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2010-11 • 2009-10 • 2008-9 • 2007-8 • 2006-7 • 2005-6 • 2004-5 • 2001-4 • Programmes
Events 2010-2011
Concert - MTI Team Event 1 Wed, Oct 13. 2010
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Visible Bits, Audible Bytes — An Audio-Visual Symposium and Screening/Performance Guests:
SymposiumWed, Oct 27. 2010 Presentations and discussion on the theory and practice of audio-visual artworks.
ConcertWed, Oct 27. 2010
We will also be joined by Diego Garro for the screening (Audio-visual composer. Senior Lecturer in music, technolog, and computer video art at Keele University.) |
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Concert — MTI Team Event 2 Wed, Nov 10. 2010 It’s a great year for MTI postgraduate newcomers joining an expanding community. We continue the season with a concert that shows the diversity of this talent - the composers introduce themselves by performing recent acousmatic work.
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Concert — MTI Live Electronics Wed, Nov 24. 2010 An evening of experimental and explorative live music from present members of MTI, IOCT and alumni.
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Concert — Dirty Electronics: Twisted Bodies Carry Electricity Wed, Dec 8. 2010 A concert of balancing on books, Faraday generators, twisted bodies carrying electricity and drunk tin cans. New works by: Simon Langdon, Amit Patel and Adam Chetty, Visa Kuoppala, Leigh Landy and John Richards. With special feature from wearelab
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Concert: NOTAM Wed, Jan 19th, 2011 The first of a series of concerts from MTI's international exchange partners, featuring NOTAM (the Norwegian Centre for Technology in Music and the Arts). Acousmatic and audio-visual pieces presented by Jøran Rudi, its Artistic and Scientific Director.
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Concert: Alessandro Cipriani — The Cabinet of Dr Caligari Wed, Feb 2, 2011 The second of a series of concerts from MTI's international exchange partners. Curated and presented by Alessandro Cipriani from the department of Composizione, Nuove Tecnologie e Percussioni‚ at the Conservatorio di Musica 'Licinio Refice', Frosinone, Italy.
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Concert: Dirty Electronics Ensemble at the London ICA, "Solder and Score" 16-17th, 19-20th February 2011 MTIRC composer and instrument maker John Richards takes up temporary residence in the gallery with Solder and Score, a unique participation opportunity for visitors to the ICA. Over the course of five days workshop attendees will build a large patchwork quilt-like instrument and co-write a musical score with John, culminating in a group performance and auction. Referring to his process as Dirty Electronics, Richards conjures electronic phenomena at odds to those found in today’s mass produced digital culture and utilises characteristics such as designer trash, hand-made, ready-made, hacked, bent, feedback and kitsch in the process. For Live Weekends: Notation and Interpretation, the workshops will immerse attendees in the interplay between process and performance beginning on the workbench, co-devising the modules that will form the ‘instrument’ and then extending onto the stage. The workshops will be informed by a musical score written especially for Dirty Electronics by sound artist Nicholas Bullen (founder member of Napalm Death and Scorn and a frequent collaborator with artist Mark Titchner). Workshops take place daily 16-18 February and are free entry, all ages welcome. On Sunday 20 February the sessions conclude with an open afternoon of performances followed by an instrument auction. Please call the Box Office on 020 7930 3647 to book tickets. |
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Symposium: Form in Electroacoustic Music Sun, Feb 20, 2011 (Note change from originally posted date of 2/19) A symposium looking at the bigger picture in electroacoustic music — focusing on how we put together and relate to the wonderful sounds of this genre. The event will be of interest to everyone who makes and listens to music made with electronic technology.
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Cultural eXchanges 28 Feb - 4 Mar A series of concerts, talks, and workshops hosted by the DMU Faculty of Humanities, including a number of MTI sponsored events. Booking is required for these events. Reservations may be booked at the Cultural eXchanges web site Dance and Music Symposium: CollaborationWed Mar 2, 2-5pm Collaboration in dance and in music and between dancers and musicians has existed for centuries. Collaborative practices in contemporary dance and music have given rise to new means of making and presenting art. This symposium brings together staff from Dance and Music, Technology and Innovation at De Montfort University to present their experiences of making new performance work through collaboration.
