Estuaries 4 at TEAMS Festival, Bangkok Kunsthale, April 17-19

I am pleased to announce that my audiovisual composition Estuaries 4 has been selected for inclusion in the inaugural festival of the Thai Electroacoustic Music Society (TEAMS) at the Bangkok Kunsthale, April 17-19, 2026. 

'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)

'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.

 

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'.

'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.

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.

New installation 'Traces, Molten' premiering Leicester, Sep 13-16

 

Coming Sep 13-16, 2022, to LCB Depot in Leicester: my new audiovisual installation Traces, Molten — as part of the British Science Festival! Traces, Molten invites participants to contemplate a continually transforming immersive landscape, driven by mathematical processes. Perhaps this is a glimpse of the exquisite, molten dance of millions of sub-atomic particles — or traces of an intangible order underlying the cosmos.

https://britishsciencefestival.org/event/traces-molten/

Estauries 4 Selected by Over the Real Festival

Estuaries 4 has been selected for screening by the Over the Real International Festival of Video Art. The Festival will run September 24 – October 2, 2022 in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. 

'Estuaries 4' awarded 'best video' by the MuVi6 festival

Estuaries 4 has been awarded 'best video' by the MuVi6 International Exhibition of Video and Moving Image on Synesthesia and Visual Music. It will be featured in an upcoming book and a conference held by the Faculty of Fine Arts “Alonso Cano”, University of Granada (Spain) and Convento de Capuchinos, Alcalá la Real (Jaén, Spain), 26-29th October 2022

Estuaries 4 at NoiseFloor Festival and International Computer Music Festival

Estuaries 4 will be screening in the Staffordshire University NoiseFloor Festival (12-13 May) and the 2022 International Computer Music Conference (Limerik, Ireland, 3-9 July).

Estuaries 4 streaming by Tempo Reale, 10 March, 2022

Tempo Reale's AudioVisionElettriche (Firenze, Italy) will stream Estauries 4 as part of an audiovisual screening on March 10, 2022, 7 pm Italian time. More information is available on their Facebook posting. 

[Update 11 Mar, 2022: the streamed show is available on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/temporealefirenze/videos/640847633879700/]

Estuaries 4 in Synchresis / Musikene, Spain, Dec 2

Dec 2, 2021, Estuaries 4 will be receiving its second screening as part of a show curated by the Synchresis Festival — celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Musikene in Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain.

Visible Bits, Audible Bytes 2021 + Premiere of 'Estuaries 4'

 

This Friday, Nov 12 2021, I am presenting a screening of new, experimental sound-and-image work on the fantastic digital-cinema projection system and 7.1 sound at Phoenix cinema in Leicester. See how artists and composers from around the world are using new technologies to animate imaginative audio-visual worlds and explore new relationships between sound and the moving image. 

This will include the premiere of my new work 'Estuaries 4'.

 

Visible Bits, Audible Bytes 2021

 

Fri 12 Nov, 8:15 pm

Phoenix Cinema, Leicester

Free, but advanced booking is recommended

https://www.phoenix.org.uk/programme/vbab-2021/

 

Roundabout Midday (2020) ...................................... Asher Arnon (Israel)

Estuaries 4 (2021)....................................................... Bret Battey (UK/USA)

output 1 (2019)........................................................... Sebastiano Gualtieri (Italy)

Survol (2019).............................................................. Félix Bonjour (France)

Phases (2018)............................................................. Myriam Boucher (Canada)

cvd (2021)................................................................... Sebastiano Gualtieri (Italy)

Things I Have Seen In My Dreams (2019)................... João Pedro Oliveira (Portugal/USA)

output 2 (2020)........................................................... Sebastiano Gualtieri (Italy)

VOID (2019)................................................................ Andrew Hill (UK)

Puntito_visual (2016)................................................. Jean-Philippe Pierre-Louis
(Ecuador / Canada)

DEN (2019).................................................................. Marinos Giannoukakis (Greece)

 

This year, Visible Bits, Audible Bytes is also integrated with the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference (http://www.ems-network.org/ems21/) being held at De Montfort University.

Estuaries 3 Screening in Punto y Raya Festival 2021

 Estuaries 3 will be screening as part of the seventh edition of the Punto y Raya Festival, in Vienna, Nov 25-28, 2021.

CVM Screening at Tokyo Museum of Photographic Art

Clonal Colonies I will be screened as part of a new program from the Center for Visual Music: Oskar Fischinger, Visual Music and Motion Graphics screens at the Tokyo Museum of Photographic Art as part of the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions. Featuring films by Bret Battey, Jordan Belson, Mary Ellen Bute, Sean Capone, Scott Draves, Jules Engel, Oskar Fischinger, Paul Fletcher, Michel Gagné, Norman McLaren, Baerbel Neubauer, Robert Seidel, John Stehura, and Steve Woloshen. Screens at the museum February 6, 11 and 21. 

"Three Breaths in Empty Space" streaming from 404 Festival 2020, Argentina

The film version of "Three Breaths in Empty Space" is streaming as part of the 404 Festival in Argentina Nov 19, 20, and 21 2020. 

Estuaries 3 in SeenSound, Oct 3, 2020

The streaming October 2020 edition of SeenSound (on October 3, 6 pm Australia) will include my Estuaries 3.

This edition of SeenSound celebrates the publication of Sound and Image: Aesthetics and Practice (edited by Andrew Knight-Hill) and features works from contributors to the book, including: 

Claudia Robles-Angel, Diego Garro, Joseph Hyde,

Leyokki, Louise Harris, Matthew Galea,

Maura McDonnell, Myriam Boucher, Jung In Jung,

Nunique Quartett (Megan Kenny Steve Falk, Charles MacInnes, Brigid Burke),

Brigid Burke, Roger Alsop, and Mark Pedersen.

The SeenSound: Visual/Music series provides a space for the presentation of short visual/music works. SeenSound commenced in 2011, curated by Melbourne-based audio-visual artists Brigid Burke and Mark Pedersen, and is proudly supported by Loop Bar.