Great news for the Integra team: Integra Live will be used in a performance of Jonathan Harvey’s Madonna of Winter and Spring in a concert delivered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre, London, as part of the Total Immersion: Jonathan Harvey series. The concert begins at 8pm on Saturday 28 January 2012 - if you’re in the capital of the UK, why not pop along and see what we’ve been up to?

Click here for tickets and more information.

If you can’t make the concert, excerpts will be broadcast as part of BBC Radio 3′s Hear and Now at 10:30pm on Saturday 28 January.

Click here for further information.

New photos have now been uploaded to Flickr from the following concerts

BIT20 Concert 4,  Bergen

GIV Concert 4,  Valencia

BCU Workshop 2 and Concert,  Birmingham

BIT20 IEM Graz - Peter Plessas

On Monday 17 October, renowned recorder player Chris Orton performed Giorgio Tedde’s Austro for alto recorder and live electronics at Birmingham Conservatoire’s Recital Hall. Software Development Manager Jamie Bullock was on hand to run the electronics using our new software, Integra Live. Another successful outing for the program!

From left to right, Chris Orton and Jamie Bullock.

As a result of Miha Ciglar’s involvement with the Integra Outreach Programme, we were invited to participate in the EarZoom Sonic Arts Festival 2011, where Jamie Bullock delivered a workshop to an interested audience.

EarZoom Festival 2011, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Other photos from the event are available on our Flickr account here.

Researchers from Malmö Academy Of Music led a free, two-day Integra Live workshop in Malmö from 16 – 17 November 2011, as part of Connect Festival. The event was open to students and members of the public, with the aim of widening knowledge about live electronics in general and Integra Live in particular. Previous national workshops have been held in Austria, Norway, Poland and Spain, with a further workshop planned on 20th January 2012 in Birmingham, UK.

Henrik Frisk of Malmö Academy of Music delivers a workshop session.

A party from Birmingham Conservatoire presented the outcomes of the Integra Curriculum Pilot to delegates at the prestigious AEC Congress in Valencia on 12 November 2011. Lamberto Coccioli (Project Manager), James Dooley (Phd Student), Katherine Lam (Piano Tutor) and Juliet Jeffries (Piano Student) spoke about how our new software, Integra Live, has been incorporated in their lessons over the past year. This was followed by a performance of Monody for piano and live electronics by Roger Smalley featuring Dooley and Jeffries. Our presence at the Congress emphasised our commitment to sharing best practice in the field of live electronic music education.

James Dooley (l), Katherine Lam (m) and Lamberto Coccioli (r)

We would like to invite you to one of three FREE WORKSHOPS AND A CONCERT on Friday 20 January 2012 at Birmingham Conservatoire. You’ll learn about Integra Live, our new software for intuitive interaction with live electronics, and work with it first-hand. The event will appeal to musicians or developers looking to delve into live electronics, refresh their skills, or further an interest in the intersection of art and science.

WORKSHOP PLACES
24, spread over three sessions (all sessions will contain the same content and have space for eight people)

WORKSHOPS – MFM LAB
Workshop 1, 10am – 11.30am
Workshop 2, 11.30am – 1pm
Workshop 3, 2.30pm – 4pm

CONCERT – RECITAL HALL
5pm – 6pm (open to all members of the public, no need to reserve a place)
The concert will feature Integra Live pieces written by Conservatoire composers.

LOCATION
Birmingham Conservatoire, Paradise Place, Birmingham, B3 3HG

A reservation must be made to secure entry to the workshops – to book a place please contact tom.cahill-jones@bcu.ac.uk (T 0121 331 5913).

Link to Integra Live UK National Workshop – January 2012

The Integra Festival 2011, which took place in Copenhagen this Autumn, staged an exciting programme of events.

Integra software was used at an additional concert performed by Court-Circuit and Grup Instrumental.  Photos from the concert are published on our Flickr account, which can be viewed here.

BCU also hosted an additional concert entitled On The Verge. The photos can be accessed at this link.

Pictures from the BCU Integra Workshop are also available on Flickr. Click here to take a look at the event.

And finally, a variety of images from the Integra Festival 2011 can be viewed on our Flickr account here.

