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Mike Collier - A Dawn Chorus
No full textThis exhibition by Mike Collier was initially inspired by listening to a dawn chorus at Cheeseburn in Northumberland – a choir of sixteen birds heard early one morning in May. Together their songs, represented variously as digitally manipulated sonograms and musical transcriptions, form the basis of this show of screen prints, music and digital prints.
Mike has approached the experience of the dawn chorus in a number of different ways, collaborating with printmaker Alex Charrington (Charrington Editions), composer and musician Bennett Hogg and natural history sound recordist Geoff Sample on the project.
He has looked at the relationship between the natural world, its specific cultures and cultural ecologies, and our own sense of culture/s. The work attempts to loosely describe how individual bird species interact through song in the dawn chorus - exploring ways of visually and musically re-invoking these patterns of cultural interaction in a more-than-human world.
Mike wants to explore ways of showing how we might better understand our complex relationship to a more-than-human world, enabling us to value the whole world (birds, plants, animals, peoples etc) as a living ecology of cultural differences.
The exhibition has been supported by a number of organisations including Arts Council England, University of Sunderland and Newcastle University
LISTEN: Singing the World: A Dawn Chorus
No full textSinging The World: A Dawn Chorus Mike Collier & Bennett Hogg: paintings, prints and music
This exhibition was initially inspired by listening to a dawn chorus in a Northumberland woodland garden—a choir of sixteen birds heard early one morning in mid May. Together their songs, represented variously as digitally manipulated sonograms and musical transcriptions, form the basis of this show of vibrant and detailed graphic prints, music and paintings. The exhibition continues in the downstairs foyer with an animation of Mike and Bennett’s work: Chorus Lines by Merrie Snel
Dawn Chorus: Mimesis And Birdsong
No full textThis exhibition of pictures by Mike Collier and music by Bennett Hogg was initially inspired by listening to a dawn chorus in a Northumberland woodland – a choir of sixteen birds heard early one morning in mid May. Together their songs, represented variously as digitally manipulated sonograms and musical transcriptions, form the basis of this show of screen prints, music and digital prints. Collier approached the experience of the dawn chorus in a number of different ways, collaborating with printmaker Alex Charrington (Charrington Editions), composer and musician Bennett Hogg and natural history sound recordist Geoff Sample. Working from Sample’s sonograms of individual bird recordings, Collier drew a series of notations that bore a superficial resemblance to handwritten “neumes”, a medieval form of musical notation. Together with Charrington, he subsequently developed a patterned palimpsest of sound (Dawn Chorus; 2017 and A Transitional Narrative: 2018). The circular images in The Dawn Chorus (05.00am); 2017, were, again, loosely adapted from Sample’s sonograms as Collier stretched and pulled, squeezed and pinched these visual scientific notations, searching for rhythm, tone, pattern, pitch, colour and melody. Finally, Singing the World: A Dawn Chorus: 03.30am – 05.00am re-presents the individual songs of the sixteen birds in this particular dawn chorus using an onomatopoeic circular form. Just as Collier started with electronic transcriptions that resembled medieval music notation, Hogg took this “found” music and transcribed it into modern notation, and then freely composed a series of pieces in which different birds appear in roughly the same sequence they do in the dawn chorus. Hogg didn’t transcribe the sound of the birds, and so although the music is based on birdsong, it doesn’t try to mimic birdsong, and in this it closely parallels Collier’s approach. Although to a visitor it may not be apparent which piece is being heard, or indeed which birds are ‘present’, the combination of the music and the images is intended to ‘stage’, for want of a better word, an ‘experience’, inside of which we can, of course, make our own connections. Prof Mike Collier is a lecturer, writer, curator and artist based at the University of Sunderland were he runs WALK (Walking, Art, Landskip and Knowledge), a research centre exploring the way we creatively engage with the world as we walk through it. Dr Bennett Hogg (Newcastle University) is a composer, improviser and cultural theorist. Alex Charrington runs Charrington Editions, a professional, collaborative printmaking studio. Geoff Sample specialises in recording birds and natural soundscapes as fine art and documentar
Mike Olszewski Interview, 2009
No full textMike Olszewski is a newscaster for WKSU-FM and a professor of communications at Kent State University and the University of Akron, as well as the author of several books. He was born in Cleveland in 1953. The interview discusses his childhood, racial issues, music, and the media
Mike Olszewski Interview, 2009
No full textMike Olszewski is a newscaster for WKSU-FM and a professor of communications at Kent State University and the University of Akron, as well as the author of several books. He was born in Cleveland in 1953. The interview discusses his childhood, racial issues, music, and the media
Dr. Mike Davison – Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Mike Davison, Professor of Music, discusses his documentary film, Cuba: Rhythm in Motion. This dynamic film captures the joy of making music in Cuba, an island that Dr. Davison has visited numerous times with his students. The contrasting yet intertwined histories of Cuban and American music are traced and illustrated with extensive performance footage. A DVD of Cuba: Rhythm in Motion is available in Parsons Music Library
The legislature passed Mike Saxl and Rick Bennett\u27s health-related bills this ye
No full textThe legislature passed Mike Saxl and Rick Bennett\u27s health-related bills this year but voted down another, for a Maine Healthcare Purchasing Collaborative. Business entities like Anthem insurance and the Maine State Chamber of Commerce have taken a wait-and-see attitude on both passed bills. Details, related editorial
Mike Nichols Oral History
No full textOral histories created by University of Kansas students, staff and faculty as part of the Religion in Kansas Project are archived at http://hdl.handle.net/1808/12524 in KU ScholarWorks, the digital repository of the University of Kansas.Oral history interview with Mike Nichols conducted by Diana Brown at the Latte Land coffee shop in Kansas City, Kansas, on July 6, 2014. Mike is the author of The Witches’ Sabbats, taught classes on Paganism for decades, and owned The Magic Lantern occult book shop in Kansas City in the 1980s; this interview discusses those experiences. This interview was conducted for the Religion in Kansas Project as part of a summer fieldwork internship funded by the Friends of the Department of Religious Studies.Friends of the Department of Religious Studie
Gymnura
No full textGymnura van Hasselt, 1823 Type species: Raja micrura Bloch & Schneider, 1801, by monotypy.Published as part of Jacobsen, Ian P. & Bennett, Mike B., 2009, A Taxonomic Review of the Australian Butterfly Ray Gymnura australis (Ramsay & Ogilby, 1886) and Other Members of the family Gymnuridae (Order Rajiformes) from the Indo-West Pacific., pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 2228 on page 9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19024
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