MusicLab News Archive (68 items)
Success for KAFE09
Trish Brown, one of two MusicLab Student Fellows, ran a successful arts festival at Bath's Chapel Arts Centre on Saturday and Sunday 16-17 May. Many people braved the elements to attend the varied pro...
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Last Eprom
Message from Pug - the Eprom Master:"We have one more Eprom on Wednesday 27th May at the St James Wine Vaults. If anyone is interested in playing we still have a few slots available, so get in to...
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Behaviour Ensemble
29 May - 8pm, Waterside 3, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol31 May - 9pm, Museum of Bath at Work, Bath (Bath International Music Festival)This year's Behaviour ensemble features a 9 piece electronic and...
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ensemblebash
Formed in 1992, the British percussion quartet ensemblebash has forged a reputation as one of the world’s most innovative and groundbreaking chamber ensembles. Using the music of West Africa as ...
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My Loveheart
The Artswork MusicLab has given financial support to Emily Atkinson and Eloise Conlin, two third year Commercial Music students, to help them set up and run A Heartfelt Creation for their business pr...
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March Eprom
This is Pug’s update on Eprom. March's Eprom was an excellent night. We had a great turn out, and I had some really positive feedback. There were four very diverse sets from Taste Parade, Jo...
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Short Films screening at the Little Theatre Cinema
On Thursday 21 May, a screening will take place at 6pm at the Little Theatre Cinema in Bath. Students taking the Audio Post Production for Moving Image module have been working collaboratively on the...
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Graduate Success
Neil Martin, who graduated in summer 2008, is now working at world famous Abbey Road Studios in London as a result of his experience of the MusicLab professionalised studios facilities. Neil was a Mus...
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Jub Success
Having graduated Bath Spa in June 2008, CM's very own alternative rock/pop group Jub are now living together in a studio in Northamptonshire. The band are now on the verge of completing their new albu...
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Eprom - next event Tuesday 3 March
Pug would like to thank who played or came to the last Eprom and helped to make it a really good evening. The next event is on Tuesday 3rd March at the St James Wine Vaults from 8pm. Confirmed ac...
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Film Sound Project 2009
Two teams made from the group of 20 BA (Hons) Creative Music Technology 3rd Year students that take part in the Audio Post Production module have recently started working on the sound design of two...
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Sam Dixon - Commercial Producer Co-Writer
Sam Dixon, third year CM student, has now set a commercial web presence for his role of producer, co-writer. If you are interested in his activites visit www.samueldixon.com ...
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Sync Share Project - Innovation Award Winner
Sebastian Berrios and Oscar Broomfield-Crowe BA (Hons) Commercial Music 3rd Year students (School of Music & Performing Arts) were Innovation Award winners for their project Sync Share UK. An onli...
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Eprom on Facebook
EPROM, set up by Student Fellow Andrew Tatton, is now on Facebook. EPROM is a night dedicated to local composers and producers, to tive them a platform to showcase, develop or experiment with their wo...
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Musician Portfolio
Trish Brown, MusicLab Student Fellow, organised a musician portofolio photo shoot. It was an opportunity for musicians to have promotional photos done for developing their professional portfolio, wit...
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Movement and Choreography
Following on from last year’s successful pilot program, this year saw MusicLab expanding its provision with both an extended 10-week movement classes and also the inclusion of director Rob Hifl...
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December Eprom
December's Eprom was another successful event which was enjoyed by all who attended. There were excellent performances from 3rd Year CMT student James “Macca” McDonald, Lecturer Martin Du...
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Radio Spa - Innovation award winner
Alex Strasman and Duncan Quigley, 3r year Commercial Music students were finalists in the 2008 Innovation Awards competition. Their project, Radio Spa won a merit award. Radio Spa is an internet rad...
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Innovation Awards
The MusicLab would like to congratulate four third year CM students for being Merit Award Winners in the 2008 Innovation Awards competition. This competition is run by the Business Support Office. Th...
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BSU alumni visits 3rd year CMT students
Laurie Osborn, a Bath Spa University Creative Music Technology alumni, is now a successful dubstepper known as applebim. He recently came to the Artswork MusicLab to give advice to current third year...
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It's nearly Christmas
Trish Brown, one of the MusicLab’s Student Fellows and Head of the Bath Spa Music Society is releasing a nine track CD ‘Christmas Cracker’ this week. It is an eclectic mix of Dub,...
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Sam Dixon producer
Sam Dixon, third year CM student has commercially produced a Portugese artist. Sam has written a few words for the Artswork MusicLab about the work that he has completed: “I've recently retur...
