The University of Ulster is presenting an exciting 4-week course in January, which will provide participants with specialist, hands-on training on the latest audio and visual software.

The course, which will make use of the state-of-the-art facilities at the Centre for the Creative and Performing Arts at the Magee campus, will be of interest to anyone keen to find out more about the creative potential of new technology.  It will provide musicians and visual artists/designers with an opportunity to explore multi-media work and to work collaboratively across the two art forms.

The course will be presented by Frank Lyons, Lecturer in Music Technology and Popular Music at the University of Ulster and Lee Cadieux, animator and documentary film-maker who lectures in Animation and Design.

Frank Lyons outlines how the course will work:

“Participants on the course will interact with audio and visual software such as Audiomulch, Granulab, Macromedia Flash, Wavelab and Max/MSP. Over the course of the 4-week programme we will cover recording source material, transformation and editing, montaging and diffusion as well as live electronics. Previous experience using this software is not needed but participants should have good computer skills.”

“In the early stages of the course participants will elect to specialise in either Audio or Visual work.  However, a key feature of the workshops will be the synchronisation of both areas, and participants will be encouraged to team up in pairs to compose collaborative audio/visual pieces.”

The course will take place every Tuesday and Thursday evening from 7.00pm - 9.00pm and will run from Tuesday 11 January to Thursday 3 February, culminating with a presentation of work for performance at the Foyle Arts Building on the 18 February.  Selected pieces will also be presented as installations at the Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast in February.

This educational programme is presented as a precursor to the ‘Visonic Electronic Arts Festival’, which will run from 11 - 20 February in Belfast, Coleraine and Derry.  The festival, which is presented by ‘Moving on Music’ in partnership with the University of Ulster, will feature screenings, installations, performances and seminars celebrating pioneering work in the field of electronic arts.

For further information on the course please contact the University’s Cultural Development office on  (028) 7137 5658

For further information, please contact:

David Young
Telephone: 028 90366074
Email: David Young