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Protected: Sound Capsules: Augmenting the Silence of Space

Matthew Battles — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 20:53:42 +0000

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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Interview with Ben Valentine

Halsey Burgund — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 18:27:03 +0000

I interviewed Ben Valentine, Exhibition and Program Coordinator for Exhibit Columbus, about Exhibit Columbus, an extraordinary celebration of modernist and contemporary architecture that I had a chance to experience this year. Exhibit Columbus included an audio AR piece to complement the wide array of physical components and I wanted to share why they made this non-obvious design choice.

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Interview with Michael Epstein

Halsey Burgund — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 17:50:37 +0000

"So really what is the maximum for our storytelling is when the whole world seems like it's in cahoots with what's being told rather than as a kind of stage that's been taken hostage for your little show to go on."

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The Audio AR Industry – Q3 2019

Halsey Burgund — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 23:48:42 +0000

I am just coming around to thinking of there being such a thing as the "audio AR industry" and not just esoteric artistic explorations. This report by the folks over at ARtillery Intelligence shows how much things have changed over the past few years as some very big players are realizing that augmentation for your ears has a ton of potential.

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Sonic Succulents

Francesca Panetta — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:15:55 +0000

As a keen, but amateur field recordist, I was excited to see an exhibition advertised at Brooklyn Botanic Garden called Sonic Succulents. Created by Los Angeles–based Adrienne Adar it promised handmade sensors would amplify familiar plants so we could hear them through gentle touch and sound. So excited was I that I dragged my partner, my radio producer friend and his mum along.

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The Deep Listener

Francesca Panetta — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 09:02:49 +0000

The Deep Listener is the winner of an open call, put out to artists early this year, asking for projects which imagined city spaces in AR to be deployed on site at London’s Serpentine Art Gallery. The Serpentine is prestigious, with an extension from architect Zaha Hadid, and it hosts some of the major contemporary art exhibitions of the city, so when I heard the project was an audio AR project and involved field recordings (at least that is what I assumed “organic source material” that was mentioned on the site’s blurb meant), I was quite excited to check it out.

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Living Symphonies

Francesca Panetta — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 09:05:49 +0000

Hidden in a small part of the large east London forest are speakers placed up in trees or hidden in the undergrowth, each playing musical motifs representing different plants, animals and trees in the area. These motifs change based on the weather under the theory that the weather changes the behaviors of the represented flora and fauna. This is a “Living Symphony”, a musical composition and installation that is meant to grow in the same way as a forest ecosystem.

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Oh Europa

Magnus Bjerg Mortensen — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 21:40:10 +0000

Oh Europa is a geolocated collection of love songs recorded and shared on-site throughout Europe by Action Hero, an artist collective that “create arenas for the collision of action and ideas.”

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Beyond the Road

Francesca Panetta — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 09:13:08 +0000

Beyond The Road transforms a music album into an immersive exhibition. As it says on the tin, it really does offer audiences “a chance to lose themselves in a multi-sensory world led by sound”.
The music is by Unkle, a British DJ, who has dissected his album into stems and samples, and placed them around the Saatchi gallery in multiple rooms layered with videos and sets created by a variety of artists.

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Audio AR as Memory Palace

Halsey Burgund — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 14:38:58 +0000

I have long thought of augmented reality as a direct relative (or at least a not-so-distant cousin) of the memory palace, but my ideas have only been vague high-level musings, so it was a real treat to read William Uricchio’s new essay on the history of AR in which, among much much more, he dives into this territory.

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