Resonance and Recapitulation: Echo of a Renaissance

In 2011, the first ISSTC was held in Limerick. In 2014, Limerick was the City of Culture, regenerating the diverse and exciting arts practices in the city. In 2015, ISSTC returns to Limerick. In a moment of reflection and on returning to the city of the first convocation, this year’s theme of resonance, recapitulation and renaissance asks contributors to consider past works, old ideas unused, re-birthing projects through new ears and experiences.

Resonance can be something quite specific in sound, from filter design to physical modelling. But we also use resonance metaphorically. We can say something “strikes a chord” with us, or resonates within us.

Recapitulation within music tells the story of origin, departure and return. But the return is never exact; it becomes something else in its story. Recapitulation also asks for different representations of an original idea. Slight changes occur with each iteration, which marginally alter the first conception.

Renaissance means more than just rebirth. It implies that a culture has had new life injected into it. Limerick is experiencing its own renaissance despite the economic woes of the past few years. Artists are engaging across all domains, integrating into the fabric of the city.

This year’s ISSTC welcomes works, papers and workshops that explore these concepts. In the process of making sense of our experiences, memories are re-evaluated and re-worked, allowing us to create something that is both new and a recapitulation of what has gone before. An echo exists like a memory, but is it an artefact or a new object in its own right?

The fifth annual Irish Sound, Science and Technology Convocation (ISSTC2015) is hosted by the University of Limerick and Mary Immaculate College, August 12-13, 2015. Events will be in venues in Limerick City Centre.

Support from Mary Immaculate College | Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Limerick | Digital Media and Arts Research Centre, University of Limerick | Ormston House | FabLab | Hunt Museum |

Registration available on eventbrite.com. Early bird registration until July 25.

Schedule | Accommodation | Travel

KEYNOTES

Professor Miller Puckette, http://msp.ucsd.edu/
Dr Ximena Alarcón, http://ximenaalarcon.net/home.html

CHAIRS

Chair of Papers/Posters: Jacqueline Walker
Chair of Workshops: Jürgen Simpson
Chair of Sound Art/Installations: Nicholas Ward
Chairs of Music: Linda O’Keeffe and Kerry Hagan

Organising Committee

Kerry Hagan
Tony Langlois
Linda O’Keeffe
Jürgen Simpson
Jacqueline Walker
Nicholas Ward

Schedule

Wednesday, August 12
8:30	Registration – Dance Limerick
	Paper Session 1 – Dance Limerick – Chair: Robin Parmar
9:00	Thomas Lysaght, Joseph Timoney	Modal Distribution Phase Synthesis using Group Delay
9:30	Joseph Timoney, Antonio Goulart, Victor Lazzarini, Thomas Lysaght and Marcelo Queiroz	Implementing Spectral Convolution for Complex FM Signal Generation for Arbitrary Signal Lengths
10:00	Brian Connolly	The listening system as a performance medium
10:30	Break
11:00	Keynote 1: Ximena Alarcón – Dance Limerick
12:00	Break
	Workshop – FabLab
13:00	Richard Duckworth	Contact Microphone Workshop: Piezos and Electronics
	Artwalk – Start & end at Ormston House
15:00	J. Booth	Juniper
	Demelza Kooij, Lars Koens, Pete Smith	GRAMINOIDS
	Tanya Harris	The Architecture of Sound – What Architecture Does Sound Orchestrate?
	Micah Frank	Reimagined
	Steve McCourt & Sabine Bürger	Black Garden
	Atanas Bozdarov & Johny Bozdarov	DNA “Mating Call”
	Enda Bates & Kate Fahey	Seeing is Believing
17:00	Reception – Ormston House
19:00	Break
	Concert 1 – Dance Limerick
20:00	Ximena Alarcón	La Fumigacion de La Luna
	Brian Connolly	Oscima
	Richard Garrett	Only Now
	Rosalia Soria Luz	Synthetic Springs
Thursday, August 13
8:30	Registration – Dance Limerick
	Paper Session 2 – Dance Limerick – Chair: Brian Bridges
9:00	Rosalia Soria Luz	State Space Models and Sonification: Composing with Numbers
9:30	Alan Dormer	The recontextualization of public space through site-specific art
10:00	Keynote 2: Miller Puckette – Dance Limerick
11:00	Break
	Paper Session 3 – Dance Limerick – Chair: Rosalia Soria Luz
11:30	Robin Parmar	Digital Angst and The Phenomenology of Discontinuity
12:00	Brian Bridges & Ricky Graham	Embodied Resonances and Thoughts of Electroacoustic Music: What can we learn from theorising disembodied sound using embodied schemas?
12:30	Break
13:45	ISSTA Annual General Meeting – Dance Limerick Note: Everyone who has registered is a member of ISSTA and welcome to join the Annual General Meeting
15:45	Free time to revisit artworks
	Concert 2 – Dance Limerick
19:30	Stephen Roddy	Doom & Gloom
	Roberto Zanata	Nero siderale
	Ali Ostovar	A THIN LIGHT BEHIND THE FOG
	Thomas Dempster	melt
	Kevin Logan	DJ Pedagog

Locations

Dance Limerick (St John’s Church)

Fab Lab

Ormston House

Other Locations

Art is also being held at the following locations:

Hunt Museum

Limerick Printmakers

Accommodation

The Pier Hotel www.thepierhotellimerick.com 061 317 179	400 m	€49/night room only
Savoy Hotel www.savoylimerick.com 061 448 700	450 m	€105/night B&B€90/night room only Ask for corporate rate
The George Boutique Hotel www.thegeorgeboutiquehotel.com 061 460 400	450 m	€69/night Ask for corporate rate
The Strand Hotel www.strandhotellimerick.ie 061 421 800	650 m	Prices on website
Best Western Pery’s www.perys.ie 061 413 822	750 m	€59/night B&B €52/night room only €81.50/night double Quote ISSTC
Limerick City Hotel www.limerickcityhotel.ie 061 207 000	850 m	€59/nightAsk for Vanessa
Pery One oneperysquare.com 061 402 402	950 m	€165/night
Clarion Hotel www.clarionhotellimerick.com 061 444 100	1.2 km	€100/night single Quote ISSTC 2015

Travel

By plane: Shannon Airport. Bus Éireann runs bus 51 (faster) and 343 from the airport to Limerick City Centre. Taxis are about €40.
By train: Colbert Station serves Dublin, Cork and Galway/Ennis trains – Irish Rail website
By car: Limerick can be reached by N18, M20 and M7 from Galway, Cork and Dublin, respectively.

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