>From limited personal experience, which is also quite
London centric, maybe look into the University of the
Arts: London College of Communication and Camberwell
particularly seem to do a fair bit of sound art stuff
- I drop in the occasional seminar. There are also
studentships here:
http://www.arts.ac.uk/research/30789.htm.
While not an art college, Goldsmiths of course does
lots of interesting arty (and science) stuff.
As for music colleges, Birmingham does this:
http://www.integralive.org/.
A SEMPRE conference is also being held there:
http://www.sempre.org.uk/conf_details.html?id=31.
And the SuperCollider conference was held at the
University of Bham.
Although biased (as my current affiliation), The Royal
College of Music is worth a look, it has ties with
Imperial and City which can be useful on the technical
side.
Looking at delegate lists/journals can be a good way
of searching out interesting people and projects, e.g.
the not particularly current or accurate list of LAM
members is worth a look if you haven't already:
http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/michaelyoung/LAMweb/
Good luck!
--- Peter Worth <peterworth2_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
> Cheers Jamie. Any art/music colleges in particular
> that spring to mind?...
>
> On 21/02/07, jamie forth <jamie71forth_at_yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > If it's the creative applications that you're
> > interested in, perhaps art colleges are
> interesting
> > alternatives to music departments? Or music
> colleges,
> > particularly if you are interested in working with
> > performers too? The latter often have specific
> > composer scholarships available.
> >
> > But check out music informatics and other science
> > related departments - a lot of interesting stuff
> > often happens in them!
> >
> > Jamie
> >
> > --- Peter Worth <peterworth2_at_googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > > PhDs in composition are a rare treat if
> funding is
> > > involved; you probably
> > > > know already, but it's a hard one to get
> funding
> > > for, though I believe in
> > > > recent years I've seen composition PhDs with
> > > funding advertised at
> > > > DeMontford and at the Sonic Arts Research
> Centre
> > > at Queen's University
> > > > Belfast.
> > >
> > > They're a rare treat for sure. My first thought
> was
> > > to try for one in
> > > York at the music research centre, where i did
> my
> > > MA. There are
> > > various bits of funding available and i think
> i'd
> > > stand a reasonable
> > > chance, but then i realised I don't want to
> spend my
> > > entire academic
> > > career in a single institution, hence looking
> > > elsewhere for similar
> > > departments to the York MRC (which sit between a
> > > music department and
> > > an electronics or computing department).
> > >
> > > I saw the Belfast projects as well, they look
> good
> > > actually... and
> > > i'll check out DeMontford - thanks for that.
> > >
> > > > Not sure of your own background, and when you
> say
> > > live\interactive do you
> > > > mean electronic music, and if so, to what
> degree
> > > technology development and
> > > > what degree creative applications? Because the
> > > places that might have
> > > > funding or might be good centres for
> electronic
> > > music aren't necessarily
> > > > music departments. And I don't want to
> discount
> > > overseas possibilities too,
> > > > though you may have family commitments or the
> > > like.
> > >
> > > Yes, i do mean electronic music. I'm from a
> > > technical background, but
> > > I'm really now only interested in the creative
> > > applications of
> > > technology. Livecoding, interactive
> compositions,
> > > realtime
> > > environmental sound processing etc. Institutions
> > > which aren't
> > > necessarily music departments sounds
> interesting...
> > > can you give a
> > > couple of examples?
> > >
> > > Thanks for the advice, it's much appreciated.
> > >
> > > Pete.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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