Performance with technology: New MusM Music Performance Studies
The course units titled 鈥淧erformance Portfolio鈥� and 鈥淗istorical and Contemporary Performance鈥� within the new MusM in Music Performance Studies will provide students with exciting opportunities to develop their knowledge and skills in performing with electronics and technology, and to explore creative engagements with multimedia.
At the University of Manchester, we have ca. 30 years of performance tradition with electronics and computers. Our Festival, taking place biannually since 2004, features national and international talented performers combining acoustic instruments with electronics or fixed media.
The MANTIS system includes 56-genelec speakers, one of the largest speaker orchestras in the world. Along with concerts, it often hosts Postgraduate-led music symposia on topics such as: audification, acoustic ecology, analogue music and . Our guest performers include: , , KAIROS, Trio Atem, H.E.L.L.O ensemble and , (violin), (percussion and timbila), (recorder), (bass clarinet), Conrad Marshall (flute), , Linda Jankowska (violin), Nina Whiteman (voice), Gavin Osborn (Bass flute), Helmut Lemke (8-cassette recorder), Mark Pilkington (in-game performance at ) and ca. 300 fixed media works diffused live.
Our Electronic Music Festivals celebrates performance with Analogue and Modular Synthesis, featuring , Joker Nies, Andrew Duff, Alexander Senko, Ryan Gaston, Sarah Belle Reid, Merkaba Macabre, Epigone, Scrubber Fox, Ross Scott-Buccleuch, Dustin Lyon, Phil Durrant, Chelsea Bruno (aka Eden Grey), Sam Waver, Richard Scott, Rodrigo De Le贸n, Joseph Hyde, Philippe Gauthier, Tanya St-Pierre, David Ross, Andy Cox, Udo Moll, Ann Ros茅n, Sten-Olof Hellstr枚m, Matt Omahan, Daniel Warner, Marty Ehrlich, Adam Parkinson, Martin Klang, Leafcutter John and Steph Horak.