betav#01 had its premiere at the liveIXEM 2011 festival on the 8th December in Sicily, Italy. As a live audiovisual performance, it was designed to engage in a conversation about current fishing methods and their consequences for humans, for fish and for society.
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Dr. Robert Sazdov’s composition “Dreams of the Jailed Dance” (2011) was a finalist in the Musica Nova International Electroacoustic Music Competition 2011. http://musicanova.seah.cz/vysl/2011.pdf
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Dr. Robert Sazdov’s composition ‘DEVA 21.09’ (4-channel version) will be performed as part of the IMMERSION Concert hosted by chronology arts and the New Music Network. For more information: http://commissionerscircle.net/concert/immersion/ IMMERSION 7PM, Friday 28 October 2011 The Red Rattler Theatre 6 Faversham Street, Marrickville, Sydney
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Dr. Robert Sazdov’s composition ‘Tetovo:2001’ has been featured on a radio program by Radio New Zealand Concert hosted by Susan Frykberg that deals with non-Western influences in electroacoustic music. The program includes: – Xenakis – Orient-Occident; (1962) – excerpt – Robert Worby – Shanghai Lipper (4:25) – Diana Salazar – Movement 1 Kalimba – Robert…
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Dr. Robert Sazdov will be presenting his paper “The Effect of Elevated Loudspeakers on the Perception of Engulfment” at the upcoming International Conference on Spatial Audio 2011 – Detmold, Germany. For information on the Conference: http://www.icsa2011.org/vdt/modules.php?file=content/icsa2011/index&sl=en For the Program Schedule: http://www.icsa2011.org/vdt/webdownloads/icsa2011/ICSA_Program_Schedule_2011-10-02b.pdf
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The new book, Chaos Theory: Modeling, Simulation and Applications, has recently been published. In it is “Aesthetic considerations in algorithmic and generative composition,” which I wrote for the 3rd Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS2010). Abstract: Models of chance operations, random equations, stochastic processes, and chaos systems have inspired composers as historical as Wolfgang…
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Last summer postgraduate student Hugh Lynch and I had a paper presented at the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference – EMS 2011, New York City: Hugh Lynch and Robert Sazdov – ‘An investigation into compositional techniques utilized for the three-dimensional spatialization of electroacoutic music’ http://www.ems-network.org/ems11/abstract.html#L Also, we had a paper presented at the International Computer…
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