Prof Battey Concert 'Poetry of Code' at Ankara Music and Fine Arts University

On May 29, 2025, Prof Bret Battey presented a concert of his audiovisual works to students and staff at the Ankara Music and Fine Arts University, Türkiye. Entitled 'The Poetry of Code', the concert included his Clonal Colonies (two movements), Estuaries 1-4, and a screening version of the installation time, bruised, selves (a co-creation with his partner Deniz Ertan). The concert was followed by questions and answers from the audience, covering wide ranging issues in aesthetics and technique.

Gavin Bryars Concert

Former DMU Professor of Music Gavin Bryars was at DMU on Saturday 3 May to take part in the opening of the Leicester Gallery's contribution to The Art Schools of the Midlands project. Bryars was interviewed by John Beck and Matthew Cornford prior to giving a concert at St Mary de Castro church later that evening with his ensemble—Dave Smith (piano), James Woodrow (guitar), Morgan Goff (viola), Yuri Bryars (organ, bass, guitar), Audrey Riley (cello) and Bryars himself (keyboard, bass, guitar). Bryars founded the first music department at Leicester Polytechnic (now DMU), and a capacity audience witnessed this emotionally charged first performance by him at DMU since1994.

The concert included six works by Bryars from the 1960s and 70s: 1,2,1-2-3-4 (1972), The Squirrel and the Ricketty Racketty Bridge (1972), Catalogue (1965), 16 Continuous Fragments for solo guitar (1965), Mr Sunshine (1968) and Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (1971). The latter work is based around a recording of an unidentified homeless man, and was composed when Bryars was working in the Fine Art Department at DMU. It has attracted world wide acclaim and exists in several versions, including one with the added voice of Tom Waits and a choreographed version by William Forsythe. The concert was recorded by students of DMU's Music Production programme, to be released on vinyl by London-based Shrike records.

The Art Schools of the Midlands exhibition focuses on the impressive number of art schools located in the Midlands and features original photographic images of all 48 sites from across the region, from Hereford to Boston, Chesterfield to Northampton. Celebrating a key aspect of the civic, industrial and architectural history of the region since the mid-nineteenth century, the photographs are also an investigation of the present, recording the sites of former art schools and their current circumstances.
https://www.instagram.com/theartschoolproject/

Gavin Bryars photographed with DMU Music Production students after the concert at St Mary de Castro.

Prof. Leigh Landy Performance in Kuala Lumpur

As part of the Spectra concert series, Leigh Landy’s 8-channel composition, ‘E Pluribus Plures’, was performed on 11 November 2024 at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre, Malaysia. This work, which recomposes traditional music around the globe, is a celebration of cultural diversity and a warning about several non-commercial folk traditions that are under threat of extinction. He was the only non-Asian composer on the programme.

 

Leigh Landy concert at the Electroacoustic Biennial – Aveiro, Portugal

As part of Arte no Tempo’s Bienal de Musica Electroacoustica Festival in Aveiro, Portugal, Leigh Landy will present and perform in a full concert entitled ‘Radio On’ on 22 May 2024, including five works plus an audio-visual work, Vidéo Circus, presented at a separate event. 

Quarta-feira, 22 de Maio | 21h30
Teatro Aveirense \ Sala Estúdio

Programa

Leigh Landy (1951)

I Conduct Electricity [1996] ca 2’
gravação estereofónica e maestro

To BBC or Not [2008] ca 13’
gravação em 8 canais

E Pluribus Plures [2021] ca 18’45
gravação em 8 canais

Rock’s Music [1988] ca 13’
para voz falada e gravação estereofónica

Aplican Términos y Condiciones [2022] ca 13’20
gravação em 8 canais com projecção de tradução para Inglês

I2MT Inaugural Concert - 30 November 2023

 

Experimental Music Inaugural Concert by I2MT (Interactive & Intelligent Music Technologies Research Group) and special guests featuring music works by Juan Martinez Avila, Steve Benford, Craig Vear, John Richards (AKA Dirty Electronics) and special guest Anna Xambó.

I2MT is the start of a new cross-faculty research cluster that investigates Interactive & Intelligent Music Technologies. Our work focuses on developing technical innovation (new software & hardware interfaces and instruments), pushing boundaries of practice (such as robotics, AI, deep learning), understanding human computer & AI interactions in music, with the ultimate goal of enhancing human creativity.

Date and time: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 17:30 - 18:30 GMT
Location: University of Nottingham - Jubilee Campus
More info: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/i2mt-inaugural-concert-tickets-749901474497

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.

