“The second edition of the Sines & Squares Festival celebrates the recent resurgence of analogue and modular synthesizers. It features some of the most renown UK and international performers, composers, lecturers and designers working with analogue and modular systems. It also includes theoretical "Patchbay Sessions" with papers and presentations focused on modular synthesis, many concerts, a clubnight, our Modular Lounge, a raffle and much more.”
Established in March 2007, the NOVARS research centre specialises in the areas of interactive music and media, audification, electroacoustic composition, game-audio, and locative-audio.
Our MANTIS Festival (Manchester Theatre in Sound) explores new areas of creativity and pushes the boundaries of acousmatic performance. The event is an experimental research space for postgraduate students, an international platform for the performance and diffusion of electroacoustic music, and a valuable support network for hosting events in the field of computer music.
Sam Weaver, who uses his studio as a laboratory for sonic investigation and production, re-routing instruments into abstraction and deliberately misusing his equipment. Sam’s work exists between acousmatic music, free improvisation and experimental electronics, seeking to explore dynamics of sonic harmony and chaos.
Richard Scott is a composer and performer of electronic and improvised music. For much of the last decade he has been dedicated to the compositional and performance possibilities of analogue modular synthesizers. He also works with a variety of digital technologies such as Ambisonics, multichannel diffusion and with instruments such as the Buchla Lightning and Thunder and his self-designed WiGi system developed as an Artistic Resident at STIEM.
