Category Archives: Announcements

betav#01 premiered in Italy

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.

Musica Nova International Electroacoustic Music Competition 2011

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

Immersion Concert

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

Radio New Zealand Concert

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…

International Conference on Spatial Audio 2011

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

New publication – Chaos Theory: Modeling, Simulation and Applications

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…

Summer Conference Activities

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…