Projects and Collaborations

EARS - The Electroacoustic Resource Site

EARS is a structured Internet portal supported by extensive bibliographical tools, designed to aid those conducting research in Electroacoustic Music Studies. EARS can be found here.

The project is coordinated by Leigh Landy and Simon Atkinson at MTI Research Centre in collaboration with with Pierre Couprie and Rob Weale. EARS is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Unesco and it forms part of Unesco’s Digi-Arts Programme. The EARS team is now creating a new site for children.

New Multimedia Tools for Electroacoustic Music Analysis

This three-year research project, made possible by an awarded of just under £300,000 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), will develop an analysis software package and an analytical toolbox relevant to the breadth of electroacoustic genres. This will draw together existing methods, engage the latest interactive and hypermedia tools, and apply them to a range of works to compare their strengths and weaknesses. This aims to illuminate both the procedures and the works. We will be better able to judge what analytical approach (or approaches) would be best suited to gain an insight and understanding of a particular genre of the music. The research will be undertaken by DMU Professors Simon Emmerson and Leigh Landy with musicologist and programmer Dr Pierre Couprie and doctoral student Mike Gatt. A number of new extensions, developments and refinements will result in a newly developed software application ('E-Analyse' derived from Pierre Couprie's iAnalyse) which can apply a range of possible approaches. The project launched Autumn 2010. (Image: Pierre Couprie's "iAnalyse 3")

The Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS)

The Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS) facilitates developments in this vital field. It hosts international events focusing relevant subjects every other year. 

Our collaborative partners in the EMS initiative are(OMF/MINT) at the Université de Paris IV — Sorbonne and INA/GRM, Paris

Organised Sound

MTI hosts the journal Organised Sound: an International Journal of Music Technology (Cambridge University Press). Prof Leigh Landy is the Editor.

Partnership Agreements

MTI Research Centre and the Université de Paris IV — Sorbonne have signed a memorandum of cooperation for postgraduate, staff, and research exchange.

We have artistic and research exchange agreements with:

• the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) of the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel in Paris
• the Institut für Musik und Akustik of the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany
• the Norsk Senter for Teknologi i Musikk og Kunst (NOTAM), Oslo, Norway
• STEIM (the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

CD: Bouquet of Sounds

MTI Research Centre released a double-CD sampler of member works to celebrate our hosting of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Conference 2007. Entitled Bouquet of Sounds, the disks celebrate the eclectism of our staff and students. It includes works by Simon Atkinson, Pierre Couprie, John Young, Leigh Landy, Richard Hemmings, Christopher Hobbs, Rob Weale, John Richards, Simon Emmerson, Peter Batchelor, Rick Nance, Bret Battey, Sophy Smith, Andrew Hugill, Ximena Alarcon, and Ron Herrema. Surround works by Landy and Batchelor were binaurally encoded with custom software by PhD student Lorenzo Picinali. For inquiries, contact Leigh Landy.

Philharmonia Orchestra: The Sound Exchange

In 2002/3 the Access and Education Department of the Philharmonia Orchestra developed orchestral and internet resources with the MTI Research Centre. The Philharmonia is resident in Leicester. This large-scale collaboration was funded by the Arts Council of England as part of the orchestra's stabilisation. There were several large elements, supervised by Andrew Hugill, with support from MTI Research Centre members and MTI students and in collaboration with Dr. Aladdin Ayesh of DMU's Computer Science Department. The resulting website can be viewed at http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/thesoundexchange/