detuning a tuning: New Album Release by Anna Xambó

We are pleased to announce the new album release detuning a tuning by Anna Xambó on the Carpal Tunnel netlabel.

Here is the press release of the album:

You wake up in the middle of the night. In your dream, you lived along with other creatures inside a huge piano. The piano was being tuned and detuned at the same time. Strings snapped, and large pieces were breaking off, making a range of screeching, banging and scratching noises, with the occasional note. There were some voices outside, and you worried about finding a new place to live. You remember playing the piano as a kid, and wonder how it would be to take it again, then go back to sleep. detuning a tuning by Anna Xambó was released on 11 February 2023 by Carpal Tunnel.

Find out further information and download the album from:

• detuning a tuning on carpaltunnel.cat
• detuning a tuning on carpal-tunnel.bandcamp.com
  

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.

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!

John Young's 'Red Sky' Premieres 12 April 2015

John Young, composer and professor within the Department of Music, Technology & Innovation, will be premiering 'Red Sky' – a new work on a World War One theme – at 7pm on 12 April 2015. The event will take place at Leicester's New Walk Museum.

Red Sky is for alto flute, clarinets, piano and electroacoustic sounds. It was written for Carla Rees, Heather Roche and Xenia Pestova, musicians well known for their support for contemporary music generally and widely admired in the EA community.

The piece incorporates oral history recordings of 20 WWI veterans, men and women, most recorded in the '70s and '80s within a mixed EA/instrumental 'cinema for the ear', offering something of a journey through aspects of their wartime experience. Their stories are both disturbing and uplifting.

The performance marks the closing of the first of Leicester City Council's series of World War One exhibitions and is supported by the Arts Council England, Leicester City Council, The Imperial War Museum and De Montfort University.

De Montfort University have posted a news piece containing a brief interview with John, which can be found by visiting:  http://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/news/2015/march/world-premiere-of-dmu-composers-tribute-to-war-dead-will-be-cinema-for-the-ears.aspx

Recent News: Neal Spowage – Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space Shortlist & Crafting Anatomies Exhibition

Postgraduate student Neal Spowage has had two of his recent collaborations with Danai Pappa shortlisted for the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space in June 2015. The works are Cold Papaya for speaker bra and wireless shovel, and Frozen Venus for six plunger phones. 

They are being considered for the DISK performances in the Spacelab section of the performing arts festival that explores the themes of shared space, interpreting music, weather and politics.

Additionally, Neal has recently collaborated with Ania Sadkowska, a postgraduate researcher from Nottingham Trent University, to produce a soundtrack for her fashion work that is constructed from her research interviews. It was on a continuous loop, accompanying Ania's garments, at the Crafting Anatomies exhibition in the Bonnington Gallery at NTU between 7th January to 14th February 2015.

Crafting Anatomies placed the human body at the centre of a multi-disciplinary dialogue; exploring how this entity has been interpreted, crafted and re-imagined in historical, contemporary and future contexts.

For more information about Neal, please visit his website: http://www.nealspowage.com

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!

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

Leicester Media School - Music, Technology and Innovation New Media Events 2013-2014 - Launch Party Events

The Music, Technology and Innovation Department and Research Centre launch the public events of the Leicester Media School with two showcases of their wide ranging recent creative output. These two concerts cover audio, audio-visual, dirty electronics, surround sound immersion and much more … on PACE 1’s purpose built multichannel system. It’s a party - come along – free!

Wednesday October 9^th, 2013 7.00pm

PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

Pete Batchelor Kaleidoscope: Cycle - Pulse + Fuse (8 channel surround sound)

Louise Rossiter SiO₂ (8 channel surround sound)

Louise Rossiter/Andrew Connor Teahouse Memories (audio-visual)

John Young 5 Versions of Reality (multi-speaker diffusion)

Wednesday October 23^rd, 2013 7.00pm

PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

Simon Atkinson Three Modulations for Mute Synth II (multi-speaker diffusion)

Amit D Patel aka Dushume-Svaramaya Bass In The Pace.... (bespoke instruments create noise beneath the surface)

Ben Ramsay Flinch-Rest (multi-speaker diffusion)

John Richards Mute Synth live (with Dirty Electronics)

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/