Following this, he will continue to Guadalajara where he will offer talks and workshops at ITESO Universidad and the MAZ museum.
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Leigh Landy returns to the Visiones Sonoras festival in Mexico
Prof Landy: Visiting Professor at Cape Town / Bowed Electrons Festival
Ross Davidson — New Screenings and Concert
Ross is also performing live in an upcoming concert in the reading room of Western Bank Library, at the University of Sheffield, working with sounds recorded in the library, processed through a modular synthesiser. Link: https://performancevenues.group.shef.ac.uk/event/music-for-the-reading-room/
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.
The MTI² at the British Science Festival 2022
The MTI² had a strong presence at September’s British Science Festival including a talk, a performance and a sound installation.
James Andean presented the talk Stories of Sound to an unexpectedly very large audience. This engaging talk recognised his passionate belief that the role sound has in our perception of the world often goes unrecognised. The talk focused on ‘sonic narratives’ which is also a focus in his compositions, unpicking the unique and incredible capacity that sound has for communicating actions, environments and meanings within our lives – transporting us to new and remembered worlds, as well as building a sense of the world around us.
Anna Xambó Sedó presented When Virtual Meets Reality, a research concert at the Manhattan 34 Cellar Bar on September 16, 2022, consisting of a presentation, performance and Q&A. The presentation introduced the practice of live coding and the music technologies that were going to be used in the performance. The performance was a live coding session using the self-developed tool MIRLCa. The audience was invited to participate in a live chat by suggesting words or 'tags' to be used by the performer to search sounds. The session concluded with a Q&A including the results of an online survey distributed among the audience. The performance can be seen online here. The British Science Festival writes: ‘the same code that creates the web pages and apps we use every day can be used to create music'. She sources her sonic material in real-time from an online collection of Creative Commons crowdsourced sonic samples, Freesound.org. All such concerts are one-of-a-kind performances as decisions are made during the performance and, of course, audience input will always be different.
Bret Battey’s contemplative, audiovisual installation Traces, Molten premiered Sep 13-16 at LCB Depot as part of DMU’s collaboration with the British Science Festival. The ultra-high-definition video was rendered with custom software that uses thousands of individual optimisation search agents to create highly intricate, gradually transforming textures. Battey provided a quote from Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ as an epigram to the installation: ‘See ever so far, there is limitless space outside that, / Count ever so much, there is limitless time around that.’
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.
EVENTS SERIES 2015-16: Poulomi Desai & Anat Ben-David, 2 December 2015
PACE Studio 1
Richmond Street
De Montfort University
Poulomi Desai is best known for her large-scale sound and photography installations that interrogate the politics of identity, listening and perception. Inspired by her post-punk theatre background, her tools are image-based, textual, performative and acoustic, traversing boundaries of physical location and structures of presentation. Her current pre-occupation investigates sacrilegious sound and vision through the machinations of her prepared, modified sitar, electronics, sirens, VLF and radio soundscapes, and slide projections, performing on the noise and free improviser scenes.
Recent performances and installations include, Fort Process, Clandestino, Colour Out Space, Supernormal festivals and appearances at Cafe Oto. Commissions and exhibitions include, The Serpentine Gallery, The Photographers Gallery, The Science Museum, INIVA, The Queens Museum (USA), The Oxford Gallery (India), Futuresonic UK and Souzouzukan 9001 Japan. Her work has been published in four books, Red Threads, Different, Terrorist Assemblages and Out of Place. She runs Usurp Art, an experimental tactical media artist-led space where she has curated over 100 exhibitions and events. "Her irreverent aim is to shatter the contours of these fixed notions of sexual, national, cultural, personal, political and diasporic identities" - Professor Stuart Hall Different Pub.Phaidon.
Poulomi Desai will be joined by Dushume.
www.poulomidesai.tumblr.com | www.usurp.org.uk | www.youtube.com/usurps
Poulomi Desai will be joined by Dushume.
www.poulomidesai.tumblr.com | www.usurp.org.uk | www.youtube.com/usurps
Since 2003, she has been a member of the group Chicks On Speed and has also been a member of Art Rules Crew. She has produced many solo works and albums and has had exhibitions and performances at many leading international venues and galleries including: Tate Britain, ICA, London, MoMA New York, Migros Museum, Zurich and the Pompidou Centre, Paris.
“Anat is a wonderful performer… part Laibach, a dash of Einsturzende Neubauten, add a touch of Marlene Dietrich and Doris Day, marinate it in a freezer with Busby Berkeley, Pina Bausch and Valie Export, et voila! That's what the image of her shows at that time... it's accurate, believe me. As for me trying to squeeze my tiny ego into a portrait by Rankin, well, the results speak for themselves. If in any doubt, please call 999 and ask for the fire service.” Douglass Gordon (Destroy Rankin project for youth music 2009)
Anat will perform the piece The Unexpected Whiz for large group featuring Dirty Electronics.
