Sat 11- Feb The Sonic Space Ship (SSS)

The Sonic Space Ship (SSS)
3D multi channel sound demonstration at the Goldsmiths SOUND PRACTICE Conference

3pm to 4pm, Saturday 11th February 2006, Recital Room, Goldsmiths Music Department

Julian Henriques (Goldsmiths Screen School, Media and Communications Dept) http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/media-communications/staff/henriques.php

Martyn Ware (The Illustrious Company) http://www.illustriouscompany.co.uk/index2.html

Nick Gillieron (Paul Gillieron Acoustics) http://www.pgacoustics.org/

The Sonic Space Ship (SSS) is a multi media exhibition apparatus - for immersive, intensive and interactive sensory stimulation. It is equipped with the Paul Gillieron Acoustics state of the art Surround AV sound system. Nick Gillieron demonstrates this new sixteen channel hardware and software, Martyn Ware illustrates some of the possible musical content for the system, and Julian Henriques discusses how it will be deployed to deliver the 3D sonic environment for the SSS. He will also outline the design principles of the complimentary 3D field of visualisation. This explores how auditory principles, such as harmony and rhythm, can be extruded onto the surrounding screen. The aim is to apply acoustic patterning to the medium of the moving image (as distinct from a literal sonification of images, or the visualisation of sound). The SSS is currently in development for part of e Arts Catalyst Space Soon exhibition at the Roundhouse, this September.

SOUND PRACTICE 2006
Organised by UK & Ireland Soundscape Community and the Music Department, Goldsmiths College, Saturday 11th & Sunday12th February 2006

The UK & Ireland Soundscape Community (a regional branch of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology) was launched in 2001 with a major international conference at Dartington Hall (Sound Practice: the 1st UKISC conference on sound, culture and environments). The objectives of the conference were: to nurture our understanding and awareness of the soundscape; to report on past, current and future soundscapes; to advance the emerging interdiscipline of soundscape studies. Since then the scene has developed dramatically, and with wide ranging new initiatives and directives, yet with arguably limited scope, soundscape issues are now more firmly on the map than ever. SOUND PRACTICE 2006 provides an opportunity to take stock and reflect on many of the activities that have shaped the scene over the past 5 years. It will also provide a forum in which to discuss the future of soundscape studies and pool new approaches and practices.

PROGRAMME
Saturday, 11th February
9.30am [Small Hall]
Introduction
John Levack Drever (Goldsmiths College)
Introduction: UK's Pre-History of Acoustic Ecology

10.00am [Small Hall]
Key Note 1.
Catharina Dyrssen (Chalmers School of Architecture, Göteborg, Sweden)
Model-to-model. On Design Based Experimentation With Sound Environments.

10.45am
Coffee Break

11.00am [Small Hall]
Developing Policy Context And Potential Futures
Max Dixon (Greater London Authority)

Ximena Alarcón (De Montfort University)
An Interactive Sonic Environment Based On Commuters' Memory Of Soundscape:
A Case Study Of The London Underground (work in progress)

Tsai-wei Chen (Goldsmiths College)
On the Way Home: Taipei Sojourners' Sonic Constellations in London

Peter Cusack (London College of Communication)
Soundscapes of London, Beijing and Places Between

12.45pm - 1.30pm
Lunch

1.30pm [Great Hall]
Phonography Concert
Yannick Dauby, Nick Fells, Pete Stollery, Bill Thompson, Lisa Whistlecroft,
Robert Worby & Philp Tagney

3.00pm [Recital Hall]
Julian Henriques (Goldsmiths College), Nick Gillieron (Paul Gillieron
Acoustics), Martyn Ware (Illustrious)
The Sonic Space Ship (SSS)

4.00pm [Small Hall]
Louise K Wilson (University of Derby)
A Record of Fear: Sounding Out the Cold War

Dr Paul Moore (University of Ulster)
Cross (refernc)ing the Namib

Tony Whitehead (RSPB), Becca Lawrence (Sonic Arts Network)
Sonic Postcards: A Sonic Arts Network National Education Programme Using
Our Sonic Environment As A Springboard For Creative Arts

Simon Keep
Radio Taxi

5.45pm - 6.30pm [Small Hall]
Key Note 2.
Nicolas Rémy (CRESSON: Centre de Recherche sur l'Espace Sonore et
l'Environnement Urbain, École d'Architecture de Grenoble, France)
To Design Ambiences

7.00pm
Concert [Great Hall]
Donald Bousted, Disinformation, John Levack Drever, Rob Godman, John Lely

Installations during Saturday [Locations tbc]
Thanos Chrysakis (Goldsmiths College)
Thomas Kitazawa (Goldsmiths College)
Robin McGinley (Interactive Agents)
Neil Webb

Sunday 12th February
8.00am
Sound Walk of Deptford.
[Meet by front of the Goldsmiths College Library. We will finish near at a
local establishment for those who may be interested in a hot breakfast.]

9.30am [Small Hall]
Andre Castro (Middlesex University)
Suite Vénitienne- Tuesday

Mikhail Karikis (Slade School of Fine Art)
The Acoustics of the Self

Tom Rice (Goldsmiths College)
Stethoscapes: Soundscapes Of The Body

11.00am
Coffee Break

11.30am [Small Hall]
Ruth Hawkins (Goldsmiths College)
Bodies, Distances, Double Recordings

Adrian Newton
Finding An Audience For Soundscape Composition: Working With Community-Based
Organizations

Anita McKeown (Art Services Un-incorporated)
Memphis 45s

1pm
Lunch

2pm [Small Hall]
Joe Banks
Rorschach Audio

3pm
Concluding Remarks & Discussion for UKISC members. [Small Hall]

Installations during Sunday [Locations tbc]
James Bull (Goldsmiths College)
Thomas Kitazawa (Goldsmiths College)
Dave Lawrence (Middlesex University) & GÈNIA (Markson Music Centre)
Mary Yacoob (Central St Martins College of Art)


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