   
current technological research in sound, immersive environments, telecommunications, kinetic art and robotics.
french-american fund for university partnerships (face program)
Exchange Students
- Brett Ian Balogh (SAIC Chicago)
- Aix visit: Sep. 5 to Jan. 20. 2007
- Websites:
- Presentation / Research statement:
- Noah Jurcin (SAIC Chicago)
- Aix visit: Oct. 31 to Jan. 20. 2006
- Websites:
http://www.phonaut.com/
http://phonaut.blogspot.com/
- Presentation / Research statement:
My work up to this point generally falls into two broad categories, field
recording and electronic music production. I have been making electronic
music since the mid-1990s, initially using a variety of hardware tools such as
keyboards, synthesizers, samplers, MIDI sequencers and drum machines.
Recently, I have moved to a more software-based arrangement, centered around
media tools working within the digital domain. I am most interested in
ambient or what I refer to as environmental music. For me, this music can be
assimilated under a variety of circumstances, such as close or careful
listening, acousmatic listening, or simply as background music that the
listener is not necessarily conscious of. With regard to field recording, I
most often involve myself in "audiotourism," a variety of field recording that
sonically documents a location in much the same way as a photographer.
However, beyond simply recording an acoustically accurate representation of a
space, I am also interested in making collage works or sound sculpture that
are made up of many different sound sources and recordings.
Often these two threads in my work cross-pollinate in beneficial ways. I also
derive immense enjoyment from both activities and find they enhance my life.
A common element in both areas of my interest is a desire to make my work more
interactive and dynamic within the space it is presented in. This is what I
wish to focus on most during my time in Aix and at Locus Sonus. I feel my
musical compositions could be improved upon by adding in an interactive
dimension to them through the use of the technology that has recently been
made available to sound artists. Using a Teleo board and a small collection
of measurement tools, I want to design a Max/MSP patch that will react to
environmental conditions by feeding sensor data into the patch. By making
relatively straightforward operations and comparisons on these data streams,
the patch can use information pulled from the immediate environment to guide
the content and activity of the sounds heard. I would also like to continue
researching multichannel designs to present this work, as I feel having more
than 2 stereo channels will help integrate this piece as part of the space it
is presented in. The Max patch will receive continuous data to spontaneously
alter the sound parameters of drone and pad elements as well as location
recordings. As the viewer moves into the measured space, data from an
infrared sensor for instance, can activate the patch and the sound components
can spring to life.
- Rory Shackles (SAIC Chicago)
- Aix visit: Oct. 31 to Jan. 20. 2006
- Websites:
A Call For Silence CD
http://www.idleproduction.org/
- Presentation / Research statement:
About three years ago I began exploring different ways of delivering sound to
listeners. This eventually led me to programming in Max/MSP, creating
interactive or reactive sound pieces. After several years of working with this
language, I began approaching video in the same manner that I was using sound. I'm now
working on movement as implied by sound and sound as implied by images. I've
recently found myself using a bicycle as a center for both the sound and the
images. After a year of commuting on my bike I began to hear the traveling as
sound pieces. The route was always the same but a Tuesday sounded different
the Thursdays and the fall very different then the summers. So a few sound/
video projects were hatched, all of which are still under construction. This
seems to be the work that is currently occupying my attention and most likely
what I will be working on during the fall 2005 semester at locus sonus.
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