13th November 2010- Aberdeen. Curated by Pete Stollery
A theme park of sound. For one day the MacRobert Building will be turned into a hive of interactivity with performances, workshops, demos and sonic "rides" for everyone to take part in.
PondLife III by Patrick Sanan and Sam Salem : (opening 5/08/10) - Sound Installations @ S.LOW from S.LOW on Vimeo.
AUDIOVISUAL INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION POND LIFE III
by Patrick Sanan and Sam Salem
Pond Life III: Following on from our success with Pond Life II, we plan to create a new version of the work, developing the themes and technologies of the piece further. Pond Life is a generative audiovisual laboratory that encourages audience exploration and participation. Pond Life II has been exhibited in Montreal (ICMC 2010), in New York (NYCEMF2) and in S.LOW Projekt Berlin 2010, (thanks to Antonia Schwarz)
Ho - a sonic expedition to Vietnam (demo reel) from Surround Wunderbar Studio on Vimeo.
Creating Ho has been a full-of-fun journey and a very stimulating project. Ho is an imaginary sonic expedition to Vietnam, plenty of adventures and drama. Although it is immersed in a three-dimensional visual environment, it has a focus on sound. In Ho, the performer, sound artist or casual visitor, becomes ‘the captain of a ship,’ who controls a sound-wheel interface inspired by maritime navigation. While 'navigating', he/she leads listeners to an aural journey with critical stops at specific locations. Such scenes are my personal imaginary reconstruction of a number of sketchy stories with unique sound interest and located in Vietnam. Audiovisual scenarios vary from a rickshaw trip finding your way out of a sonic-maze, to experiencing a zebra crossing in a jungle of cars and mopeds, or even having an argument in a restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City, because you dislike eating live giant squids...
This Research Diary provides a contextualisation for the concept of navigation through sound and identifies new research and creative questions arising, which may be solved with creative practice. However, at the end of the day it is simply a piece of creative work, which I hope you enjoy!. Ricardo Climent
To read Ho's reserch diary, go to this link: http://wunderbarlaboratorium.blogspot.com/
Ho in Aberdeen - 13th Nov. 2010 - Test from Surround Wunderbar Studio from Surround Wunderbar Studio on Vimeo.
A few of us from NOVARS @ Manchester (UK) are heading to Aberdeen (Scotland) to run a few pieces (Ho is one of them). This is in celebration of Pete Stollery's 50th birthday. It's going to be fun.
This is a test with some improvements from last time. It has proved to be hard to get back to blender when one leaves it for a while!
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Hồ - A Sonic Expedition to Viet nam 2009 (Ricardo Climent)
The Navigation System Through Sound is a new sonic-GPS orientation tool created to assist dynamic compositional musical methods on a live performance. It aims to help general audiences to understand and enjoy more the language of electroacoustic music and to provide them with an enhanced surround sonic experience, inspired by that achieved on the visual sensory system in planetariums and three-dimensional cinemas. It also aims to increase the awareness, for example, on areas of sound pollution, with potential for expansion beyond typical territories of acoustic ecology. The performer/composer, as ‘the captain of the ship,’ controls the interface of a 'sound- wheel’ inspired by maritime navigation, leading audiences to an aural journey with critical stops at specific locations with unique sonic interest. Ho is a full-of-fun, but also drama, sonic-cartographic expedition to Vietnam combining composed sounds with game engine technologies and the use of audiometadata. Acknowledgments: great thanks for the open source blender community (blender.org)
For more about Ho, please visit its research blog - http://wunderbarlaboratorium.blogspot.com/
