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NOVARS Research Centre for Electroacoustic Composition, Performance and Sound-Art

Principal Researchers


Ricardo Climent

Dr Ricardo Climent
Senior Lecturer in Electroacoustic Music

PhD in Composition and MA in Music Technology, School of Music, Queen's University of Belfast
BEcon Universidad Valencia, Spain and EI, FUFAP-Alcala de Henares

Contact:

Dr Ricardo Climent
NOVARS Research Centre
School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
MUSIC - Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
University of Manchester
Coupland Street, Manchester M13 9PL

Tel: 0161 275 3246, Fax: 0161 275 4994
e-mail: ricardo.climent@manchester.ac.uk

Bio: Ricardo Climent's research focuses on areas of music composition and interactive media, involving the use computers, audio and visual metadata. He is Co-Director of the NOVARS Research Centre and Senior Lecturer in EA Music at The University of Manchester. He previously held a lecturing position at SARC, (Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast). Ricardo has also served as resident composer and researcher at the JOGV Orchestra in Spain; Conservatorio of Morelia in Mexico; Sonology - Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo; LEA labs, at the Conservatorio of Valencia; the Cushendall Tower- In you we trust; Northern Ireland, at CARA- Celebrating Arts in rural Areas, cross-border Ireland; TUB Berlin; N.K. Berlin; and at the Push Festival, Sweden.

Among his most original long-term collaborative projects he co-created and co-run:

ALL Projects WEB: acousmatic.org/

Enterpreneur Work:

In 2006 he started 'Wunderbarlaboratorium', a freelance Sound and Media studio in Prenzlauerberg, Berlin, where he collaborates with other artists, musicians (McCurdy, s.low projekt etc) and local organisations.

In 2009 he founded Cross-disciplinary Frog Ltd. a limited by guarantee company based in Manchester, UK, registered in England by the Companies House in early 2010. Cross-D Frog. ltd has partnered with blackduck arts and greendog arts, to create projects like S.LOW, Transfer Lounge, Universal shipping box or Swap/ Vaihto. Cross-D Frog ltd. capitalises on two decades of experience and efforts from a number of entrepreneurs working in the fields of creative sound, visual arts, science and digital technology.

Music Samples:

Ricardo's music explores a wide range of possibilities, from instrumental music to experimental collaborations with artists or scientists and with emphasis on acousmatic music and mix genres.
Listen to Ricardo Climent's Music <Click!

Research Interests:

Composition, machine musicianship, cross-disciplinary projects, immersive environments, cities research and public art, game-physics-graphics-audio engines

Awards & commissions:
Composition prizes:
SGAE Electro-acoustic competition I, II, II & (IV mention)
CiberArt
For the realisation of projects (funding bodies)
Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, 3rd Practice Festival, Virginia, US, Sarah Montgomery Award, SGAE-Spanish Copyright Society, DENI-Department of Education of Northern Ireland, Fundacion Autor, CARA-Celebrating Arts in Rural Areas, Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, In you we trust, Arts Council England.
Commissioners:
Amores Grup de Percussio, Spanish Brass Luur i Metalls, Joven Orquesta de la Generalitat Valenciana, Pedro Carneiro, Xelo Giner - Kazuhisa Ogawa, Ensamble Las Rosas, Mitsuhisa Yosida-Ecotok, Esther Lamneck- Elizabeth McNutt, Carlos Gil, Kontakte Percussion Group

Catalogue of works and premieres

Interactive Media for immersive environments using dynamic metadata and visualisation

Sonic Pathfinder 2013
game-physics-audio engine and physical models with S. Bilbao
S.LOW - VIP Lounges are for ALL 2010
A Dynamic Documentary Film
Ho - a sonic expedition to Vietnam 2008-09
Interactive Navigation System through sound (with blender)

Orchestra
Sons étouffés 2004
For Symphony Orchestra
JOGV Orchestra (Joven Orquesta de la Generalidad Valenciana)
Conductor Manuel Galduf. Premier in July 2004: Spain, Palau de la Musica de Valencia, Iturbi Hall. Publisher: Editorial Piles sl
3_Simetrias 2004
Joven Orquesta de la Generalidad Valenciana chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Maestro Manuel Galduf assisted by maestros Miguel Angel G. Cañamero and Carlos D. Perales
Premier in April 2004: Spain,  Palacio de Congresos y Auditorio de Castellón. Publisher: Editorial Piles sl
Philosophiae Naturalis  2001
for scratch orchestra and choir
Queens symphony orchestra and guests. Paul Wilson conducts
Whitla Hall, Belfast. Northern Ireland

