Can we compose music for human hearing?

On Tuesday 22 March at 17.00 in the Clocktower Building, Lecture Theatre,
University of Kent, Historic Dockyard Chatham, The School of Music & Fine Art presents Dr Matt Barnard (University of Hull) as the key speaker in a seminar on the binaural method of hearing. This represents our natural spatial register and employing binaural recording and/or synthesis methods in composition reveals peculiar characteristics of the method. Discussing a compositional practice that is now exploring a syntax of space as primary, the binaural method is explored in its creative manifestations.

Matthew Barnard is a composer and researcher primarily focused upon electronic music, including electronica, acousmatic and soundscape idioms. The field of spatial representation in sound, particularly ambisonics and the binaural method, are of interest.

For more info contact Tim Howle
t.howle@kent.ac.uk