Dirty Electronics with Kei Miyata @ Curve Theatre

Friday, May 10, 5.00pm
Curve Theatre
RR2
Leicester
Entry Free

Rock – Papers – Scissors is a collaboration between Dirty Electronics and Japanese choreographer Kei Miyata (Karas/Teshigawara) that explores the idea of conflicting elements and the presence of performers occupying the ‘stage’, not just as dancers, but as noise makers and dynamic elements in a sound and light installation. Miyata’s physically intense choreography, with a focus on ‘emptying the body’, is married to Dirty Electronics’ DIY circuitry, electro-acoustic mechanical hybrids, and large group extended collaborative process.

Featuring DMU MTI, Dance and Fashion students.

Rossiter Music Ambassador to China

Doctoral student Louise Rossiter is currently in China as the Music Ambassador for the Scotland China Education Network (SCEN). In collaboration with SCEN and other partners, Louise, along with audiovisual artist Andrew Connor, will be undertaking a major new sound and image project exploring the links shared between Scotland and China through the use of sound and image. Building on SCENs mission to promote links between Scotland and China — particularly in Scottish schools — Louise will develop several new pieces of work — including a collaborative sound installation with Andrew. You can follow the day to day progress in their project site and blog.

Panos Amelides: "Alexandros" at Mediterranea 16

Doctoral student Panos Amelides's sonic narrative Alexandros will represent Greece at Mediterranea 16  –­ the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean – which is being held in Ancona, Italy, from 6th June to 7th July.  The work carries the listener on a journey that recaptures the sounds of a failed attempt in 1968 to assassinate the Greek dictator of the time, Georgios Papadopoulos, and studies the political persona of the would-be assassin. More details are available at this DMU News story.

Concert Pace 1 Wednesday 24th April 7pm

Music from the Royal Academy of Music (KMH), Stockholm

We welcome Bill Brunson from the Royal Academy to present acousmatic and audio-visual work from KMH – as well as a new piano and electronics piece by MTI’s Weiwei Jin who completed her studies at KMH last year.

Weiwei Jin                         傩-Nuó  (2013)

Ilari Kullvero-Hongisto                          Taivas Alla (2012)

Hampus Norén                                      Waiting for the Revolution (2012)

Kim Hedås                                            Raivadiado (2008)

Mats Erlandsson                                   Rich Inner Life Not Pictured (2012)

Marcus Wrangö                                     The Ominous Sonorities of Freck (2007)

Maria Horn                               Diverted Units (Video) (2012)

Also – Bill will be giving a seminar at 12.00 noon in the MTI Research Lab (Clephan Building) – Narrativity and Electroacoustic music - An evolving perspective

All welcome! Entry Free!

Bret Battey Upcoming Talks and Concerts in Stockholm & Bilbao

Bret Battey will present a solo concert of his audiovisual compositions at Fylkingen, Stockholm on 4 April 2013 as well as a lecture and master class at the Royal Conservatory of Music.

On 26 April, he is a guest presenter at the Technarte Conference in Bilbao, where he will be discussing the role of generative algorithms based in complex systems in his newest audiovisual work Clonal Colonies.

(Coincidently, the Technarte web site uses an image of Leicester's Curve Theatre and its illuminated bollards as a headline graphic.)

Leigh Landy's ‘Radio Series’ in Madrid, Bordeaux, Karlsruhe & Shenyang

In March and April, all three of Professor Leigh Landy’s radio compositions are receiving international performances. To BBC or Not was presented on the 14th of March in the Reina Sofia Concert Hall in Madrid as part of the international conference/festival, Sound Spaces and Visual Spaces (where he also gave two talks). On the 21st of March Oh là la radio will be performed in Bordeaux at l’Agora du Haut Carré as part of the national TPMC (Tout pour la musique contemporaine – Everything for Contemporary Music) series. On the 26th of April, Radio-aktiv will be performed in the closing concert of the MTI’s EU Culture project Composing with Sounds concert at the ZKM’s Kubus concert hall (Centre for Art and Media Technology) in Karlsruhe, Germany. Landy will be creating the fourth work in the series in Mandarin with students from the Shenyang Conservatory of Music in the autumn.

Neal Spowage Premiere in London

Postgraduate student Neal Spowage, in an on-going collaboration with Danai Pappa, presented the world premiere of their new work Frozen Venus for live electronic instruments and dance on the 22nd of March, 2013, at the Agony Art Collective, Chisenhale Dance Studios, London. The event also featured work from MTIRC alumna Anellie Nederberg.

In addition, Neal's previous collaboration with Danai, sib Conduit, will be presented a month later at Musichoreography: Duets for Dancers and Instrumentalists At Kings Place in London.