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).

Online Symposium Dec 15/16 2023 - HfM Trossingen - AI in Music - Agency, Performance, Production and Perception

 

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a new chapter in the ongoing development of technological tools that promise to transform the processes of creative work and artistic production. Now is the time to reconsider the relation of art and AI in practice, its aesthetic potential and to actively participate in and shape the transition and development of artistic and technological professions in the field of AI and music.

The symposium brings together experienced artists, practitioners, researchers and engineers who have been known for crossing over between composition, production, design and performance, engineering and development. The event addresses questions related to the agency of data, AI ethics, performance, and perception.

The symposium organisers hope to provide context from which to approach and make even more sense of the new and revolutionary tools bleeding edge research places at our fingertips.
 

Keynotes:

"Deconstructing data: the compositional process as critical inquiry"
Artemi Gioti (University College London, UK)

"Creative Dialectics: Playing with Intelligent Instruments"
Thor Magnusson (University of Sussex, UK)

Full Program and registration: https://eveeno.com/ai-in-music-symposium

Prof Emmerson – keynote at MuSA 2023 / MANTIS performance

On October 28th Emeritus Professor Simon Emmerson was the keynote speaker at the Music and Sonic Arts (MuSA 2023) conference in Manchester, presenting a paper ‘Imagination and Image (in sonic art)’.

That same evening he was MANTIS Festival's 'featured guest artist' in a presentation of his acousmatic work 'Near and Far (at once)' which he had discussed in the earlier keynote.

 

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

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.

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/

Recent News: Leigh Landy 'Compose Your Words', US Tour & EuroMAC 2014 Keynote

Leigh Landy's has recently released “Compose Your Words. Commissioned by Intelligent Arts, it is an ePublication available on Amazon and many other such providers. 

You can purchase the eBook here.

He also made a tour through the US in November. This included four concerts in three states, including a concert at Stony Brook University repeated at a Manhattan Gallery, a one-composer concert in Oregon and an MTI concert at the South West Electronic Music Festival in Arizona, and six talks. He visited Stony Brook University in New York State, Arizona State University where he discussed exchange potential between their Arts, Media and Engineering Group and the MTI, the Leicester Media School and the Dance programmes and the University of Oregon. 

Lastly, Leigh also gave a keynote talk and chaired a round table discussion at the European Music Analysis Conference (EuroMAC 2014) at the University of Leuven, Belgium on 20 September 2014 as part of a two-day session “Listening to Electroacoustic Music through Analysis”. His paper was titled: “How Listening-based Analysis Can Aid the Understanding and Appreciation of Electroacoustic Music”.

More information about the conference can be found by visiting http://www.euromac2014.eu.

Leigh Landy Premieres New ZKM Commission

In November, Leigh Landy presented two works in the main Kubus concert at the ARD Hörspiel Tage (Radio Play Festival) at the ZKM – this included his new ZKM commissioned work, Radio-aktiv, composed in 24-channels for the Sound Dome and his work, To BBC or Not. Both works contain samples taken from national radio recording which are recomposed. All three of his radio pieces, along with other works, will be presented during De Montfort University's Cultural Exchanges Festival in late February 2012.

He will also present a keynote talk and a composition at the Symposium for Performance of Electronic and Experimental Music (SPEEC) at Oxford University 6-7 January 2012.

Summer 2011 Keynotes by MTI Staff

MTI staff will be presenting keynote addresses at the following events: Simon Emmerson NZEMS/ACMA 2011 (Auckland, July) & ICMC 2011 (Huddersfield, July/Aug.); Leigh Landy “Technology and Aesthetics” Conference (Oslo, May), Forum for Innovation in Music Production and Composition (Leeds, May), EMS2011 (New York, June).