DMU Article on Leigh Landy's Cape Town Visit

On Nov 1, 2024, De Montfort University released a news article discussed Prof Leigh Landy's recent visit to Cape Town, where he was a featured artist at the Bowed Electrons Festival:

DMU professor headlines ground-breaking music festival in Cape Town

 

 

Prof Landy: Visiting Professor at Cape Town / Bowed Electrons Festival

Professor Leigh Landy will visit the University of Cape Town’s South African College of Music between 23 August and 2 September, first as Visiting Professor and then as the focus of the Bowed Electrons 2024 festival. After teaching students in composition and music technology, he will present several talks on his work as composer and as scholar at BE24 and present two full-length concerts of his works the climax of which will be the premiere performance of his latest work, Musical Bow Old / New, made in close collaboration with master musician, Dizu Plaatjies. The musical bow is the oldest non-percussion instrument on the African continent, derived from the hunting bow. The work celebrates how something ancient can remain dynamic and relevant across time and cultures. It consists solely of samples of Plaatjies playing different musical bows and some stories about the instrument and involves him playing live as well as eight channels of surround sound creating an immersive and intimate musical bow environment. UCT/SACM is a partner of DMU’s Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre.

 

Art of Sound: interview with John Young in new book

An interview with DMU Professor John Young has been published in a new book—Art of Sound: Creativity in Film Sound and Electroacoustic Music.  The book, by DMU graduate Prof. Andrew Knight-Hill and Dr Emma Margetson, published by Routledge, contains interviews with and discussions between 17 creatives working in fields of music and film sound design. 

The book was launched in November 2023 at the University of Greenwich's Sound/Image Festival, where John Young also gave a solo concert in the Bathway Theatre, Woolwich.

 

 

+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

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).

 

 

 

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

John Young at Espace du Son, Brussels

Professor John Young will give two concerts at the Espace du Son Festival in Brussels in November, on the 54-channel acousmonium in the Théâtre Marni. One performance is devoted entirely to his own work and in second show he will present a recent work by Pete Batchelor alongside pieces he has selected by Brazilian and US composers. Other composers performing in the Festival are Åke Parmerud (Sweden), Flo Menezes (Brazil) and Yves Daoust (Québec).

John Young at Espace du Son, Brussels

Prof. John Young will give two concerts at the Espace du Son Festival in Brussels in November, on the 54-channel acousmonium in the Théâtre Marni. One performance is devoted entirely to his own work and in second show he will present a recent work by Pete Batchelor alongside pieces he has selected by Brazilian and US composers. Other composers performing in the Festival are Åke Parmerud (Sweden), Flo Menezes (Brazil) and Yves Daoust (Québec).

Luca Forcucci: UCLA Future Lab and more…

Doctoral student Luca Forcucci will present his work in October as part of the UCLA Future Lab and discuss issues on Sonic Arts and Architecture. Also in October, he will present a concert at the 15th International Festival for New Media Culture  Art+Communication 2013 / Riga / Latvia.

He has also recently presented work at the Ionian University in Corfu, Greece, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel during the Biennale of Venice, the “Hörraum:Atmosphären” within “Kultur:Stadt exhibition” at the Akademie der Künste / Berlin / Germany and UNESP / University of Sao Paulo / Brazil.

Panos Amelides: "Alexandros" at Mediterranea 16

Doctoral student Panos Amelides's sonic narrative Alexandros will represent Greece at Mediterranea 16  –­ the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean – which is being held in Ancona, Italy, from 6th June to 7th July.  The work carries the listener on a journey that recaptures the sounds of a failed attempt in 1968 to assassinate the Greek dictator of the time, Georgios Papadopoulos, and studies the political persona of the would-be assassin. More details are available at this DMU News story.

Beams and Sonorities: The Electronic Dumbell

Photo: Sally Trussler

Doctoral student Neal Spowage appears in the news section of the winter 2011 edition of Computer Music Journal, performing with his Electronic Dumbell at the BEAM 2011 festival.

His piece sib Conduit, which he composed for his Electronic Dumbell in collaboration with choreographer Danai Pappa, has been accepted to the Sonorities 2012 Festival at Queens University, Belfast.

Leigh Landy and MTI Concert at Musicacoustica, Beijing 2011

Leigh Landy performed in the opening concert at this year’s Musicacoustica 2011 festival in Beijing in October. A picture of Landy performing appeared in ‘China Daily’. He also presented an entire MTI concert at this festival.

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.