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The School of Creative Arts is pleased to announce PhD studentships for the 2012-2013 academic year. But be quick as the closing date for application is the 9th March. Click here for full information.
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Cormac Crawley and Christopher Haworth, two composers working in electroacoustic music at the Sonic Arts Research Centre secured two out of the three prizes in this international competition. The selection process was anonymous and the jury was composed of Belma Bešlic-Gál (Composer/Pianist. Co-Curator of shut up and listen! 2011), Wolfgang Seierl (Composer/Visual Artist. Founder of the Mittersill Composers' Forum, and of ein klang records, Austria) and Germán Toro-Pérez (Composer. Head of the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology, Zurich University of the Arts).
Cormac Crawley (IE): 'Port of Call'
http://soundcloud.com/cormac-crawley
Port of Call: The port, as an interface, offers access from land to water, from water to land, north to south and east to west. It is the beating heart of many cities, towns and villages. With a broad band of sound such as the roaring of the ocean our ears often play tricks with us. We may imagine sounds; plucked from its vast spectrum of frequencies.The piece offers a chronological description of how the port has had an ongoing effect on the lives around it. Also presented is the effect that those around the port have had on this once tranquil soundscape; previously only disturbed by nature itself. A montage of sounds emerge from the ocean and develop from natural and harmonious to unnatural and sometimes dissonant depicting human interference and pollution of the soundscape. The struggle between human and environment is portrayed as a sway of events throughout the piece; natural and unnatural.
Christopher Haworth (UK): 'Correlation Number One'
http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/sarc/People/PhDstudentsatSARC/ChristopherHaworth/
Christopher Haworth's work explores psychoacoustic phenomena and perceptual idiosyncrasies to call into question common assumptions and received ideas about listening and sonic experience. His recent piece, entitled 'Correlation Number One', uses high frequency tones to generate 'distortion-product otoacoustic emissions' (DPOAEs) in the listener's ears. This means that, in effect, the ear itself becomes an instrument, which the tones coming out of the speakers 'perform' in certain ways to produce sound. What you hear is thus totally subjective, creating a paradoxical situation in which the listener listens to himself listening.
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Share your sound world live!
Liveshout is a mobile streaming app that allows for single orsimultaneous multiple user broadcast. Liveshout works with Icecast streaming technology which allows for flexibility both in terms of access and usage. The app is designed for locative media, sound and transmission art practitioners as well as amateur broadcasters.
Stream live soundwalks with high quality audio, collect multiple audio live streams for concert presentation or recording, use it as a baby monitor and much more… Try it and let us know about your projects using Liveshout!
List of Features :
- High quality mono one-way stream
- Ogg encoding
- Based on Icecast streaming server technology
- Single or simultaneous multiple user broadcast architecture.
- Streams accessible though embedded web player, pure data or VLC
- Works with wifi or 3G networks
- Compatible built in or external iPhone microphones for high quality audio capturing
Liveshout was commissioned by CO-ME-DIA, a Culture 2007 European Union project, developed by Ecliptic Labs and based on research currently being carried out at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast.
Get it here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/liveshout/id469761290?mt=8
For more information on Liveshout including a how to guide and examples of projects using the application please visit http://www.somasa.qub.ac.uk/~liveshout/
Brain Jog consists of 4 mini games designed to test 4 main areas of cognition: Spatial ability, working memory, arithmetic ability and verbal fluency. Games for seniors have steadily been gaining in popularity. Now research is being conducted to identify exactly what it is that seniors want. Brain Jog’s design is unique in that it is the result of one and a half year’s research and collaboration with those over the age of 50. To participate, simply download the application for free (link below). Start it, answer a few questions, then play the games. It’s as easy as that. There are no obligations, play as frequently as you like and stop whenever you choose.
Researcher, Donal O’Brien says; “Your participation will help us create a fantastic game experience for those over 50 and bring us one step closer to finding out whether or not ‘brain training’ can act in preventing cognitive decline / dementia”.
Contact:
Donal O’Brien
Re: Brain Jog App
Tel: +44 (0) 754 299 1371
donal@brainjog.org
www.brainjog.org
Brain Jog can be downloaded from here for free:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/brain-jog/id414035111?mt=8&ls=1.
A video of Brain Jog can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mfWv8WWKOo
