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@DigiCatapult • @ahrcpress • #newsounds DIGITAL CATAPULT www.ceprogramme.com 101 EUSTON ROAD, LONDON NW1 2RA EXPLORING INTERSECTIONS OF MUSIC AND TECHNOLOGY THURSDAY 14 DECEMBER 2017 HACKOUSTIC ARTISTS : in the breakout space IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES : in Immersive Lab PROGRAMME : all times approximate Sam Battle – LookMumNoComputer : Synth Bike 3.0 Kinicho – 3D Audio 12.00 Lunch: Immersive experiences + Hackoustic artists Force of nature and extreme sound hacker Sam Battle, aka ‘The Wolf Takes A Walk In The Dark, Dark Wood’ was commisioned by Unity LookMumNoComputer, is bringing his astonishing ‘Synth Bike 3.0’ for you to have Theatre Liverpool and written by composer Patrick Dineen. The composition and 1.00 – 1.30 Welcome and introductions a go on. Take a ride and make some tunes! arrangement makes full use of Sympan’s spatial capabilities to take the listener Digital Catapult : Jeremy Silver [email protected] • patreon.com/lookmumnocomputer on a kinetic musical journey through the wood. AHRC : Andrew Chitty www.kinicho.com Fred Deakin : What is Immersive? Kuljit Bhamra : Evolution of the Tabla Drum Kuljit is a musician, performer and record producer. A pioneer of the British Lee Mason – VR Authoring 1.30 – 2.50 Session One Bhangra sound and tabla player in Hollywood movie soundtracks, he is currently Exploring a mixed reality ‘snow globe’ concept using 3D printed VR sculptures on a mission to demystify Indian music. Together with his team at Keda Music, and Unity. All of Lee’s 3D assets are created in VR via Google Blocks, Tilt Brush Applied Soundscaping he is developing tools and systems to make Indian drumming more accessible. and MasterpieceVR. He plans to make the artwork as accessible as possible via : Fred Deakin + Martyn Ware + Stefan Kazassoglou [email protected] • www.keda.co.uk WebVR. The first iterations are to be experienced online with a simple MobileVR Interlude : Dr Paul Ferguson Google Cardboard headset via the free Sketchfab platform. Feminist Algorave : Joanne Armitage + Coral Manton Tom Fox – Vulpestruments : Proximity Mixer www.lee-mason.co.uk Interlude : Kirk Woolford Tom Fox specialises in building instruments from the most unlikely upcycled Where are we? : intro to VR materials. Old books, pond pumps, hairdryers and anything else he can get his Focal Point VR – Stereoscopic VR : Simon Poulter + Lee Mason + Jonathan Newth hands on. His incredible ‘Proximity Mixer’ is a machine that allows you to mix Virtual Reality offers an entirely new way of experiencing the real world. With tunes like never before. streamed VR video, this emerging technology can give people the chance to be 2.50 – 3.20 Breakout : Immersive experiences + Hackoustic artists [email protected] • www.vulpestruments.com in the best seat in the house for every future real-world event. 3.20 – 5.00 Session Two www.focalpointvr.com Jen Haughan : Sonic Ensemble Interlude : Joel Karamath Jen Haugan is an animator, graphic designer and sound artist currently doing Radiophonic Workshop : Mark Ayres + Roger Limb Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art. Her ‘Sonic Ensemble’ Interlude : Jack Driscoll is a collection of objects that recreate sonic effects such as the Doppler Effect to CURATION AND PRODUCTION Audio hacking and instrument making explore how we can use the sonic environment as a compositional tool. : Helen Steer, Tim Yates, Tom Fox, Kuljit Bhamra [email protected] • www.jenhaugan.com Malcolm Garrett RDI : Images&Co Interlude : Luke Worgan Tara Solesbury : AHRC Creative Economy Programme [re]locate : Tahera Aziz Andrew Hockey : Kinetic Tones Andrew Hockey is a producer, composer and active member of the Roundhouse Eliza Solesbury : AHRC Creative Economy Programme 5.00 – 5.30 Audience Q&A moderated by Fred Deakin Audio Collective. ‘Kinetic Tones’ is an installation that combines open source Sam Michel : AHRC Creative Economy Programme 5.30 – 6.00 Breakout : Immersive experiences + Hackoustic artists software and hardware, contact microphones and re-purposed newtons cradles Asa Bennett : Illustrious Company and marble runs to create an original piece of generative music. Elena Ware : Images&Co 6.00 – 6.45 Performance : Project 2 [email protected] • soundcloud.com/staticcitymusic 7.00 – 7.45 Performance : OFFAL HOSTS 9.00 Close Tim Yates : Curio Jeremy Silver : Digtal Catapult Sound artist, musician and instrument builder Tim Yates creates exploratory Andrew Chitty : AHRC Creative Economy Programme musical instruments for you to experiment with. ‘Curio’ is a musical box designed for the discovery of music. Investigate the instrument, it’s interface and textures and listen carefully to the sonic result! CREATIVE ECONOMY PROGRAMME [email protected] • www.timyates.net ROYAL