New Zealand Electroacoustic Music Symposium (NZEMS) 2010

The School of Music University of Auckland will be hosting a 3-day research symposium on the topic of electroacoustic music. Several of New Zealand’s prominent composer-researchers will be in attendance, including Phil Dadson (TBC), John Elmsly, Eve de Castro Robinson, John Coulter, Ian Whalley, Susan Frykberg, Michael Norris, John Cousins, and Chris Cree Brown. Professor John Young (DMU) will be delivering the keynote presentation. As a special feature of the symposium, a 26-channel discrete 'acousmonium' will be installed in Studio One, Kenneth Myers Centre for the duration of the 3-day event.

Multi-Channel Electoacoustic Music:
Research in the field of multi-channel electroacoustic music continues to advance at an alarming rate. The once standard 8-channel speaker configuration has now given way to a range of multi-speaker spaced and zoned arrays as variable as the creative works presented on them. Multi-zone and ambisonic field recording has become a typical method of acquiring source materials, and new tools for multi-track spatialisation and transformation are constantly being developed. Hyper-instruments too, many of which are designed to capture human gesture, have made their way into the multi-channel production process, while in the context of live performance, the combination of acoustic and multi-channel electroacoustic instruments is providing vocal and instrumental composers and sonic artists alike with pioneering opportunities.

The scholars of acoustic and spectral space (Bayle, Bregman, Emmerson, Haas, Hall, Lennox, Oliveros, Russo, Schafer, Smalley, et al.) remind us that the language of the domain is far from arbitrary – rather, that the effective aesthetics we experience in listening to multi-channel works is founded on more general principles relating to human genetics and experience. Several questions arise: Is the articulation of space at the heart of the language of electroacoustic music? Are there different types/genuses of spaces? What is the relationship between the proximity/location of loudspeakers and the proximity cues of the musical materials? These and other important questions will be explored and debated at this much-anticipated symposium.

For further details please contact the NZEMS event manager directly: nzems@auckland.ac.nz

NZEMS 2010 is proudly supported by Protel. The organisers would also like to thank the Australasian Computer Music Association (ACMA) and the Composers Association of New Zealand (CANZ) for publicising the event.

Registration is essential. To register: http://www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/research/music-research/nzems/nzems-registration

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