Battey/Ertan 'time, bruised, selves' Honourable Mention MuVi7, Spain

Drs Bret Battey and Deniz Ertan's collaborative audiovisual installation 'time, bruised, selves' has been awarded an Honourable Mention in the MuVi7 International Exhibition of Video on Synaesthesia and Visual Music, Granada, Spain. The video will show at the VIII International Congress "Synaesthesia: Science and Art," which will take place from October 23rd to 25th 2025 at Convento Capuchinos and Palacio Abacial, Alcalá la Real, Jaén, Spain.

Battey's 'Clonal Colonies I: Fresh Runners' at Cineteca Madrid event June 20

Spain's Punto y Raya Festival will be screening Bret Battey's audiovisual composition Clonal Colonies I: Fresh Runners as part a 'visual music' series celebrating World Music Day. The screening will be a Cineteca Madrid, June 20, 2025. 

POSTPONED: MTI Postgrad concert 19 April, PACE Studio 1

Due to unforseen circumstances this even has been postponed. It will not be on 19 April. Please check back soon for a new date!

MTI Postgraduates will present new work in PACE Studio 1: 19 April, 7pm.

Live performance, audiovisual and immersive audio work, including work by Stefano Catena, Ross Davidson, Matt London, Manit Mehta, Sam Rai, Matt Rogerson.

Admission free.

Battey's Estuaries 4 receives 'Best Video' award, MuVi6

Prof Bret Battey’s latest audiovisual composition, ‘Estuaries 4’ (2021), has been awarded the ‘Best Video’ prize by MuVi6, an international exhibition of video and moving image on synesthesia and visual music. It will be screened in the MuVi6 conference at the University of Granada in October and will be featured in an associated online exhibition and a print book release.  

‘Estuaries 4’ was also recently screened at the Sound and Music Computing Conference (Saint Etienne, France), the NoiseFloor Festival (University of Saffordshire), the International Computer Music Conference (University of Limerick), and the COMMUTE Festival of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. It is also scheduled for September screening at the Over the Real video art festival in Lucca, Italy.

 

Upcoming Events: Visual Bits, Audible Bytes (VBAB) 2016, 17/2

Wednesday 17th February 2016, 6:30PM

The seventh annual Visible Bits, Audible Bytes brings stunning, genre-breaking works of audiovisual art to Phoenix.

Stimulate the eye and the ear with contemporary fusions of new and old technologies: from computer-animated tessellation patterns driven by music, hacked analogue video circuits pulsing to stuttering electronica beats, hand-painted films complementing intimate digital soundscapes, and abstract particle-systems forming ambient vision-sound worlds.

The screening presents new digital aesthetics from around the globe, including China, Canada, Holland, Israel and the USA, including works by:

• Asher Arnon
• Mark Pilkington
• Eli Stine
• Emptyset + Clayton Welham and Sam Williams
• Raven Kwok + Karmafields
• Johan Rijpma
• Oerd
• Inés Wickmann + Francis Dhomont
• Jean Piché
• Louise Harris

Presented by the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University.
Image Credit: Raven Kwok, from ‘Skyline’

This is a free event but booking is required.

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MTI Event Series: Concert 1, 14 October 2015 @ PACE Studio 1

Pre-concert installation (PACE 2, Doors: 6.15pm)

Paul Keene & Garry Cox – Kinectivity (a Kinect-driven interactive installation depicting an immersive forest sound environment).

Concert (PACE 1, 7pm)

Leigh Landy - Xūn (Old/New) (13’), 8-channel
Steve Green - Iridescence (8’30), stereo
Virginie Viel (Collectif Séneçon) - Path (15’)

Neal Spowage - Dis-comforting (1’16), AV stereo
Neal Spowage - New Track Of Unknown Terra II (6’21), AV stereo
Louise Rossiter - Rift (c.8’), stereo

Grace Dior - Viva Voce (4’17), stereo

John Young - Brink (13’27), 10.1

MTI Student Welcome Event

Exchange Bar, 8.30pm(ish)

All Welcome!

Neal Spowage Fashion Film Prize + Recent Presentation at Haptic Narratives, Greenwich University

A radiophonic composition by postgraduate student Neal Spowage titled Dis-comforting has been used as a soundtrack for a fashion video short of the same name by Ania Sadkowska.