HOLLOWAY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, MEDIA ARTS DEPARTMENT 11 BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON WC1B 3RF Jonathan Newth : Focal Point VR Student work : Interaction Design Arts at LCC Focal Point VR is dedicated to creating the technology necessary to realise the Heartbeat Orchestra : An interactive musical installation that measures the SPEAKERS : in the main room dream of being able to put on a VR headset and be ‘teleported’ to another place, live: placing the user right in the heart of the performance. pulse rates of five participants and generates orchestral music from the data. Fred Deakin : UAL – host and co-curator [email protected] • www.focalpointvr.com Mon Violon d’Ingres : A large-scale installation in the atrium space of Fred Deakin is Professor of Digital Arts at University of the Arts London, a role LCC. ‘Mon Violon’ uses the body’s natural conductivity to activate a musical that he combines with his creative projects. He was formerly half of electronica Mark Ayres & Roger Limb : Radiophonic Workshop chandelier. duo Lemon Jelly and co-founder of ground-breaking digital studio Airside. Hailed for its experimental and pioneering work in electronic music and music [email protected] • www.freddeak.in technology, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, one of the sound effects units of Acoustic Totem : An installation involving not only sound but also light and the BBC, was created in 1958 to produce incidental sounds and new music for shadows. By moving, dancing, wandering around the totem, the audience Martyn Ware : Illustrious Company – co-curator radio and, later, television, including the ground-breaking Doctor Who theme. creates shadows that trigger a series of solenoids placed aong the beam. Martyn was a founder of The Human League, BEF and Heaven 17 in the late en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radiophonic_Workshop degorgment : An instrument inspired the by the musicality of a popping cork. ‘70s. He launched Illustrious Company with Vince Clarke in 2000 to exploit the creative and commercial possibilities of their unique three-dimensional sound Helen Steer + Hackoustic artists Loud Silence : What happens when small, often imperceivable sounds, are technology. They collaborate with fine artists, the performing arts and corporate Hackoustic is a hacking group dedicated to exploring acoustics, instrument magnified in order to dominate the acoustics of a space? clients around the world. building, hacking and sound-art. Its aim is to provide a platform for sonic- [email protected] • www.illustriouscompany.co.uk hackers of all kinds, from instrument builders to scientists to sound-artists, to South Bank Sound Lab at LSBU present their work to the public, as well as providing workshops and other The Music & Sound Design degree at London South Bank University prepares Stefan Kazassoglou : Kinicho educational opportunities. students in areas of the creative industries such as music, film post-production Kinicho is a creative arts and software development start-up working in [email protected] • www.hackoustic.org and game audio. Justin Randell, the Course Director, has expertise in sound Immersive Audio. They are developing Sympan, a Sonic Reality Engine synthesis, mixing and processing, and Senior Lecturer Dr Adam Parkinson has framework for Object-Based Audio that extends the ambisonic model and Tahera Aziz : [re]locate published research on topics such as Human-Computer Interaction, Sound Art, delivers a new technique for the binauralisation of 3D Audio. Using a Design Tahera has had a longstanding creative and socio-political interest in identity, Design Practices and Sonification. South Bank Sound Lab is a series of events Thinking approach for their commercial R&D has allowed them to build tools for migration and racism, producing artwork that explores how wider socio-political that promotes student work alongside internationally renowned practitioners. collaborating with a range of artists across music and transmedia. issues or events can impact on the individual to shape their experiences and [email protected] • www.lsbu.ac.uk [email protected] • www.kinicho.com sense of self. [re]locate is a sound installation responding to the tragic events surrounding the racially motivated murder of the black teenager Stephen Jack Driscoll : LSBU Joanne Armitage : OFFAL Lawrence near a bus stop in southeast London in 1993. ‘POLYOP’ fuse organic and machine aesthetics with sci-fi mythologies to create Joanne is a researcher and artist working with sound, physical computing and [email protected] • www.taheraaziz.com/projects/relocate an immersive audio-visual voyage. Their sound fuses the DNA of funk, jazz and multisensory design. She lectures in digital media at the School of Media and electro with techno and modern sound