Category: Lectures
Tuesday November 21, 2023 7:00 PM MT. An evening with Steven Takasugi. Join us for an evening of discussion with composer Steven Takasugi. New work by Dr. Takasugi will be performed by Roger Admiral the following evening at a concert at the Augustana Campus of U of A, in Camrose, Alberta.
Wednesday November 8, 2023 5:30 - 6:30 PM. Exploring Recording Studio Acoustical Design: Sound3Lab Case Study With Ellen Buchan, Senior Acoustical Engineer. Discussion of the fundamental principles of acoustics, shedding light on how sound behaves in enclosed spaces...
Wednesday October 11, 2023 5:30 - 6:30 PM. Hear Thyself: Audio and Music for Know Thyself in a Virtual Reality. With Catherine Bevan and Dr Scott Smallwood, Audio Games Lab. Know Thyself for a Virtual Reality is a series of VR artworks that explore the personal data of several individuals...
Wednesday September 20, 2023 5:30 - 6:30 PM. Learning through Sounding and Listening. Guest lecture with Dr. Rémy Bocquillon, visiting scholar and guest artist. In this talk, sociologist and sound artist Rémy Bocquillon will reflect on his time spent as a visiting scholar at the University of Alberta...
Wed, March 8, 2023, 5:30pm Artist talk and gallery opening with Dr. Stephan Moore, sound artist. Stephan Moore is a sound artist, designer, composer, improviser, programmer, engineer, teacher, and curator based in Chicago. His creative work manifests as electronic studio compositions, improvisational outbursts, sound installations, scores for collaborative performances, algorithmic compositions, interactive art, and sound designs for unusual circumstances.
Wed, January 18, 2023, 5:30pm the sounds of my dreams with Catherine Bevan, M.Mus While VR is poised to be an exciting medium for artistic expression, it's not without its share of uncertainties. the sounds of my dreams is a short interactive VR work(-in-progress) which aims to validate the immersive and socially-isolating nature of VR headsets as being uniquely conducive to reflective artistic experiences, while reappropriating the act of self-disclosure away from mass surveillance and corporatist exploitation.
Wed, February 8, 2023, 5:30pm The Composer as Process, or, for a Music History Without Protagonists with Dr. Fabio Morabito The nineteenth-century composer has a persistent image problem: inspired, unworldly, male, writing works of genius for posterity. If it has been the project of musicologists for the last 30 years to erode this checklist, he lingers still like a bad smell.
Wed, Sep 14, 2022 From the Voices of Children with Dr. Ardelle Ries and the FVC research team team Have pandemic responses impacted the desire for the next generation to freely engage in singing? Over the next two years, the From the Voices of Children (FVC) research team will assess the attitudes that children hold toward singing in a pandemic weary world. Come hear about our research and the prospects for the voices of the future!
Wed, Sept 28, 7:00 pm Untamed Melodies: Songwriting, Conservation, and the Music of Alberta Birds with Mallory Chipman, MacEwan University Join musician and researcher, Mallory Chipman (MMus, she/they), as she shares her recent observations and compositions formed at the intersection of zoomusicology and songwriting.
Thur, Sep 29, 2022, 5:30pm Special event: Listening to the Fur Trade with Dr. Daniel Laxer The trading post was a noisy nexus, populated by a polyglot crowd of highly mobile people from different national, linguistic, religious, cultural, and class backgrounds. Listening to the Fur Trade uncovers the songs and ceremonies of First Nations people, the paddling songs of the voyageurs, and the fiddle music and step-dancing at the trading posts that provided its pulse.
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