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
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Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
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/
Registration and further details are here: http://screenyorkshire.eventbrite.com/
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.
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Northern Design Competition 2009
The fourth annual Northern Design Competition is underway and a new search for creative talent from universities, colleges and schools across Northern England, North Wales and Scotland has begun. The awards celebrate the artistic skills of students and give employers the chance to view the work of future faces in the creative industries. This years prize fund totals over £10,000 which will be shared between category winners, runners‐up and their education providers. The competition is open to students who are studying at a university, college or sixth form
in the north.
There are six main categories to choose from and students are invited to enter more than one category; architectural design, digital media, graphic design, illustration, photography and product design. Winners from each category will receive a £1000 prize. Runners up in each category will receive £100. The overall competition winner will receive a further £2000.
This year the competition includes a new category, the Young Northern Designer (YND). The category allows students under the age of 20, in years 12 and 13, or
at college, studying an A‐level, BTEC National Diploma or equivalent level qualification to enter. There will be three winning students in this category who
will each receive a £500 prize and a further £500 for their educational establishment. Ten runners up in this category will receive £100 each and £100 for their school, college or university. All entries to the YND category must be submitted by the school or college on behalf of the student.
The deadline for entries is Monday 20 April 2009.
To organise a visit or discuss further, please contact Sarah Kirkpatrick Gandy:
s.e.kirkpatrick-gandy@leedsmet.ac.uk / 0113 812 5126.
To set up a YND account please visit www.leedsmet.ac.uk/northerndesign.
in the north.
There are six main categories to choose from and students are invited to enter more than one category; architectural design, digital media, graphic design, illustration, photography and product design. Winners from each category will receive a £1000 prize. Runners up in each category will receive £100. The overall competition winner will receive a further £2000.
This year the competition includes a new category, the Young Northern Designer (YND). The category allows students under the age of 20, in years 12 and 13, or
at college, studying an A‐level, BTEC National Diploma or equivalent level qualification to enter. There will be three winning students in this category who
will each receive a £500 prize and a further £500 for their educational establishment. Ten runners up in this category will receive £100 each and £100 for their school, college or university. All entries to the YND category must be submitted by the school or college on behalf of the student.
The deadline for entries is Monday 20 April 2009.
To organise a visit or discuss further, please contact Sarah Kirkpatrick Gandy:
s.e.kirkpatrick-gandy@leedsmet.ac.uk / 0113 812 5126.
To set up a YND account please visit www.leedsmet.ac.uk/northerndesign.
Saturday, 28 February 2009
Leeds Met NTI is one of the Innovator 09 awards finalists!
On 24. February 2009, Yorkshire Forward announced the finalists of the Innovator 09 awards. Among those is the Leeds Metropolitan NTI Leeds.
The press release is here: www.yorkshire-forward.com/news-events/press-releases/finalists-announced-in-innovator-09-awards.
Excerpts from this press release:
Eighteen of Yorkshire and Humber’s most innovative organisations have beaten off stiff competition to be short listed in the prestigious Innovator 09 Awards.
The six awards, carrying a £3,000 prize, are aimed at recognising those companies and individuals in Yorkshire and Humber who have embraced innovation and developed, alone or in partnership, new ideas, products, technologies or ways of working in order to improve their business.
University departments and facilities that are involved with industrial collaborations were also invited to enter as they too work to overcome the challenges of today’s increasingly competitive marketplace.
...
Innovation Catalyst Award, sponsored by Institute of Directors, will go to an individual or organisation that is a catalyst for innovation, and has been instrumental in contributing to the innovation culture in the region.
...
NTI Leeds Metropolitan University is home to the region’s first co working space which supports innovation for digital entrepreneurs, fledgling businesses and those thinking of starting a business.
...
Congratulations to Linda Broughton and her team!
The press release is here: www.yorkshire-forward.com/news-events/press-releases/finalists-announced-in-innovator-09-awards.
Excerpts from this press release:
Eighteen of Yorkshire and Humber’s most innovative organisations have beaten off stiff competition to be short listed in the prestigious Innovator 09 Awards.
The six awards, carrying a £3,000 prize, are aimed at recognising those companies and individuals in Yorkshire and Humber who have embraced innovation and developed, alone or in partnership, new ideas, products, technologies or ways of working in order to improve their business.
University departments and facilities that are involved with industrial collaborations were also invited to enter as they too work to overcome the challenges of today’s increasingly competitive marketplace.
...
Innovation Catalyst Award, sponsored by Institute of Directors, will go to an individual or organisation that is a catalyst for innovation, and has been instrumental in contributing to the innovation culture in the region.
...
NTI Leeds Metropolitan University is home to the region’s first co working space which supports innovation for digital entrepreneurs, fledgling businesses and those thinking of starting a business.
...
Congratulations to Linda Broughton and her team!
