CNMI Symposium Friday 14 Dec 2001

Dear Tuning,

in case any of you (based in the UK) missed the announcement on this
list a few weeks ago regarding the CNMI Symposium this coming Friday
(14th December) at CNMI/LGU, please see below.

Also, please see the _updated_ 'Call for Scores' (for the 12-, 19,
24-division trumpet) below. This has also been advertised via SPNM
new:notes and on the SPNM website:

http://www.spnm.org.uk

Some of you responded previously and I may not have replied to everyone
but that doesn't mean we're not looking forward to seeing you, it just
means I'm ludicrously busy...

best to all,

Patrick

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Call for Composers, Performers and Instrument Makers:

One-day symposium - Friday 14 December 2001

New Instruments for New Music

The Centre for New Musical Instruments (CNMI) at LGU will hold a one-day
symposium on Friday 14th December 2001 on the subject of 'New
Instruments for New Music'.

Presentations will include:

Patrick Ozzard-Low - New Instruments for New Music
Lewis Jones - New Recorders and Flutes
David Cowie & Steve Altoft - Microtonal and Solenoid Valve Brass
Instruments
Jonathan Impett - The Metatrumpet
Donald Bousted - Composition in New Tuning Systems

The day will also include discussion sessions and a tour of LGU
instrument workshops.

CNMI is a research centre based within the Sir John Cass Department of
Design and Technology at London Guildhall University - the leading
centre in the UK for the study of musical instrument technology at
undergraduate and postgraduate levels. CNMI has been established by
Lewis Jones and Patrick Ozzard-Low, and has recently appointed Donald
Bousted as Leverhulme composer in residence. The aim of CNMI is to
develop new versions of mainstream acoustic instruments, with the
immediate objective of creating orchestral-type instruments which
reliably provide quartertones and other tuning systems. CNMI is also
keen to encourage new timbral possibilities, acoustic-electronic hybrid
instruments, and those which complement digital and electroacoustic
instruments and music.

The application of new technologies to existing instruments suggests
many new design possibilities. For example, CNMI is prototyping wind
instruments in which keys and valves are activated electromechanically.
A brass quintet is being remodelled by David Cowie to employ solenoid
valve action, in which each instrument will provide for 12, 19, and
24-division equal-temperaments; a quartertone flute is also being made -
in collaboration with the manufacturer Trevor J. James & Co.

The purpose of the symposium is to encourage composers, performers and
instrument makers to become involved in the development of new
instruments through the CNMI project.

CNMI also invites composers to submit scores for a new microtonal
trumpet (solo or with percussion and/or tape). Selected pieces will be
given a workshop performance by Duo Contour - Stephen Altoft (trumpet)
and Lee Ferguson (percussion) - as part of the LGU Department of Design
and Technology Summer Show. The workshop will be open to the public and
will be one of a number of new music events on Friday 28 June 2002.

The deadline for receipt of scores is Friday 29 March 2002.

There are four categories of submission:
1) solo trumpet
2) trumpet and percussion
3) trumpet and tape
4) trumpet, percussion and tape

Tape format should be CD or DAT only. Live electronics are not
available. Percussion should be restricted to non-pitched instruments:
large set-ups cannot be accommodated. If you have particular
requirements please check availability in advance with Lewis Jones
(contact details below).

The maximum duration is 3 minutes.

CNMI also seeks to create related opportunities for performers,
instrument makers, acousticians and musicologists. CNMI projects have
been generously supported in 2001 by the Performing Rights Society
Foundation, Boosey & Hawkes, Trevor J. James & Co, and Paxman Ltd.

Location: London Guildhall University (Room 100), 41 Commercial Road,
London E1 1LA. Nearest tube: Aldgate East.
Coffee and registration: 10.00 am. Presentations and seminars: 10.30 -
13.00 and 14.00 - 17.30.
Admission: £10 on arrival (students and concessions free).
Pre-registration is not required, but notification of your interest
would be appreciated.

For further information contact: Lewis Jones, Centre for New Musical
Instruments, London Guildhall University, 41 Commercial Road, London E1
1LA Tel: 020 7320 1841 Fax: 020 7320 1830
email: ljones@lgu.ac.uk website: http://www.lgu.ac.uk/mit/cnmi

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Patrick Ozzard-Low,
http://www.lgu.ac.uk/mit/cnmi
http://www.c21-orch-instrs.demon.co.uk
mailto:pol@c21-orch-instrs.demon.co.uk