Listening to the world. Sound, Media and Intermediality in Contemporary Sound Art.

Interactional Sound and Music: Listening to CSCW, Sonification, and Sound Art

In this paper we outline the emerging field of Interactional Sound and Music which concerns itself with multi-person technologically mediated interactions primarily using audio. We present several examples of interactive systems in our group, and reflect on how they were designed and evaluated. Evaluation techniques for collective, performative, and task oriented activities are outlined and com...

Sound to Sense, Sense to Sound A State of the Art in Sound and Music Computing

Sound to Sense, Sense to Sound A State of the Art in Sound and Music Computing

Sound, Listening and Place: The aesthetic dilemma

A purely aesthetic approach may be problematic when artists wish to deal with the external world as part of their work. The work of R. Murray Schafer in formulating soundscape studies is described, as well as the author’s extension of that work within a communicational framework. Soundscape composition is situated within a continuum of possibilities, each with its own practice of mapping or rep...

The international sound art festival in Mexico City: Sound, its relationship to the art disciplines and to the new technologies

Sound Art festivals have proliferated in developed countries over the last two decades. However, interest in sound and its relationship to art and to the new technologies has also emerged in some Latin American countries like Mexico. In 1999 a new sound art festival was born in Mexico City and this year it had its third edition with grate success. Prominent computer music composers and sound ar...