Ensemble
I/O 2007
For Piano Quintet
Biometric Fingerprints 2005 
For Brass Quintet. www.spanishbrass.com
Commissioned by Spanish Brass Luur Metal. Premier in Barcelona (Feb 2005)
Reinventando a Bell  2002
for Percussion Trio
Grupo Amores /Instituto Valenciano de la Música. Publisher: Editorial Piles sl
emc2 2000
Clarinet in Bb and String quartet working "as a tape". Purely instrumental
Ensamble de las Rosas, Conservatorio de la Rosas, Morelia, Mexico (premier)
Conductor: Maestro Luis Jaime Cortez
Irregularidades I  2003
SEQUENZA I Woodwind quintet and percussion
Ensamble de las Rosas, Conservatorio de la Rosas, Morelia, Mexico
XV Festival Internacional de Morelia, dedicado a Espanya. Conducted by Maestro Luis Jaime Cortez

For solos and duos (usually with electronics)

Koorean Air 2010
For violin and Electronics (for Darragh Morgan - commissioned)
Rock-et roll 2009
For recorder and computer with dynamic score. For Horacio Franco. Commissioned by Auditorio Nacional, Madrid
Russian Disco 2007
For flute, clarinet and dynamic scores in mosaic form (suzhi carrousel). For Elizabeth McNutt and Esther Lamneck
Trouche 2006
For saxophones, cajón flamenco, tuba(!) and fixed media. Comissioned by Xelo Giner
Acute 2006
For percussion ('searched objects' and fixed media - typomorphology score). Comissioned by Kontakte percussion group
Voyages Extraordinaries: Gyrosbone  2005
for preprared trombone (gyrosbone) and live interactive computing
Carlos Gil at Museo Vostell, Malpartida, Cáceres
Drosophila 2004-2005
For baritone sax and dancer with electronics
Commissioned by Iñigo Ibaibarriaga. Premier in Bilbao. Tokyo (Dec. 2005)
A Gravidade Liberta 2003
Marimba and prepared mallets (with electronics)
Pedro Carneiro at the Musica Viva Festival, Coimbra. Portugal.
Etude in C_ierto 2002
Saxophone Baritono and Cello and Electronics
Xelo Giner-Kazuhisa Ogawa /Instituto Valenciano de la Música.
TNT-Bordeaux Xth Annyv. of Proxima Centaury. Publisher: Editorial Piles sl
Trombonsis 1999
for trombone and Live electronics. Barry webb, Huddersflied, UK
Dsp~Bop 1998
for alto and tenor sax and live electronics
Brasil, Planetarium Rio de Janeiro, Adam Melvin. Melvin 1998-Xelo Giner 2001- Iñigo Ibaibarriaga 2004-

For Fixed Media (tape)

Manhattan Minuit   2010
For Fixed Media (2 channels) - as part of Miso Music Cadavre Exquis celebration
Fuer Leslie   2009
For Fixed media (5.1)
Sir George   2008
For Fixed media (8 channels and stereo- vinyl)
1666:Annus Horribilis   2006
For Tape (5.1 surround) (premiered in Nov 2006. 3rd P. Festival, Virginia US)
Wallwoodpeckers   2005
For Tape (12 channels)
The Last Castrati  2004
For Tape (mention)
Sonic Tsunami for tape 2003
for tape (prized)
Silent Era /La Era del Silencio 2002
for tape (prized)
e-RRATUM 2001
for tape (prized) SGAE, Punto de encuentro, Spain
VCS3++ 1999
for tape. Sonic Arts Network (premier) (prize Arts XXI)
NYSE 1998
for tape. Sonorities Festival (premier)

