Pure-Data Convention 2007 :: Montréal :: "Auditory Tactics"

From http://convention.puredata.org/

The PureData Convention '07 will bring together artists, developers and theoreticians who develop, use and reflect on PureData. It will acknowledge the broad range of artistic disciplines that make use of the software and will address questions of openness and accessibility. It will provide a theoretical context for the understanding of media art practices that engage in the aesthetics and politics of Free Open Source Software Culture.

The artists and researchers Philippe Pasquier and Philippe-Aubert Gauthier were invited in 2006 for a residency at Vidéographe to work on the creation of a sound installation for the PD Convention. The residency will start on June 21th until the show opening on August 21th, Concordia University.

"Auditory tactics" (preliminary title) will expose a public space to acoustic beams using compact loudspeaker arrays. PD will be used to control the system, steer the beams and create an interactive spatial sound composition with the public, the space and the system. Using voice sounds, this project is dedicated to the place of the voice, the mediated voice, on public spaces, private and public aural spheres.

See : auditorytactics.blogspot.com

Here is the installation (Concordia University, Québec, Canada) ...

Adaptive wave field synthesis

Next week, my thesis on adaptive wave field synthesis for sound field reproduction will be finished. Here is a picture of my spatial sound system in hemi-anechoic chamber.



For more infos: see my papers in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2005, 2006) and possibly some new in the next years.

The Flying Baby :: Fine Art Museum of Sherbrooke

Tanya St-Pierre and Philippe-Aubert Gauthier will exhibit The Flying Baby installation in a collective art exhibition at the "Le musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke" in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada in 2007.

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Noïzefer at Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art

An electronic piece by Philippe-Aubert (part of the next Noïzefer CD, the piece is "Free jazz") will be played at the Weisman Art Museum for the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, Minneapolis, in February 2007.

More informations:
http://spark.cla.umn.edu/
http://spark.cla.umn.edu/schedule.html

http://www.weisman.umn.edu/

Noïzefer CWU and the DSM-V+ by Folie Culture

Between September 10th and 16th, Noïzefer was performing in the street of Québec City (Québec, Canada). This was for an international art and psychiatric event : DSM-V+. The real DSM stands for Diagnostical and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Noïzefer was diagnosticed of "affective bruyante" (noisy inflamation of the affect).

Here are some pictures of the "manoeuvres" in chronological order, as the days pass, the traces left on the street are bigger and bigger. As the days pass, Noïzefer was more noisy: disturbing the diffusely controlled public space.

The first day, the traces were relatively small and we walked few hours ...









On the second day, a rain storm forced the temporary construction of a protection where we realized our sound performance under the rain, under the plastic ...

Noïzefer participation to the Harvest Moon Symposium

On September 21 (2006), Noïzefer (P.-A. Gauthier alone, this time only!) participated in an electroacoustic/acousmatic concert as a a part of the Harvest Moon Symposium 2006 edition (Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada). The short proposed piece was composed for a eight-channel sound system.

More informations here:
http://music.concordia.ca/harvestmoonsymposium/index.html

The composition should be available on www.sonus.ca ...

Noïzefer CWU: performance for the "Rencontre internationale de performance de Québec" passage in Sherbrooke

On September 24th, T. St-Pierre and P.-A. Gauthier performed at the Horace Art Galery (Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada) as Noïzefer CWU. The performance was "Au sujet de la naissance des affects bruyants". Here are some pictures and description.

Here are some general views of the event ...

The two dark objects are loudspeakers which were projecting the sound track: a progressive accumulation of 25000 sine waves towards pure noise. I was trying to read a text while Tanya was playing a little black piano. Two subwoofers were also adding low frequency drones to the other noise sound tracks.

The visual display, including the costumes, was a creation of T. St-Pierre and the sound track was a composition of P.-A. Gauthier.

The third picture shows some members of the audience, where you can see some of our friends and other performers, you can see Daniel Acosta (Argentina) on the left and Sébastien Pesot (Québec) on the left but in the back.



As you can see on the last picture, one of the central visual element was a red mixture, under a red light, in a plastic bag over a metal pipe. The metal pipe was used as a wave guide connected to one of the subwoofers so that the bag was strongly vibrating: then making noise and giving the mixture a "boiling" look. Few drops of the mixture were constantly emerging from the mix.

Noïzefer CWU was performing live on thursday (October 19th)

Noïzefer was peforming live a new 40 minutes set at the "Home Music Festival" within the art galery "L'Oeil de Poisson" (Québec City, Québec, Canada). Several newspaper articles were published before the event "Home Music Festival", see these references: www.lesoleil.com ("L'art du sous-sol") and Voir.

Welcome

Welcome to this blog :: P.-A. Gauthier, T. St-Pierre, Noïzefer and other things. We (DR TANR, T. St-Pierre and P.-A. Gauthier) hope to publish our more recent activities on this blog. Noïzefer is a peformance and music duo created from a real love story...

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In the meantime, you can access our "official" art-related web pages:

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http:\\pagauthier.go.dyndns.org

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Compositions by P.-A. Gauthier are also available on sonus.ca:
www.sonus.ca

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Most of my research papers on sound reproduction are published by the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, here are the most important:

Adaptive wave field synthesis with independent radiation mode control for active sound field reproduction: Theory

Sound-field reproduction in-room using optimal control techniques: Simulations in the frequency domain

Other popularizing papers on wave field synthesis or sound reproduction were published on:
www.econtact.ca
(no 7.2 and 8.3) . It is also possible to access to the audio recording of my conferences (2005):
http://music.concordia.ca/harvestmoonsymposium/archives.html

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It is possible to purchase my master thesis (French!) here:

http://www.lulu.com/content/332393

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T. St-Pierre & P.-A. Gauthier