MTI Research Group News
From the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Group, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Battey serving as jury member for Gilgamesh Music Festival 2025
Prof Bret Battey is serving as a jury member for the Gilgamesh Music Festival 2025, being run by the Gilgamesh Arts and Culture Foundation in California. The prizes will be announced in Summer 2025.
Battey's 'Clonal Colonies I: Fresh Runners' at Cineteca Madrid event June 20
Spain's Punto y Raya Festival will be screening Bret Battey's audiovisual composition Clonal Colonies I: Fresh Runners as part a 'visual music' series celebrating World Music Day. The screening will be a Cineteca Madrid, June 20, 2025.
Battey's Estuaries 4 Screening at Carnegie Melon University
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.
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.
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