Merce Cunningham dies aged 90, Manhattan

• San Francisco Chronicle (Tuesday 28th July 2009)
• Times Online (Tuesday 28th July 2009)
• Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Graduate Junction Poster Competition

Graduate Junction International Online Poster Competition

The new and innovative networking website for postgraduate researchers and research staff, Graduate Junction, has recently launched a fantastic poster competition. This competition is one of the first of its kind as it is not only online but is accepting entries from postgraduates all over the world.

• The competition offers researchers the opportunity to practice key presentation and communication skills
• Offers the chance to share your research with an international community
• Win an iPod as well as a selection of cash prizes
• Top 10 posters will be displayed on the Graduate Junction website

The competition involves the researchers presenting their research in the form of an A1 poster aimed at a non subject- specific audience. The posters will then be judged by a panel of individuals, chaired by Dr Eleanor Loughlin of Durham University Graduate School, from both academic and non academic backgrounds including Dr Tennie Vielder from Vitae.ac.uk.

A public vote, where members of Graduate Junction will get to vote for their favourite poster, will also help to decide the overall winner.

For more information about this exciting competition please visit

http://www.graduatejunction.com/posters

Raising an Amazing Musician

New title from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. Since RSAMD is part of ABRSM - and 100% committed to raising amazing musicians - I've got a copy for the Library. Read more about the book here.

Internet Movie Script Database

The Internet Movie Script Database is an archive of up to date film scripts, all accessible online.

Piano Circus

PIANO CIRCUS - branded as electronica/ alternative, there's lots of piano and a fair helping of jazz. Progressive? Well, I'm no expert. Let WhittakerLive know what you think!

Visit Piano Circus on MySpace.

Little Larks - Monday 8th June

Read this! The winners of the RSAMD 'Dragons' Den' are staging a major concert at RSAMD on Monday 8th June. Be there! Be very, very impressed. Featured by Tumelty in the Herald last week.

BUFVC course on educational use of moving images

Finding, Clearing and Editing Moving Image Media for Education (Link to course details) Presenters: Sergio Angelini, Luís Carrasqueiro and Murray Weston Tuesday 30th June 2009, 10.30 am - 5.00 pm One-day course - the many sources of moving image and sound for educational use including radio and television broadcasts and online materials.

• Explore the copyright implications of using moving image and sound materials in teaching and learning both on- and off-campus.
• Practical session on how to compile and use video and audio materials in lectures, seminars and electronic resources.

Free contemporary Italian scores to download

The firm TEM - TauKay Edizioni Musicali - began distributing scores electronically in 1995. If you're looking for new material, free of charge, then you might like to explore the website.

Here are some that have proved to be bestsellers -

• Renato MIANI - Corale
• Carlo CARCANO
• Alastair GREIG - steering for dream
• Andrea TOFFOLINI - Flashback
• Andrea CERA - Spielbergspiel
• Claudio PERUGINI - Coralli
• Piero PEZZE’ - Quartetto
• Andrea BASEVI - Milonga de l’ironia
• Claudio PERUGINI - Segnali
• Andrea TOFFOLINI - Moduli

The Electron Club (Glasgow) invites musicians ...

TAPE-WIRE-HEAD-SCREEN Music and sound arts at the Electron Club Open Day - starts 2pm on Saturday 13th June 2009 Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD All events are FREE For more info see: http://www.electronclub.org Contact: openday@electronclub.org

The Electron Club is a DIY technology space in the heart of Glasgow. Many members are musicians and sound artists creating their own electronic instruments or exploring the spectral atmosphere and sonic realm in unusual and interesting ways.

YouTube goes all Celtic

Here's something you might not yet have come across:- YouTube All Celtic Music Channel ***

Tommy Smith & Scottish National Jazz Orchestra

SNJO website Saturday 12 Sept - Concert Hall, RSAMD, Glasgow 7:30pm

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SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA

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play the music of WAYNE SHORTER featuring GARY BURTON directed by Tommy Smith Vibes master Gary Burton joins the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra to pay tribute to another of jazz’s true greats, saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter -

• creative force with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers
• crucial member of Miles Davis’s quintet
• co-leader of fusion masters Weather Report
• enduring inspiration to a world-wide audience.

Featuring Shorter jewels including:-

• Nefertiti, ESP and Virgo Rising
• commissioned arrangements by Mike Gibbs, Joe Locke, Issie Barratt, Florian Ross, Manu Pekar, Michael Abene, Christian Jacob and Geoffrey Keezer

Burton and SNJO present music of extraordinary subtlety, passion and melodic character played by a first rate orchestra of collective skill and solo firepower.

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Teachers! Teaching students! Scottish Learning Festival

Celebrating Excellence in Learning

23-24 September

SECC, Glasgow.

Visit the website here.

Warwick Folk Festival

24-26 July 2009. Visit the website here.

Karen Marshalsay, Scottish clarsach player, releases two new harp books this month:-

• The Clarsach Collection
• First Steps

Find out more!

Scholarly books and journals at risk: responding to the challenges of a changing economy

The Research Information Network (RIN) has published a briefing alerting academics and librarians to the effects of global recession on library budgets. Read it here.

• Curious about what RIN does? Visit their homepage.

Edward Harper, Scottish Composer and Pianist

Edward Harper died on 12 April 2009 aged 68. Conrad Wilson wrote the obituary in The Herald. Michael Tumelty has written an appreciation, also in The Herald today (15 April 2009).

David Johnson, Scottish Composer and Musicologist

The eminent musicologist, David Johnson, died 30 March 2009 aged 66. Read his obituary in The Herald.

Free e-books!

There are over 500,000 free ebooks available as part of the Google Book Search service. Read more

e-dance choreography project

e-Dance: Shaping Internet Choreography. Here is some research which might interest dance students - you can find out more on the Open University website:- "Amidst strong competition, a bid from the Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) has emerged as only one in seven funded in an innovative, joint AHRC+EPRSC+JISC e-Science programme. The two year e-Dance project started in September 2007. Under this project, KMi is working in collaboration with leading choreography researchers at the Universities of Bedfordshire and Leeds, and the national Access Grid Centre at the University of Manchester, to break new ground in the world of digital choreography. The project will provide new opportunities for exploring ways in which dance, the most ephemeral of art forms, might be documented." Want to read the rest of the article? Click on the links above. You can also read about it in the Spring 2009 issue of JISC Inform (Issue 24) which has been catalogued and added to stock at the RSAMD Whittaker Library. A .pdf of the magazine is also available here.

Vitae.ac.uk

http://www.vitae.ac.uk/ Vitae is a portal for researchers. So, if you're engaged in research, you might find useful support here. Do take a look!