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Beholder

Client: United Visual Artists

Role: Sound Designer and Audio Programmer

Virtual Reality (VR) art installation at Birmingham Open Media gallery:

“Commissioned by BOM, Beholder seeks to re-evaluate our perception of beauty, to see it through another’s eyes. The work centres around the wonder of everyday phenomena as seen through the eyes of an autistic child, Oliver, alongside wider autistic perspectives. Oliver is the son of Matt Clark, founder and director of UVA, who has worked with his team at UVA to create the artwork.

Beholder continues UVA’s investigations into experiences that transcend the physical, and question the relativity of experience. It inquires into our ability to process very detailed information at the expense of altering our perception of time and space, a phenomenon often intensified within the autistic spectrum.”

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Devils

Client: Oliver Beer

Role: Consultancy and hardware/software programming/ tuning the installation

"In the large gallery space, Devils, a major new acoustic installation work based on Oliver Beer’s recent research at the Watermill Centre, NY, uses a feedback loop technique developed by the artist to reveal the inherent musical notes of various ancient and modern vessels, both sacred and commonplace. The empty space within each vessel has its own unchanging musical note at which it resonates. Oliver Beer has chosen these objects because their resonant frequencies harmonise with each other in augmented fourths. This musical interval, dubbed Diabolus in Musica in the middle ages, is a dissonant combination of notes which was believed by the Catholic Church to be the musical incarnation of the devil; their use by composers was said to be a crime worthy of excommunication." - Gallerie Thaddeus Ropac

Devils by Oliver Beer
Devils by Oliver Beer
Devils, 2017 by Oliver Beer | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
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Our Time

Client: United Visual Artists www.uva.co.uk

Role: Spatial Audio Design/SuperCollider programming

"Our Time (2016) is the latest large-scale installation by United Visual Artists investigating our subjective experience of the passing of time. How long is a moment? At what rate does time actually pass? The work joins a series of kinetic sculptures that began with Momentum (2013); an installation designed as a 'spatial instrument' that was to reveal the relationship between expectation and perception when intersected with a physical space.

Our Time defines a physical environment where pendulums swing at a pace apparently unhindered by the laws of nature and where no single time measurement applies. The installation combines movement, light and sound as a multi-sensory, multi-dimensional canvas the visitor can enter. Pendulums swing, each to their own rhythm, as time flows through the grid. With light tracing the path and sound its echo, the passing of time becomes almost palpable." (UVA 2016)

 

Our Time - UVA
Our Time - UVA
Our Time - UVA
Our Time - UVA
Our Time - United Visual Artists 2016

Project Lab - Old Market

Research and development lab exploring dance, interaction within virtual reality and sound. 

With Light Surgeons, The Workers and C12 Dance.

Role: Sound Design/Composition/Programming

 

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Lumia Mind

Concept installation by Marcus Lyall for MINI BMW involving bio-responsive audio-visual system to engender relaxation and serenity in participants.

Client: Marcus Lyall/MINI BMW

Role: Sound Design, Bio-Responsive Hardware and Programming

Lumia Mind
Lumia Mind
THE FUTURE SHAPERS PROJECT: MARCUS LYALL
Dave Meckin working on Lumia Mind
Dave Meckin working on Lumia Mind

Concert of the Wind

Client: Nexus Productions

Role: Musical and Acoustic Consultant/Attachment Designer

Designed by Sitraka, this metal pipe sculpture uses the wind at the top of the Ping An Finance Center in Shenzhen to create sound. 

The Chinese Shí-èr-lǜ scale was used as basis for calculating the pitches of the individual pipes

Concert in the Sky
Concert in the Sky
Close Up
Close Up

Assembly of Youth

Client: Artisan/UNICEF/Google

Role: Spatial Audio Design and Programming

A sculptural audio visual installation displaying the views of young people from across the developing world. Installed in the United Nations building in New York for the UN General Assembly.

Bespoke forty two channel generative spatial audio soundscape and audio sample playback system.

Assembly of Youth
Assembly of Youth
Assembly of Youth
Assembly of Youth
Assembly of Youth - Video and Installation

The Oresteia - Globe Theatre

Client: Mira Calix/ The Globe Theatre

Role: Embedded Audio System Development and Live Mixing/Electronics

Eleven embedded wireless speakers in performers' costumes. Score written by Mira Calix.

Fantastic quality portable speakers kindly supplied by Bowers and Wilkins.

The Oresteia
The Oresteia
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Dave Meckin
The Oresteia
The Oresteia
Embedded Speakers in Costumes
Embedded Speakers in Costumes

Lexus - Street Stave

Client: Marshmallow Laser Feast

Role: Audio and Music Consultant

Consultation of how to visualise and mark out musical elements for road based stave for Lexus. 

Lexus Street Stave
Lexus Street Stave
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Lexus create epic driving spectacular on a laser street stave

Inside There