Leicester Media School
Recent Submissions
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Seven Pleasures of Pris
(Recording, musical)The music in each of these tracks was created with artificial intelligence and machine learning. You will hear two AI-Bots: one in the centre uses soprano sax samples as its source, the other in wide stereo uses percussion. ... -
“Grease is the Word”: Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon
(Book)Bringing together a group of international scholars from diverse academic backgrounds, this edited collection analyses the cultural phenomenon Grease. From the stage show’s first appearance in 1971 and the Hollywood film ... -
2001: Odissea nello spazio (2001: A Space Odyssey)
(Book chapter)This essay examines some of the letters in which American cinemagoers described, and sometimes explained, their (largely positive) experiences with Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey to the filmmaker. It also explores ... -
‘Maurice’ Without Ending: From Forster’s Palimpsest to Fan-Text
(Book chapter)During their ongoing lives, both E. M. Forster’s gay bildungsroman/romance ‘Maurice’ (written 1913–14, repeatedly revised 1914–1959, posthumously published 1971) and Merchant Ivory Productions’ eponymous 1987 film adaptation ... -
Editorial – Bringing New Music to New Audiences
(Article)As editorial, this text describes the vision of the Creative Europe Interfaces project, the conference that was held in 9/18 with the issue's title and the contents of the issue. -
Design Fiction Diegetic Prototyping: A Research Framework for Visualizing Service Innovations
(Article)Purpose: This paper presents a design fiction diegetic prototyping methodology and research framework for investigating service innovations that reflect future uses of new and emerging technologies. Design/methodolo ... -
Charge
(Other)Score for the dance circus piece 'Charge'. Inspired by the role of electricity in the human body, Charge, our exhilarating new multi-media show, is about energy. From the electrical charge that sparks human life, to the ... -
Lumen
(Other)Soundtrack for the outdoor theatre performance piece 'Lumen' Lumen celebrated the people of Timișoara, who shine as the constant light of the city during the flux in the country’s recent history, reflecting the theme of ... -
Technical Images and Visual Art in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: From GOFAI to GANs
(Conference)Artificial Intelligence (AI) and art share a common past, where artists employed AI algorithms to generate art. This paper explores the early days of AI-generated images, using Harold Cohen’s AARON software as a paradigm ... -
‘Each one teach one’ Visualising Black intellectual life in Handsworth beyond the epistemology ‘white sociology’
(Article)Handsworth, a suburb in north-west Birmingham, became an important generative epistemic location that produced a number of contested discourses on race and racism in Britain during the 1970s and early 1980s. Using archival ... -
Roboethics as a Research Puzzle
(Conference)This position paper discusses the question of incorporating roboethics into the roboticists' thinking about their research. On the one hand, there has been a growing recognition of the need to develop and advance the field ... -
Human-Robot Dichotomy
(Conference)This paper belongs to the area of roboethics and responsible robotics. It discusses the conceptual and practical separation of humans and robots in designing and implementing robots into real-world environments. We argue ... -
Immense intimacy: acousmatic compositional techniques in sound and installation art as ‘something to hold onto’
(Article)This article explores the accessibility of acousmatic compositional approaches to sound and installation art. Principally of concern is the consideration of intimacy to create a means of ‘connecting’ with an audience. ... -
Black Cats and Blues CD liner notes
(Musical Score)Composed by Craig Vear, professor of digital performance and music at De Montfort University in Leicester, England, the work (to put it very simply) is an interaction between an electronically generated score and an ... -
Black Cats and Blues
(Recording, musical)Black Cats and Blues (2014-18) is an extended composition by Craig Vear for improvising cellist and digital technology. It is inspired by Boris Vian’s collection of 10 short stories and creates a unique hybrid performance ... -
Okay for Sound? The reception of the Talkies in Britain 1928-1932
(Article)The arrival of the talkies in Britain evoked mixed responses. While popular audiences enthusiastically embraced Hollywood musicals like the Al Jolson hit The Singing Fool (1928), the literati were often scathing of ... -
In search of the Nordic electroacoustic
(Book chapter)This chapter will examine electroacoustic music in the Nordic countries, with a focus on this question: is it reasonable to speak of a ‘Nordic identity’ in electro- acoustic music? An overview confirms that there is a long ... -
China's ancient past in its contemporary art: On the politics of time and nation branding at the Venice Biennale
(Article)This article examines the China Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale through an exploration of temporality. It argues that the pavilion’s deployment of a politics of time – by mobilizing China’s dynastic past and its ... -
Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) art in care of ageing society: focus on dementia
(Article)Background: Art enhances both physical and mental health wellbeing. The health benefits include reduction in blood pressure, heart rate, pain perception and briefer inpatient stays, as well as improvement of communication ...
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