John Young's article 'The Sound Pool' / 'Le réservoir sonore' published

A short article by Prof. John Young 'The Sound Pool' / 'Le réservoir sonore' was published today in a collection of artists' statements Did You Say Sound Library / Vous avez dit sonothèque?  edited by Valentin Sismann in both French and English.

The collection includes statements from 23 composers on ways in which they gather, categorise and organise the sounds they make in the course of composing acousmatic music. It will be of interest to anyone working creatively with sound—in composition and/or sound design in many different settings.

The 50-page collection includes statements by François Bayle, Philippe Mion, Robert Normandeau, Elsa Justel, Hans Tutschku, Jonty Harrison, Elizabeth Anderson, Annette Vande Gorne, Tomonari Higaki, Ana Dall’Ara-Majek, Daniel Teruggi, Marco Marini, Armando Balice, Régis Renouard Larivière, Christine Groult, Denis Dufour, Jean-Marc Duchenne, Christian Zanési, Stéphane Roy, Lucie Prod’homme, Åke Parmerud and Young, as well as insight into the working methods of Bernard Paremgiani by Claude-Anne Parmegiani, Maxime Barthélemy and Marco Marini.

English version: https://valentinsismann.com/Vous-avez-dit-sonotheque-ENG

French version: https://valentinsismann.com/Vous-avez-dit-sonotheque

 

Valentin Sismann

 

 

Music from MTI @ the Silence Festival, Bari

Music by six MTI composers will feature in a concert at the Silence Festival of Acousmatic Art in Bari, Italy, on 18 December.  Pete Batchelor's Fuse, James Andean's Déchirure and John Young's Three Spaces in Mid-Air are works by staff members to be presented along with pieces by three MTI doctoral graduates: The stones can speak by Virginie Viel, Talasgair by David Holland and Tender glance by Robin Parmar.

The Silence Festival was established in 2004 to present an international spectrum of acousmatic music in concerts using the The m.ar.e acusmonium—an integrated system of 40 loudspeakers for immersive sound projection. Since 2010 the festival has been permanently based in the Cittadella Mediterranea della Scienza, an exhibition centre whose aim is to stimulate interest in science and technology among young people.  This year's Silence Festival runs from 16-18 December. 

stimulate the interest of joung people in science and technology

Maggiori informazioni https://www.festivalsilence.it/about/stimul

stimulate the interest of joung people in science and technology

Maggiori informazioni https://www.festivalsilence.it/about/

created to stimulate the interest of joung people in science and technology

Maggiori informazioni https://www.festivalsilence.it/about/

Since 2010 they have permanent headquarters at the  "Cittadella Mediterranea della Scienza",

a structure created to stimulate the interest of joung people in science and technology.

Maggiori informazioni https://www.festivalsilence.it/about/

Since 2010 they have permanent headquarters at the  "Cittadella Mediterranea della Scienza",

a structure created to stimulate the interest of joung people in science and technology.

Maggiori informazioni https://www.festivalsilence.it/about/

Since 2010 they have permanent headquarters at the  "Cittadella Mediterranea della Scienza",

a structure created to stimulate the interest of joung people in science and technology.

Maggiori informazioni https://www.festivalsilence.it/about/

New work by John Young and Simon Perril at Sonic Cartography Conference

Sun  Deck  Set  Cogitation—a new collaboratively realised work by John Young (Professor of Composition) and Simon Perril (Professor of Poetic Practice)—was premiered at the Sonic Cartography Conference: Soundscape, simulation and re-enactment on 28 October.  The event was held at the Historic Dockyards in Chatham and organised jointly the the Universities of Kent and Greenwich https://research.kent.ac.uk/sonic-palimpsest/sc2022/  Sun  Deck  Set  Cogitation  work is an acousmatic setting of Perril’s text of the same name which is derived from two texts by anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss: a detailed notebook description of a sunset written in 1935 while en route from Marseilles to Brazil and a 1941 voyage on which he escaped occupied France. The collaboration condenses found-text and found-sound into a spatialised palimpsest, cut up and re-mapped into a unique meditation on experience in-the-moment. The work was realised through an invitation to create a piece for the Game of Life 192-loudspeaker wave field synthesis system currently installed in the studio of the AΦE dance company, which itself is based in the Chatham Historic Dockyards.  Wave field synthesis uses large numbers of densely arranged loudspeakers to generate highly realistic sound reproduction. DMU PhD alumna Louise Rossiter was also invited to create a new work for the wave field synthesis system at Sonic Cartography, focusing on the history of Everard's Brewery.