Photograph by Christoffer Regild, Integra Festival 2011

The Integra Festival 2011 played host to another world premiere, that of Iris Ter Schiphorst’s piece, AUNG, at BIT20 Concert 3. The image below shows Integra software in action at the concert. Take a look at the other pictures here.

Integra Software, BIT20 Concert 3, Integra Festival 2011

The Danish premiere of Le nubi non scoppiano per il peso by Mauro Lanza was performed by Athelas at the ensemble’s fourth Integra project concert. New images have recently been uploaded to Flickr – click here to see them.

Athelas Concert 4, Integra Festival 2011

Athelas Concert 3, held in Elsinore, presented the world premiere of Extended Apocalypsis by Philippe Leroux. Photographs of the concert are available to view here on our Flickr account.

Athelas Concert 3, Elsinore, Denmark

Images from Ars Nova Concert 3, which featured the world premiere of Alvin Curran’s Integra commission Circus Maximus, are now published on Flickr. Click the link to view! CLICK HERE

Ars Nova Concert 3, Integra Festival 2011

Big Crunch is piece for solo clarinet and live electronics by Birmingham Conservatoire PhD student Tychonas Michailidis. The work was performed in the concert “On The Verge” at the Royal Danish Academy Of Music on Wednesday 29th September as part of the Integra Festival, and was written and performed using Integra Live. A video of the performance is available via the link below.

CLICK HERE

It has now been over a week since the Integra Festival came to an end. For those of you suffering from withdrawal symptoms, below you will find a link to a video of highlights from the concert which took place on Wednesday 28th September, featuring performers from Grup Instrumental and Court-Circuit with Birmingham Conservatoire’s Tychonas Michailidis on live electronics. Despite the fact that events in Copenhagen have finished, we still have lots of activities planned and we will continue to post information here and on our twitter account @integraproject – keep following!

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The Integra Festival was brought to an end in style on Saturday 01 Oct with the world premiere performance of Iris Ter Schiphorst’s new Integra commission, AUNG. The piece – a theatrical work for ensemble, live electronics and two actors – took as its thematic focus the plight of Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi, and was performed with suitable intelligence by Bergen’s BIT20 ensemble. Research Centre, NOTAM, was responsible for building and delivering the electronic component, which used Integra Live in a fundamental way. The concert was completed with the Danish premiere of Knut Vaage’s multiMORF 3 for trombone, video and live electronics, and an Integra Live version of Kaija Saariaho’s classic work Lichtbogen. We would like to extend our thanks to all those who made the Festival a reality: funders, composers, artists, conductors, performers, producers, administrators and our Integra partners.

John-Arils Suther performs multiMORF 3 by Knut Vaage

Friday 30 September saw a focus on student pieces at the Integra Festival. Works from Birmingham Conservatoire (UK), Malmö Academy Of Music (Sweden) and The Royal Danish Academy of Music (Denmark) were performed, including new creations from Olla Abrahamsson and Ylva Lund Bergener. Also featured were Monster by BCU tutor Ed Bennet – a work which was commission during the first phase of Integra – and The Physical Impossibility Of Love In The Mind Of The Pleasure Seeker by James Dooley – an installation piece for voice and live electronics which was composed and realised using Integra Live.

It was a day packed full of activity at the Integra Festival on Thursday 29 September. Events got under way with an Integra Live workshop held in the Studio Hall of the Royal Danish Academy of Music, led by Software Development Manager Jamie Bullock and Integra Project Manager Lamberto Coccioli. The session provided participants with the opportunity to learn about the genesis of our software and see its unique features demonstrated. This was followed by an open rehearsal and subsequent concert of works by students from Birmingham Conservatoire and The RDAM. Activities were completed by an outstanding performance from Ensemble Ars Nova in the Main Hall, in which works by Frisk and Olofsson were played alongside the world premiere of Alvin Curran’s Integra commission Circus Maximus.