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We Push Buttons at the Carling Academy
We Push Buttons, a band made up of some 3rd year Commercial Music Students played at the Carling Academy in Bristol on Monday 24 November. "Bursting out of the mould, We Push Buttons are an ener...
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BOYCOM. at Koko
BOYCOM. a band made up of 3rd year Commercial Music students led by Noah Sacre have been on tour supporting artists such as the Black Seeds, Finley Quaye and Horace Andy. Noah was particularly please...
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A little more about Pug
Andrew Tatton, aka Pug is one of two MusicLab students fellows. "I’m a mature student on the Creative Music Technology course. Before starting the course I worked as a freelance sound engi...
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Eprom
The first Eprom kicked off this month and was real success. The event was well attended and the response from everyone was really good. Three acts played, each one was very different which made it a...
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Behaviour Ensemble at Bristol Watershed
Behaviour is an ensemble of year three Creative Music Technology students from Bath Spa University, devised and directed by electronic feedback performer Andy Keep. The detailed palette is created fro...
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Spartacus Live continues
Artswork is continuing to support a vibrant performance environment in an established city centre venue. Every Sunday night, at Moles Nightclub, the Spartacus team present the best musical talent from...
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MusicLab opening hours
The MusicLab is now open every week day from 8am until 9pm and on Saturdays from 12-6pm thanks to a new team of support technicians. Jackson, Rob Trueman and Bryan Longhurst are responsible for keepin...
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A little more about Trish
Trish Brown is one of two student fellows who have been appointed for the MusicLab. Trish is a third year BA music student and here is what she has to say:"As a student fellow I will firstly be l...
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Camilla Norderud - MA in songwriting
Camilla Norderud was the first student in Norway to study for an MA in Songwriting. After spending many hours in the MusicLab over the summer, Camilla recently completed her course. She was interviewe...
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Student Fellows
Patricia Brown aka Trish and Andrew Tatton aka Pug have been appointed as Student Fellows for the MusicLab. Trish is a founder member of the university's Music Society whose aims are to set up regular...
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The Family
Matthew Cracknell, Music Technology Graduate of 2007, has been very busy composing the orchestral score for the Channel 4 documentary series 'The Family', the first of which is screening tomorrow and ...
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Student fellows required!
Artswork Student Fellowship Bursary – APPLY NOW Please note that if you wish to do so you can apply as a pair to qualify for one fellowship bursary 1. WHAT IS ARTSWORK? Artswork is Bath Spa ...
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John Parish visits MusicLab
Commercial Music students Chris Turpin (vocals, guitar), Stephanie Ward (vocals,piano), Adam Timmins (guitars, bass guitar), Marc Jones (drums, percussion) andRichard Jones (violin, backing vocals) ak...
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UK Songwriting Festival using MusicLab Facilities
The UK Songwriting Festival took place at Bath Spa University from 15 to 22 August. Guest tutors this included songwriting legend Richard Thompson, Ivor Novello award-winning songwriter Iain Archer (S...
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PRS Foundation and the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong
During an intensive 5-day period in August 2008 at Bath Spa University, 4 songwriters from the UK and 4 from Hong Kong worked creatively together in small groups and individually to create new work,...
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Game Audio welcomes sector specialists
Students on the Creative Music Technology third year option - Game Audio - have enjoyed hearing of key developments in audio implementation from some of the UK's top practitioners.The module welcomed ...
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Head of Audio, Sony delivers lecture to Game Audio students
On Wednesday 16 April Year 3 Creative Music Technology students were fortunate to be able to meet Jason Page, Head of Audio Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. Jason has a long history of leading and ...
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James Hannigan to give Game Audio seminar
James Hannigan is coming today to deliver a seminar on composition in games to third year students on the Games Audio module. James Hannigan is a composer with involvement in a variety of industries,...
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John Broomhall to visit MusicLab
John Broomhall will be visiting the MusicLab on Wednesday 13 February to give a lecture to 3rd year Game Audio students.John Broomhall is an independent Audio Director & Consultant with fifteen ye...
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Choreography and Movement
Students on the Fd Commercial Music course have now produced the fruits of an exciting and innovative curriculum development. For the first time, movement, choreography and video came together as an e...
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Screening at the Little Theatre Cinema
A private screening of the work of third year students on the BA Creative Music Technology programme recently took place.Students taking the Audio Post Production for Moving Image module had worked c...
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The Heavy
Spencer Page and Chris Elul, Commercial Music graduates and founders of The Heavy have recently found success. The band received 8 out of 10 in NME. They have also had a full feature in Zoo weekly mag...
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Spartacus Live on film
Newly appointed Student Fellows Tom Nowell and Neil Martin will be recording the evening's activities at Moles' Spartacus Live event on Sunday 11 November. Please go along and support them. Past acts ...
