Thursday 22 October 2015, 6pm and 6.45pm (£5 general; £2 student)

Performance Lab inside G2, Engineering Building - full performance: 40 mins

(part of Some Things Rich and Strange, an Inside Out Festival and Music@QMUL event)

Arno Babajanian's epic Piano Trio in F# minor performed by Elaine Chew (piano), Hilary Sturt (violin), and Ian Pressland (cello), with music-driven spectral art created by Alessia Milo. Babajanian's dark, ethereal, and wild trio is illuminated by specially designed vectorial drawings created in Processing, playing with time, light, darkness, colours, frequencies, and their spectral energy. The spectral art is generated in real-time in response to the music and projected on the musicians.

Wednesday 4 November 2015, 7pm (FREE)

Performance Studio, Arts Two - full performance: 120 mins

Laurel Pardue performs on an augmented violin with live visuals. Dianne Verdonk performs on "La Diantenne", a new metal-sheet instrument capturing rich gestural interactions. Tim Exile performs on his "Flow Machine", a hardware/software setup for live sampling and transformation of sound. Bogdan Vera and friends performs on the D-Box. The performance is coupled with a study of audience response conducted by C4DM/MAT PhD student Astrid Bin. The audience will be introduced to the instruments before the performance and record their responses during the performance using a web-based system developed by Astrid.

Monday 23 November 2015, 6.30pm (FREE)

Arts Two Lecture Theatre - full performance: 90 mins

Featuring music by Stephen Travis Pope, Oded Ben-Tal, Dan Stowell, and Bob L. Sturm

Monday 21 December 2015, 5.15pm (FREE)

Performance Lab inside G2, Engineering Building - full performance: 60 mins

As Stravinsky famously said, "Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal." The art of stealing is illustrated by Bob Sturm's Concatenative Variations of a Passage by Mahler and by Paul Lansky's Etudes and Parodies (winner of the 2005 International Horn Society competition) for horn trio as performed by Joel Ashford, Hilary Sturt, and Elaine Chew. Part of Lansky's piece is compared to the Beatles' While My Guitar Gently Weeps, as performed by Florian Guillaume, Giulio Moro, Keunwoo Choi, and Elio Quenton, culminating in a concurrent performance of the two. Musical similarities are made explicit using C4DM research in music informatics.

Monday 1 February 2016, 7.30pm (FREE)

Octagon - full performance: 120 mins

The Chinese New Year Concert is organised jointly by the Chinese Students’ Association (CSSA) and Confucius Institute at Queen Mary and not only celebrates Chinese New Year, but celebrates the fusion of arts and science at Queen Mary, combining music and performance with digital instruments. The event features award-winning Chinese instrumentalists, C4DM members and music technologies.

Friday 24 June 2016, 7.30pm (£8 general; £5 student/senior)

Schott Music Shop (48 Great Marlborough St) - performance-dialogue: 75 mins

(an educational event created in collaboration with Kingston University)

Elaine Chew presents the world premiere of Oded Ben-Tal’s Sonata for Magnetic Resonator Piano and Electronics together with performances of contemporary piano pieces by Carmine Cella, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, and Dorien Herreman’s computer program MorpheuS. The concert features dual performances of pieces, with and without the magnetic resonator piano (MRP), interspersed with performer/composer presentations on the making of the music. MRP inventor Andrew McPherson will also give an introduction to the instrument. Audience members will have a chance to engage in further dialogue with the creators in an open Q&A.