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Estuaries 4 at TEAMS Festival, Bangkok Kunsthale, April 17-19

2026-02-23T11:36:00.003+00:00

I am pleased to announce that my audiovisual composition Estuaries 4 has been selected for inclusion in the inaugural festival of the Thai Electroacoustic Music Society (TEAMS) at the Bangkok Kunsthale, April 17-19, 2026.

'Clonal Colonies I' at Punto y Raya / Cineteca Madrid June 20, 2025

2025-09-18T11:43:00.001+01:00

'Clonal Colonies I' was part of a screening of Visual Music works, on June 20, 2025, curated by the Punto y Raya Festival for presentation at Cineteca Madrid as part of celebrations for World Music Day.

'time, bruised, selves' receives Honorable Mention, MuVi7 Exhibition

2025-09-18T11:36:00.004+01:00

Drs Bret Battey and Deniz Ertan's collaborative audiovisual installation 'time, bruised, selves' has been awarded an Honourable Mention in the MuVi7 International Exhibition of Video on Synaesthesia and Visual Music, Granada, Spain. The video will show at the VIII International Congress "Synaesthesia: Science and Art," which will take place from October 23rd to 25th 2025 at Convento Capuchinos and Palacio Abacial, Alcalá la Real, Jaén, Spain.

'Estauries 4' in La Hora Acusmatica virtual concert series Nov 7

2025-09-18T11:27:00.004+01:00

My audiovisual composition 'Estuaries 4' was selected for inclusion in the La Hora Acusmatica online festival, in its November 7, 2025 edition. (More info to come…)

'Estuaries 4' at Eastman School of Music, Sep 25, 2025

2025-09-18T11:08:00.003+01:00

My audiovisual composition 'Estuaries 4' will be screened September 25 as part of a concert at The Electroacoustic Music Studios @ Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York.

Thursday, September 25, 2025 |
7:30 PM, Hatch Recital Hall

Program:

Kaija Saariaho: Vent Nocturne (2006)

Sombres miroirs

Soupirs de l’obscur

Ryan Hardcastle, viola

Hubert Howe: Inharmonic Fantasy No. 20 (2025)

World Premiere

Mikel Kuehn: Dancing in the Ether (2020)

Nattakon Lertwattanaruk: RedDeadRouletteReconstruction (2025)

American Premiere

Hubert Howe: Inharmonic Fantasy No. 6 (2017)

Dana Crytser, flute

Bret Battey: Estuaries 4 (2021)

This concert is free, open to the public, and will be diffused onto a 7.10.1 array (7 loudspeakers in the upper balcony, 10 on the lower level and a sub woofer)

Book chapter on 'Estuaries 4' published

2025-04-02T11:18:00.000+01:00

My chapter "Events and Continuums: The Audiovisual Composition ‘Estuaries 4’" is published in a new book Collaboration, Engagement, and Tradition in Contemporary and Electronic Music: NoiseFloor Perspectives, published by Routledge at the end of 2024.

Abstract: A core contrast in music of our time has been between music comprised of discrete note events vs. music of continuums (Wishart), often in conjunction with the music of sounds (Landy). Traditional algorithmic-music techniques have tended to emphasise the former, while computer-manipulation of found sound has tended to be associated with the latter. Similarly, in audiovisual composition, one can contrast note-to-visual-object approaches with more gestural and textural strategies. In this domain, too, we might contrast algorithmic approaches that render discrete objects versus video-processing techniques which more readily lend themselves to textural emphases. Estuaries 4, the last of the author’s Estuaries series of audiovisual compositions, caps the work of this series by finding fruitful intersections between algorithms and both discrete-event and continuum thinking. He presents the event/continuum distinction as a continuum itself and suggests some ways in which algorithmic approaches can apply across that continuum.

New audiovisual installation collaboration: 'time, bruised, selves'

2025-03-26T11:08:00.003+00:00

'time, bruised, selves' — an audiovisual co-creation by Bret Battey and Deniz Ertan – premiered Dec 16, 2024 to March 30, 2025 at Phoenix Cinema and Gallery, Leicester, UK. More information and documentation available here.

