calendar
We are very active as a research group, and the list below shows recent and upcoming events within the University, and externally, including seminars, conferences, performances, and broadcasts.
2025
27.11.25: Taibah Orpin, Mindgames, Symposium: Make/Play – Game Making as Research, Abertay University, Dundee.
11.09.25: James Saunders, with paper, Winnie Huang, Ark Nova, Lidoweise, Lucerne, Lucerne Festival.
17.08.25: James Saunders, sometimes it all gets a bit too much and you need a break, Chris Dowding and Dave Pullin, Upstairs @ The Pavilion, Waterloo Park, Norwich.
20.05.25: James Saunders, something happens and then something else happens and then all sorts of other things happen,soundinitiative, Theatre de Vanves, Paris.
10.05.25: James Saunders, amongst it all, some occasional moments of respite, mainly slow organ music, Huw Morgan, All Saints Clifton, Bristol.
26.04.25: James Saunders, something happens and then something else happens and then all sorts of other things happen,soundinitiative, Project Arts Centre, Music Current Festival, Dublin
11.04.25: James Saunders, something happens and then something else happens and then all sorts of other things happen,soundinitiative, CRR93, Aubervilliers, Paris.
08.04.24: Maria Maltezou, The Curious Case of the Constant Pothole: Discussing Social Change Through Performance-Games, doing together 25, Locksbrook, Bath
04.04.25: James Saunders, having to carry out the repetitive, mind-numbingly boring but still very necessary tasks required to manage increasingly complicated processes of production, asamisimasa / Kitchen Orchestra / Insimul, Only Connect, Stavanger.
23.03.25: James Saunders, constant interchange of the most various kinds, Terra Invisus, Omnibus Theatre, London
08.03.25: James Saunders, trying to make things fit together, Birgitte Njå (trumpet), Pee Tou & Only Connect Pre-Party, Stavanger, Norway
08.03.25: James Saunders, waiting for someone to do the thing you need them to do, Insimul, Pee Tou & Only Connect Pre-Party, Stavanger, Norway
18.01.25: James Saunders, with paper, forming, Boucher Art and Stage, Colorado Springs, USA.
2024
17.12.24: James Saunders, making a choice and then making another choice, CoMA Glasgow, Scottish Music Centre, Glasgow.
17.08.24: James Saunders, everybody do this, VOICEBOX/Juliet Fraser, Snape Maltings.
22.06.24: James Saunders, all the things we make you do, Neil Luck, Angela Wai Nok Hui, Primož Sukic, The Horse Hospital, London
13.06.2024: Maria Maltezou, A Composed Space: Generating Conversation in a Live Context. Part of the Spring School: ‘Sonic Dialogues: Intersections of Art and Sound in Public Spaces (https://www.mdw.ac.at/forschungsfoerderung/?PageId=4452). MDW – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
27.05 – 31.05.2024: Maria Maltezou, To Seek Brief Encounters, Planned or Spontaneous, Interactive Sound Installation created in Collaboration with the Music Cognition Communication Lab (Middlesex University). Part of the To & Fro Exhibition, organised by the Space, Place, Practice research collective (http://spaceplacepractice.com/artists-members.html). Bath Artists Studios, Bath, UK.
07.04.24: James Saunders, surfaces, surfaces ensemble, Ambition’s Graveyard, Norwich.
27.02.2024: Maria Maltezou, Sound and Music as a Tool for Social Dialogue, Recent work showcase and discussion. Music Department – Middlesex University, London, UK.
2023
7, 14, 21, 27, 28.10.23: Caitlin Rowley (Kaths Kaff): WALKS 5-8, 9-12, Electric! Exhibition, Electric Medway, Sun Pier House (Riverside Gallery), Chatham
05.10.2023: Maria Maltezou, To Seek Brief Encounters, Planned or Spontaneous, Interactive Sound Installation created in Collaboration with the Music Cognition Communication Lab, Middlesex University, London, UK. Part of the Silver Sunday Events, organised by Barnet Council (https://www.s.mdx.ac.uk/news/2023/10/silver-sunday).
