Dirty Electronics @ IKLECTIK, July 11th

On Sunday 11 July 2021, Dirty Electronics will be presenting the MONSTROUS ASSEMBLAGE workshop & performance at IKLECTIK in London:

https://iklectikartlab.com/dirty-electronics-monstrous-assemblage/

IKLECTIK presents:

DIRTY ELECTRONICS – MONSTROUS ASSEMBLAGE

Workshop+Performance

Sunday 11 July 2021

Tickets: https://buytickets.at/iklectik/534387

PERFORMANCE

7.30pm (doors 7pm) | £8 early birds / £10 general admission

Dirty Electronics + special guests

WORKSHOP

2pm – 6pm | £25 | Limited places (12 max)

A workshop-installation and celebration of coming together, group work, physical materials and raw sound.

We will:

create a group performance-installation

generate sound with old motors

build noise circuits (DDS, wood, nails, wire-wrapping)

prepare DIY sound-systems and loudspeakers

resonate found objects

attend to sound

work both individually and collectively

Participants to bring:

Scrap bit of wood

3x AAA battery

Found resonant object

dirtyelectronics.org

contact: John Richards 07980985718 / contact@dirtyelectronics.org

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HEALTH AND SAFETY NOTICE

• We strongly recommend to buy the ticket online.

• There will be hand sanitizers available at the venue.

• On arrival, we’ll be checking guest temperatures with a contact free thermometer. Anyone with temperature above 38 degrees or COVID-19 symptoms will not be permitted into the venue.

• Face masks must be worn at all times inside of the venue; please notify us if you are exempt from wearing it.

• If social distancing will not be lifted after the 21st of June, this event will still go ahead but with stricter health and safety measures.

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Leigh Landy's ‘E Pluribus Plures’ broadcast premiere

MTI² director Leigh Landy’s latest piece, ‘E Pluribus Plures’, will receive a broadcast premiere on May 19th 2021 at 20.00 (BST) on the radio programme Radioateliér on Czech national radio (https://vltava.rozhlas.cz/program#/2021-05-19), during a broadcast which he is sharing with a new piece by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (University of Huddersfield). 

(Note that this is a binaural recording, so headphone listening is recommended.)

The piece will receive its concert premiere in October 2021 when Landy is to appear as invited guest composer at the Musicacoustica Festival in Beijing.

Leigh Landy talk @ Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, 19.3.21

MTI² director Leigh Landy has been invited to give a talk at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre on March 19th, entitled ‘The field of electroacoustic music studies and where analysis fits in’:

John Richards keynote @ Bowed Electrons 2020, South Africa

On December 4th, MTI²'s John Richards gave the keynote talk at the Bowed Electrons 2020 event hosted by the South Africa College of Music and the University of Cape Town. 

His keynote, titled 'The Danger of the Crowd', can be found at: 

https://youtu.be/HvaZ80z36oA?t=17790
(starting at 4h57’)

MTI²'s Neal Spowage & final issue of Leonardo Music Journal

Work by MTI² alum & adjunct Neal Spowage graces the cover of the very last issue of Leonardo Music Journal, accompanying his article 'Now I’m Digital, Where Is My Ritual? Exploring Post-Digital Performance Objects as Totems for Agency and Ritual':

https://www.leonardo.info/journal-issue/leonardo-music-journal/30

Simon Emmerson keynote at this weekend's Midlands New Music Symposium

 The Midlands New Music Symposium is taking place online this weekend, December 5th & 6th, and will include a keynote by MTI²'s Prof. Simon Emmerson, on the topic of 'Composing for flutes and electronics':

https://nottfar.org.uk/symposium

Late registration requests should be sent to nottfar@nottingham.ac.uk

"The Midlands New Music Symposium seeks to explore and celebrate the diversity of current contemporary music and sound practices in the fields of composition, performance, and technology. The two-day online symposium will include a series of presentations, lecture recitals, discussions, and concerts.

The symposium themes are open to let practitioners and scholars set the agenda. As such, the committee invites a broad range of proposals (outlined below) from individuals in and outside of academia."

MTI²'s John Young & David Holland win at the Musica Nova 2020 competition

The winners of the Musica Nova 2020 International Music Competition have been announced, and MTI² has done very well indeed: 

In Category A ('compositions of autonomous art electroacoustic music'), it's a clean sweep for MTI²:
- First prize goes to Prof. John Young, for his work 'Abwesenheit'
- Honorary Mention goes to David Holland for 'First Rituals'

...with alumna & adjunct Louise Rossiter included among the finalists.

Congratulations to all!

https://musicanova.seah.cz/vysl/2020.pdf