Leigh Landy returns to the Visiones Sonoras festival in Mexico

CMMAS, the Mexican National Centre for Music and Sonic Art, has invited Prof. Leigh Landy to return to their festival, Visiones Sonoras 20 (Sonic Visions), which takes place 24-28 September 2024 in Morelia. He will present his recent composition E Pluribus Plures as well as an invited talk entitled ‘Addressing (new) audiences through cultural connections’. CMMAS is an MTI research partner.

Following this, he will continue to Guadalajara where he will offer talks and workshops at ITESO Universidad and the MAZ museum.

Prof Landy in Hangzhou: Musicacoustica 22, Master Classes and Chinese Academy of the Arts

During Prof. Leigh Landy’s two-week visit to Hangzhou in late October/early November, beyond his featuring as composer of the year at the Musicacoustica 2023 festival and his week of master classes as Visiting Professor at the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, he was invited to give a talk, ‘Making New Music Relevant’ at the national China Academy of Arts, also in Hangzhou. This talk was attended by well over 100 specialists in the field of intermedia.

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'.

Introduction to Making Digital Music Instruments - 3 March 2023

 

An interactive and hands-on two-part workshop to explore how digital musical instruments can be used to surprise and excite audiences. The event, led by Dr Juan Martinez Avila, will have a guest talk by Dr Anna Xambó Sedó about New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIMEs) in workshop 1. Workshop 2 is scheduled for 10 March 2023.

Date and time: 3 March 2023, 11 am - 5 pm 

Location: University of Nottingham

More info about the event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-making-digital-music-instruments-2-x-6-hour-workshops-tickets-453842243367 

The MTI² at the British Science Festival 2022

 

 

The MTI² had a strong presence at September’s British Science Festival including a talk, a performance and a sound installation.

James Andean presented the talk Stories of Sound to an unexpectedly very large audience. This engaging talk recognised his passionate belief that the role sound has in our perception of the world often goes unrecognised. The talk focused on ‘sonic narratives’ which is also a focus in his compositions, unpicking the unique and incredible capacity that sound has for communicating actions, environments and meanings within our lives – transporting us to new and remembered worlds, as well as building a sense of the world around us.

Anna Xambó Sedó presented When Virtual Meets Reality, a research concert at the Manhattan 34 Cellar Bar on September 16, 2022, consisting of a presentation, performance and Q&A. The presentation introduced the practice of live coding and the music technologies that were going to be used in the performance. The performance was a live coding session using the self-developed tool MIRLCa. The audience was invited to participate in a live chat by suggesting words or 'tags' to be used by the performer to search sounds. The session concluded with a Q&A including the results of an online survey distributed among the audience. The performance can be seen online here. The British Science Festival writes: ‘the same code that creates the web pages and apps we use every day can be used to create music'. She sources her sonic material in real-time from an online collection of Creative Commons crowdsourced sonic samples, Freesound.org. All such concerts are one-of-a-kind performances as decisions are made during the performance and, of course, audience input will always be different. 

Bret Battey’s contemplative, audiovisual installation Traces, Molten premiered Sep 13-16 at LCB Depot as part of DMU’s collaboration with the British Science Festival. The ultra-high-definition video was rendered with custom software that uses thousands of individual optimisation search agents to create highly intricate, gradually transforming textures. Battey provided a quote from Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ as an epigram to the installation: ‘See ever so far, there is limitless space outside that, / Count ever so much, there is limitless time around that.’

Jack Richardson to present at European Association of Music in School Conference in Lithuania

Doctoral research student and lecturer Jack Richardson will be presenting at the European Association of Music in School Conference (EAS) 2016 in Vilnius, Lithuania next week.

The conference – organised by the The Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre – will explore creativity and innovation in music education, with a special focus on technology-assisted learning.

Jack will present on the inclusion of electroacoustic music under a broader music curriculum, arguing for increases in engagement and accessibility.

More information on the conference can be found by visiting the EAS 2016 website. Updates will also be tweeted via @mtidmu and @jackademic.