The Interdisciplinary Centre for Composition and Technology in the Department of Music is delighted to announce an open call for collaborative proposals for their new Ensemble Research Residency scheme.
From 2023-2026, the contemporary music group the Riot Ensemble will be in residence in Liverpool, and they are seeking proposals from academics across the university who may wish to work with musicians to support their research.
ICCaT is keen to support interdisciplinary work in a broad sense, and is currently soliciting projects that interface with members of the group in pursuit of artistic, musicological, sociological, or scientific outcomes.
Background
Visiting ensembles play a vital role in university music departments, helping to shape the research of staff and postgraduates by facilitating collaborative projects, generating research outputs, aiding in dissemination, and helping to build lasting relationships with preeminent musicians. However, the overwhelming majority of such residencies enable only brief interactions with ensembles which do not tend to support ambitious, risky, and cross-disciplinary research. Moreover, such visiting ensembles rarely have contact with researchers outside of the music department.
In response, ICCaT is launching a call for collaborative proposals from any member of academic staff at the University of Liverpool – as well as postgraduates in the Department of Music – to work with the world-renowned contemporary music group the Riot Ensemble. We are keen to support a broad range of project types culminating either in new musical content (e.g. a concert of newly commissioned works, installations, multimedia or A/V content, or a demonstration of fabricated instruments/new technologies) or projects which support publishable/scientific research (e.g. performances of archival materials, health and wellbeing events or experiments, sound/acoustics data collection, etc.).
The 3-year total duration of the residency will enable projects which involve interdisciplinary collaboration, necessitate interaction with musicians interspersed with periods of research and development, and/or seek to exploit our new, state-of-the-art facilities (e.g. the Tung Auditorium).
Further information
The call for proposals page has a link to the online application form, as well as a guidance document which describes the call in more detail and offers additional information to help elucidate possibilities and structure submissions.
Furthermore, there will be an informational meeting about the residency scheme on November 15th at 4pm in Rendall Seminar Room 11 (REN-SR11) with the director of ICCaT (Ben Hackbarth), the Riot Ensemble’s conductor (Aaron Holloway-Nahum), and the ensemble’s clarinet player (Ausias Garrigos) where prospective applicants will have an opportunity to ask questions.
Proposals are due by 16th December 2022 at 5pm. Enquiries may be directed to Dr Ben Hackbarth (bhackbar@liv.ac.uk).