Different Islands
Different Islands by Edmund Hunt, for dancer, string quartet and live electronics, began as a project to investigate creative approaches to an Old English text known as ‘Wulf and Eadwacer’. By embedding the untranslated text within disparate elements of musical composition, dance and live electronics, the project seeks to explore [...]
Still Life
Still Life is a new work by Yixuan Zhao, realised in two separate versions. The piano solo version was commissioned by Spanish pianist Laura Farré Rozada, M4C Ph.D candidate at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and was officially released by Seed Music in January 2021, as part of Laura's album 'Nimbus', [...]
Riffs editorial
After having been guest editor of the July 2020 issue of Riffs, the journal of experimental writing on popular music, Edmund Hunt has been invited back for the December 2020 issue. In his editorial Edmund reflects on our ambivalence towards technology, especially at a time when we are all so dependent [...]
Integra 2011 Festival
The Integra Festival 2011 took place at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen from 27 September to 1 October 2011. The Festival was the final event of the EU-funded Integra - Fusing Music and Technology project, and featured premieres of four Integra commissions for large ensemble, electronics [...]
Integra 2008 Festival
The Integra 2008 International Festival 'Fusing music and technology' took place at Birmingham Conservatoire on 5-7 June 2008, alongside the Integra 2008 International Conference. The Festival was the culmination of the first three years of the EU-funded Integra project, and over three days of performances of mixed media and [...]
Integra 2008 Conference
The Integra 2008 International Conference 'Solving the tensions between musicians and technology' took place at Birmingham Conservatoire on 5-7 June 2008, alongside the Integra 2008 International Festival. The conference took place at the end of the first phase of the Integra project and featured presentations by several Integra project [...]
Integra Live workshop in Venice
At the beginning of May I had the privilege to lead a 3-day workshop at the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello in Venice. Prof Paolo Zavagna, the coordinator of the New Technologies and Music Languages Department, kindly invited me to talk about research at the Integra Lab and to present the Integra [...]
esthesis: performance at MiXD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBRzhuQ3W5w As part of our AHRC Digital Transformations project "Transforming Transformation" we commissioned a new artistic work to explore the concept of transforming sound through touch-free interaction within a creative context. To say we are delighted with the results would be an understatement! esthesis, the new system and work by [...]
Artistic commission
We're pleased to announce that composer and sound artist James Dooley has accepted the artistic commission for our AHRC-funded Transforming Transformation project (working title "Integra Forms"). The aim of the project is to develop new ways of transforming sound through touch-free interaction. An important element of the project is an [...]