Ensemble Ars Nova play Circus Maximus by Alvin Curran

Wednesday 28 September saw superb performances from members of Court-Circuit, Grup Instrumental de València and The Royal Danish Academy of Music in a concert of works for live electronics and solo instrumentalist. Highlights of the programme included an Integra Live version of Boulez’s Dialogue de l’ombre double and Integra migrations Ricercare una melodia by Harvey and Partita für Paul by Nordheim. Providing a fitting contrast to the previous night’s more technologically complex works, the programme demonstrated the versatility of our software and confirmed it’s suitability for chamber music.

The Integra Live patch for Boulez's Dialogue de l'ombre double

The Integra Festival was launched last night (27 September) to great acclaim. Athelas Sinfonietta produced a stunning performance comprising two Integra commissions, Extended Apocalypsis by Philippe Leroux and Le nubi non scoppiano per il peso by Mauro Lanza. A full house was in attendance, including critic Christine Christiansen, who gave the concert a five star review: CLICK HERE. Our heartfelt thanks go out to all who have helped make the Festival possible, especially our funders, The European Commission, Nordic Culture Fund and Nordic Culture Point. The event continues over the next four days with more extraordinary music involving live electronics. Below you will find a picture of Peter Plessas, IEM, and Philippe Leroux rehearsing the latter’s piece using Integra Live.

Peter Plessas of IEM and Philippe Leroux rehearse Extended Apocalypsis using Integra Live

It was an important time for the Integra Project this past weekend as the second of our commissions was premiered at the world-renowned Ultima Festival in Oslo. The work in question, entitled Le nubi non scoppiano per il peso and written by Mauro Lanza, is the result of months of development between the composer, Malmö Academy Of Music and Ensemble Court-Circuit. Featuring a ‘rain machine’, which drops water onto various sounding objects, the piece makes use of Integra Live to control the rate of fall of those drops and also to process the resulting sounds.

Congratulations to all involved, and let’s hope for another successful performance on 27 September as part of the Integra Festival!

For more information about Ultima 2011, please click here: Ultima 2011.

Read the latest Outreach reports from Andrea Szigetvari, Lecturer of Electroacoustic Music, Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest (report 1) and Balazs Kovacs, Assisant Professor University of Pecs, Institute for Media and Applied Arts, Pecs, Hungary (report 2).

Outreach Report 1

Outreach Report 2

We’ve uploaded some new photo sets to our Flickr account which show happenings from our meetings hosted by BIT20 and NOTAM earlier this year, the first BCU Curriculum Pilot session, and a recent composer support event with Hilda Paredes and Ana Lujan Sanchez. Click on the links below to see the images!

Steering Group Meeting 5, Oslo

Artistic and Scientific Meeting 3, Bergen

BCU Curriculum Pilot Session, Birmingham

Hilda Paredes and Ana Lujan Sanchez, Birmingham

In May 2011, Kjetil Mathuessen, a developer from project partner NOTAM, delivered an Integra-related paper at the Linux Audio Conference in Maynooth, Ireland. Entitled Poing Impératif: Compiling Imperative and Object Oriented Code to Faust, it can be read here: Poing Impérative.

This paper continued our commitment to disseminating our research through presentations at conferences, with our next scheduled appearance being at ICMC 2011, this August.

In the period April 2010 – January 2011, IEM Graz ran an educational pilot with the aim of embedding the Integra Live software into the teaching of live-electronic music. Devised by Gerhard Eckel and Peter Plessas, the pilot was implemented in the course “Live Elektronik”, which was included as part of the Master’s programme “Performance Practice in Contemporary Music-PPCM”, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Below is an image taken from one of the sessions, showing cellist Myriam García-Fidalgo using the software with Zinajda Kodric on live-electronics.

Image copyright 2010/11, Gerhard Eckel and Peter Plessas, all rights reserved.

We are pleased to announce that the Integra Festival 2011 will be funded, in part, through grants from Kulturkontakt Nord and Nordisk Kulturfond. Click on the links below for more details about these supportive organisations.

Kulturkontakt Nord

Nordisk Kulturfond

Kulturkontakt Nord

Nordisk Kulturfond

In September 2010 we held a joint artistic and scientific meeting in Copenhagen. Whilst there, we viewed a couple of the venues that will be used for the Integra Festival 2011: the main and studio halls in the beautiful Royal Danish Academy Of Music. Visit our Flickr site for a collection of images taken during our visit.

