In conjunction with De Montfort University and Phoenix Arts Leicester

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Sonic Arts Network and De Montfort University invite you to the audio big top. Experience the travelling aural carnival that is SoundCircus: Your ears will bear witness to, and be amazed by, a disarmingly diverse range of experimental sound practices from across the UK and beyond…

SEE and HEAR new commissions from Kaffe Matthews and Pete Batchelor!

EXPERIENCE the untold delights of performances, installations, presentations and papers from a host of established and emerging artists!

MARVEL at the sheer quantity of work with over 60 artists presenting at the event including:

Adaadat, BEAST, Codec/X, Peter Cusack, John Levack Drever, Iris Garrelfs, Jonty Harrison, Modified Toy Orchestra, Adrian Moore, Pippa Murphy, Seed Records, Daniel Schachter, Volcano the Bear, David Zicarelli

YOU WILL GASP IN AMAZEMENT AND BE LOST FOR WORDS!!!

Each year the SAN Conference showcases the best work from artists in the UK using experimental approaches to sound and technology. It also provides a platform for artists to meet, listen and respond.

SoundCircus will focus on new cultural trends and aims to highlight the broad range of approaches and thinking that surrounds the sonic arts through a variety of performances, installations and research presentations.

Friday 11 June
SoundCircus kicks off with a live spectacle featuring the talents of Leicester’s very own iconoclastic avant-post rock/jazz/folk improvisers Volcano the Bear. Circuits bend double and scream for mercy in the hands of Birmingham’s extraordinary Modified Toy Orchestra. Asbestos deliver live multi-channel noise mayhem and we present exclusive breaks, bleeps and beyond showcases from London’s Adaadat and Seed labels. The 5 piece electro-improv group *paul kick of the proceedings in style whilst Sonic Arts Network DJs and artwork from Nick Mott provide the mood for the evening.

7.00pm - Union Bar DMU (Free)

If you are not a member of Sonic Arts Network you can purchase a day ticket for all SoundCircus events at the Phoenix for £8/6. For SAN members all events are free.

10.30-11.15am DMU Campus Centre Black Box

11.45am-12.30pm DMU Campus Centre Black Box

1-2pm Phoenix Arts Café

2-3pm DMU Campus Centre Black Box

3.30pm Phoenix Arts - David Zicarelli Talk (Incremental, Interactive, and Incomplete)

David Zicarelli discusses a general approach for the production of sound with technology. Instead of thinking about the materials and structure of the sound he will advocate devising and constructing increasingly refined interactive machines and he will explore means to evaluate these machines in the refinement process. He will argue that an important aspect of this process involves relinquishing control of the creative process and accepting a view in which outside influences collaborate with serendipity.

4.30-5.30pm Phoenix Arts Centre

7.00-7.30pm Daniel Schachter Talk (Towards New Models for the Construction of Interactive Electroacoustic Music Discourse)

Technological advances change our view of musical listening, style and performing techniques, bringing us to new relationships between creation, interpretation and perception. This year’s international guest artist, the renowned Buenos Aires composer Daniel Schachter, will discuss this idea in relation to the mixing of acoustic instruments with technological resources. His talk will highlight the musical nature of this interactive process and suggest ways of using this within the frame of an open and easy to carry out performance structure which is friendly to musicians, clear as a musical discourse and attractive to the audience.

Daniel Schachter’s presence at SoundCircus is made possible with the support of the British Academy.

7.45-9.05pm Concert Phoenix Arts Centre

9.45-10.45 DMU Campus Centre Conference Space - Kaffe Matthews (Played Bare)

A specially commissioned performance from the first lady of British electronic improvisation.

SAN wish to thank the PRS Foundation for support.

Sunday 13 June
We crack the whip and you skip, but you deserve it…
No let-up here as the congregation gathers for Sunday morning worship at the church of noise. Today’s service offers up a mixed program of moving image and sound works, improvised performance, concert music and sound installation. The day will feature a new Sonic Arts Network multi-channel screen and sound commission from Pete Batchelor titled Studies on Canvas. Clear the sleep from your ears with morning coffee and cacophony in the company of the UEA live electronics gang and SoundCircus goes pink with Forgotten Fairytales, a sound and image documentation of Northamptonshire’s gay community compiled by Iain Armstrong and with illustrations by Jayne West.

10-11.30am DMU Campus Centre Café Space
UEA extravaganza … recent interactive and electroacoustic work from Norwich, including work by Shigeto Wada, Phil Archer, Stef Edwards, Adam Green, Jonathon Manton, Nick Melia, Tom Simmons & Bill Vine.

11am DMU Campus Centre Chapel

11am DMU Campus Centre Conference Space

1-2pm DMU Campus Centre Black Box

2.30-3.30pm DMU Campus Centre Black Box

11.30pm-5pm DMU Campus Centre Café

11am-5pm DMU Campus Centre Listening Space

Monday 14 June
De Montfort University, Clephan Building, Room 3.03 - The Sound-Image

A chance to discuss some of the threads exposed over the weekend with a day of papers concerned with sonic issues and the sound-image. Speakers include David Zicarelli, Daniel Schachter, Peter Cusack, Paul Rudy and John Levack Drever.

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