New work by John Young and Simon Perril at Electroacoustic Spring in Rethymno, Crete

John Young's new work Filaments and Phases (2023) will be premiered at the Electroacoustic Spring 2023 Festival in Rethymno, Greece on Saturday 3 June.  The piece is a further setting of a section of Simon Perril's poem Sun Deck Set Cogitation—also used by John and Simon in two installations: at the Historic Dockyard Chatham and at Phoenix Cinema and Arts Centre, Leicester in late 2022 and March 2023 respectively—the latter as part of DMU's Cultural Exchanges Festival. Filaments and Phases is an 8-channel immersive audio work with Perril's reading of his text embedded as the sound is taken apart and reassembled into new and evocative sound forms.

https://mta.hmu.gr/en/activities/musical-events/electroacoustic-spring-2023/

 

 

POSTPONED: MTI Postgrad concert 19 April, PACE Studio 1

Due to unforseen circumstances this even has been postponed. It will not be on 19 April. Please check back soon for a new date!

MTI Postgraduates will present new work in PACE Studio 1: 19 April, 7pm.

Live performance, audiovisual and immersive audio work, including work by Stefano Catena, Ross Davidson, Matt London, Manit Mehta, Sam Rai, Matt Rogerson.

Admission free.

John Young wins Francis-Dhomont Prize in Montréal

John Young (Professor of Composition) has been awarded the inaugural Francis-Dhomont Prize in the AKOUSMAtique Competition for immersive digital music held at the week-long 2022 Akousma Festival in Montréal last week.  John's work—Le Chant en dehors—was created in the DMU Institute for Sonic Creativity's Diffusion Studio using a 16.2 channel 'dome' format.  Three works were selected from all entries for a final concert in the Music Multimedia Room at McGill University which comprises a system of 64 loudspeakers to form a totally immersive sonic experience.  The composer finalists spent four days in Montréal rehearsing their works in the performance space after which an international jury made the award. The Francis-Dhomont Prize carries a cash award of $4,000 and is named in honour of the eminent French electroacoustic music composer Francis Dhomont. A further audience prize of $1,500 was made to Italian composer Nicola Giannini.  The other finalist was Greek composer Panayiotis Kokoras, Director of the Centre for Experimental Music and Intermedia at the University of North Texas.  
https://mailchi.mp/akousma/concours_akousmatique_competition

                           The Music Multimedia Room at McGill University, Montréal