'Estuaries 4' at Carnegie Melon University, 27 Mar 2025

2025-03-26T11:04:00.006+00:00

My audiovisual composition 'Estuaries 4' was screened 27 Mar 2025 at Carnegie Melon University, Pittsburgh as part of a international selection of works presented by AV@CMU.

Screenings/Papers at Musicacoustica Hangzhou and Sound/Image Greenwich

2024-09-09T17:05:00.003+01:00

My audiovisual composition 'Estauries 4' has been programmed for the Musicacoustica Hangzhou Festival, China, which runs Sep 24-29 at the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music.

'Estuaries 4' has been programmed for the Sound/Image Festival 2024 at University of Greenwich, where I will also present my audiovisual installation work 'Traces, Molten' and a paper on 'Estuaries 4'.

'Estuaries 4' April Screening at Electronic Nights, Texas Tech University

2024-01-22T11:19:00.004+00:00

Prof Bret Battey's audiovisual composition 'Estuaries 4' has been selected for inclusion in the Texas Tech University 'Electronic Nights' concert series. 'Estuaries 4' will appear in concert April 17, 2024 at the Texas Tech School of Music.

Estuaries 4 awarded a Distinction in Prix CIME 2023

2023-11-09T11:04:00.003+00:00

The jury of Prix CIME 2023 awarded Estuaries 4 a Distinction in the Video Music category (along with João Pedro Oliveira for Coalescence).

Masterclass and screening: Punto y Raya, Lisbon, October

2023-09-01T14:02:00.000+01:00

I will be presenting a masterclass on Tue, October 10, as part of the Punto y Raya Festival in Lisbon. The festival will be the eighth edition of Punto y Raya, which describes itself as "The Most Abstract Festival in the World"— "a feast of pure form, colour, motion and sound". Battey's film Estuaries 4 will also be screened as part of the festival. The masterclass, entitled 'Six Works, Seven Years, Millions of Dots', will focus on audiovisual composition and algorithms in my "Estuaries" series and recent installation works.

Battey interview in new book on visual music

2023-09-01T13:49:00.002+01:00

I amongst the artists profiled and interviewed in a new book by David Payling, Electronic Visual Music: The Elements of Audovisual Creativity, to be released September 12, 2023. It aims to provide "insight into contemporary working methods and gives a snapshot of the state of the art in this ever-evolving creative discipline."

Estuaries 4 selected for Animation Marathon 2022, Athens

2022-10-24T16:45:00.001+01:00

Estuaries 4 has been selected for screening in the Animation Marathon 2022 festival, 28-30 November.

Estuaries 4 awarded ICMA ‘Best Regional Music (Europe) Award' for 2022’

2022-09-22T09:18:00.009+01:00

Estuaries 4 was awarded the ‘Best Regional Music (Europe) Award' for 2022 from the International Computer Music Association, from a field of 362 works submitted to the Association’s annual conference.

'Game of Hymns' – Sep 29, 2022 at Butler University

2022-09-22T09:15:00.001+01:00

Game Hymns (No. 3 – Old One Hundredth) will be performed by the JCA Composers String Orchestra,
Frank Felice, Conductor, on Sep 29, 2022 at the Butler University School of Music, Indianapolis, Indiana.

New installation 'Traces, Molten' premiering Leicester, Sep 13-16

2022-09-02T11:34:00.005+01:00

Coming Sep 13-16, 2022, to LCB Depot in Leicester: my new audiovisual installation Traces, Molten — as part of the British Science Festival! Traces, Molten invites participants to contemplate a continually transforming immersive landscape, driven by mathematical processes. Perhaps this is a glimpse of the exquisite, molten dance of millions of sub-atomic particles — or traces of an intangible order underlying the cosmos.

https://britishsciencefestival.org/event/traces-molten/

Estauries 4 Selected by Over the Real Festival

2022-09-02T10:26:00.009+01:00

Estuaries 4 has been selected for screening by the Over the Real International Festival of Video Art. The Festival will run September 24 – October 2, 2022 in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.

