Bret Battey Upcoming Talks and Concerts in Stockholm & Bilbao

Bret Battey will present a solo concert of his audiovisual compositions at Fylkingen, Stockholm on 4 April 2013 as well as a lecture and master class at the Royal Conservatory of Music.

On 26 April, he is a guest presenter at the Technarte Conference in Bilbao, where he will be discussing the role of generative algorithms based in complex systems in his newest audiovisual work Clonal Colonies.

(Coincidently, the Technarte web site uses an image of Leicester's Curve Theatre and its illuminated bollards as a headline graphic.)

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.

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.

Meta-2 Alumni Concert Pace 1 Wednesday 13th March

Music, Technology and Innovation
De Montfort University, Leicester
New Media Events 2012-2013

Wednesday March 13th, 2012 7pm
PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

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Current undergraduates are joined by recent alumni and friends to present a concert which celebrates their activities on the cusp of, or beyond, or surrounding their MTI work. The programme includes:

Ben Ramsay: live improvisation based around processed field recordings and improvised synthetic elements, combining experimental electronica, acousmatic, ambient, IDM and glitch
Chloe Cutler: free guitar improv with ebow and live electronics
Paul James: sound bites and atmospheric sound beds, with heavy use of samples and a theme of science fiction, the mind and space travel).
Ola Szmidt: live looping, including music which reached the finals of Boss Loop Station Championships UK

Entry Free!

Watch this space for our continuing MTI events series

http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/must/

Miriam Akkerman / University of the Arts, Berlin: Seminar and Installation

Miriam Akkerman, a PhD student from University of the Arts, Berlin, will be visiting us next week on an Erasmus exchange. Miriam is an instrumentalist, composer, and sound artist, with work ranging from live electronics to installation art.

Thursday, Feb 28
MTI Research Lab (Clephan 0.19)

12:30-1:30 — Research Seminar: "Between Algorithm and Composition. David Wessel, Karlheinz Essl and Georg Hajdu"

2:00-3:00 — Presentation and discussion of an installation artwork "Info Wall" with the MUST3028 Installation Art class and all others interested

For more information on Miriam's work, see www.miriam-akkermann.de.

PhD Studentship Available (Closing date 15 Mar 2013)

A PhD research studentship covering stipend and tuition fee costs is offered within the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre (MTI-RC), working with an internationally recognised research team that is known for its artistic work within the field of sonic arts/electroacoustic music composition and related field of scholarship, electroacoustic music studies. It is available to suitably qualified UK or EU students.

The PhD project will focus on scholarly research and artistic production based on the combination of music and technology. Applicants will be accepted in areas of interest reflecting areas of expertise of the MTI-RC staff (see www.mti.dmu.ac.uk) including, but not limited to: compositional and performance approaches to electroacoustic music, including audio-visual, public art/alternative spaces, installation art and interactivity-related (e.g., performance interfaces) applications; and scholarly work related to electroacoustic music studies, such as analysis, socio-cultural aspects and signification issues. Furthermore, given our large-scale collaboration with DMU’s Centre for Enhanced Learning through Technology (CELT) and Educational studies subject area, proposals related to electroacoustic music and access would also be welcome.

For a more detailed description of the studentship project please contact Prof. Leigh Landy on +44/(0)116 257 7956 or email llandy@dmu.ac.uk.

This research opportunity builds on our excellent past achievements and looking forward to REF2014 and beyond. It will develop the university’s research capacity into new and evolving areas of study, enhancing DMU’s national and international research partnerships.

Applications are invited from UK or EU students with a good first degree (First, 2:1 or equivalent) in a relevant subject. Doctoral scholarships are available for up to three years full-time study starting October 2013 and provide a bursary of £13,770 pa in addition to university tuition fees.

To receive an application pack, please contact the Graduate School Office via email at researchstudents@dmu.ac.uk. Completed applications should be returned together with two supporting references.

Please quote ref:  DMU Research Scholarships 2013

CLOSING DATE:  Friday 15th March 2013

International Composing with Sounds Concert

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New Media Events 2012-2013

Cultural Exchanges Festival 2013

Composing with Sounds

Wednesday 27^th February 2013, 6.30-7.30pm

PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

The "Composing with Sounds" project is an initiative led by the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre De Montfort University and supported by an EU Culture grant with five partners throughout Europe: INA/GRM (Paris, F), ZKM (Karlsruhe, D), NOTAM (Oslo, N) and associate partners Miso Music (Cascais, P) and the Ionian University (Corfu, GR). An innovative software tool Compose with Sounds has been developed and taken into schools, introducing the possibilities of making music with sounds to young people, especially at KS3 (11-14) across Europe. This concert is one of many to take place between January and April in the six participating countries. It involves primarily pairs of works often using the same sound materials, one made by a student and one by a professional composer. Tonight’s concert includes work from the countries of the four main partners.

Germany

A two-day workshop was held in Germany in December. Pairs of participants created short works, all of them studies. For this concert, three of these were chosen and will be played without pause.

Nora Burkhardt, Jara Kullick – No Title – 1’05

Lilli Roser, Lea Mara Nikolai – No Title – 0’54

& Thea Heck, Lena Eisenhut  – No Title – 2’45 

Norway

14 Students – Year 6 Kringler-Slattum Elementary School (outside of Oslo) Winter Sound (Vinterlyd) 6’

Gyrid Nordal Kaldestad Sketches of Faust 6’30 (NOTAM commission)

France

15 students following the sonic arts option – aged 15 – led by Sylvain Labartette and Eric Broitmann at the Lycée Général Georges Brassens Concrètement Féminin (Concretely Feminine) 4’30

Florian Sulpice C’est Wiizzz!!! 3’45

Roger Cochini Retour aux Sources (Return to the Sources) 5’30 (GRM Commission)

UK

Works been composed using a collection of Compose with Sounds ‘Soundcards’ (recordings) that were made in external locations, both urban and rural environments and schools in Leicester.

Joseph Deeping Paradox 3’

Andrew Hill Abstracted Journeys 5’ (DMU/MTI Commission)

Leshaun Kiaya Blake-Rodrigues Beautiful Things 2’

Duncan Chapman … but the kitchen sink 5’ (DMU/MTI Commission)