As part of the Walled City Music Festival, and HoSTEM – Inclusive Creativity: Digital Practices symposium, we have scheduled a showcase (show-stopper!) public workshop to be held in Cultúrlann (thanks to Peter O’Doherty) in Derry/Londonderry, starting at 11:00 a.m. All ages, interests, skills and abilities welcome, from the very young: to the young at heart(sofstem): […]

The second week of our Inclusive Creativity/HeartsOfSTEM outreach workshops on interactive sound toys concluded with two workshops: one on Thursday May 25th, involving Denise White’s SEN group of young adults and other interested participants (Journalism student Maddie Siegmund, amongst others) in Foyle Arts Building, UU; the second, on Friday May 26th, took place in the […]

The Inclusive Creativity: Digital Practices and Hearts of STEM outreach workshop series is coming to a close, but there are still places and times to get involved! Visit our free workshops and experience simple, interactive and fun sound toys and musical instruments – for the complete beginner or the expert, from iPads to sensors, from […]

Many thanks to Peter O’Doherty @culturlanndoire and Peter Doherty of Knockavoe School, Strabane, for inviting so many talented young adults to the third of our Inclusive Creativity: Digital Practices outreach workshops @InclusiveCreati. Lewis Smith (Ulster University) and Dr Brendan McCloskey (Ulster University)  brought a range of instruments, from the conventional:   . . . to […]

Prof Frank Lyon’s latest work NonZeroSum, for digital musicians and string quartet, is adacious, challenging and ground-breaking. Rehearsals have entered the “this is really happening” phase, as Friday 2nd June approaches. Only two rehearsals left, with the Benyounes Quartet. Here, the performers John, Sean, Jay, David and Lewis are working on a particularly tense and […]

16th May 2017, Foyle Arts Building, Ulster University at Magee Shane Byrne (Maynooth University), Lewis Smith (Ulster University) and Dr Brendan McCloskey (Ulster University) led a small group through tools and methods for Inclusive Creativity and Digital Practices, emphasising DIY sound toys, Arduino and Web Audio API. The participants were offered a pot pourri of […]

Inclusive Creativity: Digital Practices (Hearts of STEM 2017) is a public symposium/mini-conference which is being organised by Dr Brendan McCloskey, Prof. Frank Lyons and Dr Brian Bridges, at Ulster University, Magee campus on May 31st 2017. The event is being held in association with the Walled City Music Festival and is being supported by Garfield Weston. […]

Just a quick note to say that we’re going to be hosting two great performance events as part of this year’s Irish Sound, Science and Technology Association festival and conference (at Ulster University, Magee, with partner venues) on Fri 9th September. The first is a creative exploration of the border (Borders Project), by our own […]