Tipping Point

Our afternoon discussion panel on 1st November, moderated by Touch’s Mike Harding has taken shape now. We’re pleased to add Tony Myatt to the panel alongside Peter Cusack and Jana Winderen. 

Tony is the Director of the Music Research Centre at York University, co-founder of experimental arts event Sight Sonic and principle investigator of AHRC’s New Aesthetics in Computer Music research project. He also co-founded Cambridge University Press’ Organised Sound; an international journal of music and technology.

As a composer, Tony has worked extensively with spatialisation systems, was resident composer at Hochshule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe, Germany in June 2007, where he developed a live performance work for a forty-three channel, multi layer sound system. 

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SoundLAB

We’re happy to be able to present “soundSTORY – sound as a tool for storytelling” the 2007 series of audio pieces curated by SoundLAB, Cologne, Germany, during the symposium on 1st November. These pieces will be installed on eight computers in our Digital Media Centre media lab at South Hill Park, and allow headphone listening to audio works by: 

4th World Orchestra, Mauro Arrighi, Tautvydas Bajarkevicius, Nat Bates, Andrea Callard, Bronwen Casson, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Matthew Claire, Jessica Curry, Martin Desloovere, Paul Devens, Marcin Dopieralski, Dorsey Dunn, Jared Dunne, Chad Eby, Edward Ficklin, Satoshi Fukushima, David Goard (unclejim), Ido Govrin, Scott Hall, Le Tuan Hung, Zoe Irvine, Margaret Jameson, Sirpa Jokinen, Leonel Kaplan, Jane Fenton Keane, Elsa Lankford, Dario Lazaretto, les riches douaniers, Matt MacKissack, Isabelle Mairiaux, Wittwulf O.Malik, John Maters, Jenni Meredith, David Mooney, Jeff Morris, Monica Ong, Jo Pearson, John Plenge, Ailis Ni Riain, Roland Roos, Benjamin Rossignol, Khaled Sabsabi, Mukherjee Sayandeb, Janek Schaefer, Yolanda Spinola, Aleksei Stevens, Eldad Tsabary, Yohann Walter, Simon Whetham, Robyn Yost.

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Sound:Space 2008: Atrium wall-based work selection

The call for the wall-based work is now closed. We are pleased to announce that the wall-based exhibition will include new work by Wil Bolton, Andrew Dodds, Johanna Hällsten, Dawn Scarfe, Katherine Skeldon and Ellen Sylvarnes. We would like thank all artists for their submissions. The opening reception of the Sound:Space 2008 is on Fri 19 September 6.30pm-8pm. All welcome.

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Screen Selection

Jen Kuang Chang OM imageAs part of the associated exhibitions themed around Sound:Space, we have curated a selection of submitted video and a/v works from a range of international artists. This will be running from DVD in the Atrium space at South Hill Park 20th Sept-8th Nov, and in the Cinema during the day on 1st Nov. We will be presenting works from:

Michael Day, JK Chang, Giles Leaman, Tamara Albaitis, Tim Skinner, Wei Hao Tseng, Gun Holstrom, Jane Draycott & Janet Curley Cannon, Stuart Bowditch & Damien Robinson, Gavin Peacock, Brian McClave & Claudia Molitor, Stefanos Pavlakis, David Strang & William Little, Pei Wen Liu.

Download the list of works (PDF 240kb)

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New Presenter

Jana WinderenI’m pleased to be able to confirm that Norwegian sound artist, Jana Winderen will be speaking at this year’s event.

Jana is currently exploring and researching sounds from under the oceans using the latest hydrophone technology. Recent projects have included field trips to Greenland, Iceland, The Barents Sea, and fjords and glaciers in Norway. Jana is also working with Chris Watson,  recording the communication between cod following their migration from the deep ocean to their spawning grounds. 

She is currently working on an album to be released later this year through Touch. More:  www.janawinderen.com

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Sound:Space – Screen

Sound:Space Screen will present audio and video documentation of spacial sound installations, audio and architecture projects, radio art, environmental sound interventions during the symposium day, and also as part of the ongoing exhibition programme in the Atrium Projection Space running 20th September- 9th November 2008.

We invite proposals from visual and digital artists exploring the field of sound art and the representation of sound.

The Sound:Space season also includes the “Kinetic Drawings” exhibition by Max Eastley and the international Sound:Space symposium on 1 November 2008.

Deadline: Tuesday 27th May
Application Form: • RTF • DOC

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