Panos Amelides at Medea Electronique Koumaria 2013

MTIRC PhD student Panos Amelides has been awarded a Koumaria Residency by the artist's collective Medea Electronique to create a site-specific sound installation on an organic olive-oil farm in the Greek countryside, close to a small village near Sparta.  The ten-day experimental art residency will culminate in early November with a performance of a new work by Panos, in which life experiences and memories of workers on the farm will be recorded and recontextualised in the olive grove itself.

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).

Neal Spowage Premiere in London

Postgraduate student Neal Spowage, in an on-going collaboration with Danai Pappa, presented the world premiere of their new work Frozen Venus for live electronic instruments and dance on the 22nd of March, 2013, at the Agony Art Collective, Chisenhale Dance Studios, London. The event also featured work from MTIRC alumna Anellie Nederberg.

In addition, Neal's previous collaboration with Danai, sib Conduit, will be presented a month later at Musichoreography: Duets for Dancers and Instrumentalists At Kings Place in London.

Simon Emmerson - UK première - 25th June

Kings Place
90 York Way, London, N1 9AG.
Box Office on 020 7520 1490.

Jane Chapman: A Shimmering Microcosm
Out Hear Music / Monday, 25 June 2012 - 8:00pm / Hall Two

Mark Wingfield/Jane Chapman Parallel Time*
Roger Redgate Residua (First complete performance)*
Duncan Macleod The New Atlantis
Sohrab Uduman Derrière le Mirroir*
(Live visuals by Jon Barraclough)
Images by Norman McBeath (during the interval)
Stockhausen Nachtmusick (Aus den sieben Tagen)
Simon Emmerson Dreamscape**
(Live visuals by David Bickerstaff)
Wingfield Smouldering Bridge*

*World premiere **UK premiere

Performer(s):
Jane Chapman harpsichord (percussion)
Kate Ryder piano
Mark Wingfield electric guitar

'There came a moment of madness when the feeling harpsichord thought that it was the only harpsichord in the world, and that the whole harmony of the universe resided in it.' Diderot (1769)

Pioneering harpsichordist Jane Chapman brings together ground-breaking performers and visual artists in a unique collaboration, exploring ideas of existence and reality through state-of-the-art technology and dramatic innovation.

Jane Chapman gives the first complete performance of Roger Redgate's Residua, unadulterated essence of harpsichord, and continues her 'cinematic' collaboration with electric guitarist Mark Wingfield, in a sensual symbiosis of resonating strings stretching the edges of sound. Sohrab Uduman and Jon Barraclough explore the energy generated from the fusion between live performance, live computer transformation of sound and moving image, bringing to life an aural and visual theatre of gesture, movement and allusion. In Duncan MacLeod's The New Atlantis the harpsichord is suspended in a utopian world. Pianist Kate Ryder and harpsichord then play a strange sonic game in Simon Emmerson's Dreamscape for live electronics and vocalisation, with interactive visuals by David Bickerstaff. Performers come together in text inspired works by Stockhausen, and Norman McBeath shows vibrant and luminous images.

"Cinematic eloquence" (Wingfield/Chapman)
The Guardian

"Britain's most progressive harpsichordist"
Independent on Sunday

"Her virtuosity commands attention"
BBC Music Magazine

http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on-book-tickets/music/jane-chapman-a-shimmering-microcosm

John Young / Musica Nova Competition

John Young's piece X (2010) for piano and electroacoustic sounds has been awarded an Honorary Mention in the 2011 Musica Nova Competition in Prague.  The piece was composed for Welsh-based Xenia Pestova, and premiered by her in Bangor in September this year.

X will be included in a concert at DMU on 2 March 2012 as part of the University's Cultural Exchanges Festival.

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.

Bret Battey - "Clonal Colonies" premieres in Delaware and NYC

Bret Battey's new audiovisual composition Clonal Colonies, a commission from New York's Avian Orchestra, was premiered by the ensemble in September in Delaware and at the The Cell, New York. The work is in two movements, for Pierrot ensemble, computer-realised sound, and video. A "clonal colony" is a group of genetically identical plants. Child plants are propagated by "runners" that emerge from a parent plant. This serves as an analogy to the "Variable-Coupled Map Networks" algorithm approach that Battey applied in composing the piece.