Hear and Now Leicester Project

MTIRG supoorted and hosted the Philharmonia Orchestra's Hear and Now project in Leicester this year.
Hear and Now is a community music project run in Leicester by the Philharmonia in collaboration with Leicester Musical Memory Box/Geet Sangeet, Leicestershire Music and Drum and Brass Leicester. The project brings together older people living with dementia and their carers, young singers and instrumentalists from grassroots community organisations, with players of the Philharmonia to devise and present a varied programme of music, poetry and movement.  Over four weekends the participants, led by composer and animateur Tim Steiner, developed the performance, which was presented in the Sue Townsend Theatre on 27 April 2025. DMU Arts and Festivals Management students gained work experience assisting the show's producer, Philharmonia Community and Engagement Manager Stephanie Waldron.

Hear and Now in rehearsal, PACE Studio 1


 
 
Hear and Now performance, Sue Townsend Theatre 27 April 2025


 


MTIRG Symposium 9 April 2025

MTIRG members met on 9 April in the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Lab for a day-long symposium to share research.

Presentations were given by:

Robert ChaferMixed Reality Spatial Audio Composition: a distribution platform for multichannel electroacoustic works
Matt RogersonDromos/Autos: The Autistic Ontology as Performance
Edward ClijsenRedividing the Octave for Expanded Tonal Spaces: Reflections on Recent Practical Explorations of Formalised Approaches to Microtonal Composition
Matthew LondonThe Integrated Soundtrack: An Analytical Exploration of the Auditory Elements of Music, Sound Design, and Dialogue Within Horror Cinema
Cristiana PalandriMaterialising sound-based composition: exploring multisensory perception and audience engagement between tactile and sonic spheres
Stefano CatenaAnalysis and findings of Intention/Reception questionnaires on spatialisation in acousmatic music
Conor SnapeFrom Concept to Gameplay: Practical Approaches to IDM Derived Sound Effect & Adaptive Audio Design in Modern Video Game Development)
Joe Stillwell—A Study in Movers and Musicians: A Multidisciplinary Lens of Improvisation)
John YoungThe Long and Short of Acousmatic Music
).

Presenters at the MTIRG Symposium, clockwise, L-R: Edward Clijsen, Conor Snape, Robert Chafer, Joe Stillwell, Matt Rogerson, John Young, Matthew London. Centre: Stefano Catena, Cristiana Palandri

 

Battey serving as jury member for Gilgamesh Music Festival 2025


Prof Bret Battey is serving as a jury member for the Gilgamesh Music Festival 2025, being run by the Gilgamesh Arts and Culture Foundation in California. The prizes will be announced in Summer 2025.

Battey's 'Clonal Colonies I: Fresh Runners' at Cineteca Madrid event June 20


Spain's Punto y Raya Festival will be screening Bret Battey's audiovisual composition Clonal Colonies I: Fresh Runners as part a 'visual music' series celebrating World Music Day. The screening will be a Cineteca Madrid, June 20, 2025.