Month: May 2017

Free Registration is Now Open for our 5th Annual Conference

You are warmly invited to attend the Fifth Annual RMA Music and/as Process Conference at the University of Wolverhampton’s Performance Hub in Walsall on Saturday 20 May. This year’s conference is in association with the Society for Minimalist Music.

This one-day conference is themed around patterns, with presentations covering a range of subjects from hip hop as musical process to old and new minimalisms, and from sight-reading pattern recognition to compositional structures as dramaturgical tools. Jennie Gottschalk, author of the recent Bloomsbury book Experimental Music since 1970, will give the keynote, and Paul Cassidy will present a solo performance of Steve Reich’s Piano Phase in the evening concert. A detailed programme for the day is attached to this email, and the conference will be followed by an informal meal at the Metro Inn by the Walsall Campus.

Information for the UoW Walsall campus can be found here:

http://www.wlv.ac.uk/about-us/contacts-and-maps/all-maps-and-directions/map-and-directions-for-walsall-campus/

Registration for the conference is free; lunch and refreshments are provided throughout the day. If you would like to attend the conference, please register by following the link to the eventbrite page below, detailing any particular accessibility or dietary requirements:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/music-andas-process-2017-conference-tickets-34200597909

The recommended accommodation for the conference is the Metro Inn, within a few minutes’ walk of the campus:

http://metroinnswalsall.co.uk

There is more accommodation in central Walsall (a 30-min walk from campus, or a short bus/taxi ride away):

Premier Inn:

http://www.premierinn.com/gb/en/hotels/england/west-midlands/walsall/walsall-town-centre.html

Lyndon House Hotel

http://www.lyndonhousehotel.co.uk

The Park Inn by Radisson is slightly closer to campus, further along the ring road:

https://www.parkinn.co.uk/hotel-birminghamwalsall

If you have any further questions about the event, please contact Richard Glover.

We look forward to see you there!

The RMA Music and/as Process Study Group in association with the Society for Minimalist Music

The conference is supported by the University of Wolverhampton and the Royal Musical Association

Information for the UoW Walsall campus can be found here:

http://www.wlv.ac.uk/about-us/contacts-and-maps/all-maps-and-directions/map-and-directions-for-walsall-campus/

Please note that there is also an X51 (express) bus service which runs by the Walsall campus from Birmingham city centre.