www.yippieyeah.co.uk/anat
EVENT SERIES: Maya Verlaak, Manolis Manousakis and Neal Spowage
PACE Studio 1, Richmond Street, Leicester, LE2 7BQ
Entry Free
Maya Verlaak will perform two works for small group that explore the characteristics and limitations of musical instruments as a departure point for generating compositional material and structures. Because of this working method, her pieces are bound to particular performers and instruments. This necessitates rewriting the piece when it is taken up by different performers, forcing her to re-evaluate the connection between her musical concepts and their means of execution. http://www.maya.ricercata.org
Neal Spowage presents some short video art pieces including New Track of Unknown Terra I & II: an audio visual filmed performance demonstrating the Beast sculptural instrument in an industrial landscape. http://www.nealspowage.com
Manolis Manousakis will present video/dance work Soma with Sania Stribakou (dance) and Panagiotis Goubouros (video) and also short fixed media compositions from Soundscapes Landscapes: Birds, Banana Church, and Sygrou Av. http://www.medeaelectronique.com
Note: There will also be seminar presentations by Maya Verlaak, Manolis Manousakis and Neal Spowage from 1.00 in the MTIRL, Clephan Building, DMU (all welcome).
Two MTI staff members return from a busy trip to China
Professor Leigh Landy and Dr John Richards have both just returned from a fleeting and varied trip to China, where they visited historic institutions, gave performances and presentations, and continued work to strengthen international ties between China and De Montfort University.
John Richards presented a talk at the Shanghai Electroacoustic Music Week Festival and followed that up with a combined workshop and performance at the Shanghai Theatre Academy. He also gave a presentation on design and sound objects at the Centre for Digital Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai. In Beijing the following week, he performed in the Miji Minifest curated by Yan Jun where he also worked with musicians and artist from Beijing. Finally, he joined Leigh Landy to present a talk at the China Conservatory in Beijing, the MTI’s newest partner.
Leigh Landy had a slightly lengthier schedule there including a talk at the Shanghai Conservatory’s Composition Department and meetings with their Dean of Sound Engineering regarding potential future collaboration. He also met with staff from the new Zhejiang Conservatory in Hangzhou (in Shanghai) and is expected to visit this new conservatoire in the spring.
He was featured composer at this year’s Musicacoustica Festival at the Central Conservatory in Beijing where he also presented a master class and sat on two juries (as well as visiting the China Conservatory). Further meetings were held with a staff member from the Xinghai Conservatory in Guangzhou where a draft proposal is being circulated including the creation of an MTI China. A further Musicacoustica concert was held in the Southeastern city of Xiamen as part of the eMac Festival there, so his new work was performed there for the second time.
Finally, he was in residence for a week at the Tianjin Conservatory where he is Visiting Lecturer. This visit included two talks, a one-composer concert and discussions with the conservatoire President concerning various forms of collaboration with DMU. Negotiations will commence in the near future to investigate which forms of collaboration will be pursued.
Two MTI Students in Engine Room Installation until June 12
MTI doctoral students Francesc Martí and Virginie Viel have had work exhibited as part of the The Engine Room International Sound Art Competition. The event, which has been at the Morley Gallery in London, started on 12 May and runs through to 12 June 2015.
At the same event, noted sound artist Janek Schaefer will be presenting a newly commissioned installation Aerial Aria in the aviary.
Francesc and Virginie are two of the twenty-two selected works, ranging from Singapore, Russia, Germany, Colombia, Italy, Canada, France, the United States and the United Kingdom.
More information on the event can be found by visiting Engine Room London.
Further information about the two selected works can be found below:
Virginie Viel
Liberté chérie (2014)
- Who are you?
- You appeared to me in a place that doesn't exist,
- Were you real?
- You've never seen me and I've never seen you
- How did I manage to talk to you?
- I don't know...
- Give me a clue!
- I only remember...
- Open the door! Open the door! I want to smell, to touch, to feel, to caress her...
- Why? You might regret it! Many others were like you, burning with desire... But ultimately all of them gave up and turned away from her.
- No, I won't…
- It's too late anyway. Long gone are the days of lightness, love and happiness. Today no one knows, no one wants to remember... where she is gone
- Why?
- Hope disappeared a long time ago. Since that time, looking for Freedom, looking for that lady is meaningless. Without hope, be free has no sense anymore.
Francesc Martí
Speech 2 (2015)
Speech 2 is an experimental audiovisual piece created from a series of old clips from the public affairs interview program The Open Mind. This piece would be a reflection on the action of communicating, highlighting his limitations, and can be labelled as “text-sound-art”, or “text-sound-composition” in an audio-visual framework. Technically, in this piece, the author has been experimenting how granular sound synthesis techniques, in particular synchronous granular synthesis, can be used for audiovisual creative works. All the piece sounds and images come from that series of clip, in other words, no other sound samples or images have been used to create the final result.
Virginie Viel 'Nuage Noir' selected for SIME 2015
On 22 April, Virginie Viel will be perform one of her last piece “Nuage Noir” at the University of Lille III, France.This piece is one of the 6 pieces selected by the international committee of the SIME (International Week of Electroacoustic Music).
More information can be found by visiting the event's Facebook page.
