New Article from Prof. John Young

John Young's new article 'Scaling Form' is now available in the latest issue (vol. 18, 2024) of the Firenze University Press journal Musica/Tecnologia.  The journal is open access. 

John's article investigates relationships between composers' sound materials and the duration or timescale over which a form is shaped in acousmatic music.  The article includes analyses of works by Francis Dhomont, Denis Smalley, Natasha Barrett and Gilles Gobeil, among others.  Other contributors to the issue are Lelio Camilleri (editor), Annette Vande Gorne and Daniel Teruggi.

Stefano Catena at ICMC 2024 in Seoul

Stefano Catena's piece Travelling without Moving has been selected for performance at the 2024 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 'Sound in Motion' and will be performed in Seoul the 10^th of July in the Listening Programme B. 

More information on the conference website https://www.icmc2024.org/schedule-programs

 

Paiknam Concert Hall, Hanyang University: Venue of the 2024 ICMC, Seoul

John Young and Simon Perril @ States of Independence 2024

Profs. John Young and Simon Perril will give a talk and present their immersive audio installation Sun Set Deck Cogitation at the annual States of Independence festival of creative writing on 8 June, 10am-4pm in the DMU Clephan Building.

States of Independence brings together publishers and writers for a one-day festival of talks, performances and book stalls.  The keynote speaker this year is Louise Doughty.

Sun Set Deck Cogitation can be heard throughout the day in PACE Studio 1, and the presentation will also celebrate the launch of Perril's Two Duets with Occasion which includes the poetry used in the installation.

The programme for the day can be found here, and admission is free.

 

 

Leigh Landy concert at the Electroacoustic Biennial – Aveiro, Portugal

As part of Arte no Tempo’s Bienal de Musica Electroacoustica Festival in Aveiro, Portugal, Leigh Landy will present and perform in a full concert entitled ‘Radio On’ on 22 May 2024, including five works plus an audio-visual work, Vidéo Circus, presented at a separate event. 

Quarta-feira, 22 de Maio | 21h30
Teatro Aveirense \ Sala Estúdio

Programa

Leigh Landy (1951)

I Conduct Electricity [1996] ca 2’
gravação estereofónica e maestro

To BBC or Not [2008] ca 13’
gravação em 8 canais

E Pluribus Plures [2021] ca 18’45
gravação em 8 canais

Rock’s Music [1988] ca 13’
para voz falada e gravação estereofónica

Aplican Términos y Condiciones [2022] ca 13’20
gravação em 8 canais com projecção de tradução para Inglês

Spatial Audio Gathering 17-18 June @ DMU

 A two-day event at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK) on spatial audio and spatialisation in music will be held at DMU on 17-18 June, organised by the Midlands4Cities doctoral cohort and supported by the M4C Doctoral Training Partnership, which is funded by The Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Everybody is very welcome to participate, to submit works (acousmatic, installations, student works, too!), papers for presentation and/or posters. We are going to have an IKO speaker to play with, thanks to the University of Birmingham and University of Greenwich. Deadline for submission of works is 12th of May. All the information can be found here: https://linktr.ee/spatialaudiogathering

 

 

News from Stefano Catena

PhD candidate Stefano Catena's multichannel composition Travelling Without Moving will be featured at NoiseFloor 2024 from 27^th to 29^th of May as part of the fixed media concerts at the Escola Superior de Música in Lisbon. 

Stefano's paper 'A speaker agnostic approach to spatialisation in electroacoustic music'—co-authored with Henrik Frisk, Professor at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm—has been accepted in the Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Conference that will take place from 4^th to  6^th of July 2024 in Porto. Stefano's multichannel piece Travelling Without Moving will also be featured as part of the artistic programme.

Stefano Catena

 

John Young and Cristiana Palandri at Noisefloor Lisbon

Prof. John Young and M4C PhD candidate Cristiana Palandri will be at the Noisefloor 2024 conference at  the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa.

Palandri will present her ambisonic composition Gemelli siamesi making use of the Escola's 15.1 channel dome audio system.

Young will perform two works, Arioso and Le Chant en dehors, and present a paper 'The Long and Short of Acousmatic Forms'.

Cristiana Palandri