Prof Battey's 'Three Breaths in Empty Space' @ Greenwich Sound/Image 2022

 

Prof Battey's audiovisual installation Three Breaths in Empty Space featured as part of the Sound/Image Conference and Festival at the University of Greenwich, Nov 18-20, 2022.

Prof Landy Chapter in 'El Callejón del Ruido'

Prof. Leigh Landy’s most recent book chapter has been published in November in the bilingual El Callejón del Ruido: Creacion, ideas y tecnologia – resonancias e impacto (1994-2019) celebrating 25 years of one of the most important Mexican new music festivals which takes place in Guanajuato. His chapter, after reminiscing over his visit to the festival during its early years, focuses on his latest composition, Aplican Términos y Condiciones, which has been commissioned by Mexico’s other major new music festival, Visiones Sonoras, in Morelia where its premiere will take place in March 2023. The chapter is entitled ‘Re-composing Mexican Radio’ and appears in the book first in Spanish (‘Re-compiendo la radio Mexicana’) and then in its original form.

 

Prof Landy Completion of Two Books

Prof. Leigh Landy recently completed two books which both went out for review over the summer. His The Music of Sounds and the Music of Things, co-authored with John Richards is still under review; however, his single-authored book, Experiencing Organised Sounds: The listening experience across diverse sound-based works (107k words, 26 ills and an online site for all audio and audio-visual media) has recently been contracted by Routledge (UK) and will be published in 2023.

 

Music from MTI @ the Silence Festival, Bari

Music by six MTI composers will feature in a concert at the Silence Festival of Acousmatic Art in Bari, Italy, on 18 December.  Pete Batchelor's Fuse, James Andean's Déchirure and John Young's Three Spaces in Mid-Air are works by staff members to be presented along with pieces by three MTI doctoral graduates: The stones can speak by Virginie Viel, Talasgair by David Holland and Tender glance by Robin Parmar.

The Silence Festival was established in 2004 to present an international spectrum of acousmatic music in concerts using the The m.ar.e acusmonium—an integrated system of 40 loudspeakers for immersive sound projection. Since 2010 the festival has been permanently based in the Cittadella Mediterranea della Scienza, an exhibition centre whose aim is to stimulate interest in science and technology among young people.  This year's Silence Festival runs from 16-18 December. 

stimulate the interest of joung people in science and technology

Maggiori informazioni https://www.festivalsilence.it/about/stimul

stimulate the interest of joung people in science and technology

Maggiori informazioni https://www.festivalsilence.it/about/

created to stimulate the interest of joung people in science and technology

Maggiori informazioni https://www.festivalsilence.it/about/

Since 2010 they have permanent headquarters at the  "Cittadella Mediterranea della Scienza",

a structure created to stimulate the interest of joung people in science and technology.

Maggiori informazioni https://www.festivalsilence.it/about/

Since 2010 they have permanent headquarters at the  "Cittadella Mediterranea della Scienza",

a structure created to stimulate the interest of joung people in science and technology.

Maggiori informazioni https://www.festivalsilence.it/about/

Since 2010 they have permanent headquarters at the  "Cittadella Mediterranea della Scienza",

a structure created to stimulate the interest of joung people in science and technology.

Maggiori informazioni https://www.festivalsilence.it/about/

John Young's 'Arioso' at the 2023 San Francisco Tape Music Festival

Prof. John Young's 2021 work Arioso has been selected for one of the four concerts comprising the 2023 San Francisco Tape Music Festival. The three-day festival—produced in conjunction with the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University and sfSound—features international and Bay Area composers along with some classic compositions by Vangelis, Ennio Morricone, and legendary experimentalists Krzysztof Penderecki, György Ligeti and Alvin Lucier. 

Arioso is based around a field recording made in Tappan Square, Oberlin, Ohio, which consists of an unlikely blend between the rich stridulation of crickets and the prosaic beeping of pedestrian crossing signals.  It was premiered at St. Ruprechtskirche, Vienna in June 2021, diffused by Thomas Gorbach.

Performing Critical AI - 27 and 29 November 2022

 

Performing Critical AI I: feedback, noise, corpus, code

Live coding algorithms, ensemble improvisation, biologically-inspired feedback systems, corpus hacking.

Sunday 27th November, 2pm **matinee**
Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St, London E8 3DL, UK
Event info: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/peforming-critical-ai-i/

Attached to the European Research Council-funded project Music and AI: Building Critical Interdisciplinary Studies led by Georgina Born, this is the first of two concerts showcasing artist-researchers experimenting with AI and complex systems models.

Artists:

• Feedback Cell (Chris Kiefer and Alice Eldridge) featuring Ollie Bown
• Anna Xambó
• P.A. Tremblay and Owen Green

The performances will be followed by open Q & A and discussion with the artists about how and why they are using AI/machine learning.

Performing Critical AI II: body, space, action, agency

Prepared piano, handmade percussion, new compositions, and electronic improvisations situating AI with the listener in a unique 3D sound environment. Including new works by Aaron Einbond and Artemi-Maria Gioti. 

Tuesday 29th November, 8pm
Iklectik, 'Old Paradise Yard ' 20 Carlisle Ln, Royal Street corner, Archbishop's park, Lambeth, London SE1 7LG, UK
Event info: https://iklectikartlab.com/performing-critical-ai-ii-body-space-action-agency/

This is the second of the two concerts linked to the European Research Council-funded project Music and AI: Building Critical Interdisciplinary Studies.

Artists:

• Xenia Pestova
• Maxime Echardour
• Christopher Haworth
• Sound-Image Research Group, University of Greenwich

Swedish Composer/Pianist Eva Sidén at DMU

Swedish composer/pianist Eva Sidén visited the Institute for Sonic Creativity to give a concert on 16 November in PACE Studio 1.  The concert featured two world premieres of works for piano and electroacoustic sounds: SoundPlay by DMU professor John Young and Pion d´échecs by Argentine composer Elsa Justel. Both works were commissioned by Eva prior to the series of COVID lockdowns that affected social interaction, travel and the arts industry. At the centre of the programme was French composer Tristan Murail's solo piano work Cloches d'adieu et un sourire, in memorium Messiaen, composed in 1992. The concert concluded with two works by Eva herself: Under for prepared piano and electroacoustic sounds, and Landscape Spirit, an installation work for surround sound audio, animated 3D objects and prepared piano—in which the audience was also invited to participate by adding material from the piano in real time. Earlier that day, Eva Sidén gave a workshop for staff and students on her compositional methods and her practice with prepared piano.

Eva Sidén and John Young in PACE Studio 1