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January
2018
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What Can Music and Poetry Tell Us About How We Store Memory?
What can music and poetry tell us about this dramatic shift in our everyday lives?
Frances Leviston, Lecturer at the Centre for New Writing has been commissioned to write new poems in response to research being done into piezoelectric computing technology.
The research was commissioned by Bio Nano Consulting Ltd for the dissemination of PETMEM (Piezoelectronic Transduction Memory Device), a European Commission-funded project which brings together universities, research institutions and companies to explore low-voltage memory technologies.
The commission was done in collaboration with the contemporary composer Martin Suckling, who wrote new music from the same inspiration. Together they have created electrically-charged new works that draw on the memory of two great artistic forbearers, Franz Schubert and Emily Dickinson.
The new works were performed at the Wellcome Trust Collection in October 2017, which was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, and will be performed again at Kings Place, London, on 12 January 2018.