This month: seeing and hearing the past from new perspectives...
"Never be afraid to try something new: remember that a lone amateur built the Ark; a large group of professionals built the Titanic." (attributed to various sources)
FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER 12.30pm *Rewriting Musical History* Opening the Creative Studio 3 - funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council ICT Methods Network. The third research day of the 'Opening the Creative Studio' series will focus on digital resources that allow musicians to create their own personal trace through sources and events. Tim Crawford and Geraint Wiggins will present recent work from the Intelligent Sound and Music Systems Group (Goldsmith's College), whereas Antony Pitts, Hannah Riddell, and John Drinkwater will discuss the Academy's innovative 'RAMline' - a unique multi-dimensional index of people and musical works, linking to digitized archives and online resources. The RAMline is part of a long-term research project into the mapping of three temporal axes of music: the historical, the functional, and musical time itself. admission: FREE, no tickets required venue: Piano Gallery Royal Academy of Music Marylebone Road London NW1 5HT some background to the RAMline: http://cd.tp/RAMline.html events at the Royal Academy of Music: http://www.ram.ac.uk/events
COMMISSION NEWS *In Memoria* Award-winning vocal ensemble The Clerks and director Edward Wickham have commissioned composer and producer Antony Pitts to develop a live electro-acoustic concert programme with them based around the repertoire featured in their new album 'In Memoria'. The performance will bring together music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance with passages of anecdote, reflection and reminiscence, drawn from a diverse range of sources, culminating in a new work for six voices. This concert programme will be touring the UK during 2008, playing in non-traditional spaces including the Victoria Baths in Manchester, Crossness Pumping Station in Bexley, and - most unusually of all - in the tunnels of the National Mining Museum near Wakefield.
Thank you for listening,
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