Title: Stepping Into The Sound: approaches to multichannel composition
Bio: Annie Mahtani is an electroacoustic composer, sound artist and performer working and living in Birmingham (UK).
Her output encompasses electronic music composition from acousmatic music to free improvisation. As a collaborator, Annie Mahtani has worked extensively with dance and theatre, and on site-specific installations. Her work often explores the inherent sonic nature and identity of environmental sound, amplifying sonic characteristics that are not normally audible to the naked ear. Her music explores abstract and recognizable sound worlds and all the spaces in between. Annie works extensively with multichannel audio both in fixed medium works and in live performance.
Annie Mahtani is Associate Professor in Music at the University of Birmingham and co-director of BEAST (Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre).
