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Sta Information
Prof Peter Ablinger PA
Visiting Professor of Composition
p.ablinger@hud.ac.uk
Dr Mary Bellamy MB
Senior Lecturer in Composition
Composition Module Area Leader
m.j.bellamy@hud.ac.uk
Dr Alex Harker AH
Lecturer in Music Technology
Acting Studio Director 2014-15
a.harker@hud.ac.uk
Dr Bryn Harrison BH
Reader in Music
b.d.harrison@hud.ac.uk
Dr Philip Thomas PT
Reader in Performance
Performance Module Area Leader
j.p.thomas@hud.ac.uk
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General Introduction
The 2014-15 seminar/workshop series will feature the following four topic areas/strands:
Advanced Orchestration [PA, MA, AC, AH, LL]
The Open Work [PA, MA, BH, PT]
Approaches to Rhythm [AC, BH]
Sources of Creativity [PA, MA, AC, LL]
These seminars and workshops are designed to provide supporting content to the independent research work of the
postgraduate students of CeReNeM. While they are not assessed classes, staff will generally require students to complete
reading and listening assignments in preparation for class meetings. (Assignment and preparation information will be given
via UniLearn.) These sessions will be held in a reasonably informal seminar format, with class discussion and informal
student-led presentations serving a central role.
Attendance at the seminars/workshops is expected of CeReNeM MA by Research students. PhD students are
strongly encouraged to participate in the sessions and may in some cases be required by their supervisors to attend. One
of the primary goals of the CeReNeM course structure is to encourage interaction between students of various disciplines
(performance, composition, computer music, sound art, improvisation, etc.) and various backgrounds and experience
levels, so the more student participation we have, the more rewarding the seminar sessions will be.
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Additional opportunities
Research Forum
The Research Forum meets fortnightly on Tuesdays from 4.306.00, alternating with the CeReNeM Colloquium. It
features lectures on a wide range of musical topics by departmental staff and by visiting scholars from a variety of
institutions in the UK and abroad.
There are also occasional guest lectures and masterclasses outside of the normal Research Forum schedule.
CeReNeM Colloquium
The CeReNeM Colloquium meets fortnightly from 4.306.00, alternating with the Research Forum. It is an opportunity for
students to present their work in composition/performance/etc. to their peers in an informal setting. Each Colloquium
meeting will typically feature the work of a PhD student (90 minutes) or two Masters students (roughly 40 minutes each),
with informal presentations of scores/recordings interspersed with discussion/questions.
The Colloquium also provides a critical opportunity to disseminate information about upcoming concerts, workshops,
etc., and is occasionally used to discuss larger professional/career concerns (opportunities for summer programmes,
advice on job or residency applications, etc.). Attendance for CeReNeM students on the MA by Research route is
required, and PhD students are expected to attend the sessions whenever possible.
Concerts/Performance Workshops
The 2014-15 academic year features an exciting series of concerts and workshops hosted by CeReNeM and will again
include numerous visiting soloists and ensembles of international renown. As in previous years, each of the visiting artists
will perform pieces by CeReNeMs postgraduate Composition students alongside works by more established composers.
Additionally, many of the guest performers will be available to offer coaching sessions for our Contemporary Music
Performance students and will give workshops and reading sessions for undergraduate composers.
SMIC Seminars and Workshops
The Sound Music Image Collaboration research centre (SMIC) is both separate from CeReNeM yet complementary to it
within the Music department. SMIC welcomes all research interests that involve film, video, sound and music technology,
and computer music composition. For 2014-15 SMIC will meet weekly on Wednesdays at 16.15-17.45 in CAM G/04.
Interested students please contact Dr Julio dEscrivn (j.descrivan@hud.ac.uk).
edges ensemble
You are ALL welcome to join the edges ensemble this year. The edges ensemble is available for all students on music and
music technology courses, undergraduate and postgraduate. We meet on Fridays 11.15-1.15 in Phipps Hall. The
edges ensemble performs a potent mixture of text scores, graphic scores, quasi-notated scores and improvisation.
Members perform traditional and non-traditional instruments alike, acoustic and amplified, pitched and noise-based, big
and small, ranging from cello and clarinet to conches and clicks. Over the past few years we have performed regularly in
Huddersfield venues, as well as in Sheffield and London. We have also featured on a number of CDs on the another
timbre label. This term we will be working toward a concert at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, featuring
early works by the English Experimental School. The only rule is - you can only be in it if you want to be in it. If you don't
like it don't stay in it! But you're very very welcome to come a give it a try.