Royal Danish Academy Of Music on Flickr

Studio Hall, Royal Danish Academy Of Music

Images from BIT20′s performers’ training session in Oslo have been added to Flickr, along with photos from both of Court-Circuit’s training sessions, the first being held in Malmö and the second in Paris. NOTAM were responsible for delivering the training to BIT20 with Malmö Academy of Music training the musicians from Court-Circuit. Click the links below for more:

BIT20 Training 1.

Court-Circuit Training 1. Court Circuit Training 2.

Court-Circuit Training, Phase 1

Hello blog followers, news just in is that images from Grup Instrumental’s first Integra concert, which took place at Kings Place, London, in March 2010, have now been added to Flickr. Click on the following link for more:

Grup Instrumental, Concert 1

Joan Cervero, Grup Instrumental, Concert 1

Today, Thursday 02 June, is an exciting day in the project, seeing two events at the Athelas New Music Festival. First off is a presentation from Jamie Bullock (BCU) and Peter Plessas (IEM) on the capabilities of Integra Live, taking place at 5:30pm in the Festival Café. This will be followed by a concert given by Athelas and Peter Plessas which puts the theory into practice, at 10:15pm also in the Festival Café. Both events are free, so if you are in Copenhagen, hope to see you there!

Yesterday, Wednesday 01 June, Software Development Manager Jamie Bullock presented the Integra Live software at NIME 2011. We were very pleased to be part of this prestigious event and received some great feedback. Also included was a presentation from development community member Miguel, who spoke about his multitouch implementation of our environment.

Click here for the NIME 2011 website (Integra presented in Paper Session K).

Click here for information about multitouch.

Representatives from Birmingham Conservatoire, Ars Nova, Athelas Sinfonietta, Bit20, Court-Circuit and Grup Instrumental will meet at CDMC in Paris from 9 – 10 June 2011 to discuss and plan the upcoming Integra Festival.

Photos from the recent Integra Live Workshop, which was held in Valencia on Friday 13th May, are now available to view on our Flickr account. Click here to see the images.

Integra Workshop, Valencia, 13 May 2011

Hello, we’ll be adding photos of all our activities to our new Flickr account, so keep checking for the full visual record of the Integra Project. Currently uploaded are images from our successful appearance at the ENSEMS festival in Valencia, 12 – 14 May.

CLICK HERE FOR INTEGRA ON FLICKR

Today is an exciting day in the history of Integra: Hilda Paredes’ piece Revelación will be premiered at the spectacular Palau de les Arts in Valencia. The work, which has been commissioned by Integra/Grup Instrumental, is the first to be written using our new software environment, Integra Live. With support from researchers at Birmingham Conservatoire and performers from Grup Instrumental, Paredes has written an engaging work for ensemble and live electronics, complemented by a choreographic element devised by Ana Lujan Sanchez. The performance, which is to be delivered by Grup Instrumental and live electronic musicians from BCU, starts at 20:30 and is sure to be a success. Well done to all those involved! Click here for more information.

Palau de les Arts, Valencia. Photo Credit: Wikipedia.

Ars Nova will perform an Integra-themed concert as part of the ENSEMS festival in Valencia on Saturday 14th May. The performance, which will see Kent Olofsson directing the live electronics, will featuring a number of works which have become established as Integra favourites, including Crack by Natasha Barrett and Traces by Roger Reynolds. The event begins at 20:30 at the Palau de les Arts and is a great chance to experience the range of pieces supported by the project.

Link out: Click here

On Friday 13th May, Jamie Bullock, Tychonas Michailidis, James Dooley and Lamberto Coccioli of Birmingham Conservatoire will lead an Integra Live workshop at the ENSEMS Festival Of Contemporary Music in Valencia. The event will take place from 09:30 – 14:00 and will allow participants to explore the capabilities of our new software as well as learn about live electronic music practice in general. The venue for the workshop is the Conservatorio Superior De Música Joaquín Rodrigo, Cineasta Ricardo, Munoz Suay, S/N * 46013, Valencia.

Link out: Click here

Court Circuit will perform their final Integra concert on Friday 19th September at the beautiful Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris. Featuring the French premiere of Hilda Paredes’ Integra commission, Revelación, and with electronic expertise provided by Birmingham Conservatoire, this concert will form a fitting end to the ensemble’s participation in the project.

