Edward Clijsen presents at Innovation in Music 2025, Bath

PhD Student Edward Clijsen delivered a paper at the Innovation in Music Conference 2025 (InMusic25) at Bath Spa University, 20-22nd June, 2025. The paper reflected on the compositional process and outcomes of composing the piece Äußern (2024) for the ’19-div’ and ‘quarter-tone’ microtonal trumpets, in collaboration with Stephen Altoft of Microtonal Projects.

 

Stefano Catena in Lyon

Stefano Catena's composition Travelling Without Moving continues to have performances having been accepted for the JIM/LAC (Journées de l'Informatique Musicale/Linux Audio Conference) artistic programme in Lyon from the 23rd to 28^th of June. It will be played at the Théâtre Astrée of Lyon 1 University in 8.1 channel format.
The full programme is here: https://jimlac25.inria.fr/program/

Théâtre Astrée, Lyon

Edward Clijsen to present at the Biennial International Society of Metal Music Studies Conference, Seville

PhD student Edward Clijsen will be delivering a paper at the 7th BiennialResearch Conference for the International Society of Metal Music Studies (ISMMS), Seville, 3-6th June, 2025. The presentation will discuss the position of microtonality in the extreme, experimental and progressive metal musical landscape and reflect on how this has/will inform his compositional style and approach.

 

 

Professor Leigh Landy to offer his second keynote talk at the WOCMAT Conference-Festival in Taiwan

The 20th WOCMAT (Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology) Conference and Taiwan Computer Music Festival has invited Leigh Landy to offer a keynote address (as he did in Taiwan in 2016) and present a recent composition. Mainly attended by musicians and developers from East Asia, this event brings Chinese and Taiwanese specialists together with colleagues from around the globe. During the festival 20-21 December 2024, he will offer a talk entitled ‘Practising what I preach <–> Preaching what I practise’ focusing on how his artistic work and his scholarship both reflect his desire to bring new music to new audiences and participants. The talk focuses on his two books that appeared within the last twelve months as well as his two current series of compositions. His goal is to indicate to conference attendees how important this goal is. He will also be presenting a recent work from one of those two composition series, ‘Qing + Cha 磬 + 镲     Old / New 舊 / 新’ (2023) in concert a work whose sonic material consists solely of sounds from qing (bowls) and cha (Chinese cymbals).

Battey's 'Estuaries 4' Screening at Musica Acoustica Hangzhou, Sound/Image Greenwich

Bret Battey's audiovisual composition 'Estauries 4' has been programmed for the Musicacoustica Hangzhou Festival, China, which runs Sep 24-29 at the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music. 

'Estuaries 4' has also been programmed for the Sound/Image Festival 2024 at University of Greenwich, where Battey will also present his audiovisual installation work 'Traces, Molten' and a paper on 'Estuaries 4'.

 

Anna Xambó keynote @ Audio Developer Conference 2023

 

 

MTI's Anna Xambó Sedó will be giving a keynote on Tuesday, November 14, at the Audio Developer Conference 2023, with a talk titled From NIME to NISE: Rethinking the design and evaluation of musical interfaces:

https://adc23.sched.com/event/1PudY/keynote-from-nime-to-nise-rethinking-the-design-and-evaluation-of-musical-interfaces

On Wednesday, November 15, Josh Reiss will be giving a keynote entitled Commercialisation of Audio Technology:

https://adc23.sched.com/event/1Pueo/keynote-commercialisation-of-audio-technology

The conference runs from November 13th to 15th - the full programme is available here:

https://adc23.sched.com

To find out more about ADC23, visit:

https://audio.dev/adc23/

There are only a handful of tickets still available for the in-person event in London, although tickets for the online experience via the Gather Virtual Venue platform are still on sale. To find out more and register a place, take a look at the link below.

https://audio.dev

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.

 

Battey's 'Estuaries 4' Scheduled for NoiseFloor and ICMC 2022

Prof Battey's audiovisual work Estuaries 4 has been chosen for screening in the Staffordshire University NoiseFloor Festival (12-13 May) and the 2022 International Computer Music Conference (Limerik, Ireland, 3-9 July).

 

 

 

MTI's Anna Xambó gives keynote @ Web Audio Conference 2021, 5-7 July

MTI's Anna Xambó will be giving a keynote on Monday, July 5th, at the Web Audio Conference 2021, which this year is taking place online:

https://webaudioconf2021.com

The conference runs from July 5th to 7th - full programme available here:
https://webaudioconf2021.com/schedule-wac

MTI's Anna Xambó will be also performing on Tuesday, July 6th, a live coding session named "Live Coding with Crowdsourced Sounds and A Virtual Agent Companion" scheduled in two timeslots to accommodate different timezones.

EMERGENCE - Four Day Sound Art Symposium at De Montfort University

International Sound artists converge in Leicester for lectures, live performances, discussions, and the unexpected

Emergence — it’s that elusive, inexplicable, seemingly magical moment that can occur when two or more people come together to work on a project, discuss an idea or play music together.  At some point a “third voice” may emerge, a result or an idea that no one could have predicted and that no individual could have come up working in isolation.