This video has just won the first prize POLIMODA & ASVOFF Video Contest For IFFTI2015 (International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institute) annual conference in Florence, Italy which is organised by the international fashion institute, Polimoda: MOMENTING THE MEMENTO.

The film explores older men's experience of fashion and clothing. The result to-date includes a set of themes capturing the richness of the male ageing phenomenon in relation to fashion and clothing, their writer interpretation and corresponding fashion artefacts and films.

Additionally, Neal recently presented his video New Track of Unknown Terra II to Haptic Narratives - Textural Exploration in Film at Greenwich University, UK, on 21st May 2015. This series of events focused on exploring and engaging with haptic sensations through tactile cues on film and the environments associated with moving images. It is organised by TiMaDi (Time, Materiality and the Digital Research Group).

Two MTI Students in Engine Room Installation until June 12

MTI doctoral students Francesc Martí and Virginie Viel have had work exhibited as part of the The Engine Room International Sound Art Competition. The event, which has been at the Morley Gallery in London, started on 12 May and runs through to 12 June 2015. 

At the same event, noted sound artist Janek Schaefer will be presenting a newly commissioned installation Aerial Aria in the aviary.

Francesc and Virginie are two of the twenty-two selected works, ranging from  Singapore, Russia, Germany, Colombia, Italy, Canada, France, the United States and the United Kingdom.

More information on the event can be found by visiting Engine Room London.

Further information about the two selected works can be found below:

Virginie Viel 

Liberté chérie (2014) 

https://soundcloud.com/virginieviel/liberte-cherie 

- Who are you?

- You appeared to me in a place that doesn't exist, 

- Were you real? 

- You've never seen me and I've never seen you 

- How did I manage to talk to you? 

- I don't know... 

- Give me a clue! 

- I only remember... 

- Open the door! Open the door! I want to smell, to touch, to feel, to caress her... 

- Why? You might regret it! Many others were like you, burning with desire... But ultimately all of them gave up and turned away from her. 

- No, I won't… 

- It's too late anyway. Long gone are the days of lightness, love and happiness. Today no one knows, no one wants to remember... where she is gone 

- Why? 

- Hope disappeared a long time ago. Since that time, looking for Freedom, looking for that lady is meaningless. Without hope, be free has no sense anymore. 

Francesc Martí 

Speech 2 (2015) 

https://vimeo.com/119713106 

Speech 2 is an experimental audiovisual piece created from a series of old clips from the public affairs interview program The Open Mind. This piece would be a reflection on the action of communicating, highlighting his limitations, and can be labelled as “text-sound-art”, or “text-sound-composition” in an audio-visual framework. Technically, in this piece, the author has been experimenting how granular sound synthesis techniques, in particular synchronous granular synthesis, can be used for audiovisual creative works. All the piece sounds and images come from that series of clip, in other words, no other sound samples or images have been used to create the final result.

Francesc Martí's 'Speech 1' Screenings at Slingshot Festival, Play Festival & N_SEME

'Speech 1', an audio-visual piece by MTI PhD Francesc Martí, will be screened at three events in the United States throughout February and March.

The piece will be presented as part of the World Electroacoustic Listening Room (WEALR) project on 28 February, one of many concerts taking place at the New Music Festival held at California State University Fullerton.

In March, the piece will be screened in three other music events: N_SEME (March 6-7) at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, Play Festival (March 13-14) at Oberlin College, Ohio and Slingshot Festival (March 26-28) in Georgia.

Watch 'Speech 1' Here

Find out more about Francesc here

Bret Battey Upcoming Talks and Concerts in Stockholm & Bilbao

Bret Battey will present a solo concert of his audiovisual compositions at Fylkingen, Stockholm on 4 April 2013 as well as a lecture and master class at the Royal Conservatory of Music.

On 26 April, he is a guest presenter at the Technarte Conference in Bilbao, where he will be discussing the role of generative algorithms based in complex systems in his newest audiovisual work Clonal Colonies.

(Coincidently, the Technarte web site uses an image of Leicester's Curve Theatre and its illuminated bollards as a headline graphic.)

