Sounding Out 5 – September 8-10, 2010 at Bournemouth University | Sounding Out 5 – September 8-10, 2010 at Bournemouth University

We are very excited to announce that the fifth edition of Sounding Out will take place at Bournemouth University on 8-10 September 2010. It is intended that this international event will prove to be a major forum for discussion and interaction between sound artists of all kinds.

We are planning to base the conference on the overall theme of Soundworlds – Sonic Arts, Film and Radio. The theme will bring forward some convergent works and writings in this area.

We look forward to welcoming you in Bournemouth this September.

Follow the arrows to learn more about our keynote speakers.

Chris Chafe is a composer, improvisor, cellist, and music researcher with an interest in computer music composition and interactive performance. He has been a long-term denizen of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics where he directs the center and teaches computer music courses.

Three earlier year-long research periods were spent at IRCAM, Paris, and The Banff Center, composing and developing methods for computer sound synthesis. He is continuing the SoundWIRE experiments for musical collaboration over the Internet. An active performer, he has performed in Europe, the Americas and Asia. Discs of his works are available from Centaur Records.

Dirk Maggs writes and directs across all media but has won awards and distinction by evolving Radio Drama into ‘Audio Movies’, combining dynamic scripts, cinematic effect, evocative music and cutting edge technology (he pioneered the use of Dolby Surround in BBC Radio).

In radio, his productions have covered all genres: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy which won two international awards (author Douglas Adams personally chose him to complete the saga in its original form), Batman and Agatha Christie Mysteries (winner of the Audiophile Golden Earphones Award) to name but three. In the year 2004-5 alone his creative efforts helped add 10 million hits to the BBC website.

Jérôme Joy is a French composer and artist, living and working in Nice. He studied at the Conservatory of Bordeaux (F) (instrumental and electroacoustic composition classes and master-classes with Luis de Pablo, François Rossé, François Bayle and Ivo Malec) and started as a performer, improviser and sound field-recordist in 1982. He’s presently professor and research co-ordinator of Locus Sonus at the National School of Arts Nice Villa Arson (F).

Jérôme is known for his solo music performances, radio art broadcasts and since 1995 various Internet collaborative projects – Collective JukeBox, Collective Radio, PacJap, picNIC, pizMO, RadioMatic, nocinema.org, Sobralasolas !.

Jonathan Harvey began his musical life as a boy chorister at St Michael’s College, Tenbury. He holds doctorates from Cambridge and Glasgow Universities and studied privately with Erwin Stein and Hans Keller (on the advice of Britten). He was invited by Boulez to work at IRCAM in the early 1980s which resulted in many realisations at the Institute, including classic tape piece Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco (1980) and Bhakti (1982) for ensemble and electronics.

Harvey is best-known for his electro-acoustic music, as in highly-praised opera Inquest of Love (ENO Commission – 1993), Mothers Shall Not Cry (BBC Proms Commission 2000) and most recently his opera Wagner Dream (2006).

Kaye Mortley is Australian by birth, and since 1981 has been an independent radio documentary maker, based in Paris, producing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, France Culture and for other state broadcasting companies in Europe and elsewhere.

Among her academic awards, she holds a Docteur-ès-lettres from the University of Strasbourg. Her radio features have won numerous international awards, including recently the 2006 Grand Prix de L’IRIB (documentary) for Going Back, and in 2005, a Prix Italia for her documentary, A Stranger in Alsace, She has taught and given seminars in Sydney, Helsinki, Stockholm, Paris and Arles.

Larry Sider is Director of the School of Sound and was previously Head of Editing, Sound and Music at the National Film and Television School (UK). He is a film editor and sound designer who has worked for thirty years in documentary, animation and fiction. Most recently, he created soundtracks for the Quay Brothers’ The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes and Dave McKean’s Mirrormask.

Past projects include Patrick Keiller’s London and Robinson in Space, and Street of Crocodiles and Institute Benjamenta by the Quays. From 2000-2003, he consulted on LISTEN, an EU-funded research project led by IRCAM, the University of Vienna and AKG Electronics, devising new software to create audio-augmented environments in gallery and museum spaces.

Pedro Rebelo is a composer/digital artist working in electroacoustic music, digital media and installation. He has worked on the relationship between architecture and music in creating interactive performance and installation environments, which include a series of commissioned pieces for soloists and live-electronics which take as a basis the interpretation of specific acoustic spaces.

His electroacoustic music is featured in various CD sets (Sonic Circuits IV, Discontact III, Exploratory Music from Portugal, ARiADA). His work as a pianist and improvisor has been released by Creative Source Recordings and he has collaborated with musicians such as Chris Brown, Mark Applebaum, Carlos Zingaro and Evan Parker.

Sounding Out 5 – September 8-10, 2010 at Bournemouth University

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Keynote speakers

Chris Chafe

Jérôme Joy

Jonathan Harvey

Dirk Maggs

Kaye Mortley

Pedro Rebelo

Larry Sider

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