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

 

Young's SoundPlay awaded first prize in Musica Nova 2023, Prague

John Young's SoundPlay for piano and electroacoustic sounds has been awarded first prize in the instrumental category of the Music Nova Competition, Prague, and will be presented in a concert in Prague on 15 December, streamed on the Czech and Slovak Republic radio.  SoundPlay uses high definition audio samples taken from a very dilapidated upright piano that used to be located in the basement of DMU's Clephan Building. Young worked with digital transformations of these sounds to blend them with the equal tempered tuning of the concert piano.The work was premiered in Leicester in November 2022 by Swedish pianist Eva Sidén.

A link to the work is found here: