Professor Leigh Landy to offer his second keynote talk at the WOCMAT Conference-Festival in Taiwan

The 20th WOCMAT (Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology) Conference and Taiwan Computer Music Festival has invited Leigh Landy to offer a keynote address (as he did in Taiwan in 2016) and present a recent composition. Mainly attended by musicians and developers from East Asia, this event brings Chinese and Taiwanese specialists together with colleagues from around the globe. During the festival 20-21 December 2024, he will offer a talk entitled ‘Practising what I preach <–> Preaching what I practise’ focusing on how his artistic work and his scholarship both reflect his desire to bring new music to new audiences and participants. The talk focuses on his two books that appeared within the last twelve months as well as his two current series of compositions. His goal is to indicate to conference attendees how important this goal is. He will also be presenting a recent work from one of those two composition series, ‘Qing + Cha 磬 + 镲     Old / New 舊 / 新’ (2023) in concert a work whose sonic material consists solely of sounds from qing (bowls) and cha (Chinese cymbals).

Battey/Ertan New Audiovisual Installation + VBAB Retrospective, Dec 6 - Late March at Phoenix Cinema

 

Bret Battey and Deniz Ertan (musicologist, educator and classical guitarist) have co-created a new audiovisual installation, ‘time, bruised, selves’, which is opening to the public at Leicester’s Phoenix Cinema and Gallery on Friday, Dec 6. It will run until late March. Continually transforming, ultra-detailed abstract imagery dances within a classical guitar sound world. The work is inspired by the perpetual procession of three intertwined states of being, as evoked by the title.

https://www.phoenix.org.uk/events/time-bruised-selves/

 

Also for the Phoenix gallery, Battey has curated a retrospective selection of films from the ten episodes of ‘Visible Bits, Audible Bytes’ that MTI has presented at Phoenix since 2010, bringing extraordinary digital audiovisual artworks from around the world to Leicester audiences. One reel focuses on audiovisual compositions from Montreal, and the other on works that blur the line between the abstract and the concrete. https://www.phoenix.org.uk/events/visible-bits-audible-bytes-retrospective/. This retrospective opens with and runs in parallel with ‘time, bruised, selves’. 

 

Louise Rossiter Concerts in Austria

On 13-14 December DMU PhD alumna Louise Rossiter will give four concerts in Gars am Kamp, Austria at The Temple of Sound in a collaboration between Austrian and British composers and as art of the series of concerts promoted by the Russolo Foundation in conjunction with the British Electroacoustic Music Network.

The concerts will feature music by Adam Stanovic, John Young, Jonty Harrison, Pete Stollery, Cameron Naylor and Louise Rossiter alongside a showcase of Gabriel Prokofiev’s Oscillations label. https://gars-electronica.art/en/

Louise will also be launching her new album Der Industriepalast - the culmination of her work exploring the infographics of Fritz Kahn. 

The CD will be available shortly from https://oscillations-music.bandcamp.com/music