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Lisa Whistlecroft left LICA in July 2011 Deputy Director: PALATINE
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Sonic Art
My specialism is electroacoustic music. Between 1999 and 2006, I developed and taught a half-unit module called "Beyond Notes and Notation: Sonic Art" in which we explored the boundaries of art-made-of-sound that make modern music so exciting. As LICA has standardised undergraduate courses into full-unit modules, and developed modules in computer music by full-time members of the academic staff, my module has now been 'laid down'.
Some day it may get up again, you never know! :-)
PALATINE's purpose is to work nationally to enhance learning and teaching in performing arts disciplines. I am a Deputy Director.
My research is mostly into e-learning, and how to evaluate how useful it is, and more generally on the use of new technologies in teaching and learning. This currently includes working with projects in Second Life and keeping a watching brief on the uses of mobile and wireless technologies such as iPods, and social networking like FaceBook for educational purposes.
I was a founder member of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT). From 1994-2006 I was closely involved with the European Knowledge Media Association (EKMA), now part of the European Foundation for Quality in E-Learning (EFQUEL). In 2004 I co-edited the book Evaluation in e-learning: the European Academic Software Award and co-organised the seminar Evaluation in e-learning: review and future directions at the University of Montpellier III. In 2006 I joined the newly-formed European Union Information Systems (EUNIS) E-Learning Task Force.
My background is in music (plus physics and engineering) and for ten years I was the Coordinator of the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Music which investigated the uses of new learning technologies for HE music education.
Obviously, I'm also interested in the uses of new technology in the creation and performance of music. My specialism is in electroacoustic music - music made through the processing of sounds, recorded onto CD, and presented in concerts by diffusion and projection through loudspeakers. From 2000-2004, I was an elected Director and Company Secretary of the Sonic Arts Network(now part of Sound and Music) and from 1999-2002 I was Associate Editor: news and announcements for Computer Music Journal.
In 1991, I co-organised the first computer music day at Lancaster University, comprising a seminar on fractal music and a public concert by BEAST (Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre) [programme]. The same team organised a similar event the following year [programme]. In 2000, I curated and presented the first series of lunchtime concerts of electroacoustic music, entitled Come Hear.
I am also a freelance composer, and my MPhil is in composition. My work includes soundscapes and music for dance. My pieces have been performed in the UK, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and the USA, and broadcast on local and web radio in the UK and Canada. In November 2007, the dance piece The Saturated Moment, developed as a collaborative research project with Nigel Stewart, was performed in the Linbury Studio of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
See also Lisa Whistlecroft's Composition Home Page
I'm a member of the executive of the Lancaster branch of the UCU. I was a founder member of the University's Harassment Network and the (then) AUT representative on the University's Equal Opportunities Committee for six years.