Bat Hat Media
Bret Battey blogging sundry ideas, favorable events, works in progress, and miscellaneous solutions in digital music and video-music research and creation. I see this as a subsidiary of my web site, BatHatMedia.com.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Book chapter on 'Estuaries 4' published
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.
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
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.
Monday, September 9, 2024
Screenings/Papers at Musicacoustica Hangzhou and Sound/Image Greenwich
'Estuaries
4' has been programmed for the Sound/Image Festival 2024 at
University of Greenwich, where I will also present my audiovisual installation work 'Traces, Molten' and a paper on 'Estuaries 4'.
Monday, January 22, 2024
'Estuaries 4' April Screening at Electronic Nights, Texas Tech University
Thursday, November 9, 2023
Estuaries 4 awarded a Distinction in Prix CIME 2023
The jury of Prix CIME 2023 awarded Estuaries 4 a Distinction in the Video Music category (along with João Pedro Oliveira for Coalescence).
Friday, September 1, 2023
Masterclass and screening: Punto y Raya, Lisbon, October
I will be presenting a masterclass on Tue, October 10, as part of the Punto y Raya Festival
in Lisbon. The festival will be the eighth edition of Punto y Raya,
which describes itself as "The Most Abstract Festival in the World"— "a
feast of pure form, colour, motion and sound". Battey's film Estuaries 4 will also be screened as part of the festival. The masterclass, entitled 'Six Works, Seven Years, Millions of Dots', will focus on audiovisual composition and algorithms in my "Estuaries" series and recent installation works.