The Biospheric Project - Manchester International Festival 2013:Technical food systems

The Biospheric Project is a nested multi-scalar urban agriculture project that aims to develop sustainable food systems in disadvantaged communities, though not only physical interventions, such as the urban masterplan and neighbourhood design to the building and its roof and façade, but also through social and commercial interventions, such as community involvement, businesses and a distribution system.

The project is focused around the Biospheric Foundation, a community interest company and research think-tank whose aim is to hasten our transition to a closed cycle, low-carbon economy. Its home is Irwell house, that houses a large-scale aquaponic-based food production system, which is directly linked to a whole-food shop (78 Steps, named after the distance from the productive system) and a whole food distribution system (the Whole Box). The building sits within a post-industrial landscape which is being developed into a new productive landscape, utilizing the the technologies developed by the Biospheric Foundation and Prof Greg Keeffe of Queens University Belfast. The collaboration links designer, academics and activists across the disciplines of Urban design, Architecture, Permaculture, landscape design, environmental science and business and community.

Trio Performance with 'Faint' at "Sounds New Contemporary Music Festival":Graphic Scores and Free improvisation: Canterbury, Kent

The programme contained a performance by the trio FAINT (Pedro Rebelo - Piano and instru- mental parasites, Franziska Schroeder - Saxophone and Steve Davis - Drums). The performance includes short electroacoustic works based on the trio's free improvisation and a performance of Rebelo's Cipher Series graphic scores.

Sound Seam

A moving image work based on research with neurologists and audiologists, collectors and archivists. The film gives voice to the idea that every surface, in particular parts of our anatomy, is potentially inscribed with an unheard sound or echoes of voices from the past. The soundtrack’s musical composition is interlaced with a voice-over which draws on Rainer Maria Rilke’s text 'Primal Sound', where he reflects on the possibility of playing the coronal suture of a skull with a phonograph needle. The film uses microscopic photography, scanning electron microscopy, and sounds of otoacoustic emissions to uncover haunting aural bonescapes. The voiceovers too are recorded using old sound technology as a filter - writing and over-writing of wax cylinder to create unexpected scratches, glitches, loops and echoes. Exhibitions: shown as multi-channel sound/film installation AV festival (Newcastle 2010); solo exhibition at Wellcome Collection (London 2010-11); group exhibition ‘Samsung Art+ Prize’ BFI Southbank (London 2012); group exhibition ‘Transcendence’, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (2014); solo exhibition as part of the International Rotterdam Film Festival (2013); group exhibition ‘The Sight of Sound’, Deutsche Bank VIP Lounge, Frieze Art Fair, NY (2012). Screenings: mini-retrospective at the Lincoln Centre, NY, as part of the New York Film Festival (2013); Jarman Award Tour screenings (2012, venues included Whitechapel Gallery, London; FACT, Liverpool; CCA, Glasgow; The Northern Charter in partnership with CIRCA projects; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham; Watershed, Bristol; Duke of York Cinema, Brighton), Whitechapel Gallery, London; FACT, Liverpool; CCA, Glasgow; The Northern Charter in partnership with CIRCA projects, Newcastle (special Q&A Aura Satz with Rebecca Shatwell, director of AV festival); Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham; Watershed, Bristol; Duke of York Cinema, Brighton; Mini-retrospective at Tate Britain (London 2014); Mini-retrospective screening, DIM Cinema, The Cinematheque (Vancouver 2015); Mini-retrospective at Whitechapel Gallery (London 2016). Publications: ‘Sound Seam’ booklet with contributions by Steven Connor and Tom McCarthy (2010).

