The Guardian's League Table for the best universities to study music in the UK has placed DMU 19th out of 80 UK institutions.
With an overall score of 83.7/100 Music, Technology and Innovation at DMU is rated above institutions such as the University of Manchester, Queen's University, Royal Holloway, Trinity Laban, Leeds, Huddersfield, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle.
PhD student Samvaran Rai has recently completed a film score for a feature documentary Have you seen my Gods? by Amitabh Joshi, with the Vacant Light Production Company
https://www.vacant-light.com/
The film, in English and Nepali, had its world premiere in May at the Kathmandu Mountain International Film Festival, followed by a US premiere at the New Orleans Society of Visual Anthropology Film Festival 20 November 2025.
Stefano Catena has been awarded the 'Residency Prix CIME' as part of the Prix CIME 2025 Electroacoustic Music Composition.
Simon Atkinson and Kerry Francksen presented their new work, 'Betwixt and Between II', at this month's Sound/Image 2025 festival hosted by University of Greenwich. The piece is for live movement, moving image and multi-channel electroacoustic music, and was made in response to the festival's 'reflecting forwards' call.
This exposition presented the next iteration of the artists' long-standing explorations into the delicate and complex relationships between live-digital dance performance and acousmatic sound. Their original 'Betwixt and Between' piece is now ten years old, however many of that work's underlying concepts still have resonance today: ideas of intimacy, fragility, connection and imagination. In an increasingly technologized world, an opportunity to reconnect with bodies, images and sound reflectively and deliberately feels significant. Challenging some of the normative traditions of combining movement, media and music, this interactive and intuitive work presents bodies, media and musical sound simultaneously as mutual sensuous entities.
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.
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…)
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)
