Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre
Seminar and Symposium Series 2008-2009
with the Institute of Creative Technologies
De Montfort University, Leicester

MTI/IOCT Joint Symposium
Wednesday 29th October 2009 2-5pm
In the Institute of Creative Technologies, Gateway Street, Leicester

Please confirm your FREE place with Lisa McNicoll, (lmcnicoll@dmu.ac.uk).
Refreshments during the afternoon will be provided.

‘Noise’

Keynote guest –
Dr Kersten Glandien (University of Brighton)
‘Noise/ Noises in Sound Art’
This presentation will discuss noise/noises as a vital condition for the synergetic fusion of sound with other artistic media in the aesthetic context of SoundArt.
http://artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/research/academic/glandien

Others contributing –
Neal Spowage: ‘The Ghetto Bastard, a portable noise instrument’
http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/members-postgrad.htm
http://www.myspace.com/nealunreal

Pip Greasley: ‘mezzo40: four decades of creating a din’
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/aad/fine_art/research_staff_fine_art_practices.jsp

Simon Emmerson: ‘The noise of communication: Cage to Kurzwellen and beyond’
http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/members-staff.htm

Leigh Landy: ‘Why am I unable to distinguish between good and bad noise
music and why do I find most of it so alienating?’
http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/members-staff.htm
http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/~llandy/

John Richards: ‘Instant Noise on a Shoestring’
http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/members-staff.htm
http://www.jsrichards.com/

All Welcome!



Simon Emmerson
Professor of Music, Technology and Innovation
Faculty of Humanities
De Montfort University
Leicester LE1 9BH

Tel. 0116-207-8238
email: S.Emmerson@dmu.ac.uk
http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/