Sights and Sounds from the Spatial Audio Gathering

The two-day Spatial Audio Gathering was held at DMU on 17-18 June, organised by the Midlands4Cities doctoral cohort and supported by the M4C Doctoral Training Partnership, which is funded by The Arts and Humanities Research Council.

The event was led and programmed by M4C students Stefano Catena (DMU) and Teddy Hunter (University of Birmingham) with Ian Corkhill (DMU) and Enrico Dorigatti (University of Portsmouth).

The event hosted 29 spatial audio and audiovisual works, six papers with a round table discussion and keynote talks by five leading composers working with spatial music: Annie Mahtani (University of Birmingham), Simon Emmerson (DMU), Brona Martin (University of Greenwich) and Henrik Frisk (Kungliga Musikhögskolan, Stockholm) and Nikos Stavropoulos (Leeds Beckett University).

Participants listen to the IKO 3D audio speaker

Dr Annie Mahtani's keynote talk

Simon Emmerson Keynote - Imagining space and place through sound and music

Tim Cooper: Labyrinth (Lucia Capellaro, baroque cello)

Cameron Naylor: Here One Moment

Wei Yang: ... couloirs (binaural)

News from Stefano Catena

PhD candidate Stefano Catena's multichannel composition Travelling Without Moving will be featured at NoiseFloor 2024 from 27^th to 29^th of May as part of the fixed media concerts at the Escola Superior de Música in Lisbon. 

Stefano's paper 'A speaker agnostic approach to spatialisation in electroacoustic music'—co-authored with Henrik Frisk, Professor at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm—has been accepted in the Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Conference that will take place from 4^th to  6^th of July 2024 in Porto. Stefano's multichannel piece Travelling Without Moving will also be featured as part of the artistic programme.

Stefano Catena