Future Sound 2012: Performance Schedule

Saturday 12th-‐Sunday 13th May The Media Factory

Bath Street Preston PR1 2HE

Future Sound 2012 is a weekend of musical innovation. Running over two days, Saturday 12th May and Sunday 13th May, the event will showcase the original

work of final year Music Practice students at UCLan. Along with performances from current students of Music Practice from all years, Future Sound will also feature performances by external artists Denis Jones and Julia Usher. The weekend will be an exciting opportunity to experience live new music and sound art at an event that

promotes experimentation and creative vision.

Below are the descriptions of the various performances that are happening throughout the weekend. Please note the times and locations of these performances may be subject to change, so please check this link again nearer to the date. All

performances take place in the Media Factory (ME)

For information on tickets, and general enquiries, please contact [email protected]

Future Sound 2012 is sponsored by CADG

FUTURE SOUND 2012 -‐ SCHEDULE

Saturday 12 May

Installations From 12.30pm

Canteen – Justine Flynn

Foyer – Suzi Burke

ME011 -‐ Kyle Knight

ME109 – Anthony Kubala

ME111 -‐ Josh Winnard

One-‐To-‐One performances from 12.30pm

ME016 – Mike Keefe

ME018 – Liz Nightingale

ME125 -‐ James Burton, Ric Jones (separate performances)

ME215 -‐ Josh Clifton-‐Gornall

Concerts

1pm – ME007 -‐ 1st Year Performances

2pm – ME010 – Arron Lambert, Suzanne Hollens-‐Riley, Mandy Saggers

3pm -‐ ME020 -‐ Dance and Music Students

4pm – ME002 – Schrottplatz Trommlers

5pm – ME010 – Michal Rogala, Tom Jones

7pm – ME010 – Mark Chamberlain

8pm – ME002 – Daniel Bibby, Phil Hamilton

9pm – ME007 – Guest Artists Arran Hall, Josh Horsley, Thom Roberts, Russell Sumner

Sunday 13 May

Installations from 12.30pm

Canteen – Justine Flynn

ME125 -‐ Carl Brown & Jon Aveyard

ME109 – Craig Henthorn, Berry Moore, Chris Canon

ME011 -‐ Kyle Gater

One-‐To-‐One performances from 12.30pm

ME018 – Rachael Hinchliffe

ME111 – Simon Cook

ME216 – NJ Apostol

Concerts

12pm – ME010 – Dyads & Guest Artists Aletheia

1pm – ME007 -‐ 1st Year Performances

2pm – ME002 – Luke French, Gary Singleton, Jamie Whitfield

3pm -‐ ME020 -‐ Dance and Music Staff

4pm – ME010 – Ben Ryan, Adam Kniveton

5pm – ME007 – Joel Ayre, Colin Hendra

7pm – ME002 – Nick Flynn, Lydia Song

8pm – ME010 – Carl Brown, Chris Parker, Guest Artist Julia Usher

9pm – ME007 -‐ Guest Artist Denis Jones

Imponderable Sound One: Pipe Dream

Artist: Justine Flynn Date: Saturday 12 May

Time: 12:30 Onwards (Installation) Location: Canteen

Performance Description:

Justine Flynn (www.myspace.com/theimponderablebomb) is an audio/visual artist that has been installing work, writing contemporary music and directing contemporary performance since 1997

and is currently researching Imponderable Sound: at Masters level here at UCLan. Imponderable Sound is sonic art that is inaudible and is composed by using only infrasonic

frequencies or infrasound. Infrasound (sound that operates below the average hearing spectrum) is a vibration that can be detected through the body via the bones, skin and internal organs and is

then interpreted by the brain in the same way that music is interpreted when perceived by the ears. This means that by using infrasound as a means of physical vibration, the body can be affected through its tactile sensory receptors to add a new dimension to music by the addition of ‘touch’.

Home Sweet Home

Artist: Suzi Burke Date: Saturday 12th May

Time: 12:30pm Onwards (Installation) Location: Main Foyer


Northern towns have long had a reputation for close-‐ knit communities. Are these communities still in firm existence or have they become broken as society has evolved and changed over time? With the use of photography, it has been possible to capture glimpses of life in 2012 around Burnley town. These images coupled with soundtracks containing field recordings and opinions of those who live in these spaces, will provide a thought provoking installation for those who look, listen and

question; is this home sweet home?