+RAIN Film Fest 14 June 2023

 

The +RAIN Film Fest's international call for films using AI models is focused on films that explore the narrative capabilities of this technology in their creation process. The +RAIN Film Fest invites filmmakers to present and discuss their work at public screenings to talk together about film narratives in this incipient moment of experimentation with generative AI, and how this new narratives define the audiovisual language of the future. An international jury will award the most innovative films to be shown at Sónar+D.

As part of the program, there will be a LIVE event that offers a unique musical and audiovisual experience composed of proposals that integrate artificial intelligence in their creative processes. The UPF Poblenou campus is transformed into a space where visitors can enjoy musical and audiovisual creations resulting from research and experimentation with AI. The event explores the aesthetic and creative possibilities of AI models and live coding.

 20:00 - 22:45 LIVE Sessions and +RAIN Film Festival award ceremony:

• Albert Barqué-Duran: Slowly fading into data (Live A/V Performance).
• Anna Xambó: Ceci n'est pas une usine.
• Finding Light in the Distortion (MTG-UPF): Finding Light in the Distortion featuring the GrooveTransformer module.
• Jennifer Walshe. A Late Anthology Live.
• Nao Tokui: Emergent Rhythm.

More info about the festival can be found here: https://www.upf.edu/web/rainfilmfest/rain#live

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

A Full Weekend of BEAST @ Centrala Concerts

 

This weekend starting from today, Friday 11th March, there are a series of concerts at Centrala in Birmingham.

The show will be kicking off on Friday at 7.30pm with immersive performances by Milad K. Mardakheh and Anna Xambó Sedó. The evening will also feature short performances by BEAST MA composers: Henry Eady, Michael Ryan, Joshua Dowling and Sam Bland.

On Saturday there will be two more concerts. On Saturday at 7pm the improvising laptop trio, Raw Green Rust formed by Jules Rawlinson, Owen Green and Dave Murray-Rust will serve up humorous abstract glitch-dub from promiscuous audio processing. On Saturday at 8.30pm there will be a performance featuring Dushume (Amit D. Patel), Maria Witek and Jake Williams.

The full weekend ticket to the three concerts as part of BEAST @ Centrala can be found at: https://bit.ly/3hvmN50

Do come along!

 

Jefferson Park EXP with Visda Goudarzi/Anna Xambó and Gerard Roma – 21 November 2021

 

 

 

Jefferson Park EXP with Visda Goudarzi / Anna Xambó and Gerard Roma – Sunday 21 November at 2pm (CST/UTC-06) on Twitch:

https://www.twitch.tv/jeffersonparkexp

‘immerse in the lake’ is a remote live coding performance for two laptop performers distributed on two different continents. The performance is based on processing sound generated by crowdsourced and personal site-specific field recordings from Chicago throughout the year. The piece is a real-time improvisation and a free interpretation of John Cage’s ‘A Dip in the Lake’.

Visda Goudarzi and Anna Xambó started this collaboration in summer 2021 for the performance “Livesourcing: Audience Participation in a Live Coding Performance” premiered at Ear Taxi Festival, Chicago, IL, USA. 

https://youtu.be/FQXAOBvSZBk

https://www.colum.edu/academics/faculty/detail/visda-goudarzi.html 

http://annaxambo.me 

 

 

 

Gerard Roma investigates the inner life of sounds by poking at computers and other electronic circuits. His work often involves digital transformation of recorded sound textures coerced into algorithmic forms via live coding and self-made audio-visual instruments. 

https://g-roma.github.io

More info of the event here.

Visda Goudarzi and Anna Xambó @ Chicago's Ear Taxi Festival, Friday 24 September 2021

 

On Friday 24 September at 12:00 PM (UTC-05:00, Chicago time) / 6:00 PM (UTC+01:00, London time), Visda Goudarzi and Anna Xambó will be presenting "Livesourcing: Audience Participation in a Live Coding Performance", an online performance at Ear Taxi Festival in Chicago.

Livesourcing: Audience Participation in a Live Coding Performance by Visda Goudarzi and Anna Xambó
12:00 PM (UTC-05:00, Chicago time) virtual performance with audience participation
Free
View performance here

Livesourcing is a participatory remote live coding performance for audience members and laptop performers. The performance is based on processing sound generated by crowdsourced and personal site-specific sounds from Chicago combined with the audience’s influence in real time in a free interpretation of John Cage's A Dip in the Lake.

More info here

EVENT SERIES: META-4 – Sound Chimeras, 20/1

Welcome to the first Music, Technology and Innovation concert of 2016!