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University Research Funding for Postgraduate Students
Information about the application process for the universitys extensive research funding opportunities for postgraduate
studentsincluding the Conference Presentation Fund (up to 500 per year to support travel and accommodation costs
for conferences or performances) and the Researcher Development Fund (up to 2500 per year, including special
earmarked funds for activities with international scope)can be found on the Graduate Centre website at http://
www.hud.ac.uk/gradcentre/fundsandprizes/researcherdevelopmentfund/
For additional information about the application process or additional funding opportunities for postgraduate researchers,
contact Aaron Cassidy (Research Coordinator for Music/Music Technology) or Dan McIntyre (Director of Graduate
Education, School of Music, Humanities & Media).
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Term 1
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Listening Session
8.00 p.m. (Phipps Hall)
week 1
30 September Induction/Introductions
2.30 4.00 (CAM G/01)
AC et al.
week 2
7 October
PT
Colloquium
4.30 6.00 (CAM G/01)
9 October
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week 3
14 October
AC
PT
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week 4
21 October
MA
AC
Colloquium
4.30 6.00 (CAM G/01)
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week 5
26 October
A hands-on introductory workshop on how to plan a concert with the equipment of the Huddersfield
Immersive Sound System (HISS), from the preparation phase to the concert, through preproduction
questions, booking, setup, soundcheck, recording, etc. Strongly recommended to anyone who wants to
work with electronics and/or book the HISS to organise concerts.
28 October
AC
BH
week 6
4 November
LL
PT
LL
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11 November
week 7
Advanced Orchestration Orchestration Clinic
Bring works in progress
10.15 12.05 (CAM G/03)
LL
PT
Colloquium
4.30 6.00 (CAM G/01)
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week 8
18 November
20 November
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week 9 >> hcmf//
21 -30 Nov
AC
week 10
1 December
2 December
BH
AH
BH
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week 11
9 December
PA
AH
Colloquium
4.30 6.00 (CAM G/01)
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week 12
16 December
PA
The Open Work Open Scores, Open Works: Technologies of Open Form and Notation
2.15 4.05 (CAM G/03)
MA
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Winter Holiday
Term 2
13 January
AC et al.
Colloquium
4.30 6.00 (CAM G/01)
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week 13
20 January
AC
AH
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week 14
27 January
AC
Advanced Orchestration Space and Depth in the Studio and the Concert Hall
2.15 4.05 (CAM G/03)
AH
Colloquium
4.30 6.00 (CAM G/01)
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week 15
3 February
Sources of Creativity The Influence of Art on Compositional Practice and Sonic Art
10.15 12.05 (CAM G/03)
Advanced Orchestration Computers in the Concert Hall
2.15 4.05 (CAM G/03)
MA
MA/AH
From Orpheus the Musical Founder of a Civilization to Orpheus the Ballad Seller: Changing Perceptions
of Myth and the Powers of Music in Seventeenth-Century England
4.30 6.00 (CAM G/01)
5 February
6 February
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BH
week 16
10 February
BH
AH
12 February
13 February
BH
17 February
Colloquium
4.30 6.00 (CAM G/01)
18-22 Feb
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week 18
24 February
BH
MA
Colloquium
4.30 6.00 (CAM G/01)
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week 19
2 March
3 March
BH
AC
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week 20
10 March
Sources of Creativity Knots, Miniatures and Models: how do external representations help
us amplify and extend our thinking in music?
10.15 12.15 (CAM G/03)
LL
BH
Colloquium Guest Lecture: Martin Scheuregger British Music Collection Embedded Composer
4.30 6.00 (CAM G/01)
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week 21
16 March
17 March
AC
AC
CONCERT: Tracensemble Peyee Chen, soprano; Alba Bru, flute; Diego Castro, guitar
1.15 p.m. (St Pauls Hall)
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week 22
24 March
PA
JMC
Colloquium
4.30 6.00 (CAM G/01)
25 March
Spring Holiday
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week 23
21 April
MA
Approaches to Rhythm Velocity, Pulse, and the Perception of Speed: Morton Feldmans
Patterns in a Chromatic Field, a case study
2.15 4.05 (CAM G/03)
AC
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week 24
28 April
Sources of Creativity Tree of Codes opera: three years of work comes to completion
10.15 12.05 (CAM G/03)
Approaches to Rhythm Student Presentations
2.15 4.05 (CAM G/03)
LL
AC/BH/LL
Colloquium
4.30 6.00 (CAM G/01)
Summer Term
12 May
AC et al.
Colloquium
4.30 6.00 (CAM G/01)
1 June
1 August
Notification of Intention to Submit Thesis for Examination (or Application to Enrol for
Submission Pending) due
MAR full-time, and year 2 part-time
PhD full-time year 3; PhD part-time year 6
Thesis draft due
MAR full-time, and year 2 part-time