Saturday 24th September 2022

9:00 - 9:30 Canteen

Coffee and breakfast

9:30 - 11:00 HKU X

Presentation HKU Music and Technology didactics by Bart Delissen + Private Kitchen-presentation by Rens Machielse

11:00 - 11:30

Break for drinks and networking

11:30 - 13:00 HKU X

AI and Futures in Media Music Panel moderated by Prof. Dr. Francesco Tigre Maura (DE) with Roman Beilharz (DE) and Than van Nispen

11:30 - 13:00 Black Box

Presentation Immersive Audio at HKU Music and Technology with Antal van Nie.

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 HKU X

Panel “How to survive as a starting-out media composer or sound designer” moderated by Rens Machielse with Tjeerd Nijhof, Michel Rumpff and Lars van Leeuwen.

14:00 - 15:00 Black Box

Discussion “Real and virtual musical sound from the perspective of a score” with Mateusz Bień (PL, Krzysztof Penderecki Akademy of Music Krakow)

15:00 - 15:30 Canteen

Break (drinks provided)

15:30 - 16:30 HKU X 

IMMSANE Closing and General Assembly presented by Dr. Yati Durant (UK/USA), Director of IMMSANE

16:30 - 17:30

Closing drinks and snacks

IMMSANE Utrecht 2022 speakers and panels information

Case study: Film Music for the feature film ‘Marionette’ with composer Han Otten Friday 23rd September 16:00 - 17:30 Black Box

Han Otten is a renowned Dutch composer who composes music for film, contemporary dance and television (www.hanotten.com). In his presentation on the composition process for the film Marionette, Han will elaborate on his compositional style (including the use of microtonality), the collaboration with a co-composer and the final production of his music combining an orchestra with electronics.

Sound Art Panel: Spaces and Actions of Innovation in Sound Art Friday 23rd September 16:00 - 17:30 Auditorium 2.19

Moderated by Dr. Eleni-Ira Panourgia (GR/DE, Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF) with Dr. Cathy van Eck (BE/NL/CHBern Academy of the Arts) and Lisa Hall (UK, Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice, University of the Arts London)

Dr. Cathy van Eck: ‘Is this live? performing with, for and against sounds’

Movements and sounds belong together. We are used to seeing movements and hearing the accompanying sounds. When we see someone walking, we hear their footsteps. When we see someone eating an apple, we hear them chew. And when we see someone closing a door, we hear the lock close.

In my works I am interested in playing with these logical connections between movements and sounds. I compose the relationships between movements and sounds, looking for connections that we do not encounter in real life. I am searching for sounds that can tell different stories about our actions and reveal connections we might not have recognised. I will illustrate these thoughts with some examples from my compositions.

Lisa Hall: ‘Participatory sonic exchanges’

In this presentation I will be introducing three of my collaborative projects that relate to the conference's themes of innovation and internationalization -in terms of generation and collaborative practice- and their basis within a participatory understanding of sonic experience. These projects are: 'Acts of Air', an online exhibition with CRISAP inviting activation in urban spaces around the world; 'Constellations of Listening', a radio broadcast by international feminist radio group Shortwave Collective; and 'No Scent or Colour', an air pollution sonification cyling work with the Bicrophonic Research Institute.

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay ‘Leaky Audio: A Political Listening’ and Bojana Knezevic ‘Audio leakage and social practice / Voices from the margins’ and the Audio Leakage Community (Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Bojana Knežević, Luca Forcucci, Franziska Windisch, David Helbich, Yati Durant)

Sound production involves the sonic processes of recording and studio practice in which sounds are often made to flow inside an insular cabled network system. As sound scholar Emily Thompson (2002) suggested, the control of sound becomes embedded in modern acoustical technologies and aural culture. What happens when sounds evade this carefully constructed control mechanism? As Brandon LaBelle (2018) hints at, sounds tend to spill over acoustic control to make social connections. A critical practice with sound therefore needs to consider and conceptualize the phenomenon of audio leakage. A group of artists and scholars share their perspectives on the potentially productive provocation titled Audio Leakage from various positions of intervention: political, sociological, artistic, infrastructural, architectural, and subversive, among others. The gathering develops into a corpus of knowledge to be disseminated in collaborative performances, artworks, workshops, scholarly panels, and publications in the artistic research expositions and in peer-reviewed journals.

Duo presentation: Bart Delissen about specific didactics at HKU Music and Technology & Rens Machielse about the online platform Private Kitchen Saturday 24th September 9:30 - 11:00 HKU X

Bart Delissen is a well-known composer for films, documentaries, games & ensembles (bartdelissen.com). Besides being an active composer, Bart is a part-time lecturer in composition, orchestration and music theory at HKU Music and Technology. Bart will present specific didactics in music theory and composition which are based on a more anthropological view of music.

Rens Machielse is a composer and lecturer in the field of media music and sound design (rensmachielse.nl). He’s also chairman of MiMM (Muziekinstituut MultiMedia) and in that capacity he co-produces the online platform Private Kitchen for and by (Dutch) media composers (www.privatekitchen.nl). In his presentation Rens will focus on the creation and working method of the platform and the possibilities of such a platform for other countries or professional communities.

AI and Futures in Media Music Panel Saturday 24th September 11:30 - 13:00 HKU X

moderated by Prof. Dr. Francesco Tigre Maura (DE) with Roman Beilharz (DE), Dennis Braunsdorf and Than van Nispen

Abstract: Artificial intelligence has reached creative industries and mastered skills that were previoulsy restricted to humans, such as music composition. In this panel we’ll discuss current AI tools for music, the possibilities for human and AI co-creation for music composition and production, and reflect on the future impact of AI to the music sector.

Presentation: Immersive Audio at HKU Music and Technology Saturday 24th September 11:30 - 13:00 Black Box

Antal van Nie is a recording & mastering engineer and lecturer at HKU Music and Technology. He will demonstrate a virtual acoustic spatial audio system based on the Omniwave loudspeaker (bloomline.com). Together with Thijs Muijs, he is currently developing a fixed installation at HKU in which he combines newly developed software, loudspeakers and acoustic techniques leading to a perceptual convincing sound experience. Together they strive to make room acoustics into a composable parameter, opening new ways for both music and sound design. He will demonstrate a smaller scale version of the system and explain some of its key principles in a playful lecture at HKU Blackbox.

Panel: How to survive as a starting-out media composer or sound designer? Saturday 24th September 14:00 - 15:00 HKU X

This panel is moderated by Rens Machielse. Panel members are a.o. Michel Rumpff from Auris Media (www.auris-media.com), Tjeerd Nijhof (www.tjeerdnijhof.com) and Lars van Leeuwen (http://www.elephant-ears.nl). The panel will share their experiences regarding starting a career as a media composer or sound designer. This will discuss topics such as working alone or in a collective or company, building a network, how to determine your fee, and much more.

Discussion: “Real and virtual musical sound from the perspective of a score” with Mateusz Bień (PL, Krzysztof Penderecki Akademy of Music Krakow) Saturday 24th September 14:00 - 15:00 Black Box

Abstract: Today's composers must interact with musicians and computers. Provide kind of "score" for both. How does it change the way we compose, hear and notate the music?