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Hearing Things 11 – 14 November

The web has unleashed a proliferation of tools, templates, sounds, specifications, designs and declarations to shape what the future of music could or should sound like. Music is being refashioned by a generation of hackers, circuit benders, programmers and composers who are no longer content to simply rip, mix and burn, but who are starting over again, remodelling music from the ground up with instruments and ideas of their own making.

Exhibition: 11 – 14 November

Jamie Thomas – The Karman Cube
http://alexanderthomas.wordpress.com

The Karman Cube is an immersive audio-visual tool for sound manipulation and performance, that makes use of motion tracking technologies in order to form intangible communication possibilities for human-computer interaction. This sensory system is designed to track the users hand and body movements in order to control a simple and intuitive interface for musical performance. The Karman Cube aims to remove the limitations of physical performance, in an attempt to create a stronger sensation of embodiment within the instrument for the musician.

Lecture: Wed 11 November / 7 pm

Matthew Lovett
Programme Leader, Creative Sound and Music, University of Wales Newport

Throughout music’s long and varied history, two key elements stand out as having had the greatest influence on its development and progression: access to ideas and access to the technology of music – instruments in all their shapes and forms. From our current vantage point deep in the information age, we are able to reflect on many millennia of experimentation and development that has brought us to where we are today. So what is it that marks out our current age of music making? Music is not alone in experiencing a huge growth in the appetite for participation amongst its audiences, but this shift is causing one of the greatest upheavals in music’s history, as the struggle between mass entertainment and mass participation heightens. Some may even be tempted to ask, ‘What is music for?’

Matthew Lovett is a performer, composer and lecturer; his practice addresses experimental, electronic, improvised, popular and traditional musical forms.