Kyle Knight (Title TBC)

Artist: Kyle Knight Date: Saturday 12th May

Time: 12:30pm Onwards (Installation) Location: ME011


An installation inspired by William S. Burrough’s cut-‐up technique.

Anthony Kubala (Title TBC)

Artist: Anthony Kubala Date: Saturday 12th May



This film will use photographs and artwork to depict different serial killers.

Rebellion In Dreamland

Artist: Josh Winnard Date: Saturday 12th May



Within our lifetimes, we have all experienced dreams, and we have all been subjected to nightmares. Dreaming is thought to express repressed emotions and memories, and is thought to help solve problems a person is having in reality. ‘Rebellion in Dreamland’ is an Environmental Found Sound piece, which focuses on the exploration of dreams and the suggested

narratives developed within dreaming. It investigates the idea of both pleasant dreams and nightmares whilst also adding in various surreal elements that often occur during dreaming.

Déjà vu

Artist: Michael Keefe (AKA Rampant Foetus) Date: Saturday 12th May

Time: 3pm Onwards (One-‐To-‐One Performance) Location: ME016


Déjà vu is the experience of feeling sure that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation, even though the exact circumstances of the prior encounter are uncertain and were perhaps imagined. The protagonist in this short film is trapped in a series of tormenting and baffling events that confuse and lead him astray. Can he break this ludicrous cycle and return to some kind of normality? This short film will be presented to individuals as a one-‐on-‐one screening so each viewer has a unique and

intense experience.

Tracks Of My Tears

Artist: Elizabeth Nightingale Date: Sunday 13th May

Time: 12:30pm Onwards (One-‐To-‐One Performance) Location: ME018


Imagine a medical professional sat directly opposite you. He tells you that you have a terminal illness, and you know that things are only going to get worse. What would you feel? What would you be going through? Would you consider euthanasia as an option,

even though it is not legal in the UK? Based on the Kubler-‐Ross theory, this is a twenty-‐minuet audio and visual piece exploring the moral option of euthanasia through five stages of acceptance: Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. Acceptance.

James Burton (Title TBC)

Artist: James Burton Date: Saturday 12th May

Time: 12:30pm (One-‐To-‐One Performance) Location: ME125


This piece uses sound to give particular ambience to a room and is a companion piece to Ric Jones’s.

Ric Jones (Title TBC) Artist: Ric Jones

Date: Saturday 12th May Time: 12:30pm (One-‐To-‐One Performance)

Location: ME125

Performance Description: This piece uses sound to give particular ambience to a room and is a companion piece to

James Burton’s.

Avidyā

Artist: Josh Clifton-‐Gornall (One-‐To-‐One Performance) Date: Saturday 12th May

Time: 12:30pm Location: ME215


“Treat others as you wish to be treated”.

If this were to be applied in having others treat you as you currently treat them, what kind of existence would yours become?

“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either

case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.” John Stuart Mill

Is ignorance an epidemic?

First Year Music Practice Students

Artist: First Year Music Practice Students Date: Saturday 12th May

Time: 1pm Location: ME007


The first year Music Practice students will present an eclectic approach to their final performances. They will challenge the traditions of music and instrumentation and translate their researched ideas into innovative and thought provoking productions.

Visions

Artist: Arron Lambert Date: Saturday 12th May



Twenty minute loop piece attempting to explore new terrain in musical elements such as rhythm, timbre and melody.

The Changing Mind

Artist: Suzanne Hollens-‐Riley Date: Saturday 12th May



This piece is an exploration of the Schizophrenic mind before, during and after illness. It is a record of personal dealings with the illness looking at the illnesses effect on the composer’s music and music as an aid to recovery. The piece uses field recordings

made before, during and after illness. The aim is to give insight to the viewer into the illness

and the effect on a musical mind. http://zannehollens-‐

riley.bandcamp.com/album/the-‐ changing-‐mind

Words

Artist: Amanda Saggers Date: Saturday 11th May



This performance is to draw attention to the power and influence music has in our society, with a twist. Music affects our

emotions, motivates us, plus it can alter our mood. Music is everywhere, so what

happens in it’s absence?

