Zoom Time – Over and Out is a collaborative work co-created and performed by musicians of two inclusive music ensembles: Acoustronic, led by Prof Frank Lyons and based at Ulster University in Derry and Queen’s University Belfast based “Performance without Barriers” (PwB) Research Group, led by Prof Franziska Schroeder alongside Belfast International Arts Festival Featured Artist 2023 Nicholas McCarthy that celebrates inclusivity in classical music.
The work features voice recordings of the musicians, portraying the constantly changing emotions that they experienced during the pandemic, with newly recorded voices that portray life as the musicians experience it now. Layered onto an orchestral score, composed by Prof Frank Lyons, are musical components by the Acoustronic and Performance without Barriers musicians. These materials were created in online Zoom sessions, during the pandemic and in recent collaborative physical workshops during September and October 2023.
Musicians are using specifically designed new, inclusive, digital musical instruments, including instruments that have been created as Accessible Virtual Reality Musical Instruments (AVRMI) by Damian Mills (PwB); With Feel VR Instruments by Dr Lewis Smith (UU), an Accessible Long Cane Instrument (ALCI), created by PwB researchers James Cunningham and Dr Alex Lucas, as well as specifically created virtual environments, rendered in UnrealEngine 5 by PwB researcher Leonid Kuzmenko.
Prof Paul Moore has worked with the musicians to create a visual accompaniment to Zoom Time – Over and Out. The film will be shown with additional footage made during our 2023 workshops.
DATE: Friday, 27 October 2023
TIME: 6:00pm
VENUE: Ulster University, York Street
For more information and Livestream follow the link here.
