Introduction to Making Digital Music Instruments - 3 March 2023

 

An interactive and hands-on two-part workshop to explore how digital musical instruments can be used to surprise and excite audiences. The event, led by Dr Juan Martinez Avila, will have a guest talk by Dr Anna Xambó Sedó about New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIMEs) in workshop 1. Workshop 2 is scheduled for 10 March 2023.

Date and time: 3 March 2023, 11 am - 5 pm 

Location: University of Nottingham

More info about the event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-making-digital-music-instruments-2-x-6-hour-workshops-tickets-453842243367 

detuning a tuning: New Album Release by Anna Xambó

We are pleased to announce the new album release detuning a tuning by Anna Xambó on the Carpal Tunnel netlabel.

Here is the press release of the album:

You wake up in the middle of the night. In your dream, you lived along with other creatures inside a huge piano. The piano was being tuned and detuned at the same time. Strings snapped, and large pieces were breaking off, making a range of screeching, banging and scratching noises, with the occasional note. There were some voices outside, and you worried about finding a new place to live. You remember playing the piano as a kid, and wonder how it would be to take it again, then go back to sleep. detuning a tuning by Anna Xambó was released on 11 February 2023 by Carpal Tunnel.

Find out further information and download the album from:

• detuning a tuning on carpaltunnel.cat
• detuning a tuning on carpal-tunnel.bandcamp.com
  

Prof Battey's 'Sinus Aestum' at the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, April

Prof Battey's audiovisual composition Sinus Aestum will be featured at the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (Apr 25-30, 2023), as part of a selection of international animated short films whose narratives and techniques deal with Artificial Intelligence in creative and innovative ways.

 

 

Prof Landy CMMAS Commission Presentation

Prof. Leigh Landy will be featured at the 2023 Visiones Sonoras 19 festival in Morelia Mexico (6-10 March 2023) hosted by CMMAS, the Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Arts, this year focused on the theme of Sound, Environment and Climate Change.

He will present his latest work, commissioned by CMMAS, the 7th in his Radio Series entitled ‘Aplican Términos y Condiciones’ (Terms and Conditions Apply) using over 50 Mexican radio broadcasts as source material, an 8-channel composition. He will give a talk entitled ‘Art for Life’s Sake’ and a two-day workshop entitled ‘ Making Music with the Sounds of Our Ecological Environment’. The festival has received funding from the British Council this year and, therefore, a number of British electroacoustic music specialists will also be participating.

https://en.cmmas.com/vs19

Students' installations on the Aural Diversity Workshop 5

On Saturday, January 21st 2023, it took place the Aural Diversity Workshop 5 on Music and Performance, which was organised by Prof Andrew Hugill. The students from the module MATT3002 Community Arts had the opportunity to present a series of installations, supervised by Dr Peter Batchelor, exploring different aspects of aural diversity. The workshop was held at the Attenborough Arts Centre in Leicester.

Here we share the work exhibited during the day.

In the area near the cafeteria, there were two fixed media pieces and an interactive piece:

The Pink Noise by Yasmina Perez is a video with triggering sound effects and noises to raise awareness about misophonia and the physical anxiety that is developed from it.

Danhyung Yang also presented a video about misophonia, including manipulated trigger sounds, for example, fork on plate, chewing, swallowing, breathing, siren, blender, pen clicking, clock ticking, shouting, baby crying, and so on.

SynesthesiArt by Josh Bentley was designed to help visualise synaesthesia, focusing on Clavier & Lumières (Keyboard with Lights). Here, musical notes from a MIDI musical keyboard were linked to colours.

In the main theatre space, there were two interactive pieces:

A Thin Piece of String by Cameron Flynn is an installation inspired by Murray Schaeffer's The Tuning of Our World and responds to the discussion around Universal Deafness and how our environment affects us every day.

The Glowing Tent by Leon Riley is based on the visualisations of a family friend who experiences synaesthesia. A tent contains lights with colours that correspond to those experienced by this person whilst reading the words in the poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats.

In the first floor, there were three more interactive pieces:

Inspired by DeafZones for deaf fans at Grateful Dead concerts, Adam Roberts uses a balloon to bring a sensory experience of feeling the frequencies of a composition.

Ears Singing by Jeevan Kanth is based on the artist's own experience of the consequences of working in loud environments and attempts to recontextualise the most common symptom of hearing degradation - ringing in the ears. A wood and metal box act as a vibrating system for sound transduced through two singing bowls with both passive and active interaction with the environment.

PLAY by Jinil Park is inspired by the Playstation game "Moss". The game is well known for applying sign language in a game for the first time. This installation brings the concept of a game to enjoy aural diversity by interacting with a gamepad with programmed sound effects, a poem for the deaf, and morse code with or without vibration, among others.