'Clonal Colonies I' at Punto y Raya / Cineteca Madrid June 20, 2025

'Clonal Colonies I' was part of a screening of Visual Music works, on June 20, 2025, curated by the Punto y Raya Festival for presentation at Cineteca Madrid as part of celebrations for World Music Day.

'time, bruised, selves' receives Honorable Mention, MuVi7 Exhibition

Drs Bret Battey and Deniz Ertan's collaborative audiovisual installation 'time, bruised, selves' has been awarded an Honourable Mention in the MuVi7 International Exhibition of Video on Synaesthesia and Visual Music, Granada, Spain. The video will show at the VIII International Congress "Synaesthesia: Science and Art," which will take place from October 23rd to 25th 2025 at Convento Capuchinos and Palacio Abacial, Alcalá la Real, Jaén, Spain.

'Estauries 4' in La Hora Acusmatica virtual concert series Nov 7

My audiovisual composition 'Estuaries 4' was selected for inclusion in the La Hora Acusmatica online festival, in its November 7, 2025 edition. (More info to come…)

'Estuaries 4' at Eastman School of Music, Sep 25, 2025

  

My audiovisual composition 'Estuaries 4' will be screened September 25 as part of a concert at The Electroacoustic Music Studios @ Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York.

Thursday, September 25, 2025 |
7:30 PM, Hatch Recital Hall

Program:

Kaija Saariaho: Vent Nocturne (2006)

     Sombres miroirs

     Soupirs de l’obscur

     Ryan Hardcastle, viola

Hubert Howe: Inharmonic Fantasy No. 20 (2025)

     World Premiere

Mikel Kuehn: Dancing in the Ether (2020)

Nattakon Lertwattanaruk: RedDeadRouletteReconstruction (2025)

     American Premiere

Hubert Howe: Inharmonic Fantasy No. 6 (2017)

     Dana Crytser, flute

Bret Battey: Estuaries 4 (2021)

This concert is free, open to the public, and will be diffused onto a 7.10.1 array (7 loudspeakers in the upper balcony, 10 on the lower level and a sub woofer)

Book chapter on 'Estuaries 4' published

My chapter "Events and Continuums: The Audiovisual Composition ‘Estuaries 4’" is published in a new book Collaboration, Engagement, and Tradition in Contemporary and Electronic Music: NoiseFloor Perspectives, published by Routledge at the end of 2024.

Abstract: A core contrast in music of our time has been between music comprised of discrete note events vs. music of continuums (Wishart), often in conjunction with the music of sounds (Landy). Traditional algorithmic-music techniques have tended to emphasise the former, while computer-manipulation of found sound has tended to be associated with the latter. Similarly, in audiovisual composition, one can contrast note-to-visual-object approaches with more gestural and textural strategies. In this domain, too, we might contrast algorithmic approaches that render discrete objects versus video-processing techniques which more readily lend themselves to textural emphases. Estuaries 4, the last of the author’s Estuaries series of audiovisual compositions, caps the work of this series by finding fruitful intersections between algorithms and both discrete-event and continuum thinking. He presents the event/continuum distinction as a continuum itself and suggests some ways in which algorithmic approaches can apply across that continuum.

New audiovisual installation collaboration: 'time, bruised, selves'

 'time, bruised, selves' — an audiovisual co-creation by Bret Battey and Deniz Ertan – premiered Dec 16, 2024 to March 30, 2025 at Phoenix Cinema and Gallery, Leicester, UK. More information and documentation available here.

'Estuaries 4' at Carnegie Melon University, 27 Mar 2025

My audiovisual composition 'Estuaries 4' was screened 27 Mar 2025 at Carnegie Melon University, Pittsburgh as part of a international selection of works presented by AV@CMU.