Programme 2023

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Day One – Thursday May 11th

10:00 – 11:15Conference Open – registration and Tea / coffee (TV Studio)
11:15 – 12:15Concert 1 – FIXED MEDIA Electroacoustic (TV Studio)

Dr Manuella Blackburn – Cupboard Love
Berk Yagli – Ideological Distortion
Cameron Naylor – Foxglove
Domenico De Simone – PEACE WIND
Francis Dhomont – Somme Toute

——Interval (15 mins)———

Alistair Zaldua, Lauren Redhead – Ochre, Red

TOTAL: c. 85’
12:45 – 13:00Break
13:00 – 13:30Paper Session A (Flaxman L216)
Adam Stanovic – Composing Tin Hau: moral, ethical, and documentary conflicts
13:30 – 14:30Lunch (TV Studio Foyer)
14:30 – 15:40Concert 2 – FIXED MEDIA Electroacoustic (TV Studio)

Sam Mitchell – The Body’s Habits Are Strong
Stefano Catena – Tides
Tim Anderson – Insecurities
Samvaran Rai – With Time
Leah Reid – Sk(etch)
Zoe (Yi-Cheng) Lin – Music from the Metaverse: 3D Illusory Immersive Soundscape “Aurora” for Solo Saxophone and Immersive Electroacoustic Music
Anna Claudia Postiglione – Kòsmosmandala
Andrew Lewis – Three Storms

Total c. 65’
15:40 – 16:00Break
16:00 – 17:00Keynote (Flaxman L216)
Monty Adkins – Dark Ambient – ProtoU: a case study
17:00 – 17:30Break
17:30 – 18:30Concert 3 – FIXED MEDIA Electroacoustic (TV Studio)

Mikel Kuehn – Perseverance: An Artist Rendering
Laurie Radford – Vagus II
Adam Stanovic – Goodnight, Tin Hau
Jason Bolte – AridFlow
Barry Truax – What The Waters Told Me (2022), a soundscape composition with 8 digital soundtracks

TOTAL: c. 60′
18:30 – 19:00Break
19:00 – 20:00Concert 4 – FIXED MEDIA audio visual music (TV Studio)

Hubert Howe – Breached by Storms
Terry Trickett – Passeggiata
Brian Hernandez – Queue R
Wenbin Lyu – Nor Hope
Calum Wilton – Depths
Maura McDonnell – Visual Dérive

TOTAL: c. 60’

Installation (Music Studios Live Room) – Dr. Christian Dimpker – N. 28 Light quartet “Die Zusammensetzung der Welt”

Day Two – Friday May 12th

10:00 – 11:00Welcome Day 2 (Tea / Coffee)
11:00 – 12:00Paper Session B (Cadman G026)
Dr Manuella Blackburn – The representation of diversity in sample packs
John Dack – Translating Pierre Henry’s ‘Journal de mes sons’ – a report
12:00 – 12:30Break
12:30 – 13:30Concert 5 – Acoustic instruments with electronics (TV Studio)

Wenbin Lyu – Adlez
Tian Fu – Rap Composition: Challenging the Norms of Rap Music and Contemporary Art Music
Vladimir Vlaev – Evolution

TOTAL TIME: 50′
13:30 – 14:30Lunch (TV Studio Foyer)
14:30 – 15:30Keynote 2 (Cadman G026)
Eddie Dobson – Opportunity for all: the social and cultural mediators of eudaimonia* in sound. *https://www.britannica.com/topic/eudaimonia
15:30 – 16:30Break
16:30 – 17:30Concert 6 – Recitals and Lecture Recitals (TV Studio)

Hubert Howe – Structuring Inharmonic Spectra by Means of Frequency Shifting
Lauren Redhead (paper talk) – ‘Voice’, Sonic Representation and Discourse

TOTAL: c. 60′
17:30 – 18:30Break
18:30 – 19:30Concert 7 – Acoustic instruments with electronics + Music Interactive (TV Studio)

Cecilia Suhr – I, You, We (v.2)
James Dooley – formuls: GRAZpatterns
Dario Savino Doronzo (Pianist: Pietro Gallo. Composer:Daniele Sardone ) – Reimagining Opera & Reimagining Aria. The “rewriting” of classicism in modern jazz.

TOTAL: c. 60′