Dance And Music Students

Artists: 3rd Year Dance Students, 2nd Year Music Students Date: Saturday 12th May



Performances by students on the UCLan Dance Performance &

Teaching course with accompaniment by Music Practice

students.

Schrottplatz Trommeln

Artist: Schrottplatz Trommlers Date: Saturday 12th May



Ever heard someone tapping on a tin can and thought it sounded ok? Ever heard someone drumming on a chair or table with their fingers and heard rhythm? 'Schrottplatz Trommeln' is going to open your mind to a whole new world of percussion, showing you that everyday rubbish and common

household/office items are more than just items of single use.

Macro-‐Minimalizations

Artist: Michal Rogala Date: Saturday 12th May



Music inspired by the phenomenon of macro and micro elements of the universe

Stopped Off

Artist: T.W. Jones Date: Saturday 12th May



It depicts an extract from a larger work using narration, music and film. My intention is to create an immersive environment for the

audience, therefore allowing them to empathise more closely with the emotive tribulations encountered by the character. Through a first person perspective the films follows a day in the

life of a troubled young man. The new complications in his already arduous existence are portrayed whilst maintaining a focus on his thoughts and actions. Whilst subtly set in a future

world the film aims to suggests that the fundamental social hindrances we experience throughout our lives remain the same. The

soundtrack combines conventional principles in composition with experimental performance

practices. Using sampling, a wide range of forces plus extensive editing a sonic soundscape that complements the spoken narrative and visual

elements of the piece is formed.

!תחזור לא לעולם אתה אבל .מוזמן תמיד אתה

Artist: Mark Chamberlain Date: Saturday 13th May


Performance Description: Its inscrutable nature is it’s essence and it craves your immersion into its deep dark

existence…

Name In Lights Artist: Daniel Bibby

Date: Saturday 12th May Time: 8pm

Location: ME002

Performance Description: This piece and explores and pushes the boundaries of composing for a conventional five-‐

piece rock band. The piece goes through a number of movements, avoiding the conventional rock/pop song structure and adheres more to the orchestral approach.

Featuring Michael Keefe, Nicholas Flynn, Josh Clifton, and Chris Parker

A Miner’s Strike

Artist: Phillip Hamilton Date: Saturday 12th May



The effects of the miner's strikes of the mid-‐1980s were felt across the UK. Co-‐workers were divided as some crossed picket lines to keep their families from poverty and those that felt the desperation worst found themselves unable to find an outlet for their anger. A Miner's Strike is a representation of the anger felt by estranged miners and how it affected

their family life, often resulting in domestic abuse. Films such as Billy Elliot and Brassed Off focused on the need for creative expression in times of

political disillusion; A Miner's Strike uses the destruction of the guitar as an allegory of the unfocused anger felt by the mining population. In popular

music, guitar destruction is often seen as a statement against the establishment, displayed by acts such as The Who, Jimi Hendrix and Nirvana, but there is also an emasculating quality to the act where the guitar, as a phallic allegory, is destroyed in parallel to the idea of

husband/father as the provider.

Guest Artists

Artists: Arran Hall, John Horsley, Thom Roberts, and Russell Sumner

Date: Saturday 12th May Time: 9pm

Location: ME007

Performance Description: We are delighted to invite back former UCLan

Music Practice students Arran Hall, Josh Horsley, Thom Roberts and Russell Sumner. Whilst on the course they composed and performed excellent music covering post-‐rock, electroacoustic

improvisation, and more. We are greatly looking forward to hearing what they are working on

now.

Imponderable Sound Two: The Transit Of Venus

Artist: Justine Flynn Date: Sunday 13th May

Time: 12:30pm Onwards (Installation) Location: Canteen


Justine Flynn (www.myspace.com/theimponderablebomb) is an audio/visual artist that has been installing work, writing contemporary music and directing contemporary performance since 1997

and is currently researching Imponderable Sound: at Masters level here at UCLan. Imponderable Sound is sonic art that is inaudible and is composed by using only infrasonic

frequencies or infrasound. Infrasound (sound that operates below the average hearing spectrum) is a vibration that can be detected through the body via the bones, skin and internal organs and is

then interpreted by the brain in the same way that music is interpreted when perceived by the ears. This means that by using infrasound as a means of physical vibration, the body can be affected through its tactile sensory receptors to add a new dimension to music by the addition of ‘touch’.

