John Young's 'Arioso' at Sonic Nomads, Seoul

John Young's acousmatic work Arioso is included in the programme of the Sonic Nomads Festival, October 16-19 at the TILT Listening Space in Seoul, South Korea.

Hosted by Transients, a South Korean sound art collective, the festival focuses on field recording and soundscape compositions.  Arioso frames field recordings by John in Oberlin (Ohio) and in Evington (Leicester) https://electrocd.com/en/piste/imed_24186-1.2--arioso and is found on the emprientes DIGITALes CD Espaces lointains.




Battey's 'Estauaries 4' in the La Hora Acusmatica online festival, Nov 7

Prof Battey's audiovisual composition 'Estuaries 4' was selected for inclusion in the La Hora Acusmatica online festival, in its November 7, 2025 edition. (More info to come…)

Battey 'Estuaries 4' at Eastman School of Music, USA, Sep 25, 2025

 

Prof Bret Battey's audiovisual composition 'Estuaries 4' will be screened September 25 as part of a concert at The Electroacoustic Music Studios @ Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York.


Thursday, September 25, 2025 |
7:30 PM, Hatch Recital Hall

Program:

Kaija Saariaho: Vent Nocturne (2006)

     Sombres miroirs

     Soupirs de l’obscur

     Ryan Hardcastle, viola

Hubert Howe: Inharmonic Fantasy No. 20 (2025)

     World Premiere

Mikel Kuehn: Dancing in the Ether (2020)

Nattakon Lertwattanaruk: RedDeadRouletteReconstruction (2025)

     American Premiere

Hubert Howe: Inharmonic Fantasy No. 6 (2017)

     Dana Crytser, flute

Bret Battey: Estuaries 4 (2021)

This concert is free, open to the public, and will be diffused onto a 7.10.1 array (7 loudspeakers in the upper balcony, 10 on the lower level and a sub woofer)


Stefano Catena's new article in Organised Sound journal

PhD student Stefano Catena's article 'Understanding and Analysing "Organised Space"' appears in the latest edition of Organised Sound, vol. 30 no. 2—an issue of the journal focused on the theme of  'Perspectives and Trajectories in Spatial Music and Sonic Art'. 

Catena's article is in open access and available at this link: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355771825100423.

 


 

Edward Clijsen awarded Slovenian composition residency

PhD Student Edward Clijsen will be a participant in the Slovenian Inštitut abeceda precept.concept.percept XVi residency programme in 2025-26.

 

The precept.concept.percept residency focuses on a collaborative creative process where performers and composers work closely together to prepare for a performance at the sixth Bled Contemporary Music Week (Bled, Slovenia, EU). Composers present, optimize, theorize, and develop new works, while performers form an ensemble to refine their practice and premiere these compositions.

 

Edward will collaborate closely with performers to compose a new work to be performed at the Sixth Annual Bled Contemporary Music Festival (June 2026) in Bled, Slovenia.

 

 

 

Battey/Ertan 'time, bruised, selves' Honourable Mention MuVi7, Spain


Drs Bret Battey and Deniz Ertan's collaborative audiovisual installation 'time, bruised, selves' has been awarded an Honourable Mention in the MuVi7 International Exhibition of Video on Synaesthesia and Visual Music, Granada, Spain. The video will show at the VIII International Congress "Synaesthesia: Science and Art," which will take place from October 23rd to 25th 2025 at Convento Capuchinos and Palacio Abacial, Alcalá la Real, Jaén, Spain.



Cristiana Palandri in Stockholm, June 2025

M4C-funded PhD candidate Cristiana Palandri has just returned from Stockholm where she was a composer in residence dividing her time between EMS (Elektronmusikstudion) and the KMH (Kungliga Musikhögskolan / Royal College of Music, Stockholm).  
During the residency Cristiana created a new composition, working in the EMS 8-channel Studio 4 with a rare original Buchla 200 modular synthesiser, with spatialisation developed at EMS and in the 3D sound system at the KMH. She was also able to network with other international composers working on projects in Stockholm with fruitful exchange on compositional methods and sound aesthetics. 

Cristiana Palandri with the Buchla 200  at EMS (L) and the 3D spatialisation room at KMH (R)