Click here for more information.

Members of Athelas Sinfonietta and IEM will play in a concert featuring works that use the Integra Live software at the Festival Café, Copenhagen, on Thursday 02 June. This free event begins at 10:15pm and includes three world premieres, so if you are in Copenhagen then please do pop along to experience what Integra is all about!

Click here for more information.

Peter Plessas of IEM, Graz, will be leading a performers’ training session for musicians from Athelas Sinfonietta in Copenhagen from 31 May to 01 June. The participants will delve further into the workings of the Integra Live software, building on the work completed during the first phase of the training, which took place in Graz earlier this year.

Integra Commissions Duelling Zombies (Cera) and Noise Machine (Bennett) will be performed by the Thallein Ensemble conducted by Edwin Roxburgh at the Frontiers Festival in Birmingham, UK. The performances will take place on Friday 8th April at Birmingham Conservatoire, B3 3HG.

Hot on the heels of the images from the Ars Nova/IEM performance, here are some photos of the space where Bit20/IEM performed Jodlowski’s Respire at the Håkkonshallen Bergen, on Wednesday 23rd March. Thanks once again to all the performers, technicians and administrators who made this an excellent event.

Bit20/IEM, Respire. Copyright Peter Plessas.

Bit20/IEM, Respire. Copyright Peter Plessas.

Here are a couple of images from Ars Nova and IEM’s performance of Malin Bång’s Sparkling Box, which took place on Sunday March 6th at the Inter Arts Centre/ Academy of Music Malmö. Thanks to all who made the concert such a success!

Ars Nova/IEM - Sparkling Box. Copyright Peter Plessas.

Ars Nova/IEM - Sparkling Box. Copyright Peter Plessas.

Students from the Paris Conservatory and members of Court-Circuit will participate in the second phase of the performers’ training strand. Kent Olofsson, from Malmö Academy of Music, will lead a full-day session, which will provide practical guidance on the use of the Integra Live environment. The training will take place at the Paris Conservatory on Monday 4th April.

Birmingham Conservatoire will hold a curriculum pilot session on Tuesday 29th March, at which students and teachers will be able to learn about our new software environment. Results from the pilot will be presented at the AEC Conference in Valencia later this year.

Just a quick note to say that you can click here for information about today’s performance of Respire in Bergen (23 March): BOREALIS.

On Wednesday 23rd March, Bit20 and IEM will perform the Integra commission Respire by Pierre Jodlowski at the Borealis festival in Bergen. Respire is the first piece in the cycle Breathes/Eats/Sleeps, a collection of audiovisual compositions which examines the place of the body in our world. It has received a number of European performances since its creation and continues to excite audience members and producers alike. For more information about the Borealis festival, please click on the following link: Borealis.

Title: Plenary Meeting
Location: Bergen, Norway
Description: Representatives from all of the Integra partners will meet in Bergen to discuss the final phase of the project and plan the Integra Festival. The meeting will be hosted by Bit20 Ensemble.
Start Date: 2011-03-14
End Date: 2011-03-15

Title: World Premiere of Hilda Paredes’ Revelación
Location: Sala Martín i Soler at Palau de les Arts, Valencia
Link out: Click here
Description: We are pleased to announce that the world premiere of Hilda Paredes’ Revelación, will take place at the Sala Martín i Soler at Palau de les Arts, Valencia, on Thursday 12th May 2011. Paredes’ piece is written for ensemble plus live electronics, with the latter being composed and controlled using Integra Live. The work also includes a choreographic element devised by Ana Lujan Sanchez. Revelación has been commissioned by Grup Instrumental de València on behalf of Integra, with support for the live electronics being supplied by Birmingham Conservatoire.
Date: 2011-05-12

On Sunday 6th March, Ensemble Ars Nova will perform Malin Bang’s Integra Commission Sparkling Box in a concert alongside Peter Plessas from IEM. Details of the performance can be found here: SparklingBox.

