Recent News: Luca Forcucci – Exhibition at Berlin's Scotty Enterprises + recent concerts

Electraoacoustic composer Luca Forcucci is currently hosting at exhibition at the Scotty Entreprise in Berlin until the 21st of February 2015. In a concert tonight (18/02/2015), Luca will perform 'In a Silent Way' – Audrey Chen (China/USA), Satch Hoyt (UK/USA) will also perform.

Source: http://willychyr.com/tag/luca-forcucci/

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Throughout 2014 Luca participated in a wide variety of events. These include hosting a concert and workshop at RAME, receiving a grant from Pro Helvetia for research into EEG technology and also undertaking residencies at Berlin's ZK/U and the Swiss institute in Rome. Luca's compositions have been included in concert series across Italy, Switzerland and China.

Luca is a PhD student within the Music, Technology & Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University. For more information click here.

Recent News: Leigh Landy 'Compose Your Words', US Tour & EuroMAC 2014 Keynote

Leigh Landy's has recently released “Compose Your Words. Commissioned by Intelligent Arts, it is an ePublication available on Amazon and many other such providers. 

You can purchase the eBook here.

He also made a tour through the US in November. This included four concerts in three states, including a concert at Stony Brook University repeated at a Manhattan Gallery, a one-composer concert in Oregon and an MTI concert at the South West Electronic Music Festival in Arizona, and six talks. He visited Stony Brook University in New York State, Arizona State University where he discussed exchange potential between their Arts, Media and Engineering Group and the MTI, the Leicester Media School and the Dance programmes and the University of Oregon. 

Lastly, Leigh also gave a keynote talk and chaired a round table discussion at the European Music Analysis Conference (EuroMAC 2014) at the University of Leuven, Belgium on 20 September 2014 as part of a two-day session “Listening to Electroacoustic Music through Analysis”. His paper was titled: “How Listening-based Analysis Can Aid the Understanding and Appreciation of Electroacoustic Music”.

More information about the conference can be found by visiting http://www.euromac2014.eu.

Two MTI concerts for Cultural Exchanges Festival - Philip Mead - PACE 1 Thursday 26th February 7.30pm

De Montfort University Cultural Exchanges Festival 2015

http://www.dmu.ac.uk/cultural-exchanges-festival/index.aspx

Thursday February 26th, 2015 7.30pm

PACE Building Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

Philip Mead – piano with electronics and visuals

Philip Mead is one of Britain’s foremost interpreters of contemporary piano music, and has commissioned and premiered a vast number of works in the last thirty five years. He is a Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire. He is founder and artistic director of the British Contemporary Piano Competition, held every three years since 1988. He completed an MA at MTI, De Montfort, in performing with live electronics in 2007.

Hugi Gudmundsson (music) with Bret Battey (live visuals) Triptych Unfolding (piano, electronics, live visuals) (2014)

Neal Farwell Songs and Shards (piano, electronics) (2012)

Simon Emmerson Microvariations II (piano, electronics) (2015)

Richard Hoadley (music) with Katharine Norman (text) How to Play the Piano in 88 notes (piano, projection) (2014)

All welcome! Tickets should be booked – Free to MTI students!

http://www.dmu.ac.uk/cultural-exchanges-festival/2015/cultural-exchanges-festival-2015.aspx

Box Office: 0116 2506229

Two MTI concerts for Cultural Exchanges Festival - Annette Vande Gorne - PACE 1 Wednesday 25th February

De Montfort University Cultural Exchanges Festival 2015

http://www.dmu.ac.uk/cultural-exchanges-festival/index.aspx

Wednesday February 25th, 2015

Seminar: 1pm – Concerts 7pm and 8.30pm

PACE Building Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

Annette Vande Gorne - ‘Text, Voice, Gesture, Space’

The programme features two concerts of work by this leading Belgian composer - one performed by Annette Vande Gorne herself, followed by a programme of performances by UK based colleagues and former students. Annette Vande Gorne, one of Belgium’s leading composers, has been Professor of electroacoustic composition at the Royal Conservatories in Liège, Brussels and Mons. She founded the Musiques & Recherches and the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studios (Ohain). She also founded the festival and performance competition L’Espace du son (Brussels) and the composition competition Métamorphoses.

1-2pm: Annette Vande Gorne will talk about her work with examples.

7-8.10pm: Concert Annette Vande Gorne – ‘Text, Voice, Gesture, Space’

Vox Alia (1995-2000)

Yawar Fiesta acte II (opéra acousmatique) (2012/2007)

Au-delà du réel (2013-2014)

8.30-9.30pm: Concert friends –

John Young  An Angel at Mons (2014)

Louise Rossiter Tout Autour de la Montagne (2014)

Virginie Viel   I belong to the sea (2015)

All welcome! Tickets should be booked – Free to MTI students!

http://www.dmu.ac.uk/cultural-exchanges-festival/2015/cultural-exchanges-festival-2015.aspx

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

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