Zakiya Leeming: Frozen waterfalls, compressed springs: Compositional strategies informed by science, medicine, digital technologies and machine learning.
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Abstract
In this seminar, composer Zakiya Leeming will discuss recent works exploring ensemble interaction, iterative composition cycles, distributed creativity and human/machine hybridity with machine learning, drawing from her collaborations with researchers in the fields of bio-engineering, chemistry and medicine.
Biography
Manchester-based Zakiya Leeming is a doctoral composer at the Royal Northern College of Music and member of PRiSM (Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music). Born in Australia, Leeming’s research explores interdisciplinary collaborations in the fields of science and medicine. Recent commissions include the Royal Philharmonic Society and Riot Ensemble, Ensemble Recherche, Future Music Festival, Explore Ensemble and Psappha. Featured by The Guardian and BBC Radio 4, recent works include Dawn, on the Morning After the Storm for Professor Calum Semple OBE and members of ISARIC4C, an international consortium of researchers and doctors whose outputs informed the UK government on COVID-19. In 2019, Zakiya devised and directed #MusicSaysDataSavesLives with Connected Health Cities (CHC), pairing four composers with health data scientists in a sold-out concert at the Manchester Museum. In her undergraduate degree at the University of Tasmania, Leeming received the Examiner Newspaper Scholarship and Dean's award for Excellence with Honours, and has been awarded the Soroptimists International Manchester Award in Composition, The Edward Hecht Prize and a Gold Medal in composition at the Royal Northern College of Music. Zakiya is founding co-director of experimental composer collective Incógnito and has recently been awarded a Wellcome grant to develop a chamber opera with Oxford University Sidney Trulove Professor Paul Klenerman on the history of vaccines.
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