Rhythm Changes

Thinking with Jazz Symposium

Event Date: 
Fri, 21/09/2012 - 11:00 - 19:30
Venue: 
LICA Building, Lancaster University
Location: 
Lancaster, United Kingdom
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Rhythm Changes II: Rethinking Jazz Cultures Conference

Event Date: 
Thu, 11/04/2013 - 17:00 - Sun, 14/04/2013 - 15:00
Venue: 
University of Salford
Location: 
Media City UK, Salford Quays
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Rhythm Changes II: Rethinking Jazz Cultures 11-14 April 2013, Media City UK/University of Salford

An international conference hosted by the Rhythm Changes research project at the University of Salford.

Keynote Speakers

E. Taylor Atkins, Northern Illinois University

David Ake, University of Nevada, Reno

Conference outline

Europe Jazz Network report

Europe Jazz Network has recently published an evaluative research study of its membership. Two documents have been published – an executive summary document outlining the main findings from the research, and an extensive research study displaying both qualitative and quantitative data on the network and its membership. As a member of the research steering group, Rhythm Changes Project leader Tony Whyton was invited to write a foreword for the full report and to share Rhythm Changes’ interviews and case study materials gathered over the last year.

Rhythm Changes commission

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PULSE - new media project at the Maijazz Festival Stavanger

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Over the next week, several Rhythm Changes team members will be working together on a web and performance project.  There will be a performance at the Maijazz festival in Stavanger on Thursday 12 May featuring the Kitchen Orchestra and two Japanese visual artists.  Leading up to that event, Rhythm Changes researcher Andrew Dubber will be live-blogging, using video and other online tools to provide an insight into the process and the thinking behind that event.

Kitchen Orchestra/Pulse New Media Study

Event Date: 
Sun, 08/05/2011 - 10:00 - Fri, 13/05/2011 - 23:00
Venue: 
Tou Scene
Location: 
Stavanger
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Over the next week, several of the Rhythm Changes team members will be working together on a web and performance project. Pulse is a multimedia production based on a commissioned work by composers John Lilja and Dag Egil Njaa, in collaboration with the two Japanese multimedia artists Nagato and Suzuki. The project comprises structures based on pulse: pulse as in the smallest building block of sound, rhythm, human interaction, biology. In short, pulse in everything.

Tom Sykes

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PhD Student
Institution: 
University of Salford
Country: 
United Kingdom
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tomsykes29@btinternet.com
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I am a PhD student in the school of Music Media and Performance at the University of Salford researching the effect of digital technology on the dissemination and consumption of ‘niche’ genres of popular music.  Enough to be going on with you might think? But I’ve recently had a chapter of my work accepted for publication in a forthcoming Ashgate book about European popular music.

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Jazz Studies

Music and New Media

Jazz Education

Nick Katuszonek

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PhD Student
Institution: 
University of Salford
Country: 
United Kingdom
E-mail: 
nmkatuszonek@yahoo.com
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I am a drummer working in the area of contemporary improvised jazz.  I regularly collaborate with a number of leading improvising musicians, including Matthew Bourne, Petter Frost Fadnes and Christophe de Bezenac.

Research Interests: 

Jazz and Improvised Music

Performance Practice

National/transnational performance

Music pedagagy

Christa Bruckner Haring

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Research Assistant
Institution: 
University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
Country: 
Austria
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c.bruckner-haring@kug.ac.at
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I obtained a B.A. in Piano Instrumental Study and a M.A. in Music Education at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, and Spanish Philology at the Karl-Franzens-University of Graz; my master’s thesis was entitled Somnis irracionals: A composition to paintings of Salvador Dalí. Since 2008 I have worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Jazz Research of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. I am currently working on my Ph.D.

Research Interests: 

Jazz Studies

Austrian Jazz

Musicology

Music Pedagogy

Loes Rusch

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PhD Student
Institution: 
University of Amsterdam
Country: 
The Netherlands
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loes.rusch@gmail.com
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I am a PHD-student working as part of the University of Amsterdam research team. I obtained my M.A. at the University of Amsterdam, followed by a B.A. saxophone at the Jazz Department of the Conservatory of Amsterdam. For my master’s thesis Jazzpracticum: On the Institutionalization of Jazz Education in the Netherlands I studied the relation between formalized jazz education and concepts of national thought and identity in jazz.

Research Interests: 

Dutch Jazz

Musicology

Performance Practice

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