Concert Installation: Simon Emmerson – Memory MachineWed Mar 2, 5-6pm Memory Machine is a ‘concert installation’ piece – the audience can come and go at will. Written by MTI’s Professor Simon Emmerson, it is inspired by mediaeval and renaissance ideas of mapping memory onto an imaginary stage. There are soundscapes such as a real aeolian harp played by the wind and also memories of music which has some significance to the composer. Memory Machine was commissioned by the Inventionen Festival Berlin in July 2010. Concert: Darragh Morgan, violinThu Mar 3, 1-2pm Violinist Darragh Morgan has an international reputation as an interpreter of new music. Here he performs recent commissions for violin and multichannel sound from MTI's Simon Emmerson, and composers Adrian Moore, Michael Alcorn and Ricardo Climent. Darragh has led world-class international ensembles, including the London Sinfonietta, and is a member of award-winning chamber ensembles The Smith Quartet and The Fidelio Trio. He regularly appears as a concerto soloist and has performed at many prestigious international festivals and made numerous CD recordings. Concert: Simon Emmerson 60th Birthday tributeThu Mar 3, 3-4pm Simon Emmerson is a pioneer in creating music with technology of more than 35 years, as well as being a widely published and respected scholar in his field, joining DMU as Professor of Music, Technology and Innovation in 2004. His colleagues and some of his current students celebrate this special year with new music theatre as well as electronic music pieces created especially for the occasion. Concert: 60x60Fri Mar 4, 1-2pm In this concert, 60 composers from around the world affirm that brevity can indeed be the soul of wit, each presenting a work lasting no more than 60 seconds. The art of the miniature, recalling such classic works as Beethoven's Bagatelles or Chopin's 24 Preludes, here finds new life in the form of electroacoustic music and computer-based sonic art.. Concert: Chris Hobbs, Keith Rowe and the Dirty Electronics EnsembleFri Mar 4, 7-8:30pm This event features two icons of British experimental music and improvisation, who played together in the legendary AMM group. Chris Hobbs’s astonishing experimental music has had considerable impact at DMU over the 25 years he has taught here. Keith Rowe is known for his pioneering approach to the ‘tabletop’ guitar. He has worked with many musicians ranging from Cornelius Cardew to Otomo Yoshihide and Christian Fennesz, and has often been cited as being an influence on Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett. This event also features the premiere of a commission from Keith Rowe and DMU’s Dirty Electronics Ensemble. |
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Atau Tanaka and Adam Parkinson (Culture Lab, Newcastle) SeminarWed, Mar 16, 3-5pm A seminar by Adam and Atau on their work in general and 4 Hands iPhone in particular. Access to the building is controlled at this time. If you wish to come to the seminar please email Simon Emmerson (S.Emmerson [at] dmu.ac.uk) who will arrange access from 2.45-3.00pm. Building access is open to the public concert in the evening. ConcertWed, Mar 16, 7:00pm In a duo, with an iPhone in each hand, Adam & Atau create a chamber music, 4-hands iPhone. All this drives open source Pure Data (PD) patches running out of the free RJDJ iPhone app. A single advanced granular synthesis patch becomes the process by which a battery of sounds from the natural world are stretched, frozen, scattered, and restitched. The encapsulation in a self-contained, manipulable object take the iPhone beyond consumer icon to become a powerful, expressive musical instrument. |
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Theodoros Lotis, DJ Sniff and C Spencer Yeh Wed, Mar 30, 7:30 pm Theodore Lotis (Corfu) presents – And also performing -
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Symposium: Space Wed, May 4, 1-6pm A symposium exploring the rich variety of ways in which spatial qualities of music can be controlled and extended using technology. With presentations by:
The following binaural files can be preloaded onto your personal music player, for listening during one of the talks: |
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Sound, Sight, Space and Play Postgraduate Conference June 8-10 The conference is organised by students for students who are interested in electroacoustic music and sonic arts. More information is available at the conference web site |
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