Belfast Sound Map / Sound Walk 100413

Belfast Sound Map

The Belfast Sound Map is an open resource that aims at engaging local communities in capturing everyday sound and hence characterise the soundscape of the city. We encourage not only the submission of sound recordings, but also other forms of experiencing and registering sound, such as text or image. The overall design of this platform facilitates this multiplicity of approaches, while also allowing participants to create their own projects. These are presented as separate, individual layers of recordings within the map.

The user/listener is also invited to explore the map in various ways, including an autoplay mode which creates a sequence composed of different recordings.

The map serves as a platform for a series of local workshops, in which we will share with the participants the concepts behind this work, exploring the rich relationship between sound, place and everyday life.

The Belfast Sound Map was designed by Pedro Rebelo, Rui Chaves, Matilde Meireles and Aoghus McEvoy in collaboration with Max Stein and is maintained by the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast. The Belfast Sound Map was first exhibited at the Metropolitan Art Centre (MAC) in 2012 in the context of the Sounds of the City project.

Made possible with the support of the National Lottery Heritage Fund

Place NI hosted a workshop about the project. Participants were given recording equipment and taken on a walk around the centre of Belfast to listen and collect recordings. Afterwards everyone talked about the experience and wrote some extracts which were uploaded to the map.

BUILD Workshop @ Catalyst Arts 060413

The first workshop of BUILD/CODE/IMPROVISE/PERFORM was carried out on Saturday 6 April 2013 at Catalyst Arts, Belfast (part of their exhibition, 'Under Construction'). The devices built and bent at the workshop will be used in the other workshops in the series in preparation for an event at SARC as part of the Sonorities Festival.

Here's an advert I found after the event had passed:


Here's a short demo video the Poor Man's Synth:


Here are a few photos from the workshop:

BUILD/CODE/IMPROVISE/PERFORM

 

A series of free hands-on workshops as part of UNDERCONSTRUCTION,

a collaborative exhibition taking place at Catalyst Arts throughout April.

Learn to build and bend circuits, make an instrument from

your laptop and take part in a public performance at QUB's

Sonorities Festival.

BUILD

Saturday 6th April 10am – 5pm, Free

Develop your own playable musical device with circuit bender

and instrument builder Barry Cullen.

CODE

Sunday 14th April 10am – 5pm, Free

Explore programming as musical performance using networked

laptops with Graham Booth. Mac laptop required.

IMPROVISE

Wednesday 17th April 6pm – 9pm, Free

Monday 22nd April 6pm – 10pm, Free

Develop a live performance with Kevin McCullagh & Tullis Rennie

using the instruments from BUILD and CODE.

PERFORM

Thursday 25th April 9.30pm – 12.30am, Free

The performance will be presented at the EARS showcase night 

as part of the Sonorities festival.

To reserve a place, please contact catalystarts@gmail.com with

your name and details of the workshop(s) you would like to attend.

Venue: Catalyst Arts, 5 College Court, BT1 6BS

(+44) 028 90 313 303

catalystarts.org.uk  /   facebook.com/qub.ears   

twitter.com/qubears   /   sonorities.org.uk

Pulley Synth Blog

Last year I helped out in a study at SARC. Some of the PhD students gave me a novel instrument to play with and asked me to keep a diary of my experience with it as I learned more about it by using it daily. Lots of other people took part.

Here are a host of videos of people playing the Pulley Synth.

Sonorities 2012

March 23-27 SARC (Sonic Arts Research Centre) @ Queen's University Belfast will be holding it's annual Sonorities festival. This year's title is The Body's Music. Go to their site and have a look at the program; there are plenty of interesting links to information about the artists that will be performing.

Alongside the festival the Two Thousand + symposium will be held. Check the 'Full Program' link on the Sonorities site for further information (download/print version not yet available).

Paul Stapleton, Simon Rose - improv

improv @ SARC 131011
Paul Stapleton - Bonzai Sound Sculpture (BoSS)
Simon Rose - Baritone / alto sax
+
percussion, gong, finger piano, treatments

Paul Stapleton, Simon Rose improv 1
http://www.mediafire.com/?i026u0i7mz6e3wf

Paul Stapleton, Simon Rose improv 2
http://www.mediafire.com/?bsbhbsk4dms9mks

Paul Stapleton, Simon Rose + percussion improv 1
http://www.mediafire.com/?7pq3t5u9jun5wvq

Paul Stapleton, Simon Rose + percussion improv 2
http://www.mediafire.com/?c564p7ebh4x40ps

Eric Lyons - Noise As An Organising Principle for Music

Eric Lyons intro (I missed a bit at the start about his score/software ((Max/Masp for text based improvisation/game commands?))sorry).
http://www.mediafire.com/?cfsc6cfday44xa9

Noise Quartet example 1
http://www.mediafire.com/?9g48e5h6q79geeq

Noise Quartet example 2
http://www.mediafire.com/?ktxhlulkwwu7r3c

Noise Quartet example 3
http://www.mediafire.com/?8qe359ywt4r61v0

Eric Lyons - Noise As An Organising Principle for Music - Seminar, examples & questions
http://www.mediafire.com/?3jgddh612dmxwhm

OPEN EARS - Innovative Technology Enhanced Performance

OPEN EARS - Innovative Technology Enhanced Performance

Date: Saturday 21st May, Sonic Lab, SARC, 8PM
Free admission!


Artists:
Niamh de Barra
www.niamhdebarramusic.com

Barry Cullen
dodgystereo.blogspot.com

Michael Andrews and Ricky Graham
https://www.facebook.com/michaelandrews1981
http://rickygraham.com/


Directions:
Sonic Arts Research Centre
Cloreen Park BT9 5
Belfast
http://goo.gl/a1jaf

The above post was cut n' paste from Qubears blog.

Circuit Bending Workshop & Open Jack Night 120311

Here's a fun way to spend a day. Maybe I'll see you there?
Cut 'n paste info:
Circuit Bending Workshop & Open Jack Event - 12th March
@ Catalyst Arts, 5 College Court, Belfast.

Circuit Bending: Learn how to make noise making instruments out of toys and household electronics. We will provide all the materials, you can take home a new instrument - Or stay for Open Jack in the evening and premiere your new instrument!

Limited spaces - Booking / enquiry: qubears@gmail.com

I heard an interesting distinction made between bending and hacking:

Bending is when the technology is tampered with by a novice who doesn't know what they are doing - they are exploring and finding modifications by chance.

Hacking is when technology is approached by someone with knowledge and experience, who has an idea that they would like to put into practice.

UPDATE:
Here's a little clip of the workshop:

SARC

I've been invited to play one of my pieces at SARC his week by Martin Byrne (Dr Lilt). This is quite a big deal for me as it's probably the best soundsystems on the island (if not the best definately one of the top five?), in a centre for academic excellence (I don't fit?) but also a place where many sucessful contemporaries have performed(most recently heard Paulene Oliveros perform Droniphonia there).

It's an afternoon event, free to the public.

If you want to come hear our music moving around the rooms' 40 (approx?) speakers. Join us, and say hello.