Xenakis & Co with Amelides and Tzedaki

The audiorama in Stockholm is presenting a two-day tribute to Xenakis on May 4 & 5, 2012. One concert is dedicated to young Greek electroacoustic composers, including pieces by DMU postgrads Panos Amelides (Ritual Attacks and Agoras I) and Katerina Tzedaki (Reverberations).

Visible Bits, Audible Bytes

Music, Technology and Innovation
De Montfort University, Leicester
New Media Events 2011-2012

Wednesday April 25th, 2012 7pm
Phoenix Square (Film & Digital Media)
Midland Street, Leicester, LE1 1TG

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Join Phoenix Square for a compelling showcase screening of works from an eclectic group of audiovisual artists from around the world. Ranging from the playful and sensuous to the edgy and experimental, these artists and their works are redefining the potentials of sound and image in the 21st century. Curated by Bret Battey and presented by the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at DMU.

Flat-E (images) + Ultre (music): Ionisation (2005)
Jean Piché (images and music): OCÉANES (2010-11)
Bret Battey (images and music): Clonal Colonies (2011)
Glenn Marshall (images) + Peter Gabriel (music): The Nest That Sailed the Sky (2009)
Candaş Şişman (images and music): FLUX (2010)
Jean Piché (images and music): Ange (1979/2012)
Numbercult (images and music): EVE (2009)
Robert Seidel (images) + Heiko Tippelt & Philipp Hirsch (music): _grau (2004)
Candaş Şişman (images) + Egidija Medeksaite (music): EFF-FLUX (2011)

Tickets: £6 (£3.50 conc. - £2.50 for DMU staff and students) please call the Box Office (0116-242-2800) or book online (http://phoenix.org.uk/).

Luca Forcucci "Formant / Forms of Listening to Forms"

Formant / Forms of Listening to Forms, a collaborative sound art project with members of the Shanghainese scene & doctoral student Luca Forcucci, opens in Shanghai on March 30. The exhibition is part of ongoing work by Luca Forcucci and Yin Yi to advance the development of sound art in China. It will include sound art works, talks, and concerts from Yan Jun, Yin Yi, Zhang Ding, Lawrence English and Luca Forcucci.

Luca will also play at NOISHANGHAI, curated by Torturing Noise. Appearing on the same bill are G.A.F, Tupperwear, AnastasiaAx & LarsSiltberg (Sweden, Spain and Beijing).

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Wednesday March 28th, 2012 7pm
PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester
 

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Current undergraduates are joined by recent alumni and friends to present a concert of experimental ambient electronica, live looping, soundscape, techno, house, dubstep and more.

Muted Fnord (David Dhonau, Andrew Johnston, Ola Szmidt, Jim Tetlow)
sleuf & envelope (Adam Chetty and Tim Matthews)
Plutonic Pleasure (Dean Sharman)
Plans for Montiga (Paul Mansell)

Entry Free!

MTI-team extended – Frosinone – Montréal

Wednesday March 14^th, 2012 7pm

PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

MTI’s Panos Amelides and Adam Chetty are joined by composers from our exchange partners Frosinone (Italy) - Dario Amoroso, Gabriele Paolozzi, – and Montreal – Sébastien Lavoie - to perform a concert of acousmatic works.

Dario Amoroso                         Mac vs PC

Gabriele Paolozzi                          Vocal Mutations

Adam Chetty                         Ecological Harmony: Public (I)

Sébastien Lavoie                         In My Camaro

Panos Amelides                         Alexandros (excerpt)

Mirko Ettore D'Agostino              Super Mikro World

Luca De Siena                          Telephonie

Entry Free!

MTI Symposium at Cultural Exchanges Festival

‘Extending analysis: emotion, brain, computation’

As part of the AHRC funded project ‘New Multimedia Tools for Electroacoustic Music Analysis’ directed by Simon Emmerson and Leigh Landy (MTI)

Wednesday 29th February 11am-1pm & 2-5pm
Clephan Building, Bonners Lane - Room 0.01
Free

• Keynote speakers: ‘Emotion, Cognition, Computation’ Gary Kendall (Queen’s University Belfast): “Meaning in Electroacoustic Music: Feeling, Emotion and the Aesthetic Experience” Michael Young (Goldsmiths, University of London): “Why now? Contingencies and Identities in Interactive and Generative Music” Simon Durrant (University of Lincoln): “Write it how you hear it: how neuroscience and psychology may help inform electroacoustic music analysis”
• Also Leigh Landy, Simon Emmerson, Pierre Couprie (EAnalysis), Michael Gatt and OREMA contributors Ben Ramsay, Manuella Blackburn, Panos Amelides, Andrew Hill, Ambrose Seddon

Box Office - to book a place -
Tel.: 0116-250-6229 Online: dmu.ac.uk/culturalexchanges

MTI Events feature in Cultural Exchanges Festival

Thursday March 1^st, 2012 7pm

PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

Leigh Landy 60^th Birthday Concert

With Jos Zwaanenburg (flute)

A series of three radio-based spatialised and very humorous works (French, English and German – with subtitles) are presented with two live works for flutes and recordings performed by virtuoso flautist, Jos Zwaanenburg in which musical sounds can be heard from Europe, Africa and Asia.

Oh là la radio (2007), To BBC or Not (2008), Radio-aktiv (2011)

Wolken Wind Schermen (Clouds Wind Screens 1976), Ceci n’est pas une flûte (1989-90), both revised 2011 – for flutes and electronics.

Friday March 2^nd, 2012 7pm

PACE Building, Studio 1, Richmond St., Leicester

Light, Space and Shadow  - John Young 50^th Birthday Concert

With Xenia Pestova (piano)

The programme includes three recent works: Smoke and Mirrors, a 16-channel immersive soundscape commissioned by Radio France in 2008, Are You Everybody? an audiovisual collaboration with photographer Lala Meredith-Vula and X for piano and electroacoustic sounds featuring Welsh- based pianist Xenia Pestova.

Presented by the composers.

Box Office - to book a place -

Tel.: 0116-250-6229

Online: dmu.ac.uk/culturalexchanges