The concert materials from this year’s International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music 2020 General Assembly will be available online for the following week, for your listening pleasure:

The annual General Assembly of the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music will take place this week, Friday and Saturday September 25th and 26th, as part of which there will be concerts live-streamed each day at 6pm BST from the CIME website:

https://www.cime-icem.net/

We are very pleased to announce that Dimitris Savva and Alex Bailey have been selected to represent BEAN/UK in the concert on Friday September 25th, with the following works:

Dimitris Savva – Echo the nymph of reflection (2020) [9:30]
Alex Bailey – Defective (2017) [7:07]

We are very pleased to announce that David Holland and Louise Rossiter were selected to represent BEAN/UK at the latest CIME annual general meeting. The meeting, hosted in Krakow by Marek Chołoniewski, featured concerts and talks from members around the world, and was an excellent opportunity to show some of the most exciting works produced in the UK over the past 12 months. Louise Rossiter’s piece – Homo Machina – was subsequently published on the CIME DVD, showcasing works selected by member organisations.

Here is a nice photo of Louise Rossiter performing during the event:

Over the weekend, almost one hundred people registered to attend our EMAS 40th anniversary celebrations, which featured music from many of the UK’s finest composers and discussions from many well known figures in the field. A few initial photographs are included below, but a full set shall follow in due course:

Ambrose Seddon’s piece, Traces of Play, has been published on DVD by the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music (CIME). Seddon’s piece represented the British ElectroAcoustic Network at the recent CIME AGM, and has subsequently featured on their annual DVD of collected works.

Following our recent ‘call for works’, we are delighted to announce that Manuella Blackburn’s ‘Snap Happy’ was performed in Belgium, at the FeBeME-BeFEM, 12th – 14th Oct. Manuella’s piece was the British ElectroAcoustic Network selection for the concerts drawn from CIME member organisations, as can be seen: here.

We look forward to more activities with our CIME colleagues in the future.

The British ElectroAcoustic Network is extremely proud to announce a two-day event, to be hosted at the University of Greenwich. The event celebrates a very significant anniversary: 40 years since the founding of EMAS (The Electroacoustic Music Association of Great Britain). As part of the celebrations, we have announced a call for attendance, pieces, and papers: follow this link for more details!

Following the recent CIME call for works, at which Ambrose Seddon’s Traces of Play was put forward, BEAN have received news that the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba y el CCEC (Centro Cultural España Córdoba) are organizing the XXIIth International Conference on Electroacoustic Music – Virginie Viel’s La Dame Blanches has been proposed; this submission from DMU was rated second by the international jury, and is a suitable length for the call. More information to follow in due course…