Concert – listening systems
Adam Linson and Owen Green: Duet For Various Kinds of EarAdam Linson and Owen Green will present a collaboration between themselves and their respective listening machines. Carrying forward the themes from the earlier panel discussion, the performance will emerge from the interaction of human beings in the here-and-now with semi-autonomous algorithms trying (insofar as they can try) to make and contribute to sense of the musical world. Marco Donnarumma: Ominous, incarnated sound sculpture for Xth SenseOminous is a sculpture of incarnated sound. The piece was commissioned for the finals of the 5th Live Electronic Music Competition (European Conference of Promoters of New Music). Ominous is the latest in a series of performances aimed at bridging new musical interfaces, biotechnology, and corporeal performance. The piece embodies, before the audience, the metaphor of an invisible and unknown object enclosed in the performer’s hands. This is made of malleable sonic matter. Similarly to a mime, the performer models the object in the empty space by means of whole-body gestures. By using the biophysical instrument Xth Sense (created by the author), the acoustic sound produced by the contractions of his muscle tissues is amplified, digitally processed, and played back through nine loudspeakers. The natural sound of the performer’s muscles and its virtual counterpart blend together into an unstable sonic object. This oscillates between a state of high density and one of violent release. As the listeners imagine the object’s shape by following my gesture, the sonic stimuli induce a perceptual coupling. The listeners see through sound the sculpture which their sight cannot perceive. Disinformation: National GridNational Grid is a pioneering and highly influential performance and sound installation, first performed and published on LP in 1996, first exhibited as a gallery installation in 1997, and (among others) since exhibited at Kettle’s Yard and Fabrica galleries, and performed at ZKM, Germany, and the Hayward Gallery. National Grid manipulates direct outputs from live mains electricity, creating a pulsing low-frequency sound mass, which is presented as a hypnotic and monolithic soundtrack to contemporary urban life and sound tribute to the creative genius of electrification. The legislation through which (Tory) Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin created Britain’s “National Gridiron” in 1926 was described as “the most Socialist piece of legislation ever known”, and Lenin is said to have defined Communism as “Socialism plus Electrification”. Book a ticket here:wisd-day-03-concert.eventbrite.com |
Keynote – Simon Waters
Inhabiting Sound Seamus Heaney – ‘Clearances’ In Memoriam M.K.H., 1911-1984 She taught me what her uncle once taught her: How easily the biggest coal block split If you got the grain and the hammer angled right. The sound of that
Keynote – Simon Waters
Inhabiting Sound Seamus Heaney – ‘Clearances’ In Memoriam M.K.H., 1911-1984 She taught me what her uncle once taught her: How easily the biggest coal block split If you got the grain and the hammer angled right. The sound of that
Sean Williams – From centimetres to seconds: sound design’s shift from technical serialism to musically informed performance practice in the 1950s WDR Studio, Cologne
Music made in the West Deutsche Rundfunk Studio for Electronic Music in the 1950s was characterized by a strict serialist determination of all sound parameters. In Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Studie II, and Gesang der Jünglinge, sounds as short as 0.05 seconds
Sean Williams – From centimetres to seconds: sound design’s shift from technical serialism to musically informed performance practice in the 1950s WDR Studio, Cologne
Music made in the West Deutsche Rundfunk Studio for Electronic Music in the 1950s was characterized by a strict serialist determination of all sound parameters. In Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Studie II, and Gesang der Jünglinge, sounds as short as 0.05 seconds
Richard Coyne – Why sound reaches the parts architecture can’t
“Physical spaces are charged with meaning and emotion for most of us — some spaces more than others. But it’s rare to enter a building or encounter spectacular scenery and experience the same intensity of emotion many of us feel
Richard Coyne – Why sound reaches the parts architecture can’t
“Physical spaces are charged with meaning and emotion for most of us — some spaces more than others. But it’s rare to enter a building or encounter spectacular scenery and experience the same intensity of emotion many of us feel
Panel discussion – Scaling to fit and coping with detail
Sound is data. Alterations in the structure of data can create events of audible and emotional value. Delayed and modulated samples create filters, an array of samples create microseconds of a wavetable, milliseconds and seconds of samples create distinguishable sound events.
Panel discussion – Scaling to fit and coping with detail
Sound is data. Alterations in the structure of data can create events of audible and emotional value. Delayed and modulated samples create filters, an array of samples create microseconds of a wavetable, milliseconds and seconds of samples create distinguishable sound events.
Not a Concert – drinks reception and installation launch
Drinks reception in B28, 6pm Attendees are welcome to this reception in room B28, a room filled with loudspeakers and currently used to support NESS (Next generation Sound Synthesis), an ERC funded project concerned with sound synthesis, effects processing and
Not a Concert – drinks reception and installation launch
Drinks reception in B28, 6pm Attendees are welcome to this reception in room B28, a room filled with loudspeakers and currently used to support NESS (Next generation Sound Synthesis), an ERC funded project concerned with sound synthesis, effects processing and
Concert – fractions and factions
Tonight’s concert will feature Jules Rawlinson’s Please use the tramps provided, a wacom-tablet driven piece of live electronics. Lauren Hayes will perform an improvisation called contactor. playRoom Martin Parker’s anti-sweetspot rant has been cancelled. Please come to Inspace for 8pm,
Concert – fractions and factions
Tonight’s concert will feature Jules Rawlinson’s Please use the tramps provided, a wacom-tablet driven piece of live electronics. Lauren Hayes will perform an improvisation called contactor. playRoom Martin Parker’s anti-sweetspot rant has been cancelled. Please come to Inspace for 8pm,
Keynote – Joe Banks – Sound Art as Mainstream Cultural Commodity
Author and sound artist Joe Banks argues in his book “Rorschach Audio – Art & Illusion for Sound” that “the earliest form of sound recording technology was not a machine but was written language”. Extrapolating this argument, Joe Banks discusses
Keynote – Joe Banks – Sound Art as Mainstream Cultural Commodity
Author and sound artist Joe Banks argues in his book “Rorschach Audio – Art & Illusion for Sound” that “the earliest form of sound recording technology was not a machine but was written language”. Extrapolating this argument, Joe Banks discusses
Peter Nelson – Phrase and Gesture: the timing and syntax of sounds
“How do sounds add up? What pulls moments together into meaningful strands? Whether sounds are static, rhythmic or fleeting, they carry us with them in ways that determine senses of speed, character and emotion. This talk concerns not just sounds
Peter Nelson – Phrase and Gesture: the timing and syntax of sounds
“How do sounds add up? What pulls moments together into meaningful strands? Whether sounds are static, rhythmic or fleeting, they carry us with them in ways that determine senses of speed, character and emotion. This talk concerns not just sounds
Craig Martin – Listening with Michel Serres: Sounding Objects
In his recent book Biogea the philosopher Michel Serres makes the case for the need to listen to the world. Rather than following the lengthy traditions of human-centred domination of the material and natural world Serres calls for the need
Craig Martin – Listening with Michel Serres: Sounding Objects
In his recent book Biogea the philosopher Michel Serres makes the case for the need to listen to the world. Rather than following the lengthy traditions of human-centred domination of the material and natural world Serres calls for the need
Panel discussion – sound design and violence
Sounds are made when surfaces meet and resist. If the resulting vibrations are constrained, funnelled and pressurised down tubes, across vent holes and around resonant cavities we can design either a musical instrument or a sonic weapon. Sound touches at
Panel discussion – sound design and violence
Sounds are made when surfaces meet and resist. If the resulting vibrations are constrained, funnelled and pressurised down tubes, across vent holes and around resonant cavities we can design either a musical instrument or a sonic weapon. Sound touches at