Transits

Artists: Jon Aveyard and Carl Brown Date: Sunday 13th May



Stars make sounds albeit at frequencies far too low to be heard by human ears and confined by the vacuum of space. However, these sounds can be detected through the fluctuations of light on the surface of the stars. Using data provided by Professor Don Kurtz, an audio representation has been created of the portion of the sky in which the Sun is located. This installation has been made in response to the 2012 Transit of Venus in which the planet will be seen as a dot traveling across the surface of the Sun.

A Day In The Life

Artist: Kai Gater Date: Sunday 13th May



Us humans are a noisy lot when it comes to what we do every day, but do we really think about what we do every day? This piece aims to bring to light the average daily routine in an ambient representation of the background we subconsciously create for ourselves each time we

welcome a new day.

Trapped

Artist: Rachael Hinchliffe Date: Saturday 12th May

Time: 12:30pm Onwards (One-‐To-‐One Performance) Location: ME018


How do you define what is right and wrong when it comes to ending a life? Is there a difference between killing someone and letting someone die? Should another individual be allowed to decide whether you live or die? This performance will show you just how it feels to no longer have control over your fate. You will be able to experience the sense of being completely alone with no choice over you own destiny. Is this right? Should this

be allowed? You decide.

Gong Bath Rage Artists: Simon Cook and Suzi Burke

Date: Sunday 13th May Time: 12:30pm Onwards (One-‐To-‐One Performance)

Location: ME111

Performance Description: 'Gong Bath Rage' is a One to One performance exploring the

spiritual healing qualities of the Gong and Tibetan Singing Bowl. This performance will hopefully take the participant to a place of

calm reflection, but at the same time to a place where their more intense feelings come to the fore. 'Gong Bath Rage' is an experience that will leave you feeling calm yet scared, but

ultimately...fulfilled.

Remix

Artist: NJ Apostol Date: Sunday 13th May

Time: 12:30pm (One-‐To-‐One Performance) Location: ME216


A series of sounds to be played at your will. Create an original piece of music by adjusting the volumes of the track in front of you.

9083.11-‐Mile Noise

Artists: Aletheia Streaming Ensemble (Western Australian Academy Of Performing Arts) and Dyads Streaming Ensemble,

(University of Central Lancashire) Date: Sunday 13th May

Time: 12pm (Monday 8pm in Perth, Western Australia) Location: ME010


A live collaboration between the Dyads Streaming Ensemble, UCLan and the Aletheia Internet Streaming Ensemble at the Western

Australian Academy of Performing Arts, the performance will make use of Internet lag as a live improvisational tool. You go to a concert. Half the performers are at the venue, the other half are on the other side of the WORLD. No one knows what they are going to play, but

one thing is for certain: THERE WILL BE NOISE.

The sound, generated by members of Aletheia, will be sent through a front pair of speakers at the Velvet Lounge, Perth and streamed live to the Media Factory, Preston for the performers in Dyads to improvise around. The Dyads sound will then be sent back to the Velvet Lounge and routed through the rear pair of speakers, as well

as to the mixer for further processing.

The result will be akin to a performance using a 9083.11-‐mile tape loop with an indeterminate and fluctuating speed.

First Year Music Practice Students

Artist: First Year Music Practice Students Date: Saturday 12th May



The first year Music Practice students will present an eclectic approach to their final performances. They will challenge the traditions of music and instrumentation and translate their researched ideas into innovative and thought provoking productions.

Brothers

Artist: Luke French Date: Sunday 13th May


Performance Description: A contextual piece based on

the events that occurred in July 2011. Jamie French was

involved in a stabbing in Ibiza which resulted in him

spending a month in intensive care in a Spanish hospital. With the use of vocal techniques, samples, guitars and piano the subject matter is recreated in a

composition and video installation depicting the possibility of loss and the joyous feeling of life itself.

