky Dub. Through the 1970s […]
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The Black Music Research Unit, in collaboration with the British Library, is excited to be hosting their annual Black-British Music Symposium, all-day at the British Library on the 12th of July. The day will see the BMRU host academics, industry partners and practitioners from across the UK and US, to discuss all aspects of Black-British […]
Iwona Abrams’ double blind-peer reviewed paper Models of Participatory Processes and the Public’s Relationship to the Environment will be presented at EIMAD ’24 – International Meeting of Research in Music, Arts and Design, convened by Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas of Instituto Politecnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal. With reference to fieldwork research including practical experiments in documentation and generation […]
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As part of Making Connections at the Old Waiting Room – Peckham Rye Station. Lost Text/Found Space are developing a new production of Noel Coward’s Still Lives. This site specific performance, directed by Rebecca McCutcheon will include new music and arrangements by Lucy Harrison. The music will recontextualise Noel Coward’s songs within the text. Lost […]
Dr Chris Christodoulou presents ‘Speed Limits: Accelerationism, Popular Futurism and the Decline of Jungle Drum and Bass’ at Dance Cult 23. The parallel development in the 1990s of jungle drum and bass as one of the most recognisable electronic dance music (EDM) genres to emphasise speed as a core experience, and the accelerationist movement, whose exponents, such […]