MANTIS FESTIVAL - Manchester Theatre in Sound: MARCH: SONIC META-ONTOLOGY PROGRAMME

Monday, 30 May 2011

MARCH: SONIC META-ONTOLOGY PROGRAMME

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PROGRAMME (MARCH LEG)

5-6 MARCH 2011

Download FULL programme from here: http://bit.ly/hMNbCg

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MANCHESTER'S SONIC META-ONTOLOGY PROJECT (PART ONE)

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Festival Dates:

Saturday 5th March 2011

Place: John Thaw Studio Theatre, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama. University of Manchester, UK

Guest Artist: Helmut Lemke

PROGRAMME:

MANCHESTER'S SONIC META-ONTOLOGY PROJECT (PART ONE)

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Saturday 5th March 2011

Where: John Thaw Studio Theatre,

Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, University of Manchester, UK

Map here: http://bit.ly/gAIfvw

16:00 - PROJECT LAUNCH - Keynote talk and soundmaps

Room G16 and Foyer - Martin Harris Centre

Keynote & talk:

Guest artist - Helmut Lemke (University of Salford, UK)

Audiovisual Soundmaps:

Volkmar Klien - Contributions to Homeland Sound Topography 01 - The Right Sides of the Road.

Diana Simpson - Spindlesongs Installation (Quarry Bank mills)

Kaho Cheung - A scrapbook of metro sounds (a worldwide rapid transit system sonicography)

Uli Aumüller - Les séries sonores (Mix) - with comments by 40 Manchester students.

Audioguides demo:

City as Museum/City as Instrument - NoTour Audioguides explained (Augmented Aurality GPS demo)

18:00 - CONCERT ONE: Meta-ontologies zero

Helmut Lemke - In response to Manchester's Sonic meta-ontology
(MANTIS special guest)

Mark Pilkington - Peterloo (world première)

Oliver Carman - Memento

Lee Fraser - Narrows

Sam Salem - Lightness (world première)

19:30 - CONCERT TWO: Meta-ontologies one

Ricardo Climent - Havana (Soundwalk)

Constantin Popp - Stone and metal (world première)

Donal Sarsfield - The Footsteps (world première)

Ignacio Pecino - Branches (world première)

Brona Martin - Lamenting (world première)

David Berezan - Styal

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Sunday 6th March 2011

Place: Islington Mill, James Street, Salford M3 5HW (Manchester, UK)

MAP: http://www.islingtonmill.com/contact.php

PROGRAMME:

17:00 - CONCERT STARTS

Richard Scott - manchester solo 3

"An improvisation reflecting on the sounds of Manchester past and present,

feating personal sound materials drawn from a 20 year period"

Robe Bentall - Grayscale Confessions

Heather Bamforth - Improvisation

Brona Martin - Feadog

Interval

Chris Swithinbank - La leggerezza delle città

Rodrigo Constanzo - Free improvisation on acoustic drum-set and DIY electronics.

Ignacio Pecino - Khaos (Limited Edition)

Mark Pilkington &

Constantine Popp - Improvisation duo

Lee Fraser - Instantia Crucis

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For tickets contact Box Office:

Tel: + 44 161 275 8951 boxoffice@manchester.ac.uk

Ticket Price:

Martin Harris Centre events:

£6 / £5 / £4 for each concert 2-concert rate: £9 / £7.50 / £4.50 Entrance to the 4pm event is free on production of a ticket for the other concerts

Islington Mill: Donation from £3

MARTIN HARRIS CENTRE for Music and Drama

University of Manchester, Bridgeford Street, Manchester M13 9PL

ISLINGTON MILL STUDIOS

James Street, Salford M3 5HW

MANCHESTER'S SONIC META-ONTOLOGY PROJECT (PART TWO)

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Festival Dates:

Friday 10th June 2011

Venue: Cosmo Rodewald, Martin Harris Centre, University of Manchester, UK

16:00 - Project Launch (part 2) - Keynote Speakers and soundwalks

18:00 - Concert One: Meta-ontologies two

19:30 - Concert Two: Meta-ontologies three

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Saturday 11th June 2011

AudioGuide meta-ontology Tours.

