The Music of Sounds and the Music of Things

Leigh Landy is the Director of the Music, Technology and Innovation - Institute for Sonic Creativity (MTI2) at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. His compositions, most of which are sample-based, include several for video, dance and theatre and have been performed around the globe. As a scholar, he has presented keynote talks on every continent. His publications primarily focus on the studies of electroacoustic music. He is the editor of Organised Sound (Cambridge) and the author of nine books, including What's the Matter with Today's Experimental Music? (Routledge), Understanding the Art of Sound Organization (MIT), The Music of Sounds (Routledge) and most recently Experiencing Organised Sounds (Routledge, 2023). He directs the ElectroAcoustic Resource Site (EARS) projects and is a founding director of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS).

John Richards explores Dirty Electronics focusing on shared experiences, social interaction and critical making. His work involves the performance of large-group electronic music and DIY electronics, which he considers as a holistic action. It is a fluid, live practice associated with the ideas of workshop-installation and performance-installation. His work pushes the boundaries between music, performance art, electronics and graphic design and is transdisciplinary as well as having a sociopolitical dimension. He has also written numerous texts on DIY practices, performance of electronic music and object-orientated and material approaches in relation to sound art. John Richards teaches in the Department of Music at the University of Nottingham, UK.