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The Affective Power Of Sound: Oral History On Radio, Siobhan A. Mchugh
The Affective Power Of Sound: Oral History On Radio, Siobhan A. Mchugh
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
Using illustrative audio clips, this article offers insights into the historical symbiosis between oral history and radio and the relationship between orality, aurality, and affect that makes radio such a powerful medium for the spoken word. It does so through a discussion of the concept of affect as it applies to oral history on radio and through a description and analysis of crafting oral history for the radio documentary form. This article features audio excerpts from radio documentaries produced by the author. Listening to the audio portions of this article requires a means of accessing the audio excerpts through hyperlinks. …
All Night Silence: Live Experimental Sound In New Zealand Public Art Galleries, Su Ballard
All Night Silence: Live Experimental Sound In New Zealand Public Art Galleries, Su Ballard
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
Since the late 19th century there have been issues with the presentation and reception of sound and music in New Zealand public art galleries. During the first New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition in 1889-1890 there were numerous musical events designed to prove New Zealand's position culturally and socially on the world stage. Audience members would spend the day traipsing around the enormous pavilions of the exhibition pausing to engage in a performance before blundering out to the next event. This mobile audience knew something about the relationship between music and art. Art was silent, static and contained within the …
An Anechoic Configurable Hemispheric Environment For Spatialised Sound, Christian H. Ritz, Gregory M. Schiemer, Ian S. Burnett, Eva Cheng, Damien Lock, Terumi Narushima, Stephen F. Ingham, Diana Wood Conroy
An Anechoic Configurable Hemispheric Environment For Spatialised Sound, Christian H. Ritz, Gregory M. Schiemer, Ian S. Burnett, Eva Cheng, Damien Lock, Terumi Narushima, Stephen F. Ingham, Diana Wood Conroy
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper reports on the recently completed and significant upgrade of the University of Wollongong’s Configurable Hemispheric Environment for Spatialised Sound (CHESS). The CHESS studio, which housed a 16 speaker hemisphere for creating spatial sound, has been converted into an anechoic chamber and a new 3D speaker system has been designed. The recent work is a continuation of a successful crossdisciplinary research activity between the Faculty of Informatics and the Faculty of Creative Arts. Also reported are new research initiatives that will be taking place in the facility.
Orbophone: A New Interface For Radiating Sound And Image, Damien Lock, Gregory M. Schiemer
Orbophone: A New Interface For Radiating Sound And Image, Damien Lock, Gregory M. Schiemer
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
The Orbophone is a new interface that radiates rather than projects sound and image. It provides a cohesive platform for audio and visual presentation in situations where both media are transmitted from the same location and localization in both media is perceptually correlated. This paper discusses the advantages of radiation over conventional sound and image projection for certain kinds of interactive public multimedia exhibits and describes the artistic motivation for its development against a historical backdrop of sound systems used in public spaces. One exhibit using the Orbophone is described in detail together with description and critique of the prototype, …