Prof Bret Battey's audiovisual composition 'Estuaries 4' was screened 27 Mar 2025 at Carnegie Melon University, Pittsburgh as part of a international selection of works presented by AV@CMU.
Battey's Estuaries 4 Screening at Carnegie Melon University
Edward Clijsen to present at the Hyperchromatic Music Festival, Goldsmiths
PhD Student Edward Clijsen will be delivering a presentation reflecting on his recent work and processes in composing for the Kingma System Alto Flute; ‘19-div’ and ‘Quarter-tone’ Microtonal trumpets; and his upcoming project composing for 31-EDO Fokker Organ and 96-EDO Carrillo Piano.
The festivals evening concerts will also premiere Clijsen’s ‘Geïsoleerd’ (2024) for Solo Kingma System Alto Flute – written in collaboration with, and performed by, Carla Rees.
This will be the first microtonal festival in London since UKMicroFest in 2012, and the first microtonal festival in the UK since ‘Beyond the Semitone’ in Aberdeen in 2013.
The Hyperchromatic Music Festival will bring together composers, performers, and lecturers from around the world to explore systems of music which use a much wider pallet of notes than those found in 12-note chromatic music. Lecturers and students from Goldsmiths University, Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Middlesex University, Microtonal Projects, Yehudi Menuhin School, and De Montfort University will present their unique approaches to hyperchromatic music.
Attendees will have the opportunity to attend two days of lectures designed to provide them with practical and theoretical tools for approaching these new tonal horizons. Following each lecture, all are invited to attend evening concerts in which these tools are put to use. All events are free to attend and are held at Goldsmiths University. Lectures will run from 12-2pm at Room LG01 in the Professor Stuart Hall Building and concerts will run from 5-6:30 at the Deptford Town Hall on April 14th and 15th.
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Leicester Cathedral Commissioned Student Projects for Richard III Reinterment Anniversary
Leicester Cathedral commissioned four final-year undergraduate BA music technology students to make works for the 10th anniversary of the reinterment of King Richard III. The project, an installation entitled The Last Plantagenet: Stories in Sound, premiered as part of the city-wide Light Up Leicester festival, 12-15 March, 2025. The students crafted immersive sound pieces that were played through eight speakers positioned around Richard III’s tomb. This multi-directional audio experience enveloped listeners with deeply evocative explorations of different aspects of the King’s legacy and his final resting place within the Cathedral.
The students had privileged access to recordings of people involved in the reinterment events, coordinated by oral historian Rebecca Hale. They also made contemporary recordings of other sounds such as church bells, various instruments and voices, and music played on the cathedral’s organ, and they captured others such as the timeless sound of water from the stream that runs close to the Bosworth battlefield where Richard III died on 22 August 1485.
The project was featured in an article in the Leicester Mercury.
Battey and Catena chapters in Noisefloor volume from Routledge
Prof. Bret Battey and PhD candidate Stefano Catena have chapters in a new book Collaboration, Engagement, and Tradition in Contemporary and Electronic Music: NoiseFloor Perspectives, just published by Routledge. The book’s contents have been developed from selected papers given at Staffordshire University’s NoiseFloor conference.
Stefano Catena at 'Immersive Festival' 2025 - Lisbon
Stefano Catena's piece Travelling Without Moving was selected for the listening room during the ‘Immersive Festival' , which will take place at Lisboa Incomum (Lisboa, Portugal), from March 20th to 23rd alongside composers such as Annette Vande Gorne and Joao Pedro Oliveira. All the works will be performed in a specialised 16-channel partial dome.
https://www.lisboaincomum.pt/2025/02/festival-imersivo-2025.htmlhttps://www.projecto-dme.org/2025/02/festival-imersivo-2025_11.html
Eddie Clijsen introduces Omar and Cedric : If This Ever Gets Weird at CINE MISFITS
PhD student Eddie Clijsen gave an introductory talk before the screening of Omar and Cedric : If This Ever Gets Weird at the Phoenix/DMU Festival of CINE MISFITS to a full theatre on 28 January 2025. Featuring Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez the film traces the lives and careers of the two musicians, especially in relation to their band The Mars Volta.
Clijsen's talk outlined the idea of the 'alternative' in music before going on to evaluate Bixler-Zavala's and Rodriguez-Lopez's remarkable contributions to a range of musical genres.
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| Eddie Clijsen at CINE MISFITS |
Prof. Leigh Landy Performance in Kuala Lumpur
As part of the Spectra concert series, Leigh Landy’s 8-channel composition, ‘E Pluribus Plures’, was performed on 11 November 2024 at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre, Malaysia. This work, which recomposes traditional music around the globe, is a celebration of cultural diversity and a warning about several non-commercial folk traditions that are under threat of extinction. He was the only non-Asian composer on the programme.
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