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Sensible Environments
(site specific interactive sound installations)

*About sensible environments

Often With - site-specific sound installation
white speaker wire, speakers, audio sensing, sound
Sep. 28 - Nov. 12 2006, Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart)

excerpt (0m 53s)

Responding to the double architectural role of the Hirschgang as gallery and thoroughfare connecting private and public spaces, Often With creates surreal ambiguities between indoors and out. The behaviour of this life-like audio environment is shaped not only by its awareness of viewers, but by its self-awareness.

After With - site-specific sound/light installation
white, black and red paper, audio sensing, video projection, sound
2006, Hiestand Galleries, Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)
International Digital Media and Arts Association conference
Funded in part by ICE (Ideas for Creative Exploration).

excerpt (11m 35s)

Designed for the East Gallery, a two-story interior space used as a thoroughfare to the outdoors.

Ochre With - sound installation
rusted and stainless steel, wall text, audio cable, speakers, audio sensing, sound
2003, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
recreated 2005, Lisinski Hall, ISCM World Music Days / Music Biennale Zagreb
Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts

excerpt (8m 13s)

Related work

Spulwurmbruchstück / Roundworm Piece
steel can, label, 1 channel sound
40 min. loop
group exhibition: Die Römer II Projektraum der Akadmie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
Kunststiftung Baden-Würtemberg / Akademie Schloss Solitude
November 4, 2006. 20h00

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Sonification of gene "DPY-8" from the genome of C. elegans. The sonification involves translating codons (base pair triplets that code for amino acids) into sound objects, one per amino acid. The sonified amino acids emanate from inside a labeled tin can. The sound is created using the same technology as the sensible environments, with a DNA sequence as input. A DNA reader feeds the sequence (a text file) into the generator. The system can also read DNA data live, so long as non-codong DNA is first removed from the stream.