December 2005

Music, Art, and Digital Systems

A two-day conference organised by Bennett Hogg (ICMuS) and Sally Jane Norman (Culture Lab) exploring the emerging/emergent relationships between music/sound art and machines under the impact of digital systems.

Conference Themes
Systems as situations: ambiguity as an alternative to functionalism
Music as general economy: anti-humanistic musicology
Staging audience behaviours, from immersion to interaction
Proximity, intimacy and distributed improvisation
Distributed visual music objects for teaching and learning
Audio architectures
Improving sonification aesthetics

Speakers
Andrew Ballantyne and Chris Smith ( School of Architecture , Planning & Landscape, Newcastle University )
John Bowers (University of East Anglia)
Jay Chapman (Teesside University)
David Clarke (ICMuS, Newcastle University)
Bill Gaver (Goldsmiths College)
Sten-Olof Hellstrom (ADRA/ KTH, Stockholm)
Bennett Hogg (ICMuS, Newcastle University)
Lars Iyer (Philosophy, Newcastle University)
Sally Jane Norman (Culture Lab, Newcastle University)
Tom Simmons (Norwich School of Art and Design)
Paul Vickers (University of Northumbria)

Performers
Paul Bell (DJ and live electronics)
David de la Haye (bass guitar and live electronics)
Will Edmondes (hand-held technologies and voice)
John Ferguson (electric guitars and live electronics)
Bennett Hogg (violin)
Will Scrimshaw (live electronics)
John Bowers (live electronics and home-made sounding objects/instruments)
Sten-Olof Hellstrom (premiere of new electroacoustic work, plus live electronic performances)
Rosie Lewis (live electronics, guitar and voice)
Chris Watson (BBC) (electroacoustic soundscape presentations)