John Young's acousmatic composition Flux will have its world premiere in China at Musicacoustica-Hangzhou in September.
John Young's work 'Flux' to premiere in China
Cristiana Palandri at the Auris Festival Manchester
Cristiana Palandri’s new sound installation Ouroboros will feature at the Auris Festival in Manchester in October. Ouroboros is an interactive sculpture that explores the relationship between physical gesture, sound and space. The sculpture acts as a tangible interface for the real-time control of music, translating the visitor’s interaction with the object into sonic variations through digital signal processing and spatialisation.
Combining physical materiality with electronic sound, Ouroboros invites audiences to touch and interact with the sculpture as a physical object, creating a perception of being able to grab sound itself. The work encourages the public to engage with music not only through listening, but also through bodily interaction and spatial perception.
The sculpture will be presented as part of the Participatory Strand of Auris Festival, 9–11 October 2026, the first festival dedicated to sound art in Manchester.
Jake Parry to Join the Abandon Normal Research Centre Cohort
PhD candidate Jake Parry has been invited to join Unsecuring Infrastructures—the first cohort of the Abandon Normal Research Centre Workshop at the 2026 Abandon Normal Devices Festival, developed jointly by Lancaster University and Liverpool John Moores University.
Jake will take part in a two-day festival workshop in Barnsley, joining a core interdisciplinary group with expertise in critical and responsible AI, digital materiality, surveillance, media archaeology, speculative fiction, planetary social thought, cultural policy, artistic research, publishing and experimental technology.
The workshop will generate concepts, diagrams, scenarios and critical propositions. These will feed into a Festival Knowledge Synthesis publication, bringing together the concepts, diagrams, scenarios and critical propositions generated through the workshop.
Battey's 'Estuaries IV' in Cervantes Electroacústico Festival, Argentina
Prof Bret Battey's audiovisual composition 'Estuaries IV' will be screened as part of the Cervantes Electroacústico Festival Internacional, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug 28-30, 2026.
Battey in Exhibition Honouring Leicester Computer-Art Pioneers
John Young's Le Chant en dehors at Electroacoustic Spring, Crete
John Young's work Le Chant en dehors was programmed at the 2026 Electroacoustic Spring, an annual international music festival and conference bringing together cutting-edge academic research, sound art, and electronic performances. Hosted by the Music Technology & Acoustics Lab at the Hellenic Mediterranean University in Rethymno, Greece, the 2026 edition took place on 29-30 May.
Philharmonia's Hear and Now 2026 at DMU
MTIRG again supported the Philharmonia's Leicester Hear and Now project.
Led by Tim Steiner, musicians from the Philharmonia, Leicestershire Music and Leicester Musical Memory Box/Geet Sangeet worked alongside people living with dementia to design, create and perform an hour-long show at The Venue@DMU with song, poetry and dance. The ensemble of musicians included a full complement of strings, bassoon, two harps, keyboard and mridangam and the voices of 35 young and elderly participants.
Following two weekends of preparation, the 2026 show was presented on 16 May. It was based on the theme of food, including lively renditions of songs such as 'Yes, We Have No Bananas' and 'Khaike Paan Banaras Wala', as well as an experimental percussion accompaniment to a walk-through video featuring Leicester's 'Golden Mile' and a live musicalised demonstration of roti making.
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| Participants in the 2026 Leicester Hear and Now show |
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