Sandeep:
By request, I wrote a new school song for the Allegro Primary School (which my two daughters attend). They are a very active primary school with quite a decent orchestra and choir, and these ensembles will perform this song for the first time for the entire school, during their annual music week. Naturally, I am very curious to hear it and will be present.
During the festival “Aktuelle Musik” in and around Nürnberg/Germany, Sandeep Bhagwati’s postcard piece SUTRA (2013) will be performed twice in a version for recorders, percussion and electronics in a concert entitled emotional intelligence, a project by Monika Tahiri (May 5 (Erlangen) and May 9 (Nürnberg)).
http://www.hfm-nuernberg.de/
On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 Marie-Hélène Breault will present a paper titled “La recherche de l’interprète musicien : entre recherche-création et musicologie” at the 82e Congrès de l’ACFAS at Concordia University.
matralab artists Sandeep Bhagwati, Adam Basanta, Jen Reimer, Max Stein, Julian Stein, Navid Navab and Felix Del Tredici will travel to the University of Windsor to present their work collectively and individually.
Please stay tuned for more details.
Prof. Dr. Cornelius Pöpel, Lecturer in Sound for Media at Ansbach University of Applied Sciences will be guest researcher at matralab in late September/October 2013.
The research field he will be working on can be described with the words „human aspects in media“ and he is focusing on specific music related intermedia aspects and the impact new technologies have onto the objectives the technologies are built for. Questions that will be addressed are for example:
What qualities do the constraints coming with media technology have and how can humans benefit from those?
How does the broad usage of computing systems and their need of abstraction and formalisation influence human aspects in musical and media based communication?
In contrast to the huge amount of new possibilities new media technology offers for the arts, what new limitations can a broader usage of this technology bring and how could art help to identify and overcome limitations of conceiving and creating art and probably as well: our daily life?
Besides describing the questions, their impact and possibe answers as written text, Dr. Pöpel will work on sound-based reflections with respect to the research topics. He is seeking to get in touch with researchers, artist with similar interests in order to dicuss experiences, opinions and future work.
Furthermore he is looking for researchers/lectures that are interested to come as guest lecturers to Ansbach University and to teach in workshops in the field of multimedia and communication.
Website (German language):
http://www.hs-ansbach.de/
Latest Project (with students, cooperation with UT Sydney):
“>http://wagnerlicht.com/
O V A L : sound – glass – video installation by Otso Lähdeoja & Lenka Novakova
O V AL is a collaborative audiovisual installation by two Matralab-related researchers; Otso Lähdeoja and Lenka Novakova. 10 sheets of glass are hanging from the ceiling in an oval shape, vibrating and emitting sound. Video is projected on them, creating reflections and transparencies. The installation creates an immersive sonic and visual space which playfully misleads aural and visual perception.
Oval exhibition: Hexagram black box, fri 13.09.2103 & sat 14.09.2013
Several of Sandeep Bhagwati’s essays, both written in 2011, have now appeared in recent books. His essay “Imagining the Other’s Voice. On Composing Across Vocal Traditions“, has appeared in “Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities” ed. by F. Lau and Chr. Utz (Routledge, London/New York) http://www.routledge.com/
On Nov 7, Sandeep Bhagwati will be a guest at the Music University of Hannover (Germany) where he will talk about his own path and oeuvre as a composer.