Between the Bullet and the Hole

Between the Bullet and the Hole is a film centred on the elusive and complex effects of war on women's role in ballistic research and early computing. The film features new and archival high-speed bullet photography, schlieren and electric spark imagery, bullet sound wave imagery, forensic ballistic photography, slide rulers, punch cards, computer diagrams, and a soundtrack by Scanner. Like a frantic animation storyboard, it explores the flickering space between the frames, testing the perceptual mechanics of visual interpolation, the possibility of reading or deciphering the gap between before and after. Interpolation - the main task of the women studying ballistics in WW2 - is the construction or guessing of missing data using only two known data points. The film tries to unpack this gap, open it up to interrogation. It questions how we read, interpolate or construct the gaps between bullet and hole, perpetrator and victim, presence and absence. The project involves exchanges with specialists in this area such as the Cranfield University Forensics department, London-based Forensic Firearms consultancy, the Imperial War Museum, the ENIAC programmers project, the Smithsonian Institute, and Forensic Scientists at Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office (USA). Exhibitions: Solo exhibition at Dallas Contemporary (Texas, Jan-Mar 2016), including newly commissioned lenticular prints and a dual slide projector installation; Group exhibition the Sydney Biennale (Sydney, Mar-June 2016); UK premiere and solo retrospective screening at Whitechapel Gallery (London); forthcoming solo exhibition at Iliya Fridman Gallery (NY, Oct-Dec 2016); Film festivals and screenings: International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan 2016); Whitechapel Gallery (London Feb 2016); Cornerhouse/Home (Manchester Nov 2016); Public lectures: Whitechapel Gallery with prof. David Alan Grier and Morgan Quaintance; Carriageworks (Sydney) Prof. Douglas Khan; Monash University (Melbourne); Gertrude Space (Melbourne). Reviews and interviews: Artforum, Studio International, Mousse Magazine.

O festival internacional de folclore - Folkfaro

Dissertação de mest., Marketing, Faculdade de Economia, Univ. do Algarve, 2013

Avaliação dos impactos de um projecto turístico - cultural: o festival internacional de jazz de Loulé

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo principal avaliar as perceções e as atitudes dos residentes e comerciantes da cidade de Loulé face ao Festival Internacional de Jazz. A materialização deste objetivo implicou a realização de uma reflexão teórica, a partir de uma pesquisa bibliográfica, sobre o turismo cultural, categorização e classificação dos eventos e por fim uma pesquisa específica sobre as perceções dos impactos dos eventos e os modelos que têm sido utilizados para avaliar as atitudes dos residentes e dos comerciantes face ao seu desenvolvimento. Com base nesta reflexão teórica foi construído um modelo de investigação, o que implicou a utilização de um questionário a residentes e a comerciantes tendo-se usado o processo de amostragem por conveniência; e a realização de seis entrevistas aos organizadores e a entidades que apoiam o Festival Internacional de Jazz de Loulé. Dos questionários e das entrevistas realizadas verificou-se que embora o Festival de Jazz de Loulé seja reconhecido como um dos agentes no processo de desenvolvimento da comunidade, ele não reúne todas as condições por si só para criar uma imagem diferenciadora do concelho e do destino maduro do Algarve.

Motivação, satisfação e fidelização dos visitantes do festival mediterrâneo de Loulé

A presente dissertação tem como finalidade estudar o Festival Mediterrâneo, mais conhecido por Festival MED, que foi considerado pelos meios de comunicação social como um dos mais conceituados Festivais de World Music de Portugal. O objetivo principal deste estudo consiste em analisar os níveis de motivação, satisfação e fidelização dos visitantes do Festival MED. De uma forma mais genérica, pretende-se identificar o perfil sociodemográfico, perceber formas de participação e envolvimento e identificar as fontes de informação mais utilizadas pelos inquiridos. Tendo por finalidade alcançar os objetivos traçados, foram aplicados 400 questionários dentro do recinto do Festival. Com o apoio do software SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), foi possível a realização das análises estatísticas consideradas necessárias ao estudo. Os resultados sugerem que as principais motivações que trazem os visitantes ao evento prendem-se, sobretudo, ao “ambiente agradável”, à “diversão/socialização” e “por gostar de visitar este tipo de festivais”. No que concerne ao grau de satisfação e fidelização, constata-se que os visitantes estão satisfeitos e pretendem voltar para as próximas edições do Festival MED.

The Summer Concert Band, 5th Festival of Contemporary Works, July 18, 1951

Concert program for The Summer Concert Band, 5th Festival of Contemporary Works, July 18, 1951

Stravinsky Festival, May 8, 1972

Concert program for Stravinsky Festival, May 8, 1972

Stravinsky Festival, May 10, 1972

Concert program for Stravinsky Festival, May 10, 1972

Second Annual Spring Collegiate Jazz Festival, May 23, 1976

Concert program for Second Annual Spring Collegiate Jazz Festival, May 23, 1976