From Hemment Sent Sat, Jun 12th 1999, 18:28
From Hemment Sent Sat, Jun 12th 1999, 18:28
The SenseSonic on-line exploration of audiovisual environments and sonic space is starting on Monday 14 June, seeking to prise open the grey area between clubs and installations, and looking at the implications of the convergence of media for audience participation. The first phase will involve an email digest hosted by ten leading artists - David Toop, Maryanne Armacher, Rolf Gehlhaar and others - who have been commissioned to moderate the discussion for one week on a specific theme. Like a good night out you dont come home from, these sessions will keep on rolling, fluid but distinct. You can subscribe to the digest by writing to xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx. SenseSonic will explore ways of thinking of sound systems other than simply in terms of volume. Is it possible to have a distributed, responsive sound field, without destroying the collective experience of listening to music? How can video escape the two dimensional screen? How can sound and vision work together to create an immersive space? What possibilities are opened by new technologies and media such as surround sound and DVD? When does sound become unwanted noise? Is there a sonic art which does not forget the sensuality of sound? The aim is that ideas and initiatives which emerge will be put to the test in events programmed later in the year. :: Participants/Themes Rolf Gehlhaar - sound/space: sonic environments and interactive spaces David Toop - composing space and decomposing music Maryanne Armacher - composing "perceptual geographies" for new media Drew Hemment (FUTURESONIC) - crowded spaces and ecologies of perception: the grey area between club and installation Andrew Deakin - sound diffusion and periphonic environment design Derek Richards (HyperJAM) - virtual soundscapes: how the virtual can heighten sensations of real space Kaffe Matthews - de/recomposing the sonic environment through capturing, processing and resituating environmental noise Ansuman Biswas and Jony Easterby - body/fluids: biofeedback and cymatics Gregg Wagstaff (UK Soundscape Project) - producing noise and conserving silence :: SenseSonic is sponsored by The Arts Council of England Combined Arts Department state51 Designers Republic The Big Chill