01-03.05.23: Misha Penton. Temporal Duets. 2023 SpokenWeb Research Symposium: Reverb: Echo-Locations of Sound and Space. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. . In collaboration with Dr Shannon Holmes.
16.05.2023: Maria Maltezou, Busy Minds, Restless Hands, part of the London Dementia Action Week, in collaboration with the Music Cognition Communication Lab, Middlesex University, London, UK.
23.03.2023: Maria Maltezou, The Work is the Space: Generating conversation through mixed-media compositions, in collaboration with the Music Cognition Communication Lab (Psychology Department), Middlesex University, London, UK.
14.04.23: James Saunders, imperfections on the surface are occasionally apparent, Akademie für Tonkunst/Ensemble Rot, Institut für Neue Musik Darmstadt
04.04.2023: Maria Maltezou, The Work is the Space: Generating conversation through mixed-media compositions, at Muzička Akademija Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Croatia.
24.03.23: James Saunders, it is really hard to focus when there are too many things to do, Norwegian Academy of Music students/Håkon Thalin, Munchmuseet, Oslo.
17.03.23: Caitlin Rowley, A Memory of Wind and Cake Piece, AMOK, Artefact #17, Birmingham
24.02.23: Caitlin Rowley, Studio and stage: Interdisciplinarity and the composer’s everyday in Quiet Songs [paper]. Goldsmiths Music and RMA Music and/as Process Study Group ‘Music and Interdisciplinary Practice’ study day, Goldsmiths, University of London
29.01.23: James Saunders, performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed, Spiel! Games as Critical Practice, Basel, Switzerland
Goni Peles, ScoreCraft: Witness Marks (2023) {concert performance} [trailer] [video] Co-composed with Yuval Adler. Developed with and performed by KlangLab Ensemble
Goni Peles, ScoreCraft: Fall (2023) {online performance} [video] Co-composed with Yuval Adler. Performed by Yuval Adler, Asia Ahmetjanova, Taibah Orpin, James Saunders, Elliot Simpson, Ilan Small, and Jana De Troyer at Audio Mostly 2023
Goni Peles, ScoreCraft: Fall (2023) {installation} Co-composed with Yuval Adler. Presented at SPIEL! Games as Critical Practice and Audio Mostly 2023
Goni Peles, ScoreCraft: Darts (2023) {participatory performance} [video]. Performed at SPIEL! Games as Critical Practice and Audio Mostly 2023
2022
7-8.10.22. Misha Penton and Shannon Holmes. ‘Digital Vocality: Listening, Personal Narrative, and the Liminal Spaces Between the Live and Mediated Voice’. Great Lakes Association for Sound Studies (GLASS): Listening as a Shared and Social Practice. University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Hybrid Conference.
17.09.22: Caitlin Rowley, Studio and stage: Interdisciplinarity and the composer’s everyday in Quiet Songs [paper]. 9th Music and/as Process Conference: Music and Interdisciplinary Practice 2022 [online]
22.08.2022: Maria Maltezou, Click to the Dark Side, We Have Cookies, Scout Centre, Corfu, Greece.
13.08.22: Caitlin Rowley, Paper. Ida Nørby, Mengi, Reykjavík, Iceland
09.08.22: Caitlin Rowley, Paper. Ida Nørby, UngK, Århus, Denmark
06.08.22: Caitlin Rowley, Paper. Ida Nørby, KoncertKirken, Copenhagen, Denmark
7-10.06.22: Misha Penton, Digital Vocality. New Work Development & Pedagogy Workshop in collaboration with Dr Shannon Holmes. University of Regina, Canada, departments of theatre and music.
22.01.22: Elliot Simpson, Illusion [paper]. New Mimesis: simulation, models, metaphors and data in music. Canterbury Christ Church University.
22.01.22: Goni Peles, ScoreCraft [paper and demo]. New Mimesis: simulation, models, metaphors and data in music. Canterbury Christ Church University.
