From: "Hemment, Drew" <fsonic-AT-lancaster.ac.uk>
Subject: Amacher, Toop and others in SenseSonic on-line discussion
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 18:28:51 +0100


The SenseSonic on-line exploration of audiovisual environments and sonic space
is starting on Monday 14 June, seeking to prise open the grey area between
clubs and installations, and looking at the implications of the convergence of
media for audience participation.

The first phase will involve an email digest hosted by ten leading artists and
theorists - David Toop, Maryanne Armacher, Rolf Gehlhaar and others - who have
been commissioned to moderate the discussion for one week on a specific theme.
Like a good night out you dont come home from, these sessions will keep on
rolling, fluid but distinct. You can subscribe to the digest by writing to
SenseSonic-AT-futuresonic.com.

SenseSonic will explore ways of thinking of sound systems other than simply in
terms of volume. Is it possible to have a distributed, responsive sound field,
without destroying the collective experience of listening to music? How can
video escape the two dimensional screen? How can sound and vision work together
to create an immersive space? What possibilities are opened by new technologies
and media such as surround sound and DVD? When does sound become unwanted
noise? Is there a sonic art which does not forget the sensuality of sound? 

The aim is that ideas and initiatives which emerge will be put to the test in
events programmed later in the year.


:: SenseSonic Schedule

Mon 14 June: launch of SenseSonic

Tue 15 June: Rolf Gehlhaar - sound/space: sonic environments and interactive
spaces

Mon 21 June: David Toop - composing space and decomposing music

Sun 27 June: Drew Hemment (FUTURESONIC) - crowded spaces and ecologies of
perception: the grey area between club and installation 

Sat 3 July: Andrew Deakin - sound diffusion and periphonic environment design 

Fri 9 July: Maryanne Amacher - composing "perceptual geographies" for new media

Thur 15 July: Derek Richards (HyperJAM) - virtual soundscapes: how the virtual
can heighten sensations of real space

Wed 21 July: Kaffe Matthews - de/recomposing the sonic environment through
capturing, processing and resituating environmental noise 

Tue 27 July: Ansuman Biswas and Jony Easterby - body/fluids: biofeedback and
cymatics

Mon 2 Aug: Gregg Wagstaff (UK Soundscape Project) - producing noise and
conserving silence 

Fri 6 - Sun 8 Aug: panel discussion + technical demonstrations at the Enchanted
Garden mixed media arts festival and live on-line chat hosted by state51


:: SenseSonic is sponsored by 
The Arts Council of England Combined Arts Department
state51
Designers Republic
The Big Chill