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Mini-Symposium at Staff Development Festival
Today, the centre organised the Mini Symposium "Creative Technology - An Oxymoron?", in the framework of the Annual Leeds Met Staff Development Festival Research Day. Reinhold Behringer gave an overview on a few systems which claim to be true creative technology in the artificial creativity domain. John Elliott gave a talk about the human mind, Michael Ward demonstrated the current state of the art in beat tracking, and Ben Dalton presented projects related to telepresence and robotics.
The presentations are available at http://creativetech.inn.leedsmet.ac.uk/Presentations.php.
Here are a few more links related to Ben's talk:
www.burnsideinstitute.com/robot_book/robots.html - French book 'What do robots think about?', translated into Russian. A precursor to the irobot roomba.
www.robotlab.de/bios/bible_engl.htm - robot arm as caligraphic scribe of the bible.
www.robotlab.de/bios/video_engl.htm - video of the bible robot lab project.
brl.ee.washington.edu/publications/Rep127/TE.chapt.html - teleoperation examples.
www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2007/05/soldierrobot_lo.html - people humanising their military robot companions.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1898525.stm - Chris Csikszentmihalyi's robotic journalism project as reported by the BBC.
www.appliedautonomy.com/lb.html - institute for applied autonomy - pamphlet robot.
www.appliedautonomy.com/gw.html - the IAA's graffiti writing street robot.
www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=1830 - Natalie Jeremijenko's Ooz project with Robotic Geese
www.vestaldesign.com/design/ooz-goose/ - more Ooz pics.
www.auger-loizeau.com/projects/soctel/pro_soctel.html - Auger & Loizeau's teleprescence through dog mounted robotics.
www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/pubs/teleactor-icra02.pdf -
Collaborative Online Teleoperation project that includes human teleactors.
www.pbs.org/art21/artists/wodiczko/index.html - Wodiczko's Tijuana project.
www.zprod.org/PG/machines/roboticEars.htm - Paul Granjon's robotic ears.
www.zprod.org/PG/performances/zLabTrans.htm - performance with the ears and tail video.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A6mon_(His_Dark_Materials) - Leonardo da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine" (1489-90)
www.gutenberg.org/files/22117/22117-h/22117-h.htm - Kerman and Zeris, the two Kittens who accompanied Author on his wanderings
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5alYLJS4OrE - The Golden Compass: Defining Daemons
muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Jim_Henson
www.creatureshop.com - Jim Henson's effects workshop where the Big1 controllers were developed.
flickr.com/photos/bre/208151402/ - example of puppet controller system in action
www.hektor.ch - graffiti robot
The presentations are available at http://creativetech.inn.leedsmet.ac.uk/Presentations.php.
Here are a few more links related to Ben's talk:
www.burnsideinstitute.com/robot_book/robots.html - French book 'What do robots think about?', translated into Russian. A precursor to the irobot roomba.
www.robotlab.de/bios/bible_engl.htm - robot arm as caligraphic scribe of the bible.
www.robotlab.de/bios/video_engl.htm - video of the bible robot lab project.
brl.ee.washington.edu/publications/Rep127/TE.chapt.html - teleoperation examples.
www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2007/05/soldierrobot_lo.html - people humanising their military robot companions.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1898525.stm - Chris Csikszentmihalyi's robotic journalism project as reported by the BBC.
www.appliedautonomy.com/lb.html - institute for applied autonomy - pamphlet robot.
www.appliedautonomy.com/gw.html - the IAA's graffiti writing street robot.
www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=1830 - Natalie Jeremijenko's Ooz project with Robotic Geese
www.vestaldesign.com/design/ooz-goose/ - more Ooz pics.
www.auger-loizeau.com/projects/soctel/pro_soctel.html - Auger & Loizeau's teleprescence through dog mounted robotics.
www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/pubs/teleactor-icra02.pdf -
Collaborative Online Teleoperation project that includes human teleactors.
www.pbs.org/art21/artists/wodiczko/index.html - Wodiczko's Tijuana project.
www.zprod.org/PG/machines/roboticEars.htm - Paul Granjon's robotic ears.
www.zprod.org/PG/performances/zLabTrans.htm - performance with the ears and tail video.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A6mon_(His_Dark_Materials) - Leonardo da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine" (1489-90)
www.gutenberg.org/files/22117/22117-h/22117-h.htm - Kerman and Zeris, the two Kittens who accompanied Author on his wanderings
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5alYLJS4OrE - The Golden Compass: Defining Daemons
muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Jim_Henson
www.creatureshop.com - Jim Henson's effects workshop where the Big1 controllers were developed.
flickr.com/photos/bre/208151402/ - example of puppet controller system in action
www.hektor.ch - graffiti robot
Monday, 23 June 2008
Our Music, Our City won at B.TWEEN !
