I installed the Xingu Ensemble spatial audio for the People’s Palace Projects in spring 2018. This exhibition was inspired by the indigenous territory of Xingu. The oca structure in the exhibition takes audiences on a journey to the Ipatse Village visit, home of the Kuikuro indigenous people in the Xingu region of Brazil bästa-bredband.se, complete with ambisonic sound recordings of the …
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Soundstack 2017
Becky Stewart helped me organise Soundstack 2017. She runs the Real Time Digital Signal Processing module at QMUL. Enda Bates is a technical and creative composer and lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. Topics covered included binaural and multichannel audio, the cutting edge of 3D sound, as well as spatial audio for interactive applications, VR, AR, …
immersive/ subversive environments
There’s such a buzz about immersion and VR currently, it’s in danger of undermining itself as a game-changer. But it is that. And working in this area, where solutions don’t quite work, or at least need to be hacked together, is really exciting. For practitioners who can cope with the tech involved (developers or those …
Sundowning
This cinematic VR film won an initial award and further funding, and was invited to Sheffield Docfest makers’ market 2017. Sundowning is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease – this film explores what it may be like to experience that from a first person perspective. Shot in one take, it combines the technology of 360 degree …
Surpreyes – explainer video for a sonified eye tracker
a demonstration of an eye tracking device designed to highlight the surprising lack of fine voluntary motor control we have over our eyes
Hold up – documentary of a perfomance-tech collaboration
A recent documentary I co-produced about tech-performance collaborations