15.02.22: James Saunders, Participatory Decision-Making as Compositional Process [paper]. Rethinking Participatory Processes Through Music, University of Huddersfield [online].
Goni Peles, ScoreCraft: Show Biz (2022) {fixed media} [video]. Co-composed with Yuval Adler. Performed by Yuval Adler, Shira Agmon, Oded Geizhals, Goni Peles, Elliot Simpson, and Jana De Troyer. Presented at NIME 2022
Goni Peles, ScoreCraft@CIRMMT (2022) {fixed media} [video] Co-composed with Yuval Adler. Performed by Alberto Acquilino, Yuval Adler, Meesh Fradkin, Oded Geizhals, Shoshana Klein, and Goni Peles. Presented at improv@CIRMMT
Goni Peles, ScoreCraft: Green Scroll (2022) {online performance} [video]. Performed by Yuval Adler, Shira Agmon, Asia Ahmetjanova, Daniel More, Tam Pham, and James Saunders at New Mimesis
2021
2.12.21: Caitlin Rowley, A Memory of Wind, City University, London.
29.11.21: Caitlin Rowley, A Memory of Wind, City University, London.
13.11.21: James Saunders: it is the behaviour that a system tends towards and encourages that needs to be understood, KNM Berlin, KNM Berlin Campus Ensemble, CoMA Allcomers Orchestra, Bethanien, Berlin.
10.11.21: Caitlin Rowley, Quiet Songs, Music Current, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
21.08.21-30.08.21: Caitlin Rowley (Kaths Kaff), WALKS 5-12, Electric Medway [online]
21.08.21-30.08.21: Caitlin Rowley, Haydn Space Opera, Electric Medway [online]
26.06.21: Goni Peles (with Harry Matthews, Caitlin Rowley, Cameron Graham and James Saunders), Scorecraft (paper presentation/workshop), Networked Collaborative Processes (Music and/as Process) conference, online.
25.06.21: Caitlin Rowley and Josh Spear, Together/Not Together: A conversation about networked collaborative processes (paper presentation), Networked Collaborative Processes (Music and/as Process) conference, online.
15.06.21: Harry Matthews, Panel discussion with Question journal at the SWW DTP research festival, Online
08-9.06.21: Harry Matthews, I’m smelling what you’re cooking workshop with Plus-Minus Ensemble, Turner Sims, Southampton
02.06.21: Harry Matthews, Performance of some ph(r)ased repetitions performed by Jane Chapman, Hornman Museum, London
27.05.21: James Saunders, guided sequence #1 (with Grace and Sophia), Parkinson Saunders, here.here / iklecktik, [online performance]
27.05.21: James Saunders, making a choice and then making another choice, Parkinson Saunders, here.here / iklecktik, [online performance]
26.05.21: Vassilis Chatzimakris, Activity, Time, and Space in the Performance of Interfacial Scores, paper presentation, SMI-ICTM Plenary Conference, Ireland [online]
26.05.2021. Misha Penton. (micro)Requiem. Classical:NEXT Encore Programme, Online.
26.05.2021. Caitlin Rowley (Bastard Assignments). Lockdown Jams. Classical:NEXT Encore Programme, Online.
25.05.21: Harry Matthews, Sound and Mind: Listening and Meditation Workshop with Benny Henning, Bath Spa University
10.05.21-16.06.21: Caitlin Rowley, Haydn Space Opera, SparkFest [online]
15.03.21: James Saunders, people do things apart, The Assembled, University of York, online performance.
ScoreCraft (2021) {online performance} [video]. Performed by Cameron Graham, Aaron Moorehouse, Goni Peles, Caitlin Rowley, and James Saunders at Networked Collaborative Processes
24.02.21: LAB 42 | Leo Chadburn
17.02.21: LAB 41 | Hardi Kurda
31.01.21: James Saunders, lots and lots for us to do, SANS; duo, online.
26.01.21: LAB 40 | Liza Lim
20.01.21: LAB 39 | Tom Johnson
06.01.21: LAB 38 | Cathy Lane
2020
16.12.20: Misha Penton. Guest artist: The Juilliard School. Speaking of Music, in faculty member Greg Sandow’s class.