'Estuaries 4' awarded 'best video' by the MuVi6 festival

2022-09-02T10:19:00.006+01:00

Estuaries 4 has been awarded 'best video' by the MuVi6 International Exhibition of Video and Moving Image on Synesthesia and Visual Music. It will be featured in an upcoming book and a conference held by the Faculty of Fine Arts “Alonso Cano”, University of Granada (Spain) and Convento de Capuchinos, Alcalá la Real (Jaén, Spain), 26-29th October 2022

Estuaries 4 at NoiseFloor Festival and International Computer Music Festival

2022-03-23T14:35:00.001+00:00

Estuaries 4 will be screening in the Staffordshire University NoiseFloor Festival (12-13 May) and the 2022 International Computer Music Conference (Limerik, Ireland, 3-9 July).

Estuaries 4 streaming by Tempo Reale, 10 March, 2022

2022-03-10T10:50:00.010+00:00

Tempo Reale's AudioVisionElettriche (Firenze, Italy) will stream Estauries 4 as part of an audiovisual screening on March 10, 2022, 7 pm Italian time. More information is available on their Facebook posting.

[Update 11 Mar, 2022: the streamed show is available on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/temporealefirenze/videos/640847633879700/]

Podcast Interview in 'How to Enjoy Experimental Film'

2022-02-26T15:59:00.003+00:00

I was interviewed by Daniel Adams for his 'How to Enjoy Experimental Film' podcast series. The episode, titled 'Coherent Complexity', has just been released. It is available at Spotify and other podcast sources.

Promo/preview: https://fb.watch/bp-SnOFKm9/

Estuaries 4 in Synchresis / Musikene, Spain, Dec 2

2021-12-01T17:14:00.011+00:00

Dec 2, 2021, Estuaries 4 will be receiving its second screening as part of a show curated by the Synchresis Festival — celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Musikene in Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain.

Visible Bits, Audible Bytes 2021 + Premiere of 'Estuaries 4'

2021-11-09T11:02:00.002+00:00

This Friday, Nov 12 2021, I am presenting a screening of new, experimental sound-and-image work on the fantastic digital-cinema projection system and 7.1 sound at Phoenix cinema in Leicester. See how artists and composers from around the world are using new technologies to animate imaginative audio-visual worlds and explore new relationships between sound and the moving image.

This will include the premiere of my new work 'Estuaries 4'.

Visible Bits, Audible Bytes 2021

Fri 12 Nov, 8:15 pm

Phoenix Cinema, Leicester

Free, but advanced booking is recommended

https://www.phoenix.org.uk/programme/vbab-2021/

Roundabout Midday (2020) ...................................... Asher Arnon (Israel)

Estuaries 4 (2021)....................................................... Bret Battey (UK/USA)

output 1 (2019)........................................................... Sebastiano Gualtieri (Italy)

Survol (2019).............................................................. Félix Bonjour (France)

Phases (2018)............................................................. Myriam Boucher (Canada)

cvd (2021)................................................................... Sebastiano Gualtieri (Italy)

Things I Have Seen In My Dreams (2019)................... João Pedro Oliveira (Portugal/USA)

output 2 (2020)........................................................... Sebastiano Gualtieri (Italy)

VOID (2019)................................................................ Andrew Hill (UK)

Puntito_visual (2016)................................................. Jean-Philippe Pierre-Louis
(Ecuador / Canada)

DEN (2019).................................................................. Marinos Giannoukakis (Greece)

This year, Visible Bits, Audible Bytes is also integrated with the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference (http://www.ems-network.org/ems21/) being held at De Montfort University.

Estuaries 3 Screening in Punto y Raya Festival 2021

2021-09-21T09:54:00.000+01:00

Estuaries 3 will be screening as part of the seventh edition of the Punto y Raya Festival, in Vienna, Nov 25-28, 2021.