On last Friday, 29.May 2009, the head of the Black Dyke Band, Prof. Nicholas Childs, gave his inaugural lecture as Visiting Professor at the Faculty Innovation North. His talk was titled "History of Brass Bands - The Golden Period". He did illustrate the points with life performances of selected works by the Black Dyke Band.
Sunday 31 May 2009
Tuesday 12 May 2009
Innovation North: Annual Student Showcase
This Tuesday, the annual Innovation North Student Showcase was held in Gandhi Hall at the Leeds Met Headingley Campus. Students in their final year presented their group project, linking multimedia, internet, computing, and music together to a variety of interesting and impressive products. Several of those groups actually had clients outside of the university, who were very pleased with the professional results they got from the students' work.
Pictures from the Showcase event.
In autumn 2009, the annual networking event will link again external clients with the new last-year students cohort, for a new set of exciting projects.
Pictures from the Showcase event.
In autumn 2009, the annual networking event will link again external clients with the new last-year students cohort, for a new set of exciting projects.
Monday 11 May 2009
Announcement: Innovation North: Annual Student Showcase
Tomorrow, on Tuesday, 12.May 2009, Innovation North hosts the Annual Showcase in which students present the results of their group project work. It is organised in a tradeshow style and will be held in the James Graham Building at the Leeds Met Headingley Campus. An evening reception is from 17:00 - 21:00, but the showcase is open for daytime viewing from 9:00 - 16:00.
More details are here at www.leedsmet.ac.uk/inn/news_innovation_north_showcase_2009.htm
More details are here at www.leedsmet.ac.uk/inn/news_innovation_north_showcase_2009.htm
Thursday 7 May 2009
Yorkshire Post Environmental Awards: Rivers Project
On 7.May 2009, the Yorkshire Post awarded the "Rivers Project" an Environmental Award in the category "Climate Change". The award trophy was handed out by Secretary of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change, Ed Miliband, during the dinner celebration which was moderated by TV presenter Julia Bradbury.
The Rivers Project has been initiated and led by publisher, artist, and writer Brian Lewis (Pontefract Press). The goal of this project is to create awareness of climate change, through means of art and poetry. The project focusses on two regional areas in two different parts of the world, which have felt the effects of the changing climate in different ways: Yorkshire (UK) and Gujarat (India). The intended outcome of this project is a collection of paintings, poems, and other writings and artworks which are drawing on the individual and collective experience of the effects of climate change. A special focus has been on rivers: the river Aire (Yorkshire) and the rivers Sabarmati and Narmada have significant meaning to surrounding communities, which depend strongly on them. Flooding and drought have in recent years created headlines. This project intends to build a virtual link between these rivers, showing similarities and differences of those climatic effects.
Reinhold Behringer (Leeds Metropolitan University) has been involved in this project to provide technology components in capturing experiences and disseminating them through digital media: one aspect has been to track geographical locations for geo-centric interfaces and to integrate the art works with online multimedia distribution. He has participated in a travel to India, to the rural community of Vallabh Vidyanagar, where a set of workshops had been organised by the local academic and cultural partners of this project.
In June 2009, our project partners from India will visit Yorkshire, to learn about the issues and problems here in our region: a workshop is planned to be hosted at the Northern College Barnsley, and several site visits are being scheduled.
The project seeks currently further funding for those activities and for reaching the envisioned goals.
The Rivers Project has been initiated and led by publisher, artist, and writer Brian Lewis (Pontefract Press). The goal of this project is to create awareness of climate change, through means of art and poetry. The project focusses on two regional areas in two different parts of the world, which have felt the effects of the changing climate in different ways: Yorkshire (UK) and Gujarat (India). The intended outcome of this project is a collection of paintings, poems, and other writings and artworks which are drawing on the individual and collective experience of the effects of climate change. A special focus has been on rivers: the river Aire (Yorkshire) and the rivers Sabarmati and Narmada have significant meaning to surrounding communities, which depend strongly on them. Flooding and drought have in recent years created headlines. This project intends to build a virtual link between these rivers, showing similarities and differences of those climatic effects.
Reinhold Behringer (Leeds Metropolitan University) has been involved in this project to provide technology components in capturing experiences and disseminating them through digital media: one aspect has been to track geographical locations for geo-centric interfaces and to integrate the art works with online multimedia distribution. He has participated in a travel to India, to the rural community of Vallabh Vidyanagar, where a set of workshops had been organised by the local academic and cultural partners of this project.
In June 2009, our project partners from India will visit Yorkshire, to learn about the issues and problems here in our region: a workshop is planned to be hosted at the Northern College Barnsley, and several site visits are being scheduled.
The project seeks currently further funding for those activities and for reaching the envisioned goals.
Announcement: Echochroma IV Concert, 14.May
The EchoChroma IV concert will take place on 14.May 2009 in the Jubilee Room of the Leeds Met Headingley Campus, 17:00 - 19:00.
The concert features original works from Leeds Met Music Technology staff and students as well as work from the Arts and Society "Chris Watson Project". The programme includes live laptop improvisations by Kingsley Ash and Dave Raybould.
Seating is limited so please arrive early.
The concert features original works from Leeds Met Music Technology staff and students as well as work from the Arts and Society "Chris Watson Project". The programme includes live laptop improvisations by Kingsley Ash and Dave Raybould.
Seating is limited so please arrive early.
Wednesday 6 May 2009
At EPSRC Workshop "Maths of Life"
In April, the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has issued a call for Proposals with the topic "Maths of Life". Reinhold Behringer's submission was accepted, and he attended this workshop on 6.May 2009 in London. His initial intention was to propose the study of artificial creativity in the sense of artistic creativity, as outlined in this Leeds Met research reflection. At the workshop itself, however, this idea was modified towards a more open approach for a mathematical model of all human creativity. There were 74 registered participants at this workshop, and nine different challenge topic emerged from the discussions, "Artificial Creativity" being one of them.
A call for a Sandpit with one of the challenges as the topic will be issued by EPSRC within the next 2 weeks.
A call for a Sandpit with one of the challenges as the topic will be issued by EPSRC within the next 2 weeks.
Games Republic Win
Innovation North students have been successful in the Annual Games Republic Competition which was held on 5.May at Sheffield Hallam University. "Team Croake" won the first prize in the Games Art category, and "Team Hotchpotch" won the 3rd prize in the Games Technology category. Congratulations to all winning teams!
www.leedsmet.ac.uk/inn/news_games_republic_competition_win.htm
www.leedsmet.ac.uk/inn/news_games_republic_competition_win.htm
Friday 1 May 2009
Paper at Electronic Music Rewiew
Members of the Centre for Creative Technology have published an online paper at the Revista eletrônica de musicologia - Electronic Musicological Review:
Reinhold Behringer, Adam Stansbie, Nikos Stavropoulos, Michael Ward. Information Computing Technology (ICT) for Music Composition and Seamless Performance Interfaces Electronic Music Review, Vol.12, March 2009.
Reinhold Behringer, Adam Stansbie, Nikos Stavropoulos, Michael Ward. Information Computing Technology (ICT) for Music Composition and Seamless Performance Interfaces Electronic Music Review, Vol.12, March 2009.
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