Wednesday, April 2, 2025

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.

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

My audiovisual composition 'Estauries 4' has been programmed for the Musicacoustica Hangzhou Festival, China, which runs Sep 24-29 at the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music. 

'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

Prof Bret Battey's audiovisual composition 'Estuaries 4' has been selected for inclusion in the Texas Tech University 'Electronic Nights' concert series. 'Estuaries 4' will appear in concert April 17, 2024 at the Texas Tech School of Music.

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.