Echochroma V Concert

Yesterday members of the Leeds Met Innovation North Music and Sound Processing (MSP) Group performed a concert of electro-acoustic music in the Jubilee Room of the James Graham Building, Headingley. A new set of surround speakers provided the adequate sound level for enjoying the electro-acoustic compositions that were performed in multi-channel surround sound.

The first half of the program contained music by staff and students from Leeds Met and the Leeds College of Music:
Nikos Stavropoulos: Nyctinasty
Stephen Kilpatrick: Oceana
Alasdair Auchincloss: Untitled 1
Adam Stansbie: Parenthesis
Dale Perkins: Cuckoo-borough

The second half of the concert was performed at the mixing desk by guest composer Manuella Blackburn:
Manuella Blackburn: Vista Points
Sam Salem: Poor but sexy in Berlin
Diana Simpson: Papyrus
David Berezan: Frosty

Echochroma Concert: 14.Dec., 17:00

Echochroma is proud to present an evening of electroacoustic music on Monday the 14th of December at 17.00pm in the Jubilee room (JG G06), James Graham, Headingley Campus.

The concert will feature special guests: Manuella Blackburn (MANTIS, Manchester University) and Dale Perkins (Leeds College of Music). The evening will also feature music by: Adam Stansbie, Nikos Stavropoulos and Stephen Kilpatrick (Innovation North).

All music will be performed using a 16-channel surround-sound diffusion system.

Please arrive early as there will be a limited number of available seats for this event.

The MSP group from Innovation North is looking forward to welcoming you.

Digital Libraries and Digital Preservation: EU Funding

On 24.November 2009 the European Commission has released the 6th Call in the Seventh Framework Programm (FP7)in the ICT Challenge #4 (Digital Libraries and Content). The topic of this call is: Digital Libraries and Digital Preservation.

Deadline for proposal submissions is 10.April 2010. A total of 69 M Euro will be distributed through this call.

Overall information about the objectives is available in the Digital Libraries Initiative.

Additional documents for submission and procedures are also available online.

Nokia Developer Event: 17.11., 5pm

Screen Yorkshire and Nokia are organising an event about software development for mobile phones. The event takes place at the Rose Bowl on Tuesday, 17.November, 17:00 - 21:00.

Registration and further details are here: http://screenyorkshire.eventbrite.com/

First Innovation North Newsletter

Ash Mann from the Marketing Team in our faculty has just published the First Innovation North Newsletter, highlighting events and activities thorughout the faculty.

Nikos Stavropolous' Composition "Nyctinasty" Won First Prize!

The electro-acoustic composition "Nytcinasty" by our staff member Nikos Stavropoulos won the first prize at the First "Punto de Encuentro Canarias International Composition Competition" in Spain.

Congratulations, Nikos!

MScape no longer supported by HP

As I have learned through "inofficial channels", Hewlett-Packard has made redundant the group that developed the MScape platform for Windows Mobile. This is really a pity, because now there is no further support for this very nice mobile geolocation platform. You may remember that in summer 2008 our Leeds Met staff won funding for developing the Our City, Our Music application.

I am not yet aware about how future support of MSCAPE will be made available. It would be great if the software for MSCAPE would be released as OpenSource, so that the Mscape community can continue to develop it.

My best wishes go out to the former members of that now redundant group! You have done a great job developing the MSCAPE platform and making it publicly available.