Sensing the Forest is live!


 The project website of the AHRC-funded project “Sensing the Forest” is live at: https://sensingtheforest.github.io

  
We will document the different project activities in this space. Next month we will start a series of online talks by six experts in the field. Stay tuned!

Yichen Wang’s visit on Friday 8th September


 On behalf of the Music, Technology, and Innovation – Institute for Sonic Creativity (MTI2), Robert Chafer and Anna Xambó had the pleasure of hosting Yichen Wang, an Australian-based PhD researcher supervised by Dr Charles Martin. Wang is from a computer science background, yet her work has applications for the arts and music by creating virtual instruments for use in XR technology. Thanks to Harry Pentony for the technical support, Tim Hall for a tour of the studios, James Andean for the photos, and the audience who came and engaged with Wang’s presentation and demo.

You can find out more about Wang’s work here: https://yichenwangs.github.io

Prof Battey - screenings in Iowa, Montana, and Sydney

 Prof Battey's audiovisual composition 'Estuaries 2'  recently screened at Montana State University (Sep 24, 2023) and 'Estuaries 4' at Iowa State University (Sep 30). Estuaries 4 is also scheduled to appear at the Australasian Computer Music Conference in Sydney on October 10.




Prof. John Young @ Sound/Image 2023

Prof. John Young will give an invited performance and talk at the University of Greenwich’s Sound/Image 2023 “Creativity Shared” festival, 9-12 November: 

https://blogs.gre.ac.uk/sound-image/2023/07/18/sound-image-2023/ 



Habitat Sonore Montréal

John Young's multichannel audio work Le Chant en dehors will feature in Habitat Sonore, a series of four programmes of acousmatic music curated by the Akousma Festival and installed in the Listening Room of Centre PHI, Montréal from 27 September to 22 October 2023. The intimate listening space allows for the shared experience of deep immersion in spatial audio.  Other composers included in the series are Hans Tutschku, Natasha Barrett, Hildegard Westerkamp, Laurie Spiegel, Nicola Giannini, Francisoc López, Panayiotis Kokoras, Louise Dufort, Robert Normandeau, Ana Dall’Ara-Majek, France Jobin, Christian Bouchard, Monique Jean, Line Katcho, Marcelle Deschênes, Roxanne Turcotte, David Ledoux, Mélanie Frisoli and Simon Chioini.

 



 

Samvaran Rai's @ Radiophrenia & LCB Depot

MTI MA student Samvaran Rai has had more success with his composition With Time, which has been selected for broadcast on Glasgow’s Radiophrenia FM Radio Station: https://radiophrenia.scot/schedule/ 

And Samvaran's newest audiovisual work Ephemera is being presented in LCB Depot’s Sound Season in September: https://lcbdepot.co.uk/event/sound2023/

...together with other works by MTI students and alumni, including Jacob Braslawsce & James West.



AI and the Future of Human Made Music

Fourteen testimonials of how different music performers and composers are coping with and using AI in their musical practice were published in the online article “AI and the Future of Human Made Music” for the Perfect Sound Forever online music magazine. Introduction and interviews by Jonas Vognsen.

To read the article, visit the link: https://www.furious.com/perfect/artificialintelligencemusic.html

















From left to right, top to down: Ulkar Aghayeva, Anders Bach, Jon Leidecker, Charlie Looker, Francisco López, Massimo Farjon Pupillo, Fabio Ricci, Robert Rowe, Anna Xambó Sedó, Yi Seunggyu, Pamelia Stickney, Johanna Elina Sulkunen, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, and Mia Windsor.