MTI Wins Funding for Cultural Projects with Onassis Cultural Centre, IRCAM, ZKM + others


Compose With Sounds (cws.dmu.ac.uk)
The MTI has just been informed that the large proposal, hosted by the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens and including 8 partners including IRCAM and ZKM for €3.8 million has not only been one of the fifteen successful projects, but also gained the highest mark this year within the Creative Europe scheme. This 3-1/2 year initiative includes dozens of cultural actions of which ten will be led by the MTI. Its focus is to make innovative forms of new music, in our case those involving technology, accessible to new audiences.

The MTI’s initiatives cover areas ranging from electroacoustic music in general to DIY approaches, sound art, telematic as well as live and mediated performance. Community and pedagogical initiatives will include further developments of EARS 2 and Compose with Sounds and DIY workshops. Research hubs will be created regarding international initiatives in community music (including an international conference) and reception of new music by new audiences throughout Europe. The MTI is to receive 14% of the project funding.

MTI Presents: rarescale

The De Montfort University Music, Technology & Innovation 2015-16 concert series presents:

rarescale

Carla Rees, flute and Michael Oliva, electronics
curated by Katharine Norman and rarescale

https://www.facebook.com/events/1177129895630724/

A real treat: a performance by rarescale/Carla Rees - one of the most exciting contemporary performers out there - in a programme of works for flute, electronics, tape, and video, curated with the great Katharine Norman - including a world premiere from Norman herself!



Sungji Hong: SHINE (2015)
Katharine Norman: A walk I do (2016) *World premiere*
Georgia Rodgers: Three tuba studies (2014)
Simon Emmerson: Spirit of ‘76 (1976)
Michael Oliva: Apparition and Release (2005)

PACE building, Richmond Street, Leicester UK, LE2 7BQ
Start time 7pm
Free entry

Landy, Emmerson & Andean to present at Alternative Histories of Electronic Music conference at the Science Music, London

Between 14-16 April, the conference “Alternative Histories of Electronic Music” will be held at the Science Museum in London. The conference, supported by a research grant related to the pioneering work in this field by Hugh Davies and which is led by the University of Leeds in association with the Science Museum has invited two DMU Music, Technology and Innovation Professors, Simon Emmerson and Leigh Landy to provide keynote talks. MTI member James Andean will also be offering a paper meaning that DMU has possibly the largest delegation at this prestigious event. 

The Cambridge University Press journal Organised Sound will devote an issue to a selection of papers delivered at the event.


For further information, see: https://ahem2016.wordpress.com/


'Expanding the Horizon of Electroacoustic Music Analysis' Released

‘Expanding the Horizon of Electroacoustic Music Analysis’


Edited by Simon Emmerson and Leigh Landy


A new publication, edited by two MTI professors, has just been released via Cambridge University Press. Authors include Raúl Minsburg, John Young, Micheal Young, Ambrose Seddon, Katharine Norman and many more!


Blurb:

Innovations in music technology bring with them a new set of challenges for describing and understanding the electroacoustic repertoire. This edited collection presents a state-of-the art overview of analysis methods for electroacoustic music in this rapidly developing field. The first part of the book explains the needs of differing electroacoustic genres and puts forward a template for the analysis of electroacoustic music. Part two discusses the latest ideas in the field and the challenges associated with new technologies. Part three explores how analyses have harnessed the new forces of multimedia and includes an introduction to the new software program EAnalysis, which was created by the editors as the result of an Arts and Humanities Research Council grant. The final part of the book demonstrates these new methods in action, with analyses of key electroacoustic works from a wide range of genres and sources.

For more information about this book, and to purchase your own copy please visit:
www.cambridge.org/9781107118324



MTI presents: Spaces and Singularities - curated by Kevin Dahan

MTI presents: Spaces and Singularities - curated by Kevin Dahan

Wednesday, April 13, 7 PM
PACE building, Richmond Street, Leicester UK, LE2 7BQ
Free entry


Welcome to an evening of electroacoustic music, curated by MTI's Kevin Dahan. 
Including the world premiere of new work from Dahan, as well as works by two of the grand masters of electroacoustic music: Horacio Vaggione's 'Mécanique des fluides' (2014) and John Chowning's 'Stria' (1977).


MTI presents: Cage, Feldman, Wolff

MTI presents: Cage, Feldman, Wolff



The De Montfort University Music, Technology & Innovation 2015-16 concert series presents:

Cage, Feldman, Wolff: Audrey Riley, cello & James Woodrow, electric guitar

Wednesday, March 16th, 2016, 6pm
Trinity House Chapel, DMU, The Newarke, Leicester, LE2 7BY


Come hear some extraordinary works from the New York School, all too rarely heard in Leicester:

John Cage: Sonata for Two Voices (1933)
Morton Feldman: Two Instruments (1962)
Christian Wolff: Two Players (1996)
John Cage: One 8 for cello solo (1991)

Start time 6pm. Free entry. 

Jack Richardson to present at European Association of Music in School Conference in Lithuania

Doctoral research student and lecturer Jack Richardson will be presenting at the European Association of Music in School Conference (EAS) 2016 in Vilnius, Lithuania next week.

The conference – organised by the The Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre – will explore creativity and innovation in music education, with a special focus on technology-assisted learning.

Jack will present on the inclusion of electroacoustic music under a broader music curriculum, arguing for increases in engagement and accessibility.

More information on the conference can be found by visiting the EAS 2016 website. Updates will also be tweeted via @mtidmu and @jackademic.