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).