09.12.20: LAB 37 | Cat Hope
02.12.20: LAB 36 | Thor Magnusson
21.11.20: Misha Penton. Guest artist: University of Houston Honors College. An Evening with Honors.
18.11.20: LAB 35 | Michael Maierhof
11.11.20: LAB 34 | Aaron Cassidy
26.10.20: Misha Penton, (micro)Requiem. 6-movement video series. Online.
07.10.20: LAB 33 | Ryoko Akama
30.09.20: LAB 32 | Laurence Crane
17.08.20: Misha Penton, Micro Operas. 11-part video series. Online.
19.02.20: LAB 31 | Amnon Wolman
22.01.20: LAB 30 | Matthew Sergeant, James Saunders
2019
11.12.19: LAB 29 | Martijn Tellinga
05.12.19, Cameron Graham, New Work, ZHDK Zurich
27.11.19: LAB 28 | Davide Tidoni
20.11.19: LAB 27 | Rie Nakajima
13.11.19: LAB 26 | Christopher Williams
11.10.19: Caitlin Rowley, Quiet Songs, City Lit Theatre, London
10.10.19: Caitlin Rowley, Quiet Songs, City Lit Theatre, London
09.10.19: LAB 25 | Harry Matthews
13-15.09.19: Oogoo Maia, Games for Musicians and Non-Musicians, daily workshops/performances, CAMP Mountain Music Festival, Aulus-les-Bains (France)
13.09.19: Oogoo Maia, Communio, for piano, CAMP Mountain Music Festival, Aulus-les-Bains (France)
23.08.19: Caitlin Rowley, Community of Objects, Current Resonance, Royal Academy of Music Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
15.06.19 Caitlin Rowley Quiet Songs, Britten Studio, Snape Maltings
01-04.08.19. Misha Penton. Developing Educational Resources and Dialogue Entre. Collaboration with dancer & choreographer Meg Brooker. Isadora Duncan International Symposium. The Place. London UK.
22.07.19, Cameron Graham, Residency Creation, South France
24.06 – 08.02.19 — Misha Penton. Enchant(ed): an experimental vocal film. Art at the Alison Richard Building. Cambridge Summer Open. University of Cambridge.
24-30.06.19. Misha Penton. Dialogue Entre—Deux. Collaboration with dancer & choreographer Meg Brooker. Dancestry: Shay Ishii Dance Company. Long Center for the Performing Arts, Austin, TX USA.
24.06.19, Cameron Graham, 9 Snapshots of Joy, Turner Sims Southampton
12.06.19 Caitlin Rowley, dot drip line line 8918: EDGE, Periferien, Bruket, Grønland, Norway
25.05.19, Cameron Graham/Colin Roche, Encounters, Les Limbes Gallery, St. Étienne
24.05.19 and 19-23.06.19: Misha Penton. Breath and Bone. Film and score by Misha Penton. Experimental dance film with dancer & choreographer Neil Ellis Orts. EnCore Dance on Film Festival: Decatur Arts Festival Atlanta, GA & Barnstorm Dance Fest Houston, TX USA.
23.05.19 Caitlin Rowley, dot drip line line 8918: EDGE, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge
22.05.19 Caitlin Rowley, dot drip line line 8918: EDGE, Backstage Theatre at Mountview, London
19.05.19. Misha Penton. Banshee / Afterlife. Fixed media audio for live performance by clarinetist Boja Kragulj. The International Society for Improvised Music. Minneapolis, MN USA.
17.05.19 Caitlin Rowley, Quiet Songs (work in progress performance), Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape Maltings
15.05.19: Oogoo Maia, Three pieces from Games for Musicians and Non-Musicians, James McIllwrath, Amok Platform, Stained Glass Centre, York.