Emergence will be the unifying theme this September when Craig Vear, Professor of Digital Performance (music) and head of the Performance Research Group along with Simon Smith, former technician for the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre (MTIRC), now with Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge, welcome an international line-up of sound artists, educators, and live performers to the campus of De Montfort University for the Kyma International Sound Symposium (KISS2016) 7-10 September 2016.

Unique features of this intensive, idea-packed event are to include an improvised conduction performance by the Emergent Ensemble; a 3-D sound immersion lecture/concert in De Montfort University's 20+ speaker DOME; a 3-D film with a live sound track; workshops on ecosystemic composition; collaborations across international and disciplinary borders; and a celebratory club concert featuring live digital and acoustic instruments, vocals and analog synthesis. 

Crossing Borders

The sub-theme of KISS2016 is “crossing borders”, in both the national and disciplinary sense.  Artists, educators, professional performers, sound designers, and researchers from Austria, China, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the USA will be in Leicester to share their expertise through talks, demonstrations, and live performances.

Spanning a wide range of backgrounds, from academics to sound engineers to professional performers, improvisers and students, the participants share a common language — the Kyma software is used by Hollywood sound designers and professional game audio developers, as well as by avant-garde and experimental composers and sound artists, improvisors, live acoustic performers, and forward-thinking club DJs to create live, interactive performance environments using sound.

Franz Danksagmüller, professor of organ and improvisation at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck Germany commented on the wide range of backgrounds: "The participants represent the whole universe of music making: producers, composers, performers, scientists, sound designer, academics, beginners and experts. Being able to talk to everybody, asking questions to everybody and making all the contacts is invaluable!"

Changing lives

Conferences are essential points of contact and connection for working professionals, but at times they have an even greater impact on students.  De Montfort PhD candidate Marinos Giannoukakis is organizing an ambitious international line-up of performers for concert of 3-D sound using the PACE-1 DOME system, and several other De Montfort students will get free access to the events in exchange for helping out at the registration desk, running tech for the concerts, and capturing the events on video, putting them in face-to-face contact with professionals working in their chosen field.

Olga Oseth credits the Kyma International Sound Symposium with her decision to pursue graduate studies in live digital performance at the University of Oregon.  "When I attended my first KISS conference, KISS 2012, at St Cloud State University as a student worker, one particular concert literally changed my life. At that point I realized that kind of interactive performance was even more fun than just a plain old piano performance. Also KISS conferences have the warmest, friendliest/family atmosphere compare to other conferences I have been to. Looking forward to KISS 2016!"

Explore the full program here: http://kiss2016.symbolicsound.com/program-overview/

Register now to immerse yourself in a creative environment that will inspire you for years to come! http://kiss2016.symbolicsound.com/kiss2016-registration

Based on current registration levels, we are anticipating a record turn-out this year. So please be sure to reserve your spot by registering as soon as possible. Thanks! 

Landy, Emmerson & Andean to present at Alternative Histories of Electronic Music conference at the Science Music, London

Between 14-16 April, the conference “Alternative Histories of Electronic Music” will be held at the Science Museum in London. The conference, supported by a research grant related to the pioneering work in this field by Hugh Davies and which is led by the University of Leeds in association with the Science Museum has invited two DMU Music, Technology and Innovation Professors, Simon Emmerson and Leigh Landy to provide keynote talks. MTI member James Andean will also be offering a paper meaning that DMU has possibly the largest delegation at this prestigious event. 

The Cambridge University Press journal Organised Sound will devote an issue to a selection of papers delivered at the event.


For further information, see: https://ahem2016.wordpress.com/

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.

MAKE||SOUND Symposium 'Making Sound in Public Space' tomorrow at Curve Theatre, Leicester

Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre & Faculty of Technology, Research Seminar Series

De Montfort University, Leicester

Venue: RR2, Curve Theatre
Date and time: 12.00-c.6.00pm, Friday 12 June

Symposium: Making Sound in Public Space
Make||Sound presents an afternoon of talks on the topic of sonic art and public engagement hosted in partnership with the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre - De Montfort University.

MTI members John Richards and Steve Jones are joined by guest speakers/keynotes Nye Parry, Nicola Dibben, Franz Rosati and Simonne Jones. Topics discussed include public engagement and accessibility in relation to sound art, commercial/experimental music crossovers, mobile media and portability, and community music-making with dirty electronics.

