John Young Launches Two CDs at Cultural Exchanges 2024

John Young (Professor of Composition) will launch two new compact discs at the 2024 DMU Cultural Exchanges Festival, in PACE Studio 1, 28 February, 2024 at 5-6pm.

The discs are published by the Montréal publisher Empreintes DIGITALes and will be available in CD and high definition download.

The first disc, Histoires de soldats (Soldiers' Stories), incorporates two works based on oral history recordings. An Angel at Mons contains John Ewings's eye witness account of an angel on the battlefield at Mons, Belgium, in August 1914. Ewings gave an interview about his life to the BBC Northern Ireland in 1980 at the age of  101, and sections of that interview are incorporated into the work with the BBC's kind permission. Once He was Gunner is a more extended work (56 minutes) based on interviews John made with his father about war experiences as an 8th Army soldier in Italy 1943-45.

The second disc, Espaces lointains (Faraway Spaces), presents six works composed between 2017 and 2023, Three Spaces in Mid-Air, Sweet Anticipation, Hidden Spaces, Arioso, Le chant en dehors and Filaments and Phases. Filaments and Phases is a collaborative work with DMU Professor of Poetic Practice Simon Perril and in 2022 Le chant en dehors was awarded the inaugural Prix Francis-Dhomont at the AKOUSMA Festival in Montréal.

Information and booking at https://www.culturalexchanges.co.uk/2024-lineup/professor-john-young
The full Cultural Exchanges programme for 2024 is at https://www.culturalexchanges.co.uk/2024-lineup

Battey's 'Estuaries 4' April Screening at Texas Tech University

Prof Bret Battey's audiovisual composition 'Estuaries 4' has been selected for inclusion in the Texas Tech University 'Electronic Nights' concert series. 'Estuaries 4' will appear April 17, 2024 at the Texas Tech School of Music.

Bret Battey’s ‘Estuaries 4’ screening @ Imagina AniFest, New York

 Prof Bret Battey’s audiovisual composition ‘Estuaries 4’ has been selected for screening at the Imagina AniFest in New York City at the end of December:

https://imaginaanifest.com/

Anna Xambó Sedó on LOLTRAX001 album release

 MTI²'s Anna Xambó Sedó has participated in the compilation LOLTRAX001 with the track mnnw (extract). This compilation is curated by Joe Beedles and Guillaume Dujat (LOL Editions) with 14 tracks by artists including WEȽ∝KER, 1000PA, Michael-Jon Mizra, Chloë Sobek, Robin Fox, Dan Valentine, SONAMB, busf, Kindohm, Ellen Phan, pantea, Lauren Sarah Hayes and Iettatore. 

LOLTRAX001 is an experimental computer music compilation. Based in Manchester UK, LOL HQ have reached out to an international cohort of artists for the label's first release under the ‘TRAX’ format. Within this 56 minute celebration of rhythm, tone and noise, experience the last croak of a circuit bent keyboard, DSP dexterity, luscious pads and phased-out synthesis. Blast yourself with the full hour-long journey or take it in measures.

Proudly presenting: WEȽ∝KER’s GM dissection, 1000PA’s delicately pressurised arrangements, Michael-Jon Mizra’s synthetic scuttling, Chloë Sobek’s post-anthropocentric noise, Robin Fox’s vectorised laserscapes, Anna Xambó’s high altitude human-computer interactions, Dan Valentine's luxurious additive dub, SONAMB’s shiny mechanoids, busf’s intermittent piston blasts, Kindohm’s signature style coated in a newly saturated varnish, Ellen Phan’s therapeutic wall of sound, pantea’s filtered sonic taxidermy, Lauren Sarah Hayes’ unapologetic ML improvisations, capped off with Iettatore’s face-melting stereo spread.

There is a limited edition cassette for £12. All proceeds will be donated to MIND (UK based mental health charity).

The album can be found at Bandcamp: https://loleditions.bandcamp.com/album/loltrax001

Online Symposium Dec 15/16 2023 - HfM Trossingen - AI in Music - Agency, Performance, Production and Perception

 

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a new chapter in the ongoing development of technological tools that promise to transform the processes of creative work and artistic production. Now is the time to reconsider the relation of art and AI in practice, its aesthetic potential and to actively participate in and shape the transition and development of artistic and technological professions in the field of AI and music.

The symposium brings together experienced artists, practitioners, researchers and engineers who have been known for crossing over between composition, production, design and performance, engineering and development. The event addresses questions related to the agency of data, AI ethics, performance, and perception.

The symposium organisers hope to provide context from which to approach and make even more sense of the new and revolutionary tools bleeding edge research places at our fingertips.
 

Keynotes:

"Deconstructing data: the compositional process as critical inquiry"
Artemi Gioti (University College London, UK)

"Creative Dialectics: Playing with Intelligent Instruments"
Thor Magnusson (University of Sussex, UK)

Full Program and registration: https://eveeno.com/ai-in-music-symposium

Prof Landy's 'Experiencing Organised Sounds' Launch 22 December

Prof Landy's new book Experiencing Organised Sounds will be launched by Routledge on 22 December, 2023.

https://www.routledge.com/Experiencing-Organised-Sounds-The-Listening-Experience-Across-Diverse-Sound-Based/Landy/p/book/9781032533278?utm_source=individuals&utm_medium=shared_link&utm_campaign=B051398_eh1_1au_1aj_t012_1al_45231

Prof Landy in Hangzhou: Musicacoustica 22, Master Classes and Chinese Academy of the Arts

During Prof. Leigh Landy’s two-week visit to Hangzhou in late October/early November, beyond his featuring as composer of the year at the Musicacoustica 2023 festival and his week of master classes as Visiting Professor at the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, he was invited to give a talk, ‘Making New Music Relevant’ at the national China Academy of Arts, also in Hangzhou. This talk was attended by well over 100 specialists in the field of intermedia.