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Australian Sound Design Project
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Dean, Roger T |
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| Artist, Composer, Improviser, Academic and Visual Artist |
| URL: The home page for this entity is located at http://www.australysis.com/ | |
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I am involved with sound creation for the web and for computer-based installations, as well as for performance. I have particularly focused on creating real-time sound transformations which are run as a result of a screener’s participation. Increasingly, I work with generative materials as well, though from my perspective this approach for the time being remains subject to serious restrictions across the web. These restrictions are especially pertinent for my work with multiple streams of both audio and image, and for coordinated algorithmic approaches to their real-time production or manipulation. In performance, I achieve generative processes partly by writing in the coordinated software platform MAX/MSP/NATO. I am determined to use sound as a co-equal with other media, or as the dominant partner, unlike the situation with most web or installation works, in which image, or occasionally text, predominate. My purposes include establishing mutual interrogation between sound, image and text, often collaboratively with Hazel Smith (writer), Greg White (sound design, programming), and with several visual artists. The work is produced in the context of the creative ensemble, austraLYSIS, of which I am the founder and artistic director. austraLYSIS acknowledges grant support from the Australia Council for the Arts. The site of my sonic worlds is that of the computer interface, via the web or via cd-rom, or a displayed version of that interface. Even in some web works, I use stereo sound, but in nearly all I focus on the participation of the listener/screener. I provide an opportunity to mix sounds, choose playing point, or initiate new sonic transformations, whether or not these transformations respect the volition of the screener. Two of my sound contributions, ‘WORDSTUFFS’ (a web piece), and ‘Walking the Faultlines’, a work for cd-rom/installation, are illustrated and discussed on this site. Links to the works are available from those pages. Some other austraLYSIS works to which I have contributed sound are also available on the web, with varying degrees of emphasis on the interactivity and complexity of the sonic components. For example: Intertwingling (1999); and The Egg, The Cart, The Horse, The Chicken (2000). Streaming sound of two of our works for the Listening Room programme of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (The Erotics of Gossip, 2001; and Returning the Angles, 1998), and of our ‘Musecal Detective’ are available also. Go to www.australysis.com for links to these sites. Other intermedia works featuring sound (such as the Centre Series (2000), and Sympathetic Strings (2000), in collaboration with Darani Lewers, are forthcoming on a cd-rom in press together with my book ‘Hyperimprovisation: Computer Interactive Sound Improvisation’, A-R Editions, Madison, WI, USA, 2003. References: Some other information: | |
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Published by The University of Melbourne Comments, questions, corrections and additions: i.mott@unimelb.edu.au Prepared by: Acknowledgements Updated: 18 January 2007 http://www.sounddesign.unimelb.edu.au/web/biogs/P000048b.htm |