Tue 24 August 2010
10:00–12:00h
domicil, Dortmund

Moderated by Alessandro Ludovico (it)

1. 10:00h | Rachel O'Dwyer (ie): Sound and the Networked City. Investigating the Role of Sonic Experience in the Informational Society
2. 10:25h | Yolande Harris (nl): Making the Inaudible Audible. Strategies and Disagreements
3. 10:50h | Shintaro Miyazaki (de): Detektors. Rhythms of Electromagnetic Emissions, Their Psychogeophysics and Micrological Auscultation
4. 11:15h | One Man Nation (Marc Chia) (sg): From Aleatoric Machines to The Future Sounds Of Folk

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | P12 Sonic Strategies (PDF, 153.74 KB)

Rachel O'Dwyer (ie)

Sound and the Networked City. Investigating the Role of Sonic Experience in the Informational Society

This paper explores the relationship between sound and the networked society. Where current discourses in pervasive computing and mobile media explore the possibility for new forms of sociality and aesthetic experience through networked platforms, how might media art and critical design practices operate as tactical interventions to engage these possibilities?

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Sound and the Networked City. Investigating the Role of Sonic Experience in the Informational Society (PDF)

Rachel O'Dwyer is a researcher in Trinity College Dublin, undertaking a PhD in mobile media distribution funded by IRCSET. She has published essays and book chapters on mobile music and is currently launching Interference, an online journal of audio culture.
Further Information: interferencejournal

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Yolande Harris (nl)

Making the Inaudible Audible. Strategies and Disagreements

The study of environmental sound highlights the limitations of human perception. Sonification and audification predominantly use scientific methods that favour transformation of sound to the sweet spot in the middle of our hearing range, overlooking the different perceptual effects of high and low, loud and soft, fast and slow sounds. Examples by composers David Dunn and Alvin Lucier and scientist Michel Andre, suggest that in our interpretation of how to make inaudible sound audible, we must consider the strengths and limits of human hearing and listening.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Making the Inaudible Audible. Strategies and Disagreements (PDF)

Yolande Harris is a composer and artist that works with sound, its image and its role in relating humans and their technologies to the environment. Through her performances, installations, instruments and writings, she investigates how sound relates us to our surroundings, both architectural and ecological.

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Shintaro Miyazaki (de)

Detektors. Rhythms of Electromagnetic Emissions, Their Psychogeophysics and Micrological Auscultation

Almost any electronic gadget can be transformed into an audible and sometimes rhythmical sound object. Detektors is a cartography of user-generated geolocational sound recordings, which reveal hidden electromagnetic geographies and a database of sonic studies of electromagnetic emissions produced by our everyday electronic devices. Detektors is an open, collaborative project which uses sonic strategies to make audible the hidden infoscapes of our time. The presentation will show data, recordings and cartographies of different spectral ecologies and trans-sonic machinic assemblages. 

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Detektors. Rhythms of Electromagnetic Emissions, Their Psychogeophysics and Micrological Auscultation (PDF)

Shintaro Miyazaki (theorist /artist). 1980* Berlin, educated in Media Studies, Musicology and Philosophy University of Basel. Lives and works in Berlin and is interested in the sonic epistemologies of everyday technologies and is a Ph.D. researcher under W. Ernst at Humboldt University Berlin.

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One Man Nation (Marc Chia) (sg)

From Aleatoric Machines to The Future Sounds Of Folk

A condensed run through of the various processes that have directed my research and practice over the past years, in search for my own narrative in relation to my sound/performance practice and the sounds of the post-folk.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | From Aleatoric Machines to The Future Sounds Of Folk (PDF)

Marc Chia aka One Man Nation investigates spirituality in technology through the medium of sound and performance. Currently, he is co-directing The UnifiedField experimental art space which he co-founded with Marta Moreno Muñoz and developing The Future Sounds Of Folk in collaboration with STEIM.

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