‘Venus As A…’

Artist: Gary Singleton Date: Sunday 13th May



Based on the Transit of Venus, occurring on the 5-‐6th June of this year, the piece captures the atmosphere of the planet and gives a musical take on the rare and special event. Using the tones of Venus and a deconstruction of a well-‐known Bjork song, the live performance uses various ideas and sounds to showcase ‘Venus.’ The piece is both experimental and musical.

Sound Creation Of The Transit Of Venus

Artist: Jamie Lewis Whitfield Date: Sunday 13th May



Using pre recorded sounds of the Sun and Venus to frequencies that humans can hear as well as using live instruments to create the

Transit of Venus passing over the Suns atmosphere

Dance And Music Staff

Artists: 3rd Year Dance Staff, 2nd Year Music Staff Date: Sunday 13th May


Performance Description: Teaching staff from dance and music courses collaborated to

present a structured improvisation.

The Steve Jobs Symphony

Artist: Benjamin Ryan Date: Sunday 13th May



Symphony is an exploration into the legacy of the late Apple founder. Using sound samples taken directly from the Mac operating system (OSX Lion), sound bites from Jobs’ speeches, and sounds directly from apps found on the app store, the movements of this piece will explore Jobs’ life, rise to

glory and the Apple empire. This piece will be created using a range of Apple products including a MacBook, iPod,

iPhone and an iPad.

Adam Kniveton (Title TBC)

Artist: Adam Kniveton Date: Sunday 13th May



This is a drum duet working through different time signatures and phrases leading towards ‘two drummers, one kit.’

Movements Of The Mind

Artist: Joel Ayre Date: Sunday 13th May



This piece is an exploration within the movements of a schizophrenic human mind. Drawn from past experiences of calm, confusion and rage;

this piece is drawn to raise awareness and signify some of the key elements of how people suffer with this illness.

Priestowne

Artist: Colin Hendra Date: Sunday 13th May



My proposed piece will respond to the Preston Guild brief by providing an analogy between the celebration of Prestons history and the celebration of compositional values from a similar time period to the granting of the Guild by Henry II. The piece

will have several innovative juxtapositions regarding: 1) Instrumentation (A guitar played with a cello bow + more...) 2) The arrangement of the piece musically will tell a story/journey. 3) Innovative use of dissonance/distortion and

extended techniques will boast of the new musical skills and sensitivity I have developed along my 3-‐

year journey throughout the Music Practice course. The piece will be a reborn (and very much reconstructed) version of performance piece:

‘Journey to Truth’ sticking with the Journey theme.

The Man

Artist: Nicholas Flynn Date: Saturday 12th May



This piece is a musical interpretation of a journey taken by “The Man.” Following the emotions,

intensity and discovery of the journey. Will this Man be the same person as when he started the Journey? Taking inspiration from artists such as Brian Eno, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Steve Reich, the piece will be in 3 movements and include aspects such as are ambient drones and loops, guitar harmonies looping and shifting, multiple time

signatures, samples, slow progressions and many musical contrasts from loud to soft.

季。Seasons

Artist: Lydia Song and Yanyan Zhang Date: Saturday 12th May



What happens when music meets calligraphy and painting? How will

different people explain the same music? Music composed based on the four

seasons, played by the main instrument a ‘zheng’ – and old Easter instrument.

Dreamism (Live)

Artist: Carl Brown and John Douglas Date: Sunday 13th May



Hardware samplers and Ableton Live combine to form a piece that attempts to contrast a range of recording techniques and fidelities. While the dense drones evoke sub-‐aquatic imagery, tuned percussion inspired by the improvised nature of the free jazz movement and reminiscent of

Indonesian gamelan provides accompaniment.

Halfway To The Moon

Artist: Chris Parker Date: Sunday 13th May



Space travel is often seen as a journey of a lifetime for only a select few, a lucky few. This piece, using the poem ‘Out there’ by Jamie McKendrick, attempts to explore the darker side of travelling to a world beyond ours, and challenge just who the ‘lucky few’ are.

