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From: SenseSonic@futuresonic.com
Subject: Welcome to SenseSonic!
Date: 14 June 1999
WELCOME TO SENSESONIC
PHASE 1 :: The SenseSonic Sessions
You have been subscribed to the SenseSonic Sessions from the new FUTURESONIC
UPDATES LIST or following a subscription request. If you wish to unsubscribe
send a message to SenseSonic-unsubscribe@futuresonic.com.
This is the first phase in a series of real and virtual events exploring the
relationship between sound and space and the implications of new media for
environment design and audience participation. Each week for the next two
months a leading artist will host a discussion on a specific theme,
exploring a particular facet of sonic space and presenting a unique
perspective on audiovisual environments. This is being run through an email
digest so that you do not have to log on to a website but can take part from
the comfort of your own mailbox.
After an opening salvo of questions and comments from the artist at the
beginning of each Session, you will be able to respond by mailing directly
to them. Your comments and the responses they generate will then be
distributed to everyone on the list in a digest form. The hope is that this
will lead to an open dialogue which may generate new perspectives or ideas
for subsequent events, rather than just a narrow series of questions and
answers. So that the discussion retains its shape and direction please keep
your comments relevant to the theme.
Though a new Session will begin each week, you are free to continue threads
if you wish, which can run in parallel to the new themes. The project will
come to a close in August, when we have a live on-line discussion with
participating artists planned, as well as a workshop and event at the
Enchanted Garden festival in Dorset (6-8 August).
We hope the discussion will be both inspired and provocative, challenging
the view that 'music' has to be packaged in a CD and replayed through
headphones or stereo hi-fi speakers, and suggesting radical new perspectives
on sound and sonic art of relevance to everyone from sound artists to club
producers.
At the same time, we encourage practical suggestions on compositional
strategies or novel configurations of sound, artist and audience that could
be used as the basis for subsequent events. As Phase 2 of the SenseSonic
project, we will be working towards producing events based on ideas which
emerge from the digest. Though we cannot promise anything, we will look into
funding opportunities and will provide support for new collaborations. We
are in negotiation with a number of venues and festival promoters about
staging SenseSonic events, and SenseSonic will also be represented at the
FUTURESONIC symposium in March 2000.
The results of the discussion will be published in edited and fully archived
forms at www.futuresonic.com, and there are plans for a book at a later
date.
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 (Touring Exhibition of Sound Environments
(TESE) / UK Soundscape Community): discussion around the notions and uses
of 'Soundscape', from Cage, through Murray Schafer (Acoustic Ecology),
through Murray Bookchin (Social Ecology)
:: Fri 6 - Sun 8 Aug ~ event + technical demonstrations at the Big Chill
Enchanted Garden mixed media arts festival and live on-line chat hosted by
state51
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Last updated: Mon Sep 06 05:00:33 1999
From: SenseSonic@futuresonic.com
Subject: Sensesonic Closing Panel + Feedback
Date: 10 August 1999
FINAL COMMENTS + FEEDBACK FORM
Dear All,
Phase 1 of SenseSonic was brought to a close this weekend at the Enchanted
Garden festival where a selection of the session moderators (Andrew Deakin,
Kaffe Matthews, Drew Hemment, Rolf Gehlhaar and Derek Richards) took part in
a panel discussion on the themes raised in the digest, and gave people a
chance to sample some of the sound environments discussed on the list. Rolf
Gehlhaar demonstrated his SOUND=SPACE interactive environment, and Extractor
took an ambisonic system through its paces. Talking about sound can never
substitute for experiencing it at first hand, and we hope that this event
has provided those who could make it a fuller picture of the kinds of sonic
strategies the project has investigated.
Phase 2 of SenseSonic will involve a series of events across the country
which put into practice some of the ideas which emerged on the list,
starting 14 October during FuncT99 at The Arches, Glasgow. And there are
also plans for publishing an edited version of the SenseSonic digest in book
form. In the meantime you can look back at submissions to the list by
visiting http://futuresonic.com/archive/ (moved to
http://www.futuresonic.com from the end of August).
Thanks to all the moderators for the great job they have done, to state51
for setting up and managing the digest, and most of all to you for taking
part and sticking with it through its many glitches. We apologise if you
sent a contribution to the list and it did not get through. If this did
happen please let us know on the feedback form below.
FEEDBACK
The SenseSonic digest was very much an exploratory venture. To help us learn
from it and improve for next time we would very much appreciate your
feedback and comments:
1) PERSONAL DETAILS (NAME, OCCUPATION, INTERESTS, ETC.)
2) WHERE DID YOU HEAR ABOUT SENSESONIC?
3) DID YOU RECEIVE THE DIGESTS FOR THE FULL DURATION OF THE PROJECT? IF NOT,
WHEN DID YOU FIRST SIGN UP AND HOW LONG WERE YOU SUBSCRIBED?
4) DID YOU SEND COMMENTS TO THE LIST? IF SO, HOW OFTEN? DID YOU HAVE ANY
PROBLEMS SENDING MESSAGES TO THE LIST?
5) HOW OFTEN DID YOU READ THE DAILY DIGEST (ALL THE WAY THROUGH/PARTS
OF/SKIM)?
6) DID YOU FIND THEM DIFFICULT TO FOLLOW? IF SO, WHY?
7) WOULD YOU HAVE PREFERRED SPECIFIC QUESTIONS TO BE SET FOR EACH DAY, SO
THAT YOU DID NOT NEED TO READ EACH DAY'S DIGEST TO FOLLOW THE DISCUSSION?
8) WOULD YOU HAVE PREFERRED TO HAVE RECEIVED EACH MESSAGE INDIVIDUALLY, OR
DID YOU PREFER RECEIVING MESSAGES IN DAILY DIGEST FORM?
9) DO YOU THINK THE DIGESTS RAN FOR TOO LONG/NOT LONG ENOUGH/JUST RIGHT?
10) WHICH SESSION(S) DID YOU FIND MOST INTERESTING?
11) WHICH CONTRIBUTION(S) OR IDEA(S) DID YOU FIND MOST INTERESTING?
12) HOW INTERESTED ARE YOU IN SOUND SPATIALISATION AND ENVIRONMENT DESIGN?
WHERE YOU AWARE OF/INTERESTED IN IT BEFORE?
13) DO YOU THINK THIS SUBJECT WAS TOO SPECIALISED/NOT FOCUSSED ENOUGH?
14) WHAT DID YOU GET FROM TAKING PART IN SENSESONIC?
15) WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED IN TAKING PART IN ANOTHER SENSESONIC DIGEST?
16) WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED IN COLLABORATING IN SENSESONIC
EVENTS/PRODUCTIONS? (PLEASE SPECIFY YOUR EXPERIENCE AND WHAT YOU COULD BRING
TO SUCH AN EVENT.)
17) WOULD YOU LIKE TO ATTEND ONE OF THE FORTHCOMING SENSESONIC EVENTS, AND
WOULD YOU LIKE US TO SEND YOU FURTHER INFORMATION?
18) OTHER COMMENTS
Thank you!
Drew Hemment
FUTURESONIC