At B.TWEEN 08, a prize of £ 10,000 was awarded to our Ben Dalton and his team for their entry into the competition "Expoding Narratives", which was jointly organised by JustB and HP-Labs and called for project ideas for geo-referenced applications built on the MSCAPE platform for mobile phones and PDAs. Ben and his colleagues Ben Halsall and Megan Smith had developed a pitch of their project Our Music, Our City .
Congratulations to the team!
Congratulations to the team!
Friday, 6 June 2008
The "DoGoSee Project" at ICA
On 10.June 2008, Ben Dalton (Leeds Met, Innovation North), Megan Smith and Ben Halsall (Leeds Met, Faculty of Arts and Society) will present their project DoGoSee at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London.
Their work is one of the five projects which had been shortlisted in the Exploding Narrative competition organised by b-tween to win a £10,000 prize grant for developing their concept into a product. The projects are around ideas for location-based games, stories or educational journeys, using software developed by HP Labs (MScape). The audience and a panel of experts, including Adam Gee (C4), Steve Moffett (Creative Partnerships) and Richard Hull (HP Labs), will give feedback.
See the final pitches and vote at the ICA on 19 and 20 June, or at b-tween.
More info on this project is in the blog Our City, Our Music.
Info re. the evening event on 10.June (starts at 7pm) at ICA is available from Emma Quinn emmaq@ica.org.uk
£5 / £4 Concessions / £3 ICA Members.
Advance booking advised.
Please call the ICA box office on 020 7390 3647 or visit the ICA web
site www.ica.org.uk
ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
Nearest Tube Stations: Piccadilly and Charing Cross
Their work is one of the five projects which had been shortlisted in the Exploding Narrative competition organised by b-tween to win a £10,000 prize grant for developing their concept into a product. The projects are around ideas for location-based games, stories or educational journeys, using software developed by HP Labs (MScape). The audience and a panel of experts, including Adam Gee (C4), Steve Moffett (Creative Partnerships) and Richard Hull (HP Labs), will give feedback.
See the final pitches and vote at the ICA on 19 and 20 June, or at b-tween.
More info on this project is in the blog Our City, Our Music.
Info re. the evening event on 10.June (starts at 7pm) at ICA is available from Emma Quinn emmaq@ica.org.uk
£5 / £4 Concessions / £3 ICA Members.
Advance booking advised.
Please call the ICA box office on 020 7390 3647 or visit the ICA web
site www.ica.org.uk
ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
Nearest Tube Stations: Piccadilly and Charing Cross
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Seminar Talk: Creative Technology
On 23.April 2008, 15:30-17:00 a seminar talk was held at Leeds Met at Caedmon G09. The following topics were covered:
Reinhold Behringer: Recent Activities of the Centre for Creative Technology
Tony Renshaw: Eye Tracking
Tony Partington: Demonstration of using the Vicon Motion Tracking System for tracking objects
Reinhold Behringer: Recent Activities of the Centre for Creative Technology
Tony Renshaw: Eye Tracking
Tony Partington: Demonstration of using the Vicon Motion Tracking System for tracking objects
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
Leeds Met Students win Prices at Games Competition!
On 15.April 2008 the Game Republic organised a student showcase and awarded prices to games designers.
Leeds Met students were very successful:
For the overall game concept, art, and design, the first prize of 100 pounds was awarded to the Leeds Met Team of Jason Brooke, Steven Kerrigan, Richard Hetherington, Joe Roe, and Kevin Jorge.
The 2nd prize for Game Design - 50 pounds - was awarded to David Mclure.
The 3rd prise for Game Art - 25 pounds - was awarded to Ashley Mitchell and Tim Owens.
Congratulations to all these successfull Leeds Met students!
Leeds Met students were very successful:
For the overall game concept, art, and design, the first prize of 100 pounds was awarded to the Leeds Met Team of Jason Brooke, Steven Kerrigan, Richard Hetherington, Joe Roe, and Kevin Jorge.
The 2nd prize for Game Design - 50 pounds - was awarded to David Mclure.
The 3rd prise for Game Art - 25 pounds - was awarded to Ashley Mitchell and Tim Owens.
Congratulations to all these successfull Leeds Met students!
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
Announcement: Postgraduate Showcase: 13.3., 5-8pm
On 13.3.2008, the annual Postgraduate Showcase for the Creative Technology students will be hosted at the Old Broadcasting House, 17:00 - 20:00. There will be the students presenting their work, as well as some staff from Innovation North. Also, there will be some finger food - bring friends and colleagues to this event!
Wednesday, 30 May 2007
Student work showcase
The final year undergraduate Games Design students have just presented their team projects in our Innovation North showcase. Work ranged from industry strength character modelling to casual games prototypes to architectural visualisation of our new Rose Bowl campus building to a museum guide for the Royal Armouries - some really exciting and professional stuff. I have all of their business cards if you need to contact any of them about an injection of fresh talent.
My friend Imran Ali visited the event, and has blogged about it here.
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