The Transit Of Venus For Soprano Saxophone and Bb Clarinet

Image by Colin Keen

Artist: Julia Usher, Paedar Long, Samanta Moody Date: Sunday 13th May



Written for Ian Mitchell and Christian Forshaw, of Gemini. First Performed at Colchester New Music Day, 2009.

Julia Usher composed this piece after reading about the first recorded observation of the

Transit of Venus made by Jeremiah Horrocks in Much Hoole, Lancashire in 1639. In this gentle duet, two heavenly bodies sound their changing spatial relationship to each

other.

Venus, drawn by the pull of the Sun’s gravitational force approaches, passes across the Sun’s face, and is flung away again. Sometimes the two emerge from the depths of aural space emitting rapid patterns, like a radio signal. At significant moments they reach an

aural conjunction, at the Octave; which occurs at the very end of the piece.

Julia Usher has been working in close collaboration with the Astrophysics, Performing Arts and Media departments of UCLAN during 2011 – 2012 on an extensive series of events to celebrate the 2012 Transit on the night of June 5/6; which will be the last

Transit until December 2117.

Peadar Long has an international reputation as a performer and composer. Playing in jazz, classical and world music settings, his music pushes the musical boundaries while

retaining an inspiring and emotional melodic flow. His current project Celestial Echoes is written and arranged for spaces with naturally rich acoustics like cathedrals, churches, basilicas and mosques. uses the acoustics of the building to create an uplifting musical

experience. Paeder Long will be performing saxophone in The Transit Of Venus.

Julia Usher is a composer, cross arts project director and music therapist, who lives in Colchester with her husband Rod, in Essex. She has always been interested in combining music with other live arts, and is strongly influenced by natural and mechanical sound – as well as by scientific ideas. Her chamber and orchestral music includes Genetic Code, The

Periodic Table and De Revolutionibus, a “Copernican Symphony”.

She studied Music at Cambridge and Music Education at York; where she also met Robert Sherlaw Johnson, with whom she studied composition. She has written and produced

several music theatre pieces: The Orford Merman, Hope’s Perpetual Breath, and Unfinished Business, a piece for live electronics and the sound sculptures of artist Derek Shiel. She composed an oratorio for St James’ Church Piccadilly on the poetry of William Blake, A Grain of Sand in Lambeth. She has been composerin residence to the Watts Gallery at

Compton, Surrey, and to the Colchester Youth Chamber Orchestra.

As a music therapist she has trained students in group improvisation on the Nordoff-‐Robbins Music Therapy Course, as well as working with clients of many different abilities

for many years, until 2008.

Her chamber music pieces range from A Reed in the Wind, for oboe which has been on exam syllabuses since 1982; to more recent works which include live electronics (Hard Times, 2010) and Out There (2011), which involved multi-‐tracked soundscapes and

projections inspired by a poem by Jamie McKendrick.

She has been developing outreach projects for Colchester New Music most recently a Festival of Fanfares at Christmas 2011 to celebrate the opening of the new Colchester Art Gallery, firstsite. In October 2011 she directed Crossing Borders, an exchange concert project between Colchester and The Composers of Wales. She is Musical Director of the

experimental band CoMA FIREWIRE.

Other artists commissioned by Julia include: Berry Moore -‐ Discord & Desire

Craig Henthorn – The Day the Earth Stood Still and Watched Chris Cannon

Guest Artist: Denis Jones

Image provided by Jon Ayliffe (www.jonayliffe.com)

Date: Sunday 13th May Time: 9pm

Location: ME007

Performance Description: Denis Jones is a self-‐taught guitarist and songwriter from

Lancashire. He has over the last few years developed a show-‐stopping live performance based around the core of his exceptional and unique guitar-‐playing style and rich, soulful voice. Utilising a loop station and

all manner of samplers and effects, Denis creates vast, complex orchestrations of beat-‐box rhythms, multi-‐layered vocals and

otherworldly sounds, which veer from subtle heart-‐wrenching folk and blues to heavy bass-‐driven electronica. The live visuals portion of Denis Jones’ audio/visual piece will be created and screened by Wasp Video.

“scuzzy Mancunian blues at its richest and most intriguing” –

The Guardian

“logical, eardrum-‐massaging, heart-‐stirring sonic harmony” – Drowned in Sound

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