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Losing her voice premiere audience dataset
No full textThis dataset includes all anonymised audience data from the premiere of Losing Her Voice, a contemporary opera composed and written by Elizabeth Kelly (University of Nottingham), which involved the use of a custom web app on their phones by audience members
Space Scratch Symphony
No full text"The Space Scratch Symphony is a world first, a symphony composed for - and with input from - Leicester & Leicestershire music students with inspiration and involvement from students in schools in the city and county by composer Elizabeth Kelly and award-winning turntablist Jon1st with Leicestershire Music and the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra (LSSO)The piece is scored for symphony orchestra, 3-part chorus and turntables.The world premier performance took place at De Montfort Hall, Leicester on Tuesday 25th June [2024] as part of Leicestershire Music's Out of this World concert. An evening of Space related music performed by young people from Leicester & Leicestershire." -- Leicestershire Music [https://leicestershiremusichub.org/space-scratch-symphony
Losing Her Voice : an opera in two acts for four singers, chorus, mixed septet and audience mobile phone interaction
No full textA new interactive opera inspired by America’s first true superstar – Geraldine Farrar, will let the audience be part of the performance, thanks to the collaborative efforts of experts in music and computer science from the University of Nottingham and Lakeside Arts. Losing Her Voice will premiere in the Djanogly Theatre at Lakeside Arts on 6 April at 2:30pm with a second performance on 7 April at 7pm. The opera features original music and libretto by Dr Elizabeth Kelly, an Assistant Professor in the University of Nottingham's Departmentof Music. In a truly collaborative project, Dr Kelly has worked closely with colleagues from the University’s Mixed Reality Lab – Professor Chris Greenhalgh and Dr Adrian Hazzard, to use new technologies which allow the audience to be involved with the performance through a specially designed app
Improving quality of life and end of life care for people with dementia using the soundtrack to my life tool: evaluation report, University of Nottingham
No full textGood support at home for people with dementia and their carers is crucial to maintaining their quality of life and helping them to remain in their own home. Person centred packages of care have been shown to be an effective means of providing this support.
In this pilot study we aimed to improve quality of life of people living with dementia at (including at end of life) and their carers. This would be by using and evaluating, a bespoke, person centred music tool: Soundtrack to My Life (STML) with a dementia specialist home care team supporting people with dementia in their own homes. The STML tool is designed to draw together pieces of music representing significance in the life of a person with dementia, as part of a bespoke life history /biographical care plan. In using the tool, it was hoped that engagement of people with dementia by support staff would improve and that support staff would be encouraged to reflect on their practice, enhancing their interpersonal skills.
The research phase of the project aimed to evaluate the way that using such a personalised compilation of music contributed towards improving quality of life. The evaluation used a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews to seek feedback from care workers and key managers about the degree to which the tool had benefitted the person with dementia and their principal carer
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Exploring the metaphorical terrain
No full textJoanne Lee participated as one of four ‘Seers in Residence’ invited to interact with Dr. Traci Kelly’s monoprint installation Feeling It For You (Perspective) exhibited in Nottingham Trent University’s Bonington Gallery. The Seers in Residence programme engages four researchers: Emma Cocker, Ben Judd, Simon Cross and myself to respond according our own research and practice.
Working with photography and text, Lee concentrated on surfaces and explored metaphors of knowledge and imagination.</p
Sport, physical activity and the establishment of Health and Wellbeing Boards in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
No full textThis paper will examine the emergence of Health and Wellbeing Boards in Nottinghamshire and the City of Nottingham and explore the implications for sport and physical activity. At the time of writing the transfer of responsibilities for Public Health and the establishment of Health and Wellbeing Boards in both the City of Nottingham and within Nottinghamshire County Council are considered to be relatively advanced by the Strategic Health Authorities, the respective local authorities and by the boards of the two Primary Care Trusts. "Shadow"� Health and Well being Board have been established in both authorities and they have been meeting regularly for s everal months. Public health and commissioning staff have also been successfully relocated and new strategies and priorities are starting to emerge. Nottingham and Nottinghamshire have traditionally acknowledged the role of sport and physical activity to the wider determinants of public health and given a relatively high priority to the contribution that sport and physical activity can make to the ir preventative health and early intervention agendas. This paper will look at the transition to Health and Wellbeing boards to assess how the role of sport and physical activity may be changing and to identify opportunities for its contribution to policy and practise in the future. It will examine both the theory and practise behind the emerging governance arr angements, the strategic objectives and priorities, and the developing evidential base for future policy and delivery within the two areas
The drawing board
