IMMSANE network General Meeting at the Soundtrack Zurich/Zurich Film Festival 1st October 2021

The International Media Music and Sound Arts Network in Education will hold its annual General Meeting during Soundtrack Zurich/Zurich Film Festival on 1st October 2pm - 5pm at the Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland. Yati will direct the International component of the meeting as the General Director of IMMSANE since 2019. For more information about IMMSANE please click here.

The meeting in by invitation only for IMMSANE members and Soundtrack Zurich guests and requires a sign up link which is found here.

25th May Moderation of the European Film Music Day 2021 panel "Composing for Video Games - The Creative Process"

Yati will be moderating the online professional panel event “Composing for Video Games - The Creative Process” as part of the European Composer and Songwriter Alliance’s (ECSA) European Film Music Day (EFMD) on 25th May 2021 at 5:00PM (CEST).

Moderated by Yati Durant, this panel discussion will feature composers: Nainita Desai (UK), Bobby Tahouri (US), Joris de Man (The Netherlands) and Patrik Andrén (Sweden).

The panellists will give the viewers insight into scoring gaming soundtracks and the challenges and opportunities that come in the video games realm. They will also discuss how music in video gaming has come a long way and will elaborate on their music creating process and the differences between scoring for film/TV and video games.

More info about the speakers and link to register here.

Successful EU/Goethe Haus i-Portunus funding for Saundaryalahari tour in summer/fall 2021!

Yati has successfully received funding from the EU/Goethe Haus I-Portunus musicians travel funding grant to work with ensemble Maskfest in Italy! The tours will begin in summer/autumn 2021 and/or as soon - hopefully - as the Covid situation improves in Europe and hopefully take place in Venice, Florence, Bologna and other places in Italy. Very kind thanks to this excellent funding scheme and its partners!

Yati will moderate the Sound Art panel: Seeing the Sound: The Visual Manifestation of Music on Thursday, 6th May 2021

As part of AvidOnline Learning (Mumbai), Yati will moderate the Sound Art panel talking about visual music together with Prof. Joseph Hyde (Bath-Spa University), Dr. Eleni-Ira Panourgia (Université Gustave Eiffel) and Yashas Shetty (Srishti School of Design):

Seeing the Sound: The Visual Manifestation of Music on Thursday, 6th May 2021 @ 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM (IST) - this is 1:30pm UK time!

The event is free and open to the public (takes place online) and should be an interesting discussion on the fields of linear music and sound relationships to image/object/etc. and art!

Registration for the event can be made here: https://www.avidlearning.in/programmes/2021/live-seeing-the-sound-the-visual-manifestation-of-music/