Leigh Landy is 'Figure of the Year' @ Musicacoustica 2023 Festival, Hangzhou, China

Prof. Leigh Landy is Figure of the Year at the international Musicacoustica 2023 festival in Hangzhou, China, 24-29 October. During the festival, Landy's two latest works will be premiered, one a festival commission and another commissioned by percussion virtuoso Thierry Miroglio. Landy will present a one-composer concert as well as the Miroglio piece on his concert, as well as offering a talk and serving on the composition competition jury. He will remain in the city for the following week working at the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music as Visiting Professor, providing daily master classes for advanced composition students.

Prof Landy CMMAS Commission Presentation

Prof. Leigh Landy will be featured at the 2023 Visiones Sonoras 19 festival in Morelia Mexico (6-10 March 2023) hosted by CMMAS, the Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Arts, this year focused on the theme of Sound, Environment and Climate Change.

He will present his latest work, commissioned by CMMAS, the 7th in his Radio Series entitled ‘Aplican Términos y Condiciones’ (Terms and Conditions Apply) using over 50 Mexican radio broadcasts as source material, an 8-channel composition. He will give a talk entitled ‘Art for Life’s Sake’ and a two-day workshop entitled ‘ Making Music with the Sounds of Our Ecological Environment’. The festival has received funding from the British Council this year and, therefore, a number of British electroacoustic music specialists will also be participating.

https://en.cmmas.com/vs19

Prof Landy Chapter in 'El Callejón del Ruido'

Prof. Leigh Landy’s most recent book chapter has been published in November in the bilingual El Callejón del Ruido: Creacion, ideas y tecnologia – resonancias e impacto (1994-2019) celebrating 25 years of one of the most important Mexican new music festivals which takes place in Guanajuato. His chapter, after reminiscing over his visit to the festival during its early years, focuses on his latest composition, Aplican Términos y Condiciones, which has been commissioned by Mexico’s other major new music festival, Visiones Sonoras, in Morelia where its premiere will take place in March 2023. The chapter is entitled ‘Re-composing Mexican Radio’ and appears in the book first in Spanish (‘Re-compiendo la radio Mexicana’) and then in its original form.

 

Bret Battey: 'Three Breaths in Empty Space' Installation

Bret Battey's new installation Three Breaths in Empty Space was commissioned by Phoenix Cinema, Leicester, to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of their move to the Cultural Quarter. It will run mid-November to the end of December 2019, filling the Phoenix Gallery with abstract computer animations and surround sound generated with custom software systems. The work invites participants to contemplate continuous change and shimmering instabilities in everything from subatomic activity to the level of the cosmos. Are we witnessing quantum foam on invisible waves, nerve patterns in the body-mind, maps of social structures coalescing and transforming, or transfigurations of some vast nebula? As ghostly fragments of Maurice Ravel’s piano work Ondine occasionally materialise and dissolve at peaks of audiovisual intensity, we can ponder how phenomena arise and pass in Emptiness.

For more information: https://www.phoenix.org.uk/event/three-breaths-in-empty-space/

John Richards: New Dartington Commission and Video

This summer John Richards completed and premiered Charge/Discharge, a commission from the Dartington Summer School. Recently completed doctoral student Andrew Hill created the following documentary on the development of the work and its performance by a special Dartington incarnation of the Dirty Electronics Ensemble.


Charge/Discharge (2012) by John Richards [Documentary & Performance] from Andrew Hill on Vimeo.

Anna Meredith with Dirty Electronics Ensemble

De Montfort University,
Music, Technology and Innovation
Events Series 2011-2012

Dirty Electronics with Anna Meredith
'Light, Paper, Sound'
Wednesday 30th May
7.00 pm
PACE Studio 1, Richmond St, Leicester
FREE


Anna Meredith joins Dirty Electronics with a new commission for electronics and large group. Small intimate jewellery boxes, each with their own unique character, house oscillators and lights, and are opened and closed by performers to create choral-like chords, sequences and flashes of light. The concert will also feature a premier of Light, Paper, Sound by Jim Frize (for multiple optical pianolas), a performance with the Dirty Electronics 7-Segment Display, and new work by Max Wainwright.

Meredith is one of the UK's most in-demand young composers. Her music is widely performed around the world and she is a regular judge, guest and commentator on BBC Television and Radio 3 and 4. Her most recently piece - HandsFree - a no-instruments piece for the National Youth Orchestra has been called "mesmerising" and "exhilarating" by The Times, "a tour de force" by the Guardian and "wicked" by the Independent and will continue to be performed by NYO throughout 2012 as part of the 20x12 Cultural Olympiad commissions. As well as her acoustic commissions, Anna has recently turned her focus to performing her eclectic electronic music and has already supported These New Puritans, James Blake, Shlomo, Broadcast and Mira Calix, performing material from her debut EP - Black Prince Fury.

www.annameredith.com
www.dirtyelectronics.org

Leigh Landy Premieres New ZKM Commission

In November, Leigh Landy presented two works in the main Kubus concert at the ARD Hörspiel Tage (Radio Play Festival) at the ZKM – this included his new ZKM commissioned work, Radio-aktiv, composed in 24-channels for the Sound Dome and his work, To BBC or Not. Both works contain samples taken from national radio recording which are recomposed. All three of his radio pieces, along with other works, will be presented during De Montfort University's Cultural Exchanges Festival in late February 2012.

He will also present a keynote talk and a composition at the Symposium for Performance of Electronic and Experimental Music (SPEEC) at Oxford University 6-7 January 2012.

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.