sonic surrounds

via the Pd-list comes an opportunity to play with 36 loudspeakers:

Weekend of Speakers Call

13th June to 15 June

Call for fixed media, performance and improvisation work to be
diffused across 36 discrete loud speakers and explore the particular
physicality of the location (St Paul’s Hall).

Works are required for a variety of performance, improvisation and
installations settings: floorplan and speaker placement maps are on
the website (see below). While traditional tapes works are welcome,
laptop performance, live diffusion, installation and instrumental
works with electronics in particular are sought.

For more see online @ www.inclusiveimprov.co.uk/wofs

Were? St Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield, UK

When? June 13th -> June 15th

Cost? All Events Free -in fact this is all being done on favors

To submit work for consideration please email
calls@inclusiveimprov.co.uk by May 19th with appropriate links. And if
you have a really crazy idea for this opportunity email us with your thoughts.

filmachine is a multichannel spatial audio & visual installation by artists Keiichiro Shibuya and Takashi Ikegami currently installed at the Podewils’sches Palais (ex Tesla) in Berlin, for Transmediale 2008. The description on the transmediale website goes as follows:

filmachine places the visitor inside a vortex of sound and light that transcends the traditional perspective of the cinematic experience. Three circles of loudspeakers are suspended from the ceiling above an abstract landscape. On entering the space, the visitor starts the composition with a button at the center of the piece, triggering an immersive audio-visual experience in a 3-dimensional soundscape, enhanced by a specially designed LED lighting system. For the exhibition in Berlin, Keiichiro Shibuya creates a new composition which is presented here as a world premiere.

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