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Authors:		Polli, Andrea; van Ryssen, Stefaan; McCartney,Andra; Joy, Jerome. PANEL
Title:		Sonic Interactions
Keywords:		auditory scene, distributed systems, improvisation, interaction, music, radio, sound art, sonic environments, soundscape
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Abstract:		Musical improvisation is probably the most interactive of all arts. If we take improvisation as an interaction, the musical object or 'piece' isn't necessarily where meaning is found. If it is a high level process between a set of partners in the creation of a sounding environment that matters, what then is the substance of the interaction, and what are the parameters that are evaluated by the participants to let themselves be steered through the interaction? This inter-disciplinary panel will discuss contemporary improvisational performances, in order to explore the nature of interaction on a higher level. How do global and local sonic interactions affect the perception of meaning? Is sonic interaction changing musical representation? How does the interplay between global and focused listening affect sonic interaction? While visual cues are often used to generate music and sound in interdisciplinary work, what happens when sound is the generative source? How do the parameters change if the interacting systems are large scale, separated by great physical distance, or non-human? Topics of discussion will include: the 'auditory scene' (soundwalks, sonic enhancements of the real world), 'sound as symbol' (archetypes, phraseology), the conversational process (distributed systems, improvisation), and 'cause and effect' (dynamic geographic and other life processes). This panel is intended to be a panel of 'active listening.' Many sounds will be played, and an interactive system in which the audience participates in the creation of a soundscape will be created especially for this panel.

Joy, Jerome joy@thing.net site www http://homestudio.thing.net/ Jerome Joy is a contemporary French composer who creates innovative sound works for interactive environments. Some of his more recent projects are: Audiovision, a project which uses the on-line audio transfers is about the using of the hypertextual and hyperlinks functions for articulating on-line mixes of audio files. These mixes are determinated, fixed about the choice of sounds but not about their occurrence; and Midiphonics, a musical piece which treats different principles of variation. The using of the variation principles is multiple: the on-line permits an on-line mix with fluctuations of the telephone flow, the using of the same "instrumentation, and the development of different patterns in local and global scales." McCartney, Andra. andra@yorku.ca Andra McCartney is a multimedia soundscape composer based in Toronto, Ontario. She creates Web sites and CD ROMs, and composes sound for radio, dance, and multimedia performances from the sonic environment: creek murmurs, streetcar shrieks, video arcade ambiences, everyday urban clatter, and moments of audio ecstasy. She presented 'Whose Playground, Which Games, and What Rules?: Women Composers in the Digital Playground' at the International Computer Music Conference, September 1995; and 'Inventing Images: Constructing and Contesting Gender in Thinking About Electroacoustic Music.' in the Leonardo Music Journal. Her PhD dissertation at York University is a CD-ROM about Hildegard Westerkamp, the Vancouver soundscape composer. Polli, Andrea. (panel organiser) apolli@interaccess.com http://homepage.interaccess.com/~apolli Andrea Polli is a digital media installation and performance artist who creates physical interfaces for instruments. She has performed internationally using her eye and shadow tracking instruments, improvising with invented instrument musician Eric Leonardson, electronic artist Ken Rinaldo, and Experimental Vocalist Carol Genetti. She most recently was a resident artist at both Harvestworks in New York and the iEAR Institute of Rensellaer Polytechnic, and will present a live netcast of this work in Spring 2000 as part of Franklin Furnace's 'The Future of the Present'. An article about her work, Virtual Space and the Construction of Memory, is published in the Spring '98 issue of Leonardo. Van Ryssen, Stephaan. svr4m@pophost.eunet.be As a trained Applied Epistemologist, Stephaan Van Ryssen became interested in music through his participation in improvisational music theatre in Ghent (Belgium) in the early Seventies and working with Raes (Logos Duo). He has been researching the way his own mind restructures representations of content to be accomodated more easily in the available mental patterns. His own aesthetics on music and sound were built around notions of complexity, intensity and non-triviality, and is currently a researcher of intercultural studies, sociology and cultural theory.