Provisional tour times: Tour 1 @ 12 noon, Tour 2 @ 16:00

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Sunday 12th June 2011

Place: Islington Mill, James Street, Salford M3 5HW (Manchester, UK)

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For more information about this festival, visit:

http://www.novars.manchester.ac.uk

http://mantisfestival.com

MANTIS COMES OF AGE: 15th EDITION OF THE MANTIS FESTIVAL: 5,6 March and 10,11,12 June 2011

MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) biannually presents concerts of music and sound, featuring compositions and performances enhanced by the use of new technology and digital media. MANTIS combines a broad array of sonic events, which range from the live diffusion of acousmatic works on a 48-loudspeaker sound system (using the unique MANTIS System), to Live Instrumental and Electronics events involving large ensemble groups on stage (the MANTIS Battle of Gestures and Textures for voice, acoustic instruments and electronics). A call for national and international works, acousmatic, live or audiovisual compositions, regularly receives hundreds of submissions from all over the world.

Concerts normally take place at the Martin Harris Centre at the University of Manchester but we have also taken festival events to a number of venues in Manchester and the Northwest, such as the Victoria Baths, the Whitworth Art Gallery, and Lancaster. We are also proud to contribute to our local musical scene by having regular smaller-scale concerts at The Greenroom, Nexus Arts Cafe and more recently at MadLab, in the Northern Quarter (fully run by our students at the University of Manchester).

A central focus of MANTIS composers' research is experimentation within different acoustic spaces and with new audiences. In 2007 we launched MANTIS-in-Motion, putting MANTIS 'on wheels'. MANTIS concerts have taken place in Chile, Costa Rica, ZKM- Karlsruhe, Mexico DF, Zamora and Morelia (Mexico), Thailand, Japan, Sweden, Finland, Brussels, Berlin, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Valencia (Spain), Maynooth, (Ireland) and Aberdeen.

In the past, MANTIS has run the festival in co-partnership with Sonic Arts Network EXPO, LICA in Lancaster, the North Wales Music Exchange Conference, Digital Media Valencia, IDKA-Sweden, NK-Berlin or Empreintes DIGITALes and performers: Esther Lamneck (clarinet) , Elizabeth McNutt (flute), Neil Heyde, BBC Singers (with LICA), Kairos Electronic Ensemble, Christophe de Bezenac (Saxophone), Christion Sebille (Computer), Adam Melvin (saxophone), David L*wis (Percussion), Iñigo Ibaibarriaga (Saxophones), Idoia Zabaleta (dance), Tom McKinney (Guitar), Luo Chao-yun (Pipa) and Chen Wai-kai (Tai-chi improviser), Trio Atem and most recently Psappha (who played Kontakte by Karlheinz Stockhausen).

The last fourteen editions of the MANTIS festival hosted distinguished composers such as Francis Dhomont (on his 80th birthday), Annette Vande Gorne, Gerald Bennett, Jonty Harrison, Simon Emmerson, Denis Smalley, Pete Stollery, Pippa Murphy, Ludger Brümmer, Thomas Bjelkeborn, Joao Pedro Oliveira, Rajmil Fischman, Rodrigo Sigal, Barry Truax, Orm Finnendahl, Francesco Dillon, Iain McCurdy, Theodore Lotis, Andreas Mniestris, Jonas Valfridsson, Philip Marks, Camilo Salazar, Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos, Dominique Bassal, Gilles Gobeil, Luis Antunes Peña, Iain McCurdy, David Butler, Martin Bedard, Federico Schumacher and Jef Chippewa.

MANTIS has focused on themes such as 'South-North', including music from Latin American composers, 'Battle of Gestures and textures', 'Launch of NOVARS' (including the commission of new works) or 2011's 'Manchester's Sonic Meta-ontology'.

Another important aspiration of MANTIS is to promote, disseminate and perform new works from electroacoustic composers based at The University of Manchester.

MANTIS events have been supported by organisations such as Arts Council England - West Midlands, Arts Council England - NorthWest, Cornerhouse, Mondrian Foundation, Dutch Embassy, Norwegian Music Info Centre, SAN, Performance Rights Society Foundation, American Music Centre, Manchester University, School of Arts Histories and Cultures, Sheila Beckles Foundation, Mexican Embassy in London, Eusko Jaurlaritza- Gobierno Vasco, Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores- Mexico, Council for Cultural Affairs (Taiwan), Centro Mexicano para La Musica y Artes Sonoras, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, The Goethe Institute Manchester and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

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