The committee was composed of:
- Elsa Justel (Argentina) Destellos Foundation
The committee was composed of:
- Elsa Justel (Argentina) Destellos Foundation
- Bernard Clarke (Irland) Radio Nova Broadcaster
- José Manuel Berenguer (Spain) Director of Orquesta del Caos
- Daniel Judkovsky (Argentina) Professor UNTREF University
- Dante Tanzi (Italy) Acousmonium AUDIOR
- Ricardo Mandolini (Argentina/Italy) University of Lille III
- María Cristina Kasem (Argentina)
- José Manuel Berenguer (Spain) Director of Orquesta del Caos
- Daniel Judkovsky (Argentina) Professor UNTREF University
- Dante Tanzi (Italy) Acousmonium AUDIOR
- Ricardo Mandolini (Argentina/Italy) University of Lille III
- María Cristina Kasem (Argentina)
John Young's 'Red Sky' Premieres 12 April 2015
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.
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 15th
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!
LLEAPP Symposium, March 4-6th 2015
LLEAPP (Laboratory for Laptop and Electronic Audio Performance Practice) is a collective of musician-researchers based in Edinburgh. It is run on the basis of a 3-day practice-led symposium, discussing tactics and strategies for collaborative play, a series of open rehearsals, and finishes with a performance each day.
LLEAPP started in 2009 at the University of Edinburgh, has since been held at different universities across the UK, and is being hosted this year by De Montfort University, Leicester.
Among featured guests will be Hong Kong-based Takuro Lippit (aka DJ Sniff), a turntablist working in the field of improvised and experimental music; cellist and string arranger Audrey Riley whose work ranges from The Smiths to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; Swedish noise artist Max Wainwright; mobile artist Steranko; and John Richards with members of the Dirty Electronics Ensemble.
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
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
Two MTI concerts for Cultural Exchanges Festival - Philip Mead - PACE 1 Thursday 26th February 7.30pm
De Montfort University Cultural Exchanges
Festival 2015
Thursday February 26th, 2015 7.30pm
PACE Building Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester
Philip Mead – piano with electronics and visuals
Philip Mead is one of Britain’s
foremost interpreters of contemporary piano music, and has commissioned and
premiered a vast number of works in the last thirty five years. He is a
Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire. He is founder and artistic
director of the British Contemporary Piano Competition, held every three years
since 1988. He completed an MA at MTI, De Montfort, in performing with live
electronics in 2007.
Hugi
Gudmundsson (music) with Bret Battey (live visuals) Triptych Unfolding (piano, electronics, live visuals) (2014)
Neal
Farwell Songs and Shards (piano, electronics)
(2012)
Simon
Emmerson Microvariations II (piano, electronics) (2015)
Richard
Hoadley (music) with Katharine Norman (text) How to Play the Piano in 88 notes (piano, projection) (2014)
All welcome! Tickets should be booked – Free to MTI students!
Box Office: 0116
2506229
Modulation One Dance Performance July 2, 2014
Modulation_one (live-digital dance and augmented sound) asks the dancers to imagine; to be present in the transfer of data; to engage with the mediated/digital as it appears and disappears.
Modulation_one is the final practical study for Kerry Francksen's PhD and builds upon a recent and developing collaboration with composer Simon Atkinson, film-maker Laura McGregor and dance artist Jodie Davis. Over the past year they have been searching for a way to create environments where acousmatic sound, image and movement can be conceived of as a continually emerging process, where a more dynamic relationship arrives from an engagement in those thresholds in ‘the dimension of the emergent’ (Massumi 2012:34).
PACE Studio 1, 6 pm
July 2, 2014
Neal Spowage The Big 30 to Miami New Media Festival
PhD student Neal Spowage was invited to devise and perform alongside dancers, choreographers and musicians including Reynaldo Young, Petra Soor, Annelie Nederberg and Antonio De La Fe at an event curated by Agony Art to celebrate 30 years of experimental dance at Chisenhale Dance Space on Friday, 18th October, 2013 at Chisenhale Dance Space, London.
The event was called There may be Trouble Ahead and was transmitted live for the Miami New Media Festival, via Skype. The feed was displayed / projected real time at Hardcore Contemporary Art Miami and simultaneously re-transmitted through the LiveStream Chanel set for this event; the same feed was also transmitted by Hoeksteen Live.
Neal Spowage - Speaker Bra and Wireless Shovel Controller at Falmouth
Doctoral Student Neal Spowage will premier his brand new work Cold Papaya on 28th August at the Fascinate Conference, in the The Performance Centre at Falmouth University. He will also give a paper and a demonstration for his new sculptural wearable instrument The Speaker Bra and Wireless Shovel Controller for which Cold Papaya is a vehicle.
Cold Papaya is a part of Neal's PhD portfolio and ongoing collaboration with choreographer Danai Pappa.
"Cold Papaya (Neal Spowage and Danai Pappa) explores dual relationships and erotic humour in live electronic music. The instrument used in this performance is in two parts, one is a bra and one is a shovel. By dividing kinesthetic source bonding into two distinct focal points, we explore love in a story of horror and dark humour that describes a balance of power, loss, sex and confusion between performers. This wearable instrument, and the performance piece are a mirror for both the artist, and the audience. How important is touch, sound, an object and the sexual power of the human body?"
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