Music for artistic or scientific collaborations
Ekotoc 2005
Action for ecology and sounds. Collaboration with Mitushisa Yoshida
Project Belfast 2005
Slide images and cello (tape)- Ulster Architectural Heritage Society. Belfast Festival
Oxidising the Spectrum 2004
Performs: The Microbial Ensemble (Technology for a music repertoire written for a bunch of Microbes) Sonic Installation. Sonorities Festival 2004-
Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI) & Belfast city Council. Tropical Ravine House Belfast and Temple Bar Gallery & studios, Dublin
Chemical Engineer department labs at QUB of Belfast /Dr Quan Gan.
Mimesis5a 2000
soundscape recording for still images. Cushendall, In you we trust.
Ca.AD 2000
for tape a 3D rendered images. Computer images: Michael Crone
Cathedral Quarter festival, UK
Strings too Short to tie 1999
mixed composition for a dance show. CARA, Celebrating Arts in Rural Areas, Enniskillen, NIreland
Polifemo 1995
for tape and video sculpture (installation)
La esfera Azul, Valencia
Matter Amantissima 1996
for tape and sonic sculpture (installation) . Museo Pio V de Valencia, Ima Pico

Others (recording portfolios)
Kunitachi collection 2005- Samples of Tokyo sounds. Sponsored by Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI) and the Daiwa Anglo Japanese foundation
Berlin 15 years: 1990-2005      2005
Collection of Recordings of Berlin sounds inspired by the wall woodpeckers
La Havana, an Archeology of Sounds 2001 -Séries sonores 50 (electrocd.com) Collection of Recordings of places which sounds will not exist in the near future.
Wee share – samples of recordings from here and there and by other composers

Visitor researcher / composer in residence

Kunitachi college of Music, Tokyo, Japan 2005 - Visitor researcher - Sponsored by Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI) and the Daiwa Anglo Japanese foundation
TUB- Technical University of Berlin, Germany 2005 - Visitor researcher
Composer in Residence of the JOGV–Orchestra   2003-2004- Sponsored by IVM-Instituto Valenciano de la Música
Composer in Residence of the Conservatorio de Morelia, Mexico 2003. Sponsored by UNESCO –Aschberg
Composer in Residence Cushendall Tower Artistic Residency  2001   Northern Ireland – Sponsored by In You We Trust
Composer in Residence at LEA LAB, Conservatorio de Valencia 2000, sponsored by Ciber@rt
Composer at Ardowen, Einniskillen  1988 Cross-disciplinary Educational Project CARA

Published works on CD:
Music for Percussion. For Kontakte- IVM Editorial (release May 2008) -Acute
Phonos Foundation; trombone Carlos Gil- (release March 2008) -Trombonsis
Published in 2007 by Inpetto-Film Produktion : Havanna (60 minutes)
3rd Practice, Virginia US. 2006- 5.1 DVD release (Nov 2006) -1666:Annus Horribilis
Compositores Valencianos Vol 3. Solo album. Editorial IVM- Patrimonio Cultural Valenciano - Sons etouffes, 3 Simetrias, The last castrati, DejaVu~88
SGAE - Electroacoustic Competition Vol. I - e-RRATUM
SGAE - Electroacoustic Competition Vol. II - Silent Era
SGAE - Electroacoustic Competition Vol. III - Sonic Tsunami
SGAE - Electroacoustic Competition Vol. IV - The last castrati
ICMC 2005- CD Barcelona - The last castrati
Contemporary Music from Ireland, Volume Five- The last castrati
Spanish Brass Luur i Metalls - Biometric Fingerprints
RedASLA Vol. II- (2008) -Wall Woodpeckers

Projects and shows organised:
City as Museum/City as Instrument
s.low - http://s.low-low.org
Tornado-Project.org
Voyages Extraordinaires -Tokyo
DROSOPHILA tour -a dance for a blind fly
ECOTOK: Japanese sound-poetry
KAITEN-ZUSHI a score with choice (ongoing research)
The Microbial Ensemble
PROJECT BELFAST- In associoation with the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society
SARC@BERLIN- Sarc composers @ the Elektronisches Studio- Technical University Berlin
Cross-Disciplinary Show - MICE AT SARC!!! -[SARC- Sonic Arts Research Centre, GTG-Golden Thread Gallery, Flax Art Studios-
NI composers in Chile 06
NI composers in Spain 05
NI composers in Mexico 03
NI composers at Inventionen, Berlin 06

Personal Website: electro-acoustic.com
Serving community: acusmatica.org

MY RESEARCH: NOVARS Research Centre



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