Introduction to Making Digital Music Instruments - 3 March 2023

 

An interactive and hands-on two-part workshop to explore how digital musical instruments can be used to surprise and excite audiences. The event, led by Dr Juan Martinez Avila, will have a guest talk by Dr Anna Xambó Sedó about New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIMEs) in workshop 1. Workshop 2 is scheduled for 10 March 2023.

Date and time: 3 March 2023, 11 am - 5 pm 

Location: University of Nottingham

More info about the event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-making-digital-music-instruments-2-x-6-hour-workshops-tickets-453842243367 

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.

Landy Residency at Sibelius Academy

Professor Leigh Landy was in residence with the The Centre for Music & Technology at Sibelius Academy of Finland in March 2014, discussing his work as a composer, recent research projects, and the notion of sound-based music, and presenting a solo concert.

Leigh Landy's ‘Radio Series’ in Madrid, Bordeaux, Karlsruhe & Shenyang

In March and April, all three of Professor Leigh Landy’s radio compositions are receiving international performances. To BBC or Not was presented on the 14th of March in the Reina Sofia Concert Hall in Madrid as part of the international conference/festival, Sound Spaces and Visual Spaces (where he also gave two talks). On the 21st of March Oh là la radio will be performed in Bordeaux at l’Agora du Haut Carré as part of the national TPMC (Tout pour la musique contemporaine – Everything for Contemporary Music) series. On the 26th of April, Radio-aktiv will be performed in the closing concert of the MTI’s EU Culture project Composing with Sounds concert at the ZKM’s Kubus concert hall (Centre for Art and Media Technology) in Karlsruhe, Germany. Landy will be creating the fourth work in the series in Mandarin with students from the Shenyang Conservatory of Music in the autumn.

Oded Ben-Tal on the Emerging Digital Improviser

Oded Ben-Tal (Kingston University) visits MTI and the Institute of Creative Technologies on Wednesday, 8 February to discuss "From algorithmic composition to live electronics, or an emerging digital improviser". Ben-Tal will describe his mixed (acoustic + electronic) compositions. He will start from pieces with fixed tape parts generated algorithmically, but will focus primarily on the implementation of simple machine listening strategies for live, interactive work. At issue will be the question at which point (if at all) does this become an improvising system.

1pm. IOCT Lab, Gateway Street, Leicester