Matt Rogerson presents research at IRCAM

MA by research student Matt Rogerson will present a paper at the prestigious annual IRCAM Forum workshop in Paris in March. The paper, Dromos/Autos: The Autistic Ontology as Performance, outlines Matt’s performance-research project exploring how EEG (Electroencephalography) and neurofeedback-facilitated sensory overload can lead to new performance paradigms, mediated through a particularly idiosyncratic yet revealing interface for musical expression: the autistic cognition.

https://forum.ircam.fr/article/detail/dromosautos-the-autistic-ontology-as-performance/

 

Matt Rogerson performing Dromos/Autos at Phoenix Cinema and Arts Centre, August 2023

 

Cristiana Palandri New Work for Oboe and Electronics

 

Cristiana Palandri's work °OSC° for oboe and electronics received five performances across Switzerland in Bern, Lucerne, Basel, Olten and Geneva in October 2023. The performances were given by Vicente Moronta (oboe) and Erwin Fonseca (electronics) as part of a production called Songs of Reeds featuring six composers. In three movements—Limbo, Paradiso, Ghiaccio—Palandri's °OSC° toys with our sense of hearing. Through precise micro-oscillations, the piece unravels a tapestry of sonic apparitions and ephemeral sound phenomena, integrating the oboe into an intricate web of frequencies and beats; a virtually indistinguishable and infinite union of resemblances.

 

Oboist Vicente Moronta

 

 

New Work by Cristiana Palandri in Lugano

PhD Student Cristiana Palandri’s work A Letter to Johanna for piano, viola, an object and 
live electronics was performed in Lugano on 13 October 2023 by the Spheres Ensemble:
Chiara Ludovisi (viola), Bruna di Virgilio (piano) and Cristiana Palandri (electronics). 
The work is an homage to German-born American musician Johanna Beyer (1888- 1944).  
As a composer and pianist active in the United States in the 1930s, Beyer worked in 
the shadow of male colleagues such as Henry Cowell and John Cage. Despite her 
talent and her innovative and experimental musical language, Beyer’s work lay in 
obscurity for decades (her Music of the Spheres, composed in 1938, is the earliest 
known electronic work composed by a woman) and Palandri’s A Letter to Johanna is 
a tribute to Beyer's courage and innovation.  
 
The concert was a co-production of OGGIMUSICA and LuganoMusica, in collaboration 
with the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana, with the support of the Canton of 
Ticino-Swislos Fund, the City of Lugano and Pro Helvetia.

                             

Cristiana Palandri

Johanna Beyer

Vortex Temporum: Leigh Landy commissioned to make their 25th podcast in a series focusing on sonic artists’ visions

Prof. Leigh Landy has been invited to create a ca. 12’ podcast on his ‘inner thoughts about this and that’ by the Portuguese contemporary arts organisation, Vortex Temporum. As a sampling artist he gets into a dialogue with his Radio Series (re-composed radio sample re-re-composed for the podcast) discussing the non-optimal lot of experimental music today. The podcast can be heard here. Due to its success, he has been invited to present his music at the Aveiro Síntese Festival this coming May.

 

John Young joins Philharmonia Community Board

Prof. John Young is joining the London-based Philharmonia Orchestra's Leicester Community Board. The Philharmonia have been associated with Leicester for 27 years as resident orchestra at De Montfort Hall, currently offering a season of seven concerts annually. Beyond their regular London concerts at the Festival Hall, the Philharmonia have similar regional partnerships in Canterbury, Bedford and Basingstoke. The Community Boards assist in steering the educational, outreach and public engagement programmes associated with the orchestra's partnerships.

The Philharmonia at De Montfort Hall

Stefano Catena at Sonorities, Belfast

Stefano Catena his presenting his new work Travelling Without Moving at the Sonorities Festival in Belfast next April, alongside many other installations and multichannel works from around the world. https://sonorities.net/2024/acts/stefano-catena/

 

 

Stefano Catena Concert at Royal College of Music, Stockholm

PhD student Stefano Catena will give a concert and workshop at the Kungliga Musikhögskolan (KMH—Royal College of Music in Stockholm on 25 March 2024. His work, Travelling Without Moving, composed during his Midlands 4 Cities funded residency in June-July 2023, will be performed in its 'native' space (the KMH Lilla Salen). Despite the name, 'Lilla Salen' (The Small Hall) contains a stunningly sophisticated multi-levelled array of loudspeakers, and is dedicated to the presentation of electroacoustic and amplified music.

Stefano will also give a public workshop in the space and lectures to KMH students. 

 

Lilla Salen of the Kungliga Musikhögskolan, Stockholm

 

Edward Clijsen to present at Innovation in Music Conference 2024, Oslo

 

PhD Student Edward Clijsen will be delivering a paper at the Innovation in Music Conference 2024 (InMusic24) at Kristiania University College, Oslo,14-16th June 2024.

The paper will reflect on his recent practical explorations into systematic approaches to microtonal composition.

https://www.inmusicconference.com

 

Louise Rossiter at Sens Festival, Leipzig

 MTI PhD graduate Louise Rossiter travelled to Leipzig in December 2023 as a featured artist at the Zentrum für immersive Medienkunst, Musik und Technologie's Sens  festival https://zimmt.net/sens/. She gave a featured guest lecture on expectation in acousmatic music alongside an overview of her recent compositional project, Der Industriepalast.  She also performed a solo concert on ZiMMTs 32-channel dome system, consisting of a number of pieces from Der Industriepalast. This included the final piece of the suite, I/O, which received its premiere at the concert.

 

It is expected that the entire Der Industriepalast Suite will be published on the Oscillations label, led by Gabriel Prokofiev, later in 2024.

 

In other news….

Over the course of 2023, Louise has been a jury member in international composition contests, including: Musica Nova, CIME, and Prix Russolo.

 

Louise performing at Sens Leipzig

 

Edward Clijsen presents at Heavy Metal on the Airwaves Symposium 2024

 

On 2nd February 2024 PhD Student Edward Clijsen delivered a paper at the first Heavy Metal on the Airwaves Symposium at Liverpool John Moores University.

The paper was titled ‘Extreme Metal’s Relationship with Radio: The Impacts of Underground Tape-Trading on the Development of Extreme Metal’.

 

 

Art of Sound: interview with John Young in new book

An interview with DMU Professor John Young has been published in a new book—Art of Sound: Creativity in Film Sound and Electroacoustic Music.  The book, by DMU graduate Prof. Andrew Knight-Hill and Dr Emma Margetson, published by Routledge, contains interviews with and discussions between 17 creatives working in fields of music and film sound design. 

The book was launched in November 2023 at the University of Greenwich's Sound/Image Festival, where John Young also gave a solo concert in the Bathway Theatre, Woolwich.