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
SenseSonic@futuresonic.com.
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