LENTFEST

As part of LENTFEST 2019, the University Memorial Chapel will again host an art exhibition, The Stations of the Cross reimagined for our own time by John Cairney.

The exhibition was installed in the Chapel on 29 March by Stephen Callaghan, Creative Director at AGAP (Archdiocese of Glasgow Arts Project) and a former member of staff and alumnus of UofG. Stephen curated an art exhibition in 2012 - Via Crucis, Via Lucis - Stations of the Cross and Resurrection in the Memorial Chapel, which was opened by Emeritus Archbishop Conti and the then Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon.

This year, Stephen has written a play, "Sign of Contradiction: The Passion Story" which will be presented in the Memorial Chapel on Monday, 15 April  https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/chaplaincy/news/headline_638211_en.html. 

An Ecumenical Service will take place on Tuesday, 16 April with meditations written by John Cairney. The Reverend Stuart MacQuarrie and Emeritus Archbishop Conti will lead the service.

Full information on Lentfest 2019 at AGAP

 

Everest Basecamp trek to raise money for Pancreatic Cancer Action

Dr Dana Koludrovic, a postdoctoral scientist with CRUK Beatson Institute, is hiking to Mount Everest basecamp to raise money to fund a PhD student for Pancreatic Cancer Action.

"All the proceeds of my fundraising efforts are going to PCA, as I had this trek in the planning for a while and have already covered all the costs myself, but thought this would be a great way to raise awareness and a fantastic fundraising oportunity," she said.

Donate on her everydayhero site: 

https://give.everydayhero.com/uk/everest-basecamp-charity-hike

Follow her preparation and journey at https://www.instagram.com/danakraljica/ or get updates on https://twitter.com/DKoludrovic

 

A society fit for autistics?

A research project led by a group called "An Auternative" - which includes a number of UofG staff, including Principal Investigator Dr Marion Hersh - has launched an electronic questionnaire which asks autistic people with characteristics to take part.  The questionnaire coincides with Autism Awareness Week (1-7 April) and with Autism Awaremess Day on Tuesday, 2 April.  The questionnaire closes on 14 April.

The group is undertaking a two-and-a-half year study into strategies used by autistic people to empower themselves and overcome systemic barriers and entrenched stereotypes which impact on their ability to access services and the community.

The project is funded through DRILL, the Disability Research on Independent Living and Learning (DRILL), a programme itself funded by the Big Lottery Fund (BLF). To find out more, visit the project website.

 

Citizen Bravo presents "The Terrifying Miracle of Recorded Sound"

Matt Brennan, a Reader in Popular Music in the University’s School of Culture and Creative Arts, is launching a music + research experiment in three parts: the release of Citizen Bravo's debut album "Build A Thing Of Beauty"; a screening of research film project titled "The Cost Of Music"; and a demonstration of an interactive musical sculpture known as the "SCI★FI★HI★FI".

The launch event takes place at the University Concert Hall on Thursday, 11 April. Doors open at 6.30pm, the event begins at 7pm and will be followed by a drinks reception until 8.30pm, presented in partnership with Chemikal Underground Records, Bob's Trainset Productions and Creative Carbon Scotland's Green Tease series.

Citizen Bravo is Matt Brennan, a dual citizen of Canada and Scotland. His debut album, "Build A Thing Of Beauty", was recorded with the help of friends including Andy Monaghan (Frightened Rabbit), Malcolm Benzie (Withered Hand), Raymond MacDonald (Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra), and Pete Harvey (Modern Studies). Brennan also found inspiration in scavenging and manipulating orphaned samples from antique recording formats and integrating them into his songs.

The short film "The Cost Of Music" (directed by Graeme O’Hara) documents Matt’s journey making the album. Disillusioned by prevailing attitudes about the disposability of new music and the decline of physical formats, Matt set out to record his own songs and release them in an unusual way: not so much a ‘concept album’ as a musical sculpture that explores the concept of albums as historical artefacts. In doing so, he discovers how the cost of listening to records has changed over the past century: while the economic cost of listening to one’s choice of recorded music has never been lower, the environmental cost has never been higher.

While the album will be available for online streaming, the sole physical copy of the album is a one-off interactive musical sculpture called the SCI★FI★HI★FI. Built in collaboration with an electronics engineer (Peter Reid) and metal worker (Mark Reynolds), the SCI★FI★HI★FI is what its name suggests: a science-fiction inspired hi-fi system that can play seven of the most historically significant recording formats (Edison wax cylinder, 78 rpm disc, vinyl LP, cassette tape, compact disc, mp3 on hard drive, and streaming remotely from the cloud). To listen to the album "Build A Thing Of Beauty" via the SCI★FI★HI★FI is to make sense of recorded music not as a fixed, frozen object but as an historical event unfolding over time. How was recorded music valued before the advent of albums, and how might it be valued after albums are gone?

 

 

First published: 29 March 2019

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