Dr Ricardo Climent - personal details

Role: Senior Lecturer in Computer Music and co-director of NOVARS Research Centre

Email:

Tel: +44 (0)161 275-3246

Location: Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama-F29
School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
The University of Manchester
Manchester
M13 9PL

Websites

• School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
• NOVARS Research Centre (co-director)
• MUSIC at University of Manchester (work place)
• My Music and Scores
• My Research Profile (University of Manchester)
• My personal web with projects
• NOVARS Blog
• Research Blog for Ho- a Sonic Expedition to Vietnam [Open source research method]
• S.LOW Projekt - Berlin 2010 - Project Manager
• Tornado Project - a USA-UK collaboration project (still on tour)

Ricardo Climent works in areas of music composition and interactive media, involving the use of audio and visual metadata. Since 2006 he serves as Co-Director of the NOVARS Research Centre, University of Manchester in UK and previously held a lecturing position at SARC, (Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast). Ricardo has also served as resident composer and researcher at the JOGV Orchestra in Spain; Conservatorio of Morelia in Mexico; Sonology - Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo; LEA labs, at the Conservatorio of Valencia; the Cushendall Tower- In you we trust; Northern Ireland, at CARA- Celebrating Arts in rural Areas, cross-border Ireland, N.K. Berlin and at the Push Festival, Sweden. 
He was involved in the creation of a number of collaborative projects, such as: The Microbial Ensemble, (repertoire for a bunch of microbes, with Quan Gan), The Carxofa Electric Band (a children's workshop using vegetables and Electronics with iain McCurdy), The Tornado-Project (a cross-atlantic set of commissioned works for flute, clarinet and computer for American wind virtuosi Esther Lamneck (clarinet) and Elizabeth McNutt (flute)), Drosophila (a dance-theatre tour of a blind fly with KLEM and Idoia Zabaleta), Ho- a sonic expedition to Vietnam, (a 3D interactive interface project for museums and domes) and more recently S.LOW, (a cross-disciplinary project in Berlin involving artists from 34 countries around the world, in collaboration with the s.low team) and Manchester Sonic Metaontology (co-run with PG students at NOVARS).