11.05.19: James Saunders, surfaces, Matt Hannafin, Joan Truckenbrod Gallery, Corvallis, Oregon
10.05.19 Caitlin Rowley, dot drip line line 8918: EDGE, SPOR Festival, Åbne Scene – Godsbanen, Aarhus, Denmark
08.05.19: LAB 24 | Marcus Kaiser
23.04.19 Alex Mah, Emerge on Main Concert, Fox Cabaret, Vancouver
12.04.19 Caitlin Rowley, dot drip line line 8918: EDGE, VirtuallyReality, International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester
10.04.19, Cameron Graham, Comfort Objects, Richter Moscow
06.04.19: Goni Peles, Solo, Performance by Eylon Weitzman, Amir Weitzman, and Bar Levy, ‘this is what happens when you play with electricity’, HaTeiva, Jaffa, Israel
03.04.19: LAB 23 | Paul Whitty, Matthew Sergeant
30.03.19-10.04.19, Cameron Graham, Contact Results in Contagion, Solyanka Gallery Moscow
23-24.03.19 Alex Mah, A New Work, Boombox, Vancouver
22.03.19: James Saunders, constant interchange of the most various kinds, EXAUDI, Milton Court, London
15-29.03.19: Cameron Graham, solo exhibition (time-based installation, 10 prepared record players, film, electronics, object assemblages, live performers), Solyanka VPA Gallery, Moscow
14.03.19: Matthew Sergeant The Velvet Rage, Trio Atem, Cosmo Rodewald Hall, Manchester
18.03.19: James Saunders, we tell each other what to do but always listen to you, KMN Berlin / KMN Campus Ensemble, Podewil, Berlin.
06.03.19: LAB 22 | Maya Verlaak, Goni Peles
19.02.19: Harry Matthews, OUT-TAKE Ensemble, Performance of Joe Manghan’s It Wasn’t All Yellow (2018), A Space Arts, Southampton
13.02.19: LAB 21 | Emmanuelle Waeckerlé
06.02.19: Harry Matthews, OUT-TAKE Ensemble, Performance of Ben Jameson’s Silent Doom Disco (2017), AMOK, York
06.02.19: Oogoo Maia, On Light and Darkness, Amok Platform, York Stained Glass Centre.
29.01.19: Misha Penton, Visible Darkness, Inter Arts Center, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
27.01.19 Caitlin Rowley, Community of Objects, Score Club, The NOWnow Festival, Sydney, Australia
26.01.19-03.03.19: James Saunders, with paper, Phonemes, Hafnarborg Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland.
09.01.19: LAB 20 | Michael Wolters, James Saunders
2018
07.12.18 Harry Matthews, actively listening to me, OUT-TAKE Ensemble, Café Kino, Bristol
05.12.18: LAB 19 | Andy Ingamells
24.11.18: James Saunders, you are required to split your attention between multiple sources of information, Arditti Quartet and Ensemble Modern, Wien Modern, Vienna, Austria
24.11.18: James Saunders, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, Minguet Quartet, Wien Modern, Vienna, Austria
20.11.18 Harry Matthews, actively listening to me, OUT-TAKE Ensemble, The Harrison, London
14.11.18: LAB 18 | Thomas Meadowcroft
14.11.18 Harry Matthews, actively listening to me, OUT-TAKE Ensemble, A Space Arts, Southampton
19.10.18 Alex Mah & Lyon Hansen, New Scores for Duo, Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen
14.10.18: James Saunders, it is impossible for everyone to achieve everything they want, Nadar Ensemble Summer Academy, Transit Festival, Leuven
03.10.18: LAB 17 | Laura Bowler, Alex Mah, Harry Matthews
03.10.18: Caitlin Rowley, Community of Objects, INOPPORTUNE, New Zealand School of Music, Wellington, New Zealand
22.09.18: James Saunders, everybody do this, KMN Berlin, CoMA Slap On, St. John’s Smith Square, London
13.09.18: James Saunders, everybody do this, Dganit Elyakim, Nick Acorne, Valerio Zanini, The Sound of Sound, John Ogilvie Haus, Graz
08.09.18: Caitlin Rowley, dot drip line line 8918: EDGE, Snape Maltings Festival of New, Snape Maltings