In this video, Imogen Heap and her team demonstrate their 'Gloves&' gestural music controller at the AHRC Digital Transformations Moot on Monday 19th November 2012.
While across the UK orchards have declined by as much as 63% in the past half century, places like Somerset can still boast more than their fair share of apple trees. The Quantock Hills, to the west of Bridgwater, aren't known for their orchards, but studies suggest they might have covered more of the Quantocks than previously thought. To look at this further, the AHRC funded The Orchard Roots Project, which established a partnership between the Quantock Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Service and the University of Bristol&'s Department of Historical Studies.
This film by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), is shining a light on a fascinating research project that reveals how long-forgotten comic strips from 1914-18 contributed to the origins of modern international popular culture -- both military and civilian.
This film showcases the AHRC funded project, British Black and Asian Shakespeare, which has set out to deliver, a critical history of multicultural Shakespearean performance in 20th-century Britain.
The film starts by introducing the actor, singer and human rights activist Paul Robeson, whose sensational success playing Othello in London in 1930 paved the way for all the black actors who have followed him.
How does music in performance take shape over time? In what ways is musical performance creative, and what knowledge is embodied in it? How does understanding musical performance as a creative practice vary across different global contexts, idioms and performance conditions?
This film from the AHRC investigates Suburban Birmingham; a collaborative research project which has succeeded in exposing the remarkable depth and richness of an 80-year period in the history of Birmingham's south-western suburbs.
As all aspects of our world become increasingly globalised it is vital economically, politically and socially that we are able to build and maintain relationships across countries and cultures.
For this reason The Arts and Humanities Research Council's &'Translating Cultures&'; theme is looking at the role of translation in its very broadest sense.