Title: Alvin Curran Composer’s Support Visit
Description: Integra-commissioned composer, Alvin Curran, will attend his first IntegraLive training session, led by Muzyka Centrum researchers, from February 23rd – 26th. Alvin will have the opportunity to learn about our software environment and test out ideas for his upcoming work, Circus Maximus.
Start Date: 2011-02-23
End Date: 2011-02-26

Title: Bit20 Performers’ Training
Location: Oslo
Description: Six performers from Bit20 will attend a training session at NOTAM, Oslo, where they will investigate the capabilities of the IntegraLive software environment. The training aims to help establish a European tradition of live electronic music practice and embed IntegraLive in the working methods of professional musicians.
Start Date: 2011-02-24
End Date: 2011-02-25

The bookshelf on our Community Page has now been updated with scientific papers from the Project Wiki and reports written by the participants in our first outreach event, which took place in November 2010. Take a look here to learn more: Community Page.

Athelas Sinfonietta have written a post about their experiences on the recent performers’ training session in Graz. Read it here: AthelasPTPost.

We are pleased to announce that the team from IEM (Graz, Austria) have successfully completed the migration of three important works for live electronics and instrument(s) to the IntegraLive environment. This is a milestone in the project, proving that our software supports the sustainability of  the live electronics repertoire. Materials relating to the pieces in question – Nono’s Omaggio a György Kurtàg, Boulez’s Dialogue De l’ombre Double and Dahinden’s Lichtweiss – will be published on our website soon. Congratulations to Gerhard Eckel, Peter Plessas, Thomas Musil and Iohannes Zmoelnig, the hard-working developers!

Following the successful visit of performers from Ars Nova (Malmö) to Muzyka Centrum (Krakow) in January 2011, we are pleased to provide links to recordings of improvisations made during their training sessions. Directed by Marek Choloniewski and Marcin Wierzbicki, the improvisations involved using the IntegraLive software to manipulate the sounds of the instrumentalists in real time.

Improvisation 1

Improvisation 2

Improvisation 3

Title: Ars Nova Performers’ Training at Muzyka Centrum
Location: Krakow, Poland
Description: Instrumentalists from Sweden’s Ars Nova Ensemble undertake two days of training in live-electronic music techniques using IntegraLive, led by Marcin Wierzbicki of Muzyka Centrum (Poland).
Start Date: 2011-01-21
End Date: 2011-01-22

Performers from Court-Circuit receive training in live-electronic music practice using the Integra Live environment, in a session at Malmö Academy of Music led by Kent Olofsson. The session runs from 11  - 13 February 2011.

Title: Grup Instrumental Performers’ Training at BCU
Location: Birmingham
Description: Six members of Grup Instrumental de València attend a training event at Birmingham Conservatoire. During the three day period, one day is spent on preparations for Hilda Paredes’ upcoming Integra commission, with two days investigating the capabilities of the IntegraLive environment.
Start Date: 2011-01-31
End Date: 2011-02-2

Performers associated with Integra ensemble, Athelas, undertake the first phase of their training in the use of Integra Live, at a two-day session in Graz, Austria, organised by Peter Plessas of IEM. The session runs from 24 – 25 January 2011.

Integra-commissioned composer, Mauro Lanza, undertakes his first tranche of training on the new Integra Live environment at Malmö Academy of Music, supervised by Kent Olofsson. Mauro’ training will last from 12 – 15 February.

Title: Performers’ Training Meeting
Location: Birmingham
Description: Researchers from BCU, IEM, Malmö, Muzyka Centrum and NOTAM meet to discuss the format of the performers’ training sessions, the first phase of which will be rolled out over the next two months.
Start Date: 2011-01-09
End Date: 2011-01-11

Title: Ars Nova and IEM perform Sparkling Box
Location: Inter Arts Centre in Malmö
Description: Integra commission Spakling Box by Malin Bång will be performed at the Inter Arts Centre in Malmö on 6th March 2011. Integra partner Ars Nova will provide the instrumental players with IEM overseeing the live electronic component.
Date: 2011-03-05

Title: IEM Integra Workshop
Location: Graz, Austria
Description: IEM hold an Integra workshop on 4th Dec where they will present IEM’s work in live electronics and discuss their involvement with the Integra project. The event, called Studiogespräch, will feature input from Peter Böhm and Wolfgang Musil, who will join talks about sustainability in live-electronics and software.
Date: 2010-12-04

