Leigh Landy returns to the Visiones Sonoras festival in Mexico

CMMAS, the Mexican National Centre for Music and Sonic Art, has invited Prof. Leigh Landy to return to their festival, Visiones Sonoras 20 (Sonic Visions), which takes place 24-28 September 2024 in Morelia. He will present his recent composition E Pluribus Plures as well as an invited talk entitled ‘Addressing (new) audiences through cultural connections’. CMMAS is an MTI research partner.

Following this, he will continue to Guadalajara where he will offer talks and workshops at ITESO Universidad and the MAZ museum.

Prof. Leigh Landy’s 10th book published

Leigh Landy has had his tenth book, The Music of Sounds and the Music of Things: Sonic Creativity within Sampling and DIY Cultures, written with his former colleague, John Richards. Set to be published on 30 September 2024, this is the second book of Landy's published this year.

This book investigates two areas in which the appreciation of sonic creativity can be easily acquired across diverse cultures, ages and interests: the music of sounds – making music with any sounds, part of today’s sampling culture and the music of things – and the creation of instruments using existent materials (another type of sampling?) involving the notion of ‘instrument as composition’ as part of today’s DIY (or DIT, do it together) culture.

The book offers broad discussions regarding the music of things (written by John Richards) followed by the music of sounds (written by Leigh Landy). These chapters are followed by a focus on the workshop demonstrating the collaborative and inclusive potential in both areas, and a spotlight on eight artists with a broad diversity of backgrounds and approaches to sound and music who discuss their perceptions. The book’s conclusion focuses on similarities and differences between the music of sounds and the music of things, suggesting, finally, that both might form part of the 21st- century’s folk music landscape.

https://www.routledge.com/The-Music-of-Sounds-and-the-Music-of-Things-Sonic-Creativity-Within-Sampling-and-DIY-Cultures/Landy-Richards/p/book/9781032741741?srsltid=AfmBOoqjYQXIRLMDYP3WhZJMMFR2r65diczO-u3g5a0VJwHNbN1guAgB

Battey's 'Estuaries 4' Screening at Musica Acoustica Hangzhou, Sound/Image Greenwich

Bret Battey's audiovisual composition 'Estauries 4' has been programmed for the Musicacoustica Hangzhou Festival, China, which runs Sep 24-29 at the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music. 

'Estuaries 4' has also been programmed for the Sound/Image Festival 2024 at University of Greenwich, where Battey will also present his audiovisual installation work 'Traces, Molten' and a paper on 'Estuaries 4'.