Dirty Dialogues: Live Album Release

 

It is our pleasure to announce the new album release Dirty Dialogues on Chicago netlabel pan y rosas discos, a collaboration between Dirty Electronics Ensemble led by John Richards, Jon.Ogara, and Anna Xambó. The album art and design have been carefully crafted by Angela Guyton.

Here's the press release of the album:  

Dirty Dialogues is an encounter between Dirty Electronics Ensemble, Jon.Ogara and Anna Xambó in a free music improvisation session after a long pandemic lockdown. Thirteen musicians on stage combining analogue and digital instruments, acoustic and electronic materials, live coding and DIY sound-making techniques. An intense polymorphic journey of sonic exploration and chaos, which is especially recommended for noise music lovers.

You can find out further information and download the album from:

* Dirty Dialogues on www.panyrosasdiscos.org.
* Dirty Dialogues on panyrosasdiscos.bandcamp.com.

All the proceeds from this album will be donated to Freesound.

The MIRLCAuto is a project funded by EPSRC HDI Network Plus Grant.
 

MTI² alum Louise Rossiter wins 2021 Prix Russolo!

MTI² alumna Louise Rossiter has won first prize at the 2021 Prix Russolo competition:

https://prixrussolo.blogspot.com/2021/09/prix-russolo-award-2021-louise-rossiter.html

Congratulations to Louise, who was up against some stiff competition, including works by two past winners of the award...

Concert: Prix Russolo Finalists, feat. MTI² alum Louise Rossiter

 This week, the finalists for this year's Prix Russolo will be presented in Leicester at The Western Pub Theatre, including work by MTI² alumna Louise Rossiter:

https://www.facebook.com/prixrussolo

Wednesday September 29th 2021, 7:30 pm
The Western Pub Theatre, 70 Western Rd, Leicester LE3 0GA

Visda Goudarzi and Anna Xambó @ Chicago's Ear Taxi Festival, Friday 24 September 2021

 

On Friday 24 September at 12:00 PM (UTC-05:00, Chicago time) / 6:00 PM (UTC+01:00, London time), Visda Goudarzi and Anna Xambó will be presenting "Livesourcing: Audience Participation in a Live Coding Performance", an online performance at Ear Taxi Festival in Chicago.

Livesourcing: Audience Participation in a Live Coding Performance by Visda Goudarzi and Anna Xambó
12:00 PM (UTC-05:00, Chicago time) virtual performance with audience participation
Free
View performance here

Livesourcing is a participatory remote live coding performance for audience members and laptop performers. The performance is based on processing sound generated by crowdsourced and personal site-specific sounds from Chicago combined with the audience’s influence in real time in a free interpretation of John Cage's A Dip in the Lake.

More info here

This week! MTI² @ Visiones Sonoras 17

This week MTI² is in full force at CMMAS's Visiones Sonoras 17 International Festival of Music and New Technologies!

The festival takes place online, and much of it is free and open to all, with presentations and concerts available online at any time.

The festival includes presentations by a number of MTI all-stars, including:

Bret Battey: Fluid Audiovisual Counterpoint in Estuaries 3

Leigh Landy: MTI² - Institute for Sonic Creativity: A centre with a vision (and a CMMAS partner)

Simon Emmerson: Memories and Feelings of Sound

John Young: Partial Objects: A perspective on Spectralism

John Richards: The Music of Things

All are accessible via the full list of presentations: https://en.cmmas.com/conferencias-3

Also, be sure to check out the concert playlist of recent audio-visual works by students of MTI, including Sebastiano Gualtieri, Phoebe Scoutari, Samuel Thomas, Mick Ryan, and Wil Morrison:

https://en.cmmas.com/projects-2/jukebox%3A-recent-audio-visual-works-from-music-technology%2C-de-montfort-university

General info on participating in the full range of this year's Visiones Sonoras events is available here:

https://en.cmmas.com/vs17-indicaciones

TONIGHT! 6pm UK time: CIME 2021 Festival online concert

TONIGHT!! The CIME (International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music) 2021 Festival features an online concert of new international works, including acousmatic work by MTI undergrad Matthew Thompson & audiovisual work by MTI alumnus Wil Morrıson! 

Friday September 17th, 6pm UK time.

https://youtu.be/tDoArpTwX80

https://www.cime-icem.net/

Leigh Landy: 'Teaching Electronic Music: Cultural, Creative, and Analytical Perspectives'

This month Routledge is publishing the book 'Teaching Electronic Music: Cultural, Creative, and Analytical Perspectives', including a chapter by MTI² director Leigh Landy titled ‘It’s Not (Just) About History and, by the Way, Which History?’

https://www.routledge.com/Teaching-Electronic-Music-Cultural-Creative-and-Analytical-Perspectives/Stevens/p/book/9780367415785

"Teaching Electronic Music: Cultural, Creative, and Analytical Perspectives offers innovative and practical techniques for teaching electronic music in a wide range of classroom settings. Across a dozen essays, an array of contributors—including practitioners in musicology, art history, ethnomusicology, music theory, performance, and composition—reflect on the challenges of teaching electronic music, highlighting pedagogical strategies while addressing questions such as:

What can instructors do to expand and diversify musical knowledge?

Can the study of electronic music foster critical reflection on technology?

What are the implications of a digital culture that allows so many to be producers of music?

How can instructors engage students in creative experimentation with sound?

Electronic music presents unique possibilities and challenges to instructors of music history courses, calling for careful attention to creative curricula, historiographies, repertoires, and practices. Teaching Electronic Music features practical models of instruction as well as paths for further inquiry, identifying untapped methodological directions with broad interest and wide applicability."