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http://aessf.org/rsvp/left.php?mS=3DTrees=85#
-Dan
On Aug 8, 2012, at 8:21 PM, Dan Dugan wrote:
> Subject:
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> Trees:
> =84Downy Oak" installation, data sonification and ambisonics
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> Speaker:
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> Marcus Maeder, ICST Zurich
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> Place:
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> Swissnex , San Francisco
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> Time and Date:
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> August 13, 2012 7:30 PM
> (refreshments at 7:00 PM)
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> RSVP
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> Description:
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> Who knew forests could sing? Sure, there's the occasional rustle of leave=
s, but dig a bit deeper by needling tiny microphones beneath the surface of=
trees, and there is indeed much more to listen to, and much more to learn.=
This is exactly what Marcus Maeder, a researcher at the Institute for Comp=
uter Music and Sound Technology at the Zurich University of the Arts set ou=
t to do with Roman Zweifel, a forest and tree expert at the Swiss Federal I=
nstitute for Forest, Snow and Landscape. The two teamed up on the research =
project "trees: Rendering Ecophysiological Processes Audible," which they=
=82ve transformed into a three-dimensional audio installation at swissnex S=
an Francisco from July 25 through August 18.
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> The resulting trees: Downy Oak is a prototype of a three-dimensional audi=
o matrix currently being developed for data sonification experiments. An am=
bisonics setup carried through a grid of omnidirectional loudspeakers helps=
bring together and analyse plant measurements and recordings, and creates =
a walk-in forest of sound based on data obtained from a single type of tree=
, the Downy Oak.
> This model serves as a tool for scientists to analyse patterns, links, an=
d derivations between known sets of data. But it also helps the general pub=
lic gain deeper insight into the workings of nature
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> About the speaker:
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> Marcus Maeder (http://www.marcusmaeder.net/) studied art at the Universit=
y of Applied Sciences and Arts of Lucerne, in Switzerland, and is currently=
pursuing a master=82s degree in philosophy at the University of Hagen, in =
Germany. Maeder runs the music label domizil, which he co-founded in 1996 w=
ith Bernd Schurer. He has worked as an editor and producer for the Swiss ra=
dio station DRS and has been working as a curator and research associate at=
the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology since 2005. His arti=
stic work focuses mainly on sound art, and on media art extensions of compu=
ter music. Maeder has also written on a number of topics in the fields of s=
ound art and digital media.
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> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.
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"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.
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