Artist Talk for SoCCos project. Artist in Residency: Center of Contemporary Culture. Warsaw Poland. June- July 2015

1. Sonic Interaction and Participatory
Performance as practices in Soundscape
Juan Duarte Regino
SOCCOS
A-I-R

2. Overview
[SOCCOS]
Southscapes / Soundscapes
The New Media perspective
Sound Map Hailuoto
[A-I-R at CSW]
Electroacoustic Atelier
Pulsar kite

3. Barry Truax
World Soundscape Project

4. Curtis Roads - Micro SoundBarry Truax

6. Southscapes
Beyond merely aesthetic contemplation.
Building a narrative about the other.
A perspective where art becomes an empowerment tool.
Use sound as element of exploration
through levels of research.
[Sound art, Soundscape, Radio Art]
Post digital paradigm

8. New Media
The New Media perspective enables to connect with
grassroots initiatives where practitioners are empowered
to create tools for sonic and data exploration, to table a
remapping of spaces, specially on remote locations.
Format of New Media practices:
Workshops on digital Tools empowerment,
Use of electronics in daily life
Do it yourself (DIY) & Do it with Others (DIWO)

9. Locative Media
-Use of environmental data and remap
visualizing the territory and soundscape.
-Provide educational tools for collaborative
media to map a public space.
-Placement, how individuals engage in
media projects with a location to become
part of the space.

10. Sound Map Hailuoto

14. Electro Acoustic Atelier

16. It is not production of an art work in the classi-
cal sense. A workshop enables an understanding
of both ecology and entanglement of people,
ideas, tools, materials, systems and processes.

18. Workshops also may cloud artistic or personal
objectives- including some of the community en-
gagement agendas from institutional - political
organisations that work with art and culture.

19. Any learning that implies creative empowerment
should not be concerned with idea transmission.
But is oriented to a construction and reconstruc-
tion of knowledge through experience.

22. Schedule for
Electroacoustic Atelier

23. First Workshop
18th June
6 pm

24. Second Workshop
22nd June
6 pm

25. No prior experience on
electronics is required
~15 participants
What we are building:
Amplifier circuit
Piezo Microphone
Coil Inductor
Light Synthesizer

26. Pulsar Kite Intervention

30. John Grzinich - Wind Harp

31. Niklas Roy - Umbrella Phone

32. Audible Forces - Sonic Art Research

34. Development Process:
Physical Computing
Tangible Auditory Interfaces
Programming for Sound Design
Signal Processing
User Experience
Digital Fabrication
New Digital Instruments

35. On the performativity: Allan Kaprow sought to
elaborate public performances towards an inte-
gration of art and life.
Johan Huizinga’s notions of play: (Found in his
book Homo Ludens “Man the player”) points out
the need of play for the generation of culture.
Huizinga’s work proposes a study of the play-ele-
ment in culture.

36. According to Huizinga; Play is in fact freedom, is dis-
tinct from “ordinary” (life both as locality and du-
ration), play creates order (demand order absolute
and supreme), play is connected with no material in-
terest, no profit can be gained from it.

37. Geroge Caillois key ideas about play: Agon (com-
petition), Alea (Chance), Mimicry (mimesis), llimx
(“whirlpool” the sense of altering perception, verti-
go and altering perception).
Paidia - uncontrolled fantasy.
Ludus - requires an ever greater amount of effort,
patience, skill, or ingenuity.

39. Open Studio Sessions:
20th June - 1st Open Studio meeting:
Arduino and Pure Data
24th June - 2nd open studio meeting:
Raspberry Pi
29th June - 3rd Open Studio:
Casing and interface design.