Live electronics, improvisation, feedback, audiovisuals, and more. With works and performances by some of De Montfort University Leicester (DMU)'s many talented MTI undergraduates, including:

1 - Harry Smith: 'Salvaged Space'

2 - Tim Baker - Microphone Feedback Extension

3 - Silo - Free Improvisation

Depository of musical events yet to be realized

George Stavridis - Percussion, Electronics 

Brendan Smith - Electric Guitar

George Mizithras - No-input mixer, Laptop

Julie Reboul - Piano 

4 - Calum Vaughan: Modulations and Mechanisms

Wednesday 20 January 2016

PACE Building, Richmond Street, Leicester.
Doors 7PM

Free entry!

Facebook event

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!

Pierre Couprie wins Max Mathews Quartz award for iAnalyse and EAnalysis

Pierre Couprie, software designer behind iAnalyse and EAnalysis, last night won the Max Mathews Prize at at the tenth 'Max Mathews Qwartz Music Awards' ceremony.

The development of EAnalysis initially took place as part of a research project entitled ‘New multimedia tools for electroacoustic music analysis’ at the MTI Research Centre of De Montfort University (Leicester, UK). This initial project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) between 2010 and 2013.

EAnalysis is a sound-based music analysis tool, allowing users to visualise sonograms, work with multiple audio tracks and video and realise works visually with the software's analytical tools.

At the same event, Pierre Henry won a Qwartz award dedicated to his career as a composer and researcher.

A full programme for the event can be found by visiting the Qwartz website. An article (in French) can found by visiting http://qwartz.fr/category/qwartz-10/

Chris Cree Brown: Seminar & Concert, 29 April 2015

Chris Cree Brown (University of Canterbury, NZ), will be visiting MTI on Wednesday the 29 April 2015 to deliver a seminar and concert of his work Pilgrimage to Gallipoli.

Chris Cree Brown's visit will have two parts:

13.00-14.30 – Gateway House Room GH3.54 : A talk on the origins and ideas behind the work

16.00-17.30 – PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond Street : A performance of Pilgrimage to Gallipoli

Abstract

ANZAC (‘Australia and New Zealand Army Corps’) day is celebrated on the 25th April each year, the anniversary of the Gallipoli landings in 1915 during the First World War. This year is thus the centenary. In 2008 the New Zealand composer Chris Cree Brown completed a dramatic radiophonic work which bears witness to these events – it can be performed over a loudspeaker system in a concert hall as will be the case when the composer visits DMU on Wednesday 29th April. Pilgrimage to Gallipoli is an extensive radiophonic work of 85 minutes in two parts. It is the result of more than 14 years of research, audio recordings, and compilation. The work includes recordings Chris made during visits to ANZAC day commemorations at ANZAC cove in 1994 and 2000, along with interviews, site-specific recordings and historic sonic material. His sabbatical leave in 2008 allowed him sufficient space and time essential to compiling this creative response to one of this country’s defining events.
 
Bio-sketch 

Chris Cree Brown is an Associate Professor at the School of Music, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. His main interests include conventional instrumental composition, electroacoustic and computer music, and inter-media art. He has twice been awarded the Mozart Fellowship at the University of Otago, has twice been appointed Composer-in-Schools and has written a number of film scores. Along with Icescape, for orchestra, is an electro-acoustic work, Under Erebus that were a result of his trip to Antarctica under the Artists to Antarctica programme run under the auspices of Antarctic New Zealand and with the assistance of Creative New Zealand. He has a strong interest in musical sculptures, and his Aeolian harps were exhibited in 2002 in the Christchurch Botanical gardens as part of the Art and Industry Scape Biennale. Chris was awarded the KBB/CANZ citation for services to New Zealand Music in 2010. His work has been performed in many countries, including Australia, UK, Finland, Hungary, France, Germany, Canada, Portugal, Russia, USA.

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.

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

Recent News: Luca Forcucci – Exhibition at Berlin's Scotty Enterprises + recent concerts

Electraoacoustic composer Luca Forcucci is currently hosting at exhibition at the Scotty Entreprise in Berlin until the 21st of February 2015. In a concert tonight (18/02/2015), Luca will perform 'In a Silent Way' – Audrey Chen (China/USA), Satch Hoyt (UK/USA) will also perform.

Source: http://willychyr.com/tag/luca-forcucci/

Find more information about the event on Facebook.

Throughout 2014 Luca participated in a wide variety of events. These include hosting a concert and workshop at RAME, receiving a grant from Pro Helvetia for research into EEG technology and also undertaking residencies at Berlin's ZK/U and the Swiss institute in Rome. Luca's compositions have been included in concert series across Italy, Switzerland and China.

Luca is a PhD student within the Music, Technology & Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University. For more information click here.