Visible Bits, Audible Bytes

Music, Technology and Innovation
De Montfort University, Leicester
New Media Events 2011-2012

Wednesday April 25th, 2012 7pm
Phoenix Square (Film & Digital Media)
Midland Street, Leicester, LE1 1TG

Visible Bits, Audible Bytes 2

Join Phoenix Square for a compelling showcase screening of works from an eclectic group of audiovisual artists from around the world. Ranging from the playful and sensuous to the edgy and experimental, these artists and their works are redefining the potentials of sound and image in the 21st century. Curated by Bret Battey and presented by the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at DMU.

Flat-E (images) + Ultre (music): Ionisation (2005)
Jean Piché (images and music): OCÉANES (2010-11)
Bret Battey (images and music): Clonal Colonies (2011)
Glenn Marshall (images) + Peter Gabriel (music): The Nest That Sailed the Sky (2009)
Candaş Şişman (images and music): FLUX (2010)
Jean Piché (images and music): Ange (1979/2012)
Numbercult (images and music): EVE (2009)
Robert Seidel (images) + Heiko Tippelt & Philipp Hirsch (music): _grau (2004)
Candaş Şişman (images) + Egidija Medeksaite (music): EFF-FLUX (2011)

Tickets: £6 (£3.50 conc. - £2.50 for DMU staff and students) please call the Box Office (0116-242-2800) or book online (http://phoenix.org.uk/).

MTI Events feature in Cultural Exchanges Festival

Thursday March 1^st, 2012 7pm

PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

Leigh Landy 60^th Birthday Concert

With Jos Zwaanenburg (flute)

A series of three radio-based spatialised and very humorous works (French, English and German – with subtitles) are presented with two live works for flutes and recordings performed by virtuoso flautist, Jos Zwaanenburg in which musical sounds can be heard from Europe, Africa and Asia.

Oh là la radio (2007), To BBC or Not (2008), Radio-aktiv (2011)

Wolken Wind Schermen (Clouds Wind Screens 1976), Ceci n’est pas une flûte (1989-90), both revised 2011 – for flutes and electronics.

Friday March 2^nd, 2012 7pm

PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

Light, Space and Shadow  - John Young 50^th Birthday Concert

With Xenia Pestova (piano)

The programme includes three recent works: Smoke and Mirrors, a 16-channel immersive soundscape commissioned by Radio France in 2008, Are You Everybody? an audiovisual collaboration with photographer Lala Meredith-Vula and X for piano and electroacoustic sounds featuring Welsh- based pianist Xenia Pestova.

Presented by the composers.

Box Office - to book a place -

Tel.: 0116-250-6229

Online: dmu.ac.uk/culturalexchanges

Works by Bret Battey at The Big Screen Project, NYC

Bret Battey's audiovisual compositions Autarkeia Aggregatum and Mercurius featured over several weeks at the Big Screen Project in New York City, along with works by computer animation pioneer Larry Cuba and artist Makoto Yabuki. The 10,000-square foot outdoor multimedia venue in midtown Manhattan features a 30 x 16 ft. HD-format LED screen. The show was curated by Leaders in Software and Art.

Bret Battey - "Clonal Colonies" premieres in Delaware and NYC

Bret Battey's new audiovisual composition Clonal Colonies, a commission from New York's Avian Orchestra, was premiered by the ensemble in September in Delaware and at the The Cell, New York. The work is in two movements, for Pierrot ensemble, computer-realised sound, and video. A "clonal colony" is a group of genetically identical plants. Child plants are propagated by "runners" that emerge from a parent plant. This serves as an analogy to the "Variable-Coupled Map Networks" algorithm approach that Battey applied in composing the piece.

Summer 2011 Postgrad News

Yiannis Christofides's sound work for Water Rites, a video piece by Michael Kontopoulos, will be part of a group exhibition Speculative at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions in Hollywood, CA, curated by Christopher O’Leary and Zach Blas. The exhibition will run for three months. Links Speculative; Kontopoulos; Editorial at Rhizome.

Panos Amelides's fixed media audio piece Ritual Attacks will be performed at Pixilerations New Media Festival, which is produced by collaborators including Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design. http://pixilerations.org/2011/ 

Luca Forcucci won a residency in Shanghai for 4 months, where he will be working on a new composition. His latest work, Transition, has been reviewed on the EMF website www.emf.org. The premiere of his piece Music for Brainwaves occurred in Riverside, California, and is reviewed here. Luca also gave also a workshop to the students of the Faculty of Music at Riverside.