New album from Simon Emmerson

MTIRG's Professor Emeritus Simon Emmerson's new solo album (available in in CD and high resolution download formats) is out now, and will be officially launched on 4 June, 6.30pm till 8.00pm, the Bathway Theatre, Woolwich, London SE18 6QX. 

The album is released on the well-known NMC label and features recent acousmatic pieces and works for instruments and electroacoustics, featuring Philip Mead and Zubin Kanga (piano), Carla Rees (flutes), Heather Roche (clarinets) and Simon Emmerson (electronics).

To secure a place at the launch please RSVP to development@nmcrec.co.uk by Friday 30 May. The Bathway Theatre is located a six-minute walk from Woolwich Arsenal DLR & mainline and TFL buses run frequent services nearby. For detailed information about travel, please click here

For a preview of the album visit: 
https://www.nmcrec.co.uk/discover/simon-emmerson-sound-around-both-near-and-far-once

 

 

DMU researchers at Sound/Image 2024

Three DMU researchers will present music and papers at The University of Greenwich's Sound/Image 2024 Festival in November.

PhD student Stefano Catena will present his paper 'Organised space: the terminology problem of spatialisation' and Bret Battey's audiovisual Estuaries 4 work will feature in one of the concerts along with a paper he will give on that work entitled 'Estuaries 4: Events and Continuums'. Professor Emeritus Simon Emmerson is to present a paper ‘An imaginary Soundwalk’ developed from a talk given at the M4C-funded Spatial Audio Gathering at DMU in June, as well as diffusing his work Near and Far at Once in the opening concert.  Battey's audiovisual installation Traces, Molten—first presented at the LCB Depot in Leicester as part of the 2022 British Science Festival—will also feature in the festival.

A still image from Battey's Estuaries 4

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)

Prof Emmerson — invited speaker Sound and Music/British Music Collection/Heritage Quay

On November 15th, Emeritus Professor Simon Emmerson was an invited speaker at an event organised by Sound and Music/British Music Collection/Heritage Quay in Huddersfield on the early years of 'The Electro-acoustic Music Association (EMAS) and Sonic Arts Network', associated with the exhibition 'The Cutting Edge: New Music since 1945'.

Prof Emmerson – keynote at MuSA 2023 / MANTIS performance

On October 28th Emeritus Professor Simon Emmerson was the keynote speaker at the Music and Sonic Arts (MuSA 2023) conference in Manchester, presenting a paper ‘Imagination and Image (in sonic art)’.

That same evening he was MANTIS Festival's 'featured guest artist' in a presentation of his acousmatic work 'Near and Far (at once)' which he had discussed in the earlier keynote.