A recent interview between John Potts and Nigel Helyer, download the PDF from Material Thinking EcoLocated; Art, Science and the Environment.
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on May 18, 2012in Articles, arts and science, Textstags: articles
Teatro y Democracia
on December 26, 2009in Essays, Textstags: critical writing
Act I. The Globe. It has been a standing joke for years now, each time I leave London I kick myself for again forgetting to visit the New Globe. Finally this inattention or amnesia has been remedied with the purchase of a five pound ticket for a standing place in the yard where I watched […]
Read More →Snap, Crackle and Pop; On listening, memory and amnesia
on October 21, 2009in Essays, Textstags: critical writing
Snap, Crackle and Pop; On listening, memory and amnesia. Your words are preserved in the tin foil and will come back upon the application of the instrument years after you are dead in exactly the same tone of voice you spoke in then…This tongueless, toothless instrument, without larynx or pharynx, dumb, voiceless matter, nevertheless mimics […]
Read More →The Sonic Nomadic:Exploring Mobile Surround-Sound Interactions
on September 8, 2009in Textstags: articles
A comprehensive but succinct description of the work of AudioNomad Research Group published in the IEEE, The Sonic Nomadic: Exploring Mobile Surround-Sound Interactions IEEE_final.pdf
Read More →Mexico Is Different
on June 7, 2008in Essays, Textstags: critical writing
This article originally appeared in RealTime Edition 83, Febuary/March 2008 and is reproduced here with the permission of the writer and RealTime http://www.realtimearts.net
“MÉXICO IS DIFFERENT LIKE A TRAVEL FOLDER SAYS.” THUS QUOTH THE IMMORTAL BARD, RY COODER. THROUGH THE LENS OF THE RECENT TRANSITIO_MX02 FESTIVAL OF ELECTRONIC ARTS & VIDEO YOU CAN SEE WHY. OVER A PLATE OF CHILES RELLENOS, DIRECTOR OF THE TRANSITIO_MX02 FESTIVAL GRACE QUINTANILLA RECOUNTS A STORY HER YOUNG SON TOLD HER, IT GOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS:
Read More →Ars Electronica; Vitae Brevis
on December 21, 2007in Essays, Textstags: critical writing
This article originally appeared in RealTime Edition 82, Dec/Jan 2007 and is reproduced here with the permission of the writer and RealTime http://www.realtimearts.net
A visit to the beach in darkest Austria!
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on October 25, 2007in Essays, Textstags: critical writing
A Nomadic Ear treatment
Read More →The Nomadic Ear
on October 24, 2007in Essays, Textstags: critical writing
The Nomadic Ear.
Sonography, Cartography and the design of Sonic Narratives for Non-Linear Experience.
Preamble; getting immersed.
In discussing Immersive Environments we find ourselves at the mercy of a phalanx of aqueous meta-phors, saturated in an inescapable lexicon that engulfs our senses, saturating our frames in the fluid medium of sound. So be it; let us be carried away on the flood to be inundated in the ocean of sound. This text is concerned with concepts of spatiality, of location and the interactions of sounding bodies that articulate and activate the soundscape, how we as auditors experience the sonic domain and how we as authors compose and construct compelling immersive audioscapes.
Read More →Gran Tourismo
on October 23, 2007in Essays, Textstags: critical writing
This article originally appeared in RealTime Edition 81, Oct/Nov 2007 and is reproduced here with the permission of the writer and RealTime http://www.realtimearts.net
A Cultural Travelogue of the big shows in Europa 2007.
AudioNomadism ~ a brief history of Sound in Public Space.
on November 2, 2006in Essays, Textstags: critical writing
It’s all around you ~ so read all about it! AudioNomadism or a description in plain English of how to do very complicated things with location sensitive spatial audio The download is a bit slow ~ but it’s worth the wait!
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- The Nomadic Ear
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- AudioNomadism ~ a brief history of Sound in Public Space.
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