Specialising in the performance, creation and research of
Electroacoustic Music
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| Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, set-up
for a work for live performers, tape and surround-sound diffusion. |
The studios host a vibrant community of creative musicians. Our compositional work has gained prizes at the Bourges International Compeition of Electroacoustic Music, and at the Ars Electronica in Linz as well as featuring regularly at the International Computer Music Conference. We offer specialist opportunities for graduates to create and refine their own compositions.
For further information on courses or facilities, please
email Dr. Ambrose Field (Studio
Director).
The following courses are avaiable for graduate students
| MA in composition (electroacoustic music) |
A one year (full time or two years part time) course offering you the chance to persue your own compositional work. All studio facilities are avaiable, and the course contains regular tutorials and workshops. These cover compositional technique, electroacoustic repertoire, software techniques. On the graduate application form, apply for the "MA in composition:electroacoustic music", also indicating that you wish to work in electroacoustic music in the additional information box. |
| MPhil in composition (electroacoustic music) DPhil |
These courses give you the opportunity
to develop your work to a highly professional level. You
can create a folio of your own compositions in any
discipline of electroacoustic music. The department has
staff expertise in acousmatic, algorithmic, live, 'mixed'
and musique concrete. You may also mix acoustic and
electroacoustic music as part of your folio. Funding for Graduate Courses Graduate courses in composition can be supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) for EU students, as either research with thesis or entirely practiced based research. You are advised to discuss the content of your research degree prior to making any funding applications with your prospective supervisor. Courses are supervised by Dr. Ambrose Field (Studio Director) and Dr. Tony Myatt (Director of Music Technology Research). |
Music Technology MA/MSC |
Music Technology MA/MSC gives you a structured opportunity to experience music technology systems, design software, compose, build hardware and undertake a final project of your own choosing. For scientists, musicians or engineers. See the music technology web page for further details. Courses are supervised by staff from both the Music and Electronics Departments. |
Application Information
To apply, contact the University
of York Graduate Office, Heslington, York for an
application form. If you are applying for a research degree,
please state your chosen subject area clearly (eg,
electroacoustic composition - live, acousmatic, alogrithmic, etc).
You will have access to some extremely high quality equipment. This includes: Apogee 96k/24bit Analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, ATC monitor speakers, Lexicon effects processor, Soundcraft Spirit digital mixer, Alesis ADAT (types I & II) with BRC, Tascam and Sony DAT machines, MOTU 24 channel computer recording interface. The main studio supports an Intel PC and a Silicon Graphics workstation. The composition studio supports Windows, Macintosh and SGI platforms. All machines have access to an in-house .5 terrabyte filestore (backed-up) and graduate students are allocated accounts on the department's SGI Origin 2000 high performance parallel computing system.
Sound source recordings should always be made to the highest quality. To this end, focusrite mic pre-amps, a Focusrite Blue A-D converter and Neuman, AKG and Soundfield microphones are avaiable to graduate composers.
The Music department possess a high quality system for the performance of electroacoustic music. This includes world-class loudspeakers by Genelec (1038A), Cepia, and Tannoy. Ambisonics decoding and encoding is also avaiable, and the concert system can be set-up for discrete live spatialisation, ambisonics (with full height decoding), and various other periphonic configurations of up to 24 speakers.
We encourage our postgraduate composers to participate in International and National events, in addition to regular concert opportunities within the department.
All department studios are connected to a high performance
network, enabling work to be moved amongst our spaces easily. The
network is ATM based, with dedicated 100baseT to each machine.
The table shows a basic overview of the software mounted on
studio systems. It is not an exhaustive list.
| Software task | Windows NT | Macintosh | Silicon Graphics SGI O2, Origin 2000 HPC |
| Multitrack mixing and editing | CoolEditPro | ProTools | Mix (with York extensions) RT Snd |
| Sound Processing | CDP Tool kit GRM-Tools |
Ircam Audiosculpt Soundhack Macrohack Lemur GRM-Tools |
CDP Tool Kit CMIX-RT POWER-PV pvNation Ceres, Mammut, Bio, SndAn YorkTools: convolution, interactive phase vocoder (IPV), spectral dynamics (ISD), Spaceverb, Ambisonics Software. CreationStation SMS |
| Live Performance / Interaction | pD | Max/MSP | Ircam J-MAX/FTS Ircam SPAT |
| Other | CD creation with PQ coding | Finale (Notation) | Cmask, waveshape kit, SNNS neural network systems, ASPEN/EXPLORE parallel productivity environment, physical models synthesis |
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Wednesday, October 25th, 2000