Symposium Schedule

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The symposium takes place over three days, from Thursday 8 January to Saturday 10 January 2026. Below you will find the complete schedule with all sessions, keynote lectures, paper presentations, demonstrations, and performances.

Schedule Legend

Paper Sessions & Registration

Keynote Lectures

Evening Programmes

Breaks

Other Activities

Thursday 8 January 2026

Afternoon Session

14:00–15:00

Registration

Welcome and registration of participants

15:00–15:15

Opening Remarks

Welcome addresses and introduction to the symposium
Prof. Lamberto Coccioli

15:15–16:15

Keynote Lecture

Beyond the stage – Performing music in extended spaces
Prof. Dr. Miriam Akkermann

16:15–17:45

First Paper Session

Moderator: Prof. Jamie Savan

Francesca Guccione – From sound to sign: The Expanded Model as a framework for mediating between technology and notation in contemporary composition

Gianni Tamanini and Gustavo Adolfo Delgado – Writing into the Process: an Onto-Epistemological Proposal for the Score in Technologically Mediated Performative Environments

Alice Cortegiani, Davide Tedesco, Marco Di Gasbarro, Leonardo Zaccone and Giuseppe Silvi – Re-mediating Mario Bertoncini's activity ≪and other useless things...≫, Interpretative practice through workshop notes from a teamwork experience

17:45–18:30

Coffee/Tea Break

18:30–20:00

Evening Programme: Demonstration and Concert-Lecture

• Oramics Reconstruction Demo
Historical reconstruction of the Oramics system
with Joe Wright

• Concert-Lecture: Pierre Boulez, Anthèmes 2
Live Electronics performance practices
with Carlo Lazari (violin), Alvise Vidolin and Paolo Zavagna (live electronics)

Location: The Lab, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Friday 9 January 2026

Full Day

10:30–12:00

Second Paper Session

Moderator: Prof. Lamberto Coccioli

Davide Tedesco – Reconstructing the electroacoustic chain of Il Giudizio Universale: rediscovering the importance of specific machines for specific tasks in Live Electronics

Benoit Granier – Porting the Past, Free Software for Preserving 20th-Century Italian Electroacoustic Opera

Alessandro Fiordelmondo, Francesca Redondi, Alvise Vidolin and Sergio Canazza – Applying Time-Based Media Art's Dynamic Conservation to Live Electronic Music

12:00–12:15

Coffee/Tea Break

12:15–13:45

Third Paper Session

Moderator: Prof. Alvise Vidolin

Rachel Kwok Hin – Innovative Performance in Opera: Real-time Visuals in Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle in Hong Kong, China

Chris Marshall – Arthur Bliss, Tobias and the Angel, A 1960 opera commissioned for BBC TV

Leanne Fitzgerald – Immersive Technology in 21st century Irish Opera

13:45–15:00

Lunch Break

15:00–16:30

Fourth Paper Session

Moderator: Prof. Nicola Bernardini

Luca Spanedda – Distributed Agency in a Sonic Ecosystem, A Study of Umano Post Umano

Jörg Holzmann – Post humanist Sound Spaces, Technical Agency and Aesthetic Hybridity in Leonard Evers' opera "humanoid"

Sofia Pan – Agency in Virtual Opera: Feminism, Immersion, and Illusion in Current Rising and Musicofilia

18:00–19:00

Evening Programme: BCMG Performance

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group - Performance
Open workshop and performance of excerpts from Sergej Newski's upcoming Opera The Relatives commissioned by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Location: CBSO Centre, Berkley Street, Birmingham B1 2LF

19:15

Dinner

Traditional Birmingham Balti cuisine (Indian-inspired speciality)

Location: Nearby the CBSO Centre

Saturday 10 January 2026

Concluding Sessions

09:30–10:30

Keynote Lecture

Designing a Sustainable Live Electronic Environment Today: A Contemporary Approach through Manoury's Die Letzten Tage der Menschheit
Prof. Dr. Miller Puckette

10:30–10:45

Coffee Break

10:45–12:15

Round Table Discussion

Open discussion addressing all topics emerged during the symposium

• Synthesis of key issues and challenges

• Compilation of research topics and questions

• Open forum for all participants

12:15–12:30

Closing Address

Final remarks and conclusions
Prof. Nicola Bernardini

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