 

John Young's 8-channel composition Appartitions, commissioned in 2016 by the Distractfold Ensemble and premiered at the Bludenz Festival in Austria, also featured at Sonic Cartography in a concert on 30 October in the enormous 3 Slip space at the dockyards—a concert which included another DMU doctoral alumnus, Robin Parmar.

 

 

Composers in the final concert at Sonic Cartography in 3 Slip: L-R Annie Mahtani, John Young, Emma Margetson, Nadine Shütz, Cameron Naylor, Robin Parmar, Daria Baiocchi

John Young and Louise Rossiter with the Wave Field Synthesis system at AΦE Labs

New Work by John Young selected for AKOUSMAtique Competition, Montréal

John Young’s most recent work Le Chant en dehors (2022), realised in an 18-channel surround-sound ‘dome’ format, has been selected as a finalist in the AKOUSMAtique Montréal international competition, part of the Akousma Festival of Immersive Digital Music. Three finalists have been selected anonymously by a jury from 50 international submissions: the two other finalists are Nicola Giannini (Italy) and Panayiotis Kokoras (Greece). The finalists will spatialise their works in a concert in the Multimedia Room of the McGill University-based Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology on 14 October 2022. Two prizes will be awarded: the  Francis-Dhomont prize (chosen by the jury) and the Micheline Coulombe-Saint-Marcoux prize (chosen by the public). 

 

Visible Bits, Audible Bytes set to return to Phoenix Square this April!

See and hear artworks that redefine the potential of sound and image in the 21st century, as well as groundbreaking explorations from the not-so-distant past. Presented by DMU’s Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre.

This year’s lineup:
- Aristedes García (Germany) Hexagrama
- Clive Walley (UK) Divertimenti
- Henry Chomette (France) & Todor Todoroff (Belgium) Jeux des Reflets et de la Vitesse
- Jaroslaw Kapuscinski (USA) United
- Raven Kwok (China) 1194D
- Bonnie Mitchell & Elainie Lillios (USA) Sweeping Memories
- Mark Cheung (Singapore) i!
- Max Hattler (Hong Kong) & Eduardo Noya Schreus (Canada) X
- Francesc Marti (Spain) Speech 2
- Linda Antas (USA) All That Glitters and Goes Bump in the Nigh

All welcome! Entry Free!

Location:
Wednesday April 22nd, 2015
6.30pm
Phoenix
4 Midland Street
Leicester
LE1 1TG
Screen 2, FREE

Watch this space for our continuing MTI events series: http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/must/

Virginie Viel 'Nuage Noir' selected for SIME 2015

On 22 April, Virginie Viel will be perform one of her last piece “Nuage Noir” at the University of Lille III, France.

This piece is one of the 6 pieces selected by the international committee of the SIME (International Week of Electroacoustic Music).

More information can be found by visiting the event's Facebook page.

The committee was composed of:

- Elsa Justel (Argentina) Destellos Foundation

- Bernard Clarke (Irland) Radio Nova Broadcaster
- José Manuel Berenguer (Spain) Director of Orquesta del Caos
- Daniel Judkovsky (Argentina) Professor UNTREF University
- Dante Tanzi (Italy) Acousmonium AUDIOR
- Ricardo Mandolini (Argentina/Italy) University of Lille III
- María Cristina Kasem (Argentina)

Leigh Landy, Louise Rossiter, Virginie Viel: Martini Elettrico Concerts, Bologna Conservatoire, 24-28 March

During an Erasmus+ trip to the Bologna Conservatoire, Leigh Landy will be giving 3 public talks and leading an MTI concert that includes student works by Louise Rossiter and Virginie Viel alongside a piece of his own.

The trip has been made possible by support from #DMUGlobal.

Such events are taking place as part of the 'Martini Elettrico' concert and lecture series, which will be running between the 24th and 28th of March 2015.

The Royal College of Music Stockholm (KMH), another of MTI's Erasmus+ partners, is also giving a concert during the last week in March.

More information about Martini Elettrico can be found by clicking here.