12.00: Peter Batchelor, Welcome
12.15: Nye Parry, Public Engagement, Private Divorce: Contexts and motivations in a Sonic Arts Practice13.00: Lunch
14.00: Nicola Dibben, Music-making for Mobile Devices: Björk's "Biophilia" App Album
14.40: Steve Jones, Roaming: mobility, media and the capture of (public) place
15.10: John Richards, Blood, Sweat and Music15.50: Break
16.00: Louise Rossiter & Jack Richardson, Networking the Arts: Introduction of the Art & Sound Symposium
16.20: Simonne Jones, The Secrets of the Universe
17.00: Franz Rosati, Contact; Shock: minimal and maximal approaches to electronic live music
17.45: Performance: Franz Rosati, Ruinsc.18.15: End

Full information, including abstracts, available here: http://makefestival.uk/talk

Tickets Free; Space Limited. Please book here: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/makesound-tickets-16923438460

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)

Two MTI Students to present at European Association of Music in School (EAS) 2015

Doctoral students Jack Richardson and David Holland will be presenting at the upcoming European Association of Music in Schools Conference 2015 being held in Rostock, Germany between 25-28 March.

Titled Open Ears – Open Minds, this will be the 23rd EAS Annual Conference.

The conference is organised by the Rostock University of Music and Drama (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock). The main conference also coincides with the EAS Student Forum 2015 and the EAS Doctoral Student Forum 2015, both taking place between 24-26 March.

David Holland will present a poster regarding his work on 'Heightened Listening', whilst Jack Richardson will explore 'Experience and Perception in Music Education'.

Additionally, David will be presenting his paper 'Listening to the inner soundscape: A constructivist model for opening minds to soundbased music'.

More information about EAS and the EAS Annual Conference 2015 can be found by visiting the association's website.

Follow the conference on Twitter: @EAS_Music
Follow Jack Richardson on Twitter: @jackwillrich

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.

LLEAPP Symposium, March 4-6th 2015

PACE, Phoenix Café Bar & Leicester Hackspace 

LLEAPP (Laboratory for Laptop and Electronic Audio Performance Practice) is a collective of musician-researchers based in Edinburgh. It is run on the basis of a 3-day practice-led symposium, discussing tactics and strategies for collaborative play, a series of open rehearsals, and finishes with a performance each day.

LLEAPP started in 2009 at the University of Edinburgh, has since been held at different universities across the UK, and is being hosted this year by De Montfort University, Leicester.

Among featured guests will be Hong Kong-based Takuro Lippit (aka DJ Sniff), a turntablist working in the field of improvised and experimental music; cellist and string arranger Audrey Riley whose work ranges from The Smiths to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; Swedish noise artist Max Wainwright; mobile artist Steranko; and John Richards with members of the Dirty Electronics Ensemble.

Forcucci in Berlin, Basel, Freiburg, Saillon

Doctoral student Luca Forcucci presented his work at numerous events in the first half of 2014:

• Lecture at the Technical University of Berlin — January 30
• Sound Installation at the House of Electronic Arts, Basel — Feb 26 - March 16
• Artist's Talk at the International Symposium Border Sounds, Freiburg — Mar 21-22
• Presentation of M(a)(e)rgin(g)s at the Zentrum Fuer Kunst und Urbanstik, Berlin — May 23. "Soundscapes from the city of Sao Paulo in Brazil have been recorded. The sound is deterritorialised, abstracted from its original ‘milieu’, reterritorialised and attached to the structure of the ephemeral construction built by Studio OSK at ZK/U Berlin. An imaginary territory emerges through the layering of Sao Paulo, Berlin and the structure itself: a sonic Moiré pattern questioning borders."

He has an upcoming concert and seminar at Rencontres AME, Saillon — Aug 27-31, and a presentation at the Electroacoustic Music Studies conference in Berlin — Jun 12.

Sound, Sight, Space and Play Conference 2014

The SSSP (Sound, Sight, Space and Play) conference is taking place at De Montfort University 18-20 June 2014. The conference is run by postgraduate students in the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre and is primarily aimed at postgraduates in the field of sonic art and electroacoustic music, although all are welcome to participate. 

This years event features a wide range of research papers with keynotes by: Norah Lorway (University of Birmingham), Tullis Rennie (SARC) and Lelio Camilleri (GB Martini Conservatory of Music). There are also installations to be seen alongside two concerts, an algorave and a listening room. 

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open at the following link: http://store.dmu.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=190

An early bird rate of £35 will be avaliable until 9 June 2014. Thereafter the standard rate of £45 will apply. Further details about the conference as well as the preliminary schedule can be viewed on the SSSP website: www.sssp.dmu.ac.uk. 

Neal Spowage at Music and/as Process Huddersfield

Photo Credit - Rebecca Carter

Postgraduate student Neal Spowage has just presented Frozen Venus to delegates at the Music and/as Process Symposium at the University of Huddersfield on 30th July 2013.

Frozen Venus is a performance work that demonstrates six new Plungerphone electronic instruments. It explores them using a series of states that involve grouping power, leadership, control and support. The intention of the performance is to demonstrate how controlling and manipulating others has a dark ambition. It hovers between intimacy and opposition. Not necessarily political, but rather social and humanistic, we project a symmetry where every dynamic component is shadowed by dark comedy.