Concert PACE 1 Wednesday 11th February 7pm

The Birmingham Ensemble for Electroacoustic Research (BEER) was founded in 2011 as a research project to explore aspects of realtime electroacoustic music making. Particular interests include networked music performance over ad hoc wi-fi systems, and live coding (programming music in real time using algorithms that can be altered while they are running). In keeping with post-free jazz developments in improvisation (e.g. John Zorn, Anthony Braxton), we create structures in software that impose limitations and formal articulations on the musical flow (with networked software systems serving as intervention mechanism / arbiter / structural provocateur par excellence). Musical influences run the gamut from Iannis Xenakis to Journey.
Members include Norah Lorway, Konstantinos Vasilakos, Luca Danieli, Tsun Yeung, and Scott Wilson. For this performance BEER presents a selection of pieces from the ensemble’s repertoire, including the premiere of a new work by Norah Lorway.
All welcome! Entry Free! 

At 1pm that day (MTI Research Lab, Clephan 0.19) Nick Collins and Scott Wilson present their ideas in a Research Seminar -

Dr Nick Collins (Durham) - 'Large-scale corpus analysis of electronic music'
In which researchers on an AHRC funded mini-project attempt to build a larger scale (circa 2000 piece) audio corpus of electronic music from 1948-2000, and run automatic machine analysis experiments.
Dr Scott Wilson (Birmingham) - ‘Free as in BEER’
The Birmingham Ensemble for Electroacoustic Research (BEER) was founded in 2011 as a research project to explore aspects of realtime electroacoustic music making. Particular interests include networked music performance over ad hoc wi-fi systems, and live coding (programming music in real time using algorithms that can be altered while they are running).

All Welcome!

Concert PACE 1 Wednesday 14th January 7pm

Magnus Bugge and Jøran Rudi present works from NOTAM (Oslo)

NOTAM is Norway’s national electronic music studio. The centre operates on several levels within the Norwegian music and arts scene, and in the international music technology environment. We provide support to musicians and artists, and develop our own music technology. Notam's users are students, musicians, artists, composers, dancers, sound technicians, film workers, and others who find the combination of music, art and technology interesting.

Magnus Bugge            Matrise (2014)

Andrew Hill                        Stille Lyd: Part I – NOTAM (2014)

Jøran Rudi                        Concrete Net (1997)

Gyrid Nordal Kaldestad            Losing Control: Part I and Part II (2011)

Andrew Hill                        Stille Lyd: Part II – Høvringen (2014)

Arne Nordheim            Solitaire (1968)

All welcome! Entry Free!

At 1pm that day (MTI Research Lab, Clephan 0.19) Magnus Bugge and Jøran Rudi present their ideas in a Research Seminar.

Concert PACE 1 Wednesday 10th December

The Dirty Electronics Ensemble & Marij van Gorkom

Marij van Gorkom (bass clarinet and electronics) plays new works written specially for her. She has an international reputation as an exponent of this instrument in new music. Marij has recently joined MTI as a research student.

Paul Wilson - Dark Mission [2013]

Adam Basanta - Synchronicity ain’t no thing [2014]

Kasia Glowicka - Midnight Choirs [2014]

Gleb Foulga - Substances [2014]

Kajsa Lindgren is an exchange student composer from The Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm. She has been working with MTI’s Dirty Electronics Ensemble (director John Richards) which makes a uniquely innovative contribution to musical life!

Kajsa Lindgren - Coalesce (five performers and 8-channel electroacoustic material)

All welcome! Entry Free!

At 1pm that day (MTI Research Lab, Clephan 0.19): Marij van Gorkom and Steve Jones will present in the Postgraduate Seminar series.

Watch this space for our continuing MTI events series

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

Concert Wednesday 26th November PACE 1

MTI/MTP & alumni Mix – curated by Pete Batchelor

PACE Studio 1a, 6.00-7.00pm
Rob Martland presents Lysik’s, an audio-visual installation considering one person’s experience of the neurological sense fusing condition of synaesthesia.  
PACE Studio 1, 7.00pm
Current students are joined by friends and recent alumni to present a concert which celebrates their musical activities on, on the cusp of, beyond, or surrounding their MTI/MTP studies. The programme includes:
Holy Bones (Paul Keene and Ben Stirk): formed in 2007, Holy Bones 'take the old and create the new, ripping apart vinyl from jumble sales and crate digging until fingers are sore!'
Banderbear (Rob Martland and Ethan Wallace): a collaboration established during undergraduate studies at MTI. They describe their music as being wilfully 'brooding and intense'.

All welcome! Entry Free!

MTI Seminar Series - Wednesday 26th November 13.00-14.00 (MTIRC Lab - Clephan 0.19)

Marinos Giannoukakis -
"Transconsistent Composition, moving from morphologies to topologies. Strategies for composing artworks for multimodal environments"
Amit Patel -
"Creating Noise in the Asian underground"

Everyone welcome: the door is card controlled - if you do not normally have access we would be so grateful if you could come along between 12.55 and 13.05 - many thanks!

Slight change to concert schedule Wednesday! Read on ...

Marinos Giannoukakis's Musica Universalis will run in the small studio PACE 1A right next to the main space at 6.30pm. Depending on demand it might run twice and possibly again after the concert.
Marinos is working on a version with 3D graphics for the occasion! Come along! [SE 10.11]

MTI Mix 2 - Concert Pace 1 Wednesday 12th November 7pm

Wednesday November 12^th, 2014 7.00pm

PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

MTI Mix 2

We continue our 15^th Birthday Season celebrating our members’ great success over the last year – and introducing some new members.

Michael Young                                    Piano Prosthesis

Michael recently joined DMU as Pro-Vice Chancellor (Teaching and Learning). He performs this interactive piano/computer piece himself.

Virginie Viel                                    Nuage Noir

Virginie recently joined MTI as a research student after a Masters at Mons (Belgium) including studies with Annette Vande Gorne and Elizabeth Anderson.

Simon Atkinson                                    afterimages

A new work evoking the rich and mysterious sounds of nature, exploring composition as landscape.

Louise Rossiter                         Cyclic Motions

Louise is a PhD research student in MTI - she has just returned from a composing residency in Montreal.

Marinos Giannoukakis                        Musica Universalis

A new work for computer-generated graphics and 8-channel sound. Marinos is a PhD research student in MTI.

All welcome! Entry Free!

Watch this space for our continuing MTI events series

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