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• INTRODUCTION
The Locus Sonus's presentations will take place between 15th to 29th of August in USA with two installations and a duplex performance. This will start with the DIGIT Festival Delaware Delaware Valley Arts Alliance & Roebling Bridge Environmental Arts
and at River Fawn Gallery * in partnership with LMCC (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council) and THE THING Inc. (New York) and finally with the support of Étant Donnés, The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art.
* River Fawn Gallery is located: Tribeca, 11 Harrison Street #1, (between Greenwich and Hudson), NYC, NY 10013
These presentations will go on at Fall with an installation/performance during the festival Arborescence at Aix-en-Provence in the beginning of October, and another one later in October at GMEM in Marseilles.
The idea which we are working on for our US presentations is in three parts:
• LOCUS SONUS TEMPORARY INSTALLATIONS - August 19th until 25th
• 1/ The temporary installation at the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance is a series of wires that looks somewhat like an abacus strung above head height. Each wire has a sphere which acts as tuner so that the audio streams can be altered and mixed in real time. These audio streams are captured by open microphones put in place by people who are participating in the project from around the world.
• 2/ A similar temporary installation in lower Manhattan proposes a single long cable traversing the exhibition space offering an audio promenade, where the user slides their way through a series of remote audio locations. a schematic on the floor allows the visitor to read the audio stream's "mountpoint" while the sound is spatialized around cardinal points corresponding to the direction from which the stream is emitted.
The installation with wires consists of a physical interface, pictured below as a prototype in our studio, which basically functions like a slider, with which one can scan through a range of live streams (open mikes) - this example will work for the installation in New-York; in Delaware Arts Center, to play with the bunch of wires and to manipulate each one will "tune" the streams and can join one stream to another one stream and finally localize the sounds into the spatialized space) -, which musicians and sound artists around the world are setting up for this project see:
  
Public can manipulate wires and listen to streams
During the periods of presentations we propose that all the streams are running continuously since in order to succeed the project requires a large panel of permanent streams which can be interpreted in various ways and everytime by different musicians or sound artists (just imagine a band playing with streams from over the world as sole sound materials) and can be listened to on a web interface. In this way, the web-stream project with various located web-mike will become a permanent resource for propositions to play with.
list of current streams
map of the streams
• LOCUS SONUS PERFORMANCES - Thursday August 24th
• 3/ A live performance taking place simultaneously at Roebling Bridge (DIGIT) at a venue in downtown Manhattan (August 24)
Duplex Performance Roebling Bridge Lower Manhattan
We've constructed for this performance 2 IP webcams/parabolic microphones with which we can hunt for sounds in and around the venue streaming them simultaneously to the remote location.
In each location laptop performers capture and remix the audio from the mike and video projectors show what the mobile microphones are capturing. Both mixes are played in both locations the musicians responding to their remote counterparts. The Roebling Bridge P.A. will be setup on both sides of the river (the audience will be on the bridge). The idea being that we can use the local distance to reflect the remote distance. On the Manhattan side, the performance will take place in the installation space we would also use the wire/stream interface
as an instrument to mix and control during the presentation.
Live sounds from around the world ( from the locusonus open web mikes project) will also be used as raw material for the concerts.
Wireless parabolic microphones with added webcams are used to hunt for sounds in and around the venue streaming them simultaneously to the remote location.
This is the apparatus which we have prepared for the Roebling bridge/Manhattan duplex performance. One performer uses the parabolic mike to focuses in on sound details while a second performer samples and remixes and streams them to the remote location. The image of what is being recorded is streamed directly from the Wifi camera. A second duo use the same process at the second location, both mixes being played and videos projected simultaneously in both venues.
We intend to use this interface during our performance on august 24th, ourselves but also by the public.
The rest of the process revolves around the use of 2 mobile IP cameras and microphones, one in Galilee and one in Manhattan and a person remixing the gathered sounds in each location (table, laptop and loudspeakers).
• DATES
••• The Installation at the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance opens on saturday August 19th and runs until August 25th
••• The performance duplex Roebling Bridge/Manhattan is planned for thursday August 24th.
••• The installation in New-York could be during the period leading up to the live performance between August 20th and August 24th or it could start on August 24th and run for a few days afterwards maximum August 29th or it could be sometime between the two (to be confirmed).
Special thanks for various and essential helps to G.H. Hovagymian, to Brian Caiazza (River Fawn Gallery), Hans-Christof Steiner, Darrel O'Pry, Guillaume Stagnaro, Harmut Bosbach, Stéphane Cousot, and to all the participants to the project, artists and friends, for offering time, machine and involvement into the set-up and the maintenance of the open-mikes and of the various streams.
    
 
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