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Manchester Theatre in Sound - MANTIS

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Mantis 
A series of performances on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th March, Manchester

MANTIS (The Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents several concerts of electro-acoustic music each year, and aims to promote, disseminate and perform new works from composers based at The University of Manchester. Facilities at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama allow, among other things, for the diffusion of work on a 40-loudspeaker sound system in a 350 seat concert hall.

MANTIS has run the festival in co-partnership with organisations like Sonic Arts Network EXPO, taking the festival to numerous venues in Manchester, such as the Victoria Baths. More recently hosted guest distinguised composer Francis Dhomont at his 80th birthday and focused on themes like MANTIS: South-North, including music from Latinamerican composers and a first MANTIS call for pieces which received 186 submissions from all over the world.


 


Concert Schedule  -

Saturday 7th March - Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall - Martin Harris Building, University of Manchester

0930 Ambrose Seddon (2ch)
1000 Jon Wienel (2ch)
1030 Adam Stansbie (2ch)
1130 Andrew Hill (AV/DVD - 2ch)
1200 Mark Pilkington (AV/DVD - 2ch) - see below
1230 Ricardo Climent (5.1) [DS]

1300 Lunchtime Concert

1400 Barry Truax (8ch)
1500 Diana Simpson (2ch)
1530 Sam Salem (2ch)
1600 Thomas Bjelkeborn (5.1)
1630 Ka-ho Cheung (5.1)
1645 Oliver Carman/Ben Cottrell (live)
1730 Josh Kopecek/Nikki Hicks (live) 1730  G16 Barry Truax Talk
1815 Manuella Blackburn/Toby Kearney (live)
1930 Evening Concert

Sunday 8th March

1900  Experimental Music Night, Nexus Art Café, Northern Quarter

Mark Pilkington
Points and Lines (2009) - Mark Pilkington
Duration 8m.
Audio/Visual.

I have always had a fascination with the motion of light and the way it physically affects our lives and our very existence. The way light reflects through materials and off different surfaces; the way it blurs with motion.  I have recently been reading Albert Einstein's Relativity the Special Theory and the General Theory in regards the way motion effects our perception of light, bending it in time and space. This piece is made up of found, instrumental and synthetic sounds manipulated into different scenes that are fused together into an acoustmatic work.  Images for the piece range form mobile phone film clips, a film of a model city, paintings and computer graphics.

The piece plays with the dual perception of audio and visual stimulation.

What we call 'sunlight' is only a narrow span of the entire solar spectrum - the immensely broad band of vibrations which the Sun, our nearest star,pours into space. If we use a musical analogy.  Visible light light is merely a single octave of the Sun's radiation, this octave contains most of the power; the higher and lower frequencies are relatively feeble.

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