Cristiana Palandri in Stockholm, June 2025

M4C-funded PhD candidate Cristiana Palandri has just returned from Stockholm where she was a composer in residence dividing her time between EMS (Elektronmusikstudion) and the KMH (Kungliga Musikhögskolan / Royal College of Music, Stockholm).  

During the residency Cristiana created a new composition, working in the EMS 8-channel Studio 4 with a rare original Buchla 200 modular synthesiser, with spatialisation developed at EMS and in the 3D sound system at the KMH. She was also able to network with other international composers working on projects in Stockholm with fruitful exchange on compositional methods and sound aesthetics. 

Cristiana Palandri with the Buchla 200  at EMS (L) and the 3D spatialisation room at KMH (R)

 

 

 

 

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 Chafer—Mixed Reality Spatial Audio Composition: a distribution platform for multichannel electroacoustic works
Matt Rogerson—Dromos/Autos: The Autistic Ontology as Performance
Edward Clijsen—Redividing the Octave for Expanded Tonal Spaces: Reflections on Recent Practical Explorations of Formalised Approaches to Microtonal Composition
Matthew London—The Integrated Soundtrack: An Analytical Exploration of the Auditory Elements of Music, Sound Design, and Dialogue Within Horror Cinema
Cristiana Palandri—Materialising sound-based composition: exploring multisensory perception and audience engagement between tactile and sonic spheres
Stefano Catena—Analysis and findings of Intention/Reception questionnaires on spatialisation in acousmatic music
Conor Snape—From 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 Young—The 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

 

Edward Clijsen and Matthew London awarded M4C PhD Scholarships

We are delighted that today two MTI PhD students start PhD funding with the AHRC-funded Midlands Four Cities Doctoral Training Partnership, a consortium of eight institutions in Nottingham, Leicester, Birmingham and Coventry/Warwick. 

Matthew London will be embarking on his PhD in the area of film music and sound design in a project entitled The Integrated Soundtrack: An analytical exploration of the auditory elements of music, sound design and dialogue within horror cinema, supervised by Simon Atkinson, Leigh Landy and Laraine Porter.

Edward Clijsen is completing a practice-led PhD on microtonality in music: Practical Explorations of Formalised Approaches to Microtonal Composition, supervised by John Young, Bret Battey and Duncan MacLeod (University of Nottingham).

They join a strong contingent of M4C-funded PhD students in music at DMU with Cristiana Palandri, Stefano Catena, Rob Chafer, Sam Topley and Ross Davidson all current M4C PhD candidates.

Edward Clijsen (L) and Matthew London (R)

John Young and Cristiana Palandri at Noisefloor Lisbon

Prof. John Young and M4C PhD candidate Cristiana Palandri will be at the Noisefloor 2024 conference at  the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa.

Palandri will present her ambisonic composition Gemelli siamesi making use of the Escola's 15.1 channel dome audio system.

Young will perform two works, Arioso and Le Chant en dehors, and present a paper 'The Long and Short of Acousmatic Forms'.

Cristiana Palandri

 

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