Tom Jackson: Photographic Exhibitions

Our staff member Tom Jackson is displaying his photographic collection of images "Converging Light" in two exhibitions. The collection features images from Hong Kong, Poland, Dubai (and even one from Leeds!).

These are Tom's first solo exhibitions, so your support would be greatly appreciated. If you're in Leeds town centre during the following dates, please drop in and take a look. The first exhibition is open now!

April 12th - May 8th
The Carriageworks
Millennium Square, Leeds

www.carriageworkstheatre.org.uk/find_us_unid80ba_page.aspx
(Head up to the second floor bar area!)

May 15th - June 26th
The Roast
Whitehall Riverside, Leeds

www.theroast.co.uk

There will be an opening event for the exhibition at The Roast but the date for this has not been confirmed yet.

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!