Locus Sonus is a research group specialized in audio art. It is
organized as a post graduate lab by the Art Schools of Aix en
Provence (ESAA) and Nice (ENSA Villa Arson) in the
south of France. We have a partnership with sociology lab CNRS, LAMES
Aix en Provence (who are interested by the way that practices related
to new technologies are creating modifications in artistic production
and the way that the public responds to these modifications), and we currently continue collaborations with the CRESSON, architecture lab CNRS in Grenoble (sonic spaces research centre), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and other international partners.
Locus Sonus is concerned with the innovative and transdisciplinary
nature of audio art forms, in the framework of networked sonic spaces, some of which are experimented and evaluated in a lab type context. An important factor is with the collective or multi-user aspects inherent to many emerging audio
practices and which necessitate working as a group. Two main thematic
define this research - audio in it's relation to space and networked
audio systems. Today our research is grouped under two main headings Field Spatialization and Networked Sonic Spaces.