Location: Auditorio, IVAM, Valemcia
Link out: Click here
Description: Grup Instrumental de Valencia will perform together with the Malmö Academy of Music their second of four Integra concerts at the Auditorio IVAM, Valencia, at 20:00 on Saturday 11 Dec 2010. The programme features Integra pieces by Kaija Saariaho, Andrea Cera and Ondrej Adamek.
Start Time: 20:00
Date: 2010-12-11

Location: Inter Arts Centre, Malmö, Sweden
Link out: Click here
Description: Ars Nova and Muzyka Centrum art Society from Krakow will perform the Integra migration ‘Traces’ by Roger Reynolds in a concert at the Inter Arts Centre, Malmö on Saturday 4th Dec 2010. This will be the first of four concerts delivered by the ensemble featuring Integra works.
Start Time: 19:30
Date: 2010-12-04

Location: Sardinen Og Studio USF Verftet, Bergen
Link out: Click here
Description: BIT20 and NOTAM perform together in a rescheduled concert featuring Tristan Murail’s Winter Fragments. The performance is part of the Avgarde10 Festival in Bergen, Norway.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-10-09

Location: Bergen
Description: Bit20 Ensemble, together with IEM of Graz, Austria, will perform their second concert of the second phase of the Integra project at the Borealis Festival 2011 in Bergen, Norway. Please click the following link for more information: Bit20_Borealis
Date: 2011-03-23

Hilda Paredes, the Mexican/UK composer commissioned by Integra to write a new large-scale piece for dancers, ensemble and live electronics will be coming to Birmingham Conservatoire from 11-12 October for the first of a series of visits to work with Jamie Bullock and research student Tychonas Michailidis on the electronics of her new piece, inspired by the paintings of the Spanish surrealist Remedios Varo.

Location: Tage Für Neue Musik, Zürich, Switzerland
Link out: Click here
Description: Athelas Sinfonietta continue their involvement with the Integra repertoire with a performance of Rolf Wallin’s Strange News, which was commissioned by the project during the first phase of activities.
Date: 2010-11-14

Philippe Leroux, one of Europe’s most highly regarded composers, has been awarded an Integra commission. His work, which is due for completion in June 2011, will be premiered by Athelas Sinfonietta and IEM. Fundamental to its creation will be the capabilities of the Integra software.. We look forward to this exciting project!

For more information about Philippe Leroux please click on the following link: Philippe Leroux Billaudot.

With a musical style described as ‘a volatile mix of lyricism and chaos, structure and indeterminacy, fog horns, fiddles and fiddle heads’, internationally renowned composer Alvin Curran has been awarded one of Integra’s five new commissions. His work will utilise the Integra software and will be supported by Muzyka Centrum. The premiere, which will be given by Ars Nova, will take place in September 2011.

For more information about Alvin Curran, please click on the following link: Alvin Curran Website.

Link out: Click here
Description: Tansy Davies’ Integra Commission Grind Show will be featured in the Composer Portrait series at this year’s Proms. Including a chance to hear Tansy talk about the piece and a performance by players from the Royal Northern College of Music, the event will take place at the Royal College of Music at 5:15pm on Wednesday 8th September.
Start Time: 17:15
Date: 2010-09-08

Leading Danish new music ensemble, Athelas Sinfonietta, conducted by Pierre-André Valade, performs a migrated version of Kaija Saariaho’s Lichtbogen in the opening concert of the Nordic Music Days Festival 2010. The live electronic part will be completed by Kent Olofsson at Malmö Academy of Music.

Wednesday 8 September, 6pm, Den Grå Hal, Christiania, Copenhagen.

Athelas Website
Nordic Music Days Website

Description: Bit20 will perform a migrated version of Tristan Murail’s Winter Fragments in the Avgarde Festival on 11 September 2010. The live electronic part will be completed by NOTAM.
Date: 2010-09-11

Avgarde Website

Our warmest congratulations to Stein Olav Henrichsen, Artistic Director of Bit20 Ensemble. Stein has just been nominated Director of the New Munch Museum in Oslo.