Concert PACE 1 Wednesday 18th March 7pm - MTI Mix 4

Continuing our 15^th birthday celebration – more works from our amazing team. The UK premiere of Simon Atkinson’s GRM (Paris) Commission and works by masters and doctoral students - David Holland’s piece was a finalist for the Bangor Dylan Thomas Prize 2014, Sam Topley performs her invented instruments - audio-visual, performance, acousmatics, story telling, soundscape and more -

Simon Atkinson                  Nocturne aquatique

David Holland                       The Force

Francesc Marti                    Speech 1

Panos Amelides                 The Pain(t)

Sam Topley                          untitled

Sam Warren                                    Shift

Robin Parmar                      Caged Bird

All welcome! Entry Free!

Simon Emmerson composer's portrait Bangor March 8th

19.30, Powis Hall, Bangor University
PORTRAIT OF PIERRE ALEXANDRE TREMBLAY & SIMON EMMERSON
CARLA REES (flutes), HEATHER ROCHE (clarinets) & XENIA PESTOVA (piano)
Electroacoustic WALES
Daira Kwiatkowska: In the Dark Basket of my Belly (af/pno)
Coreen Morsink: Andromache (afl)
Emmerson: Resonances (8-track tape)
Tremblay: La rupture inéluctable (bcl/processing/tape)
School pupils piece (cl/tape)
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WMCP winning piece
Ed Bennett: Magnetic (bcl and pno)
Tremblay: asinglewordisnotenough 1 (5.1 tape)
Emmerson: Piano Piece IV (pno/fixed media)
Sungji Hong: Bisbiglio (fl/cl/pno)

Two MTI concerts for Cultural Exchanges Festival - Annette Vande Gorne - PACE 1 Wednesday 25th February

De Montfort University Cultural Exchanges Festival 2015

http://www.dmu.ac.uk/cultural-exchanges-festival/index.aspx

Wednesday February 25th, 2015

Seminar: 1pm – Concerts 7pm and 8.30pm

PACE Building Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

Annette Vande Gorne - ‘Text, Voice, Gesture, Space’

The programme features two concerts of work by this leading Belgian composer - one performed by Annette Vande Gorne herself, followed by a programme of performances by UK based colleagues and former students. Annette Vande Gorne, one of Belgium’s leading composers, has been Professor of electroacoustic composition at the Royal Conservatories in Liège, Brussels and Mons. She founded the Musiques & Recherches and the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studios (Ohain). She also founded the festival and performance competition L’Espace du son (Brussels) and the composition competition Métamorphoses.

1-2pm: Annette Vande Gorne will talk about her work with examples.

7-8.10pm: Concert Annette Vande Gorne – ‘Text, Voice, Gesture, Space’

Vox Alia (1995-2000)

Yawar Fiesta acte II (opéra acousmatique) (2012/2007)

Au-delà du réel (2013-2014)

8.30-9.30pm: Concert friends –

John Young  An Angel at Mons (2014)

Louise Rossiter Tout Autour de la Montagne (2014)

Virginie Viel   I belong to the sea (2015)

All welcome! Tickets should be booked – Free to MTI students!

http://www.dmu.ac.uk/cultural-exchanges-festival/2015/cultural-exchanges-festival-2015.aspx

Concert PACE 1 Wednesday 11th February 7pm

The Birmingham Ensemble for Electroacoustic Research (BEER) was founded in 2011 as a research project to explore aspects of realtime electroacoustic music making. Particular interests include networked music performance over ad hoc wi-fi systems, and live coding (programming music in real time using algorithms that can be altered while they are running). In keeping with post-free jazz developments in improvisation (e.g. John Zorn, Anthony Braxton), we create structures in software that impose limitations and formal articulations on the musical flow (with networked software systems serving as intervention mechanism / arbiter / structural provocateur par excellence). Musical influences run the gamut from Iannis Xenakis to Journey.
Members include Norah Lorway, Konstantinos Vasilakos, Luca Danieli, Tsun Yeung, and Scott Wilson. For this performance BEER presents a selection of pieces from the ensemble’s repertoire, including the premiere of a new work by Norah Lorway.
All welcome! Entry Free! 

