Installation
Research, development, and creation for interactive sound installations
08.06.2010
Installation Grainstick at Cité des Sciences, Paris
Production version of the Collaborative sound installation Grainstick, originally developed by the IMTR and room acoustics team at Ircam, and the composer Pierre Jodlowski, for the EU project SAME, using the “Rainstick” instrument gestural control metaphor.
Applied technologies: WFS spatialisation, motion tracking, gesture analysis, corpus-based synthesis.
First prototype presented at the Agora Festival 2009.
Concept and musical creation: Pierre Jodlowski
Video: Raphaël Thibault
Stage design and project management: Christophe Bergon
Sound design: Jacky Mérit
Programming: Robin Meier
Room acoustics: Olivier Warusfel, Grace Leslie
Real-Time Musical Interactions: Frédéric Bevilacqua, Emmanuel Fléty, Diemo Schwarz, Bruno Zamborlin.
Xe-Rocks Installation for Photocopiers and Sound System
Xerocks is an installation by video and sound artist Cécile Babiole designed to turn two copying machines into musical instruments.
Development and adaptation of the real-time sound synthesis system CataRT by Diemo Schwarz for audio analysis and granular (re)composition of the 4 audio channels from the photocopiers by navigation through descriptor space.
16.06.2009
Installation Grainstick
Collaborative sound installation, developed by the IMTR and room acoustics team at Ircam, and the composer Pierre Jodlowski for the EU project SAME, using the “Rainstick” instrument gestural control metaphor.
Applied technologies: WFS spatialisation, motion tracking, gesture analysis.
Max/MSP development (CataRT sound synthesis, gesture analysis, interaction control) by Diemo Schwarz, Grace Leslie, Bruno Zamborlin.
First prototype presented at the Agora Festival 2009.
Also on show July 2010, Cité des Sciences, Paris.
24.10.2008
Silver Sounds Exhibition with MTBF soundscape wins award
See the exhibition’s site at http://www.naughtongallery.org/silversounds.
The exhibition is unique because visitors can ‘hear’ as well as see the University’s silver collection, through using handheld computers to highlight objects and listen to the artists’ interpretations. Ten internationally renowned sound artists created sound pieces to accompany 22 of the silver objects, exploring their origins and the reasons for their creation and use. Read the rest of this entry »
Trowel and Seal Silver Sounds exhibition soundscape, Naughton Gallery, QUB, Belfast
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This composition was commissioned by Queens University, Belfast, for the QUB Silver Collection soundscapes project, a permanent exhibition at QUB’s Naughton Gallery that presents the universities rich silver collection in a setting where each piece is accompanied by a soundscape, commissioned from one of ten internationally renowned sound artists. These soundscapes respond to the provenance of a particular piece of silverware and explore the reasons for its creation, donation and use and combine with the silver objects to create a new immersive artwork.
The exhibition won the 2008 Times Higher Education Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts.
The soundscape for the two exhibition objects Presentation Seal and Trowel (1896) is based on the re-contextualisation of sounds stemming from the life cycle and environment of the exposed objects: their creation, their materiality, their usage, and the concepts and entities they refer to. These sounds are re-contextualised into a soundscape according to their sonic characteristics by corpus-based synthesis, creating a reminiscence of the objects’ presence in its multiple facets, a sort of sonic cubism.