Battey's Estuaries 4 receives 'Best Video' award, MuVi6

Prof Bret Battey’s latest audiovisual composition, ‘Estuaries 4’ (2021), has been awarded the ‘Best Video’ prize by MuVi6, an international exhibition of video and moving image on synesthesia and visual music. It will be screened in the MuVi6 conference at the University of Granada in October and will be featured in an associated online exhibition and a print book release.  

‘Estuaries 4’ was also recently screened at the Sound and Music Computing Conference (Saint Etienne, France), the NoiseFloor Festival (University of Saffordshire), the International Computer Music Conference (University of Limerick), and the COMMUTE Festival of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. It is also scheduled for September screening at the Over the Real video art festival in Lucca, Italy.

 

Newly Published: Bret Battey's book review of Ciciliani, et al 'Ludified'

Prof Bret Battey's review of Marko Ciciliani, Barbara Lüneburg and Andreas Pirchner (eds.), Vol. 1: Ludified: Artistic Research in Audiovisual Composition, Performance & Perception and Vol. 2: Game Elements in Marko Ciciliani’s Audiovisual Works. has now been published in Organised Sound 27(1). https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S1355771822000127.

 

New Work by John Young selected for AKOUSMAtique Competition, Montréal

John Young’s most recent work Le Chant en dehors (2022), realised in an 18-channel surround-sound ‘dome’ format, has been selected as a finalist in the AKOUSMAtique Montréal international competition, part of the Akousma Festival of Immersive Digital Music. Three finalists have been selected anonymously by a jury from 50 international submissions: the two other finalists are Nicola Giannini (Italy) and Panayiotis Kokoras (Greece). The finalists will spatialise their works in a concert in the Multimedia Room of the McGill University-based Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology on 14 October 2022. Two prizes will be awarded: the  Francis-Dhomont prize (chosen by the jury) and the Micheline Coulombe-Saint-Marcoux prize (chosen by the public). 

 

Presence at NIME 2022

 

 

Visda Goudarzi and Anna Xambó jave presented a paper and a performance at the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2022 (NIME 2022, 28 June - 1 July), which has been virtually held at Waipapa Taumata Rau, Aotearoa / The University of Auckland, New Zealand.

The short paper “The Mobile Audience as a Digital Musical Persona in Telematic Performance” discusses a self-built mobile web app, personic, designed for distributed audiences to constitute a digital musical instrument. It can be read at De Montfort Open Research Archive (DORA): https://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/22012

The performance “Ear to Waipapa Taumata Rau” is a live-coding performance by performers from two different continents remotely exploring the sonic components of Waipapa Taumata Rau. It can be watched on YouTube. The performance paper is available at DORA: https://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/22071.

shreds by Gerard Roma and Anna Xambó @ ICLI2022 and WAC2022

 

 

shreds is a collaborative live coding performance by electronic music duo Pulso (Gerard Roma and Anna Xambó). In this performance, the duo uses a self-built live-coding environment in JavaScript that shows two code editors, one for each performer. The piece has been presented online at the International Conference on Live Interfaces (ICLI 2022, June 20-23) in Lisboa, Portugal, and on-site at the Web Audio Conference (WAC 2022, 6-8 July) in Cannes, France. 

The performance presented at ICLI 2022 can be watched on YouTube. Further information about the performance can be found in this performance paper on De Montfort Open Research Archive: https://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/22072

Anna Xambó Interviewed on FluCoMa Podcast #06

In Episode 6 of the FluCoMa Podcast, Jacob Hart talks to the musician, developer, researcher and teacher Anna Xambó. The podcast discusses a number of her research projects, and how they feed into her creative practice. Her use of MIR techniques for live-coding, and dealing with large, online, crowd-sourced corpora on a platform such as Freesound are notably discussed.
The podcast can be watched on YouTube. Further information can be found at: https://learn.flucoma.org/explore/xambo/