No full textTraci Kelly and Rhiannon Jones’ collaborative practice presents writing as a dynamic visual and lived encounter in a manner particularly suited to a gallery context. The work exemplifies practice–as–research and is theoretically grounded in phenomenology, feminist and post feminist perspectives. It intentionally subverts and ruins the representation of writing in order to privilege the visceral and subjective production of the writerly.The momentum of the work developed during a writing residency initiated by Nottingham based international writer Michael Pinchbeck who invited the artists to collaborate in October 2014. The residency and the continuation into exhibition is an investigation into the materiality of chalk and writing as a physicality of site and self. The artists have predominantly employed performance and performativity as a temporal mode of making works, which exist in the interstice of documentation, artwork and survey. Their collaboration all plays with video installation and photographs along with developing sculptural works and the utilising of debris from gestures to creative seductive and fluid abstract surfaces. These Inter-related works explore writing as object, writing as materiality, the process of writing through the body and the subject invention inherent in writing a subject into being. An unedited sketchbook of the current body of writing investigations, from which several exhibition works are distilled, can be viewed within these two facebook albums Kelly & Jones’ residency in 2014. The Drawing Board was a space for handwritten performances that aims to turn a corridor into a destination and to return the walls of an old school building in Nottingham to their former use as a place of display. The Drawing Board explores how we write, how we perform writing and how writing performs
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Feeling it for you (perspective), with, Seers in residence
No full textTraci Kelly’s ‘Seers-in-Residence’, with contributions from Emma Cocker, Simon Cross, Ben Judd and Joanne Lee (a Nottingham Trent University/Bonington Gallery publication). This publication emerges from an invitation for four researchers to spend time as Seers-in-Residence with Traci Kelly’s monoprint installation ‘Feeling It For You (Perspective)’, shown in the Gallery during 2013. The resulting book documents the creative and critical ideas explored by participants, and reflects upon the possibilities for this innovative model for research
From AI, creativity and music to IoT, HCI, musical instrument design and audio interaction: a journey in sound
No full textThis introduction brings together a range of research, a majority of which was presented at the Audio Mostly conference hosted at the University of Nottingham. The conference brings together a range of researchers, industry, designers and educators to discuss all things audio-related, the main focus of the conference is to further understand the different ways in which we can interact with audio-based technologies. This special issue is testament to the international and interdisciplinary nature of the growing Audio Mostly conference, which brings together a range of experts from across the world.A recurrent theme in this collection is the turn to the creative appropriation of sonic and musical interactions with computers. From the design of sound interactions with physical objects, the development and evaluation of new digital instruments and their expressive capabilities, to basic and explorative research about sound perception and the semantics of sonic experiences, the volume emphasizes the importance of sound in interaction. Sound offers not only numerous creative and expressive possibilities; it also suggests new opportunities for the exploration of new kinds of interactions with ubiquitous and pervasive computers. As our attentional ability seems to be increasingly overextended by a multitude of visual displays and affordances, sound might provide avenues for more ambient and less intrusive forms of interaction...Special Issue Contentshttps://link.springer.com/journal/779/volumes-and-issues/25-4Volume 25, Issue 4August 2021Special Issue on From AI, Creativity and Music to IoT, HCI, Musical Instrument Design and Audio Interaction: A Journey in SoundIssue Editors: Alan Chamberlain, Adrian Hazzard, Elizabeth Kelly, Mads Bødker, Maria Kallionpä
InDialogue Sunday Supplement at Dance4 in conversation with Hancock and Kelly
No full textThis event hosted by InDialogue, In Good Company and Dance4 as part of InDialogue 2019, was facilitated by Dr Rhiannon Jones and Dr Heather Connelly. The aim of the session was to facilitate a conversation with the artists hancock & kelly about practice as research as a methodology. The research processes and methodology designed by Rhiannon Jones for the residency were also disseminated. The event provided a unique opportunity for Dr Rhiannon Jones to reflect and disseminate initial findings from the residency curated for hancock & kelly and how artistic practice works with notions of dialogue. The Residency provided space and time for hancock & kelly to make new work and revisit previously created material, hosted by Dance4 InDialogue Panel discussion at Derby Theatre. Panellists: Dr Traci Kelly and Richard Hancock, Mark Jeffery (Associate Professor, Performance, SAIC), is the curator of InTime and a former member of Goat Island; Nicholas Lowe (Associate Professor, Historic Preservation, SAIC) is the Curator of the Goat Island Archival and the exhibition, Goat Island archive – we have discovered the performance by making it; Jennie Klein (Professor of Art History, Ohio University) will moderate the panel. The session discussed practice in relation to debates concerning the tensions existing between performance and its residues and reflections were made and responded to with regards to dialogical ways of making work. The event was carefully curated and opened up to the public to extend the dialogue beyond the encounter of the live performance event. In doing this it allowed the artists to consider the studio time and process, the impact that the panel discussion and workshop event had on the artists was also noted. The residency programme successfully curated a new form of discourse out of its own making which threaded together the disparate activities, it created a shift in discourse about hancock & kelly practice within a wider, public context. It also fed back into the overarching research aims of InDialogue to act as an outside eye / or space for artists and researchers to question how they use dialogue in practice. By deliberately shifting the residency into a variety of locations it supported the enquiry into the role of movable discourses that shifts and reshapes itself to new sites and from out of that, new forms of dialogue are established. During the conversation hancock & kelly reflected on the inception of their performance An Extraordinary Rendition in Chicago, how they worked with the Goat Island Archives, their dialogic process, the development and performance of the work for Nottingham contemporary. hancock & kelly and Rhiannon Jones and Heather Connelly also reflecting upon their experience of working with ‘in’ Dialogue with each other and participation in InDialogue 2019. hancock & kelly were commissioned by InDialogue, In Good Company and Dance4, supported by Arts Council England to come to the UK, to have time to develop their practice and present their work at Nottingham Contemporary of An Extraordinary Rendition for InDialogue 2019
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