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2007/08 Student Fellows appointed
Nick Sargent, the Artswork MusicLab Senior Teaching Fellow, has awarded a Student Fellowship to 4 students from the School of Music and Performing Arts. The award is made to students in recognition of...
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Noodleween wins!
Liam Tate, former CMT student, is the winner of the October Pot Noodle Network competition. His film Noodleween is a spoof of the original slasher film Halloween. It was the most watched film of the m...
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Spartacus Live
A core team of enthusiastic and highly skilled students are managing regular gigs on Sunday nights at the Moles Club in Bath. The Spartacus project is a huge opportunity for these students as it is ba...
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Audio Post Production for Moving Image
Christina Beatty is visiting the MusicLab for her first session with students working on the Audio Post Production for Moving Image module. A South African film maker living in London, she originally ...
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MusicLab longer opening hours
The MusicLab is now open every week day from 8am until 9pm and on Saturdays from 12-6pm thanks to a new team of support technicians. Jamie Brownlow, Pug Tatton and Owen Shiers are responsible for keep...
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Behaviour Ensemble at Expo 2007
The Expo festival, which took place in Plymouth from 22-25 June, is now in its 10th year and is the hub and playground of the experimental music and sound art scene in the UK and beyond. The event mob...
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Spartacus nights at Moles
A core team of enthusiastic and highly skilled students are managing regular gigs on Sunday nights at the Moles Club in Bath. The Spartacus project is a huge opportunity for these students as it is b...
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Boris Johnson MP visits the Lab
Today, Boris Johnson MP - Shadow Minister for Higher Education - visited the MusicLab. He was accompanied by Tony Dewberry, the university's Deputy Vice Chancellor, Adam Powell, the Artswork Manager. ...
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Mc DSP back for another year
Plug-in Developer McDSP have extended our educational programme for another year. This allows us to run all available Mc DSP plug-ins on all of our workstations and studios.New this year: ML4000 Maste...
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Unsigned Song Contest
The Unsigned Song Contest is an opportunity for unsigned songwriters to get recognised and rewarded for their talents. It is a song contest with an emphasis on quality songwriting. The contest ran fro...
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MusicLab ready for Semester 2
The inter-semester break is now over. Josh Clark, our Technical Demonstrator, took the opportunity of the down time to work on the studios in the Lab.He installed:A Flagship Class-A vocal channel (the...
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Short films screening
A screening of work from students on the Audio Post Production for Moving Image module will take place at the Little Theatre Cinema on Tuesday 16 January. Entry is by invitation only.The students have...
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MusicLab pilots Sontronics microphones
Students at universities and colleges are getting their hands on some of the UK’s best quality microphones, thanks to a new scheme set up by Sontronics. The project sees Sontronics microphones b...
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Alumni 2006 News
Music graduate Chris Blanden is now working as an in-house engineer for Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios Chris specialised in audio production during year 3 of the BA (Hons) Commercial Music course....
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Bizarre Creations
On Monday 30th Oct Nick Wiswell, Audio Manager of Bizarre Creations delivered workshop sessions to Creative Music Technology's Artswork badged Game Audio module. Based in Liverpool, Bizarre Creations ...
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Nick Sargent jury member on the BAFTA game awards
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is the UK's leading organisation dedicated to the recognition and promotion of excellence in the fields of the moving image. Renowned for its high profi...
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Film Sound Project
From 24 October 2006, 2 groups of 10 Creative Music Technology students that take part in the Audio Post Production module will be working on the sound design of a short film each with guests director...
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18 piece laptop ensemble
Our 18-piece laptop ensemble ‘Behaviour’ comprising Level 3 Creative Music Technology students developed a common language with which to engage in innovative live performance. Students des...
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Songwriting Festival
At the end of July 2006, The UK Songwriting Festival was invited to use our Music Lab. The festival a six-day event, held at Bath Spa University every summer together with our long-established Interna...
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Renowned producer John Parish runs a three day residency
Renowned producer John Parish ran a three-day residency with MusicLab students. This intensive ‘real world’ session focused on John engineering and producing one of the competitively submi...
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Workshop sessions with Steve Parr
Level 3 Creative Music Technology students were able to sample the deep and largely unexplored waters of 5.1 surround audio. This complex field, hitherto beyond delivery but now enabled by MusicLab S...
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PALATINE
The MusicLab was mentioned in the PALATINE brief of July 2006.“Artswork, has completed its first year implementing the development of new arts pedagogies, the enrichment of existing curriculum a...
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Mc DSP Education Program
Plug-in designers Mc DSP have provided the school of music with a complete set of Mc DSP Plug-ins for ProTools on every workstation and in all studios. This agreement will fill some gaps left by our e...
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