At 1pm that day (MTI Research Lab, Clephan 0.19) Nick Collins and Scott Wilson present their ideas in a Research Seminar -

Dr Nick Collins (Durham) - 'Large-scale corpus analysis of electronic music'
In which researchers on an AHRC funded mini-project attempt to build a larger scale (circa 2000 piece) audio corpus of electronic music from 1948-2000, and run automatic machine analysis experiments.
Dr Scott Wilson (Birmingham) - ‘Free as in BEER’
The Birmingham Ensemble for Electroacoustic Research (BEER) was founded in 2011 as a research project to explore aspects of realtime electroacoustic music making. Particular interests include networked music performance over ad hoc wi-fi systems, and live coding (programming music in real time using algorithms that can be altered while they are running).

All Welcome!

MTI Mix 2 - Concert Pace 1 Wednesday 12th November 7pm

Wednesday November 12^th, 2014 7.00pm

PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

MTI Mix 2

We continue our 15^th Birthday Season celebrating our members’ great success over the last year – and introducing some new members.

Michael Young                                    Piano Prosthesis

Michael recently joined DMU as Pro-Vice Chancellor (Teaching and Learning). He performs this interactive piano/computer piece himself.

Virginie Viel                                    Nuage Noir

Virginie recently joined MTI as a research student after a Masters at Mons (Belgium) including studies with Annette Vande Gorne and Elizabeth Anderson.

Simon Atkinson                                    afterimages

A new work evoking the rich and mysterious sounds of nature, exploring composition as landscape.

Louise Rossiter                         Cyclic Motions

Louise is a PhD research student in MTI - she has just returned from a composing residency in Montreal.

Marinos Giannoukakis                        Musica Universalis

A new work for computer-generated graphics and 8-channel sound. Marinos is a PhD research student in MTI.

All welcome! Entry Free!

Watch this space for our continuing MTI events series

http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/must/

John Young at Espace du Son, Brussels

Prof. John Young will give two concerts at the Espace du Son Festival in Brussels in November, on the 54-channel acousmonium in the Théâtre Marni. One performance is devoted entirely to his own work and in second show he will present a recent work by Pete Batchelor alongside pieces he has selected by Brazilian and US composers. Other composers performing in the Festival are Åke Parmerud (Sweden), Flo Menezes (Brazil) and Yves Daoust (Québec).

Meta-2 Alumni Concert Pace 1 Wednesday 13th March

Music, Technology and Innovation
De Montfort University, Leicester
New Media Events 2012-2013

Wednesday March 13th, 2012 7pm
PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

meta-2

Current undergraduates are joined by recent alumni and friends to present a concert which celebrates their activities on the cusp of, or beyond, or surrounding their MTI work. The programme includes:

Ben Ramsay: live improvisation based around processed field recordings and improvised synthetic elements, combining experimental electronica, acousmatic, ambient, IDM and glitch
Chloe Cutler: free guitar improv with ebow and live electronics
Paul James: sound bites and atmospheric sound beds, with heavy use of samples and a theme of science fiction, the mind and space travel).
Ola Szmidt: live looping, including music which reached the finals of Boss Loop Station Championships UK

Entry Free!

Watch this space for our continuing MTI events series

http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/must/

MTI Events launch with two concerts of new work

 

We welcome new members of the growing Music, Technology & Innovation Research Centre team in two concerts to open the 2012-2013 season – a feast of acousmatic surround sound, audio-visual & generative music.

Wednesday October 24^th  7.30pm PACE Studio 1  – MTI Team Concert 1

John Young - Tongue (acousmatic) 

Craig Vear - Five Antarctic Solitudes (audio-visual)

Pete Batchelor - Nebula (acousmatic)

Ben Ramsay - The Batteries Of Orchards (acousmatic)

Luca Forcucci - L'Ecume des Jours (acousmatic)

Si Waite - Columns, rows and collisions: an interactive-generative piece for layered, grid-based systems (live laptop and controllers with projected visuals) 
(Note slightly later start time for this concert!)

Wednesday November 7^th  7pm PACE Studio 1  – MTI Team Concert 2

Simon Atkinson - Interiorities vi (acousmatic)

Louise Rossitter - Culture Shock (acousmatic)

Andrew Hill - New work (acousmatic)

Bret Battey - Clonal Colonies (I – Fast Runners; II – Soft Strata) (audio-visual)

Weiwei Jin - La solidificacion de la memoria (acousmatic)

Entry Free!