Visible Bits, Audible Bytes – An Audio-Visual Symposium and Screening/Performance – Leicester, UK, 27 October 2010 Wednesday October 27th, 2010 Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre, Midland Street, Leicester LE1 1TG Produced by Music, Technology and Innovation De Montfort University, Leicester New Media Events 2010-2011 Curator: Bret Battey Visible Bits, Audible Bytes – An Audio-Visual Symposium and Screening/Performance Guests: * Jaroslaw Kapuscinski http://www.dmu.ac.uk/faculties/humanities/cultural-exchanges/ — Intermedia composer and pianist. Assistant Professor of Composition and Director of the Intermedia Performance Lab at Stanford University. * Joseph Hyde— Composer, sound and media artist. Senior Lecturer in Creative Music Technology at Bath Spa University. Symposium (ETC Suite 3) 1.00pm-4.00pm Presentations and discussion on the theory and practice of audio-visual artworks. * Joseph Hyde: Noise and Crosstalk (using noise, distortion and artefacts to forge audiovisual interaction) * Jaroslaw Kapuscinski: What is Intermedia? Where is Chopin? * Bret Battey: Matching Complex Audio and Visual Gestalts * Andrew Hill: Understanding Reception, Informing Composition * Sean Clark: TBA Concert (Screen 2) 7.30pm-9.00pm Entry £5 / £2.50 (students/concessions) * Jaroslaw Kapuscinski: Oli’s Dream (for MIDI piano and realtime computer projection) * Jaroslaw Kapuscinski: Juicy (for MIDI piano and realtime computer projection) * Diego Garro: Patah * Joseph Hyde: Vanishing Point * Ron Herema: Dancing Wu Wei * Andrew Hill: Perpetual Motion * Onur Senturk + Gavin Little: Nokta * Onur Senturk + Combustion: Triangle * Semiconductor: 200 Nanowebbers * Robert Darroll: Stele * Bret Battey: Sinus Aestum Box Office: 0116-2422800 Symposium: entry free but reserve a space! Performance: entry £5 / £2.50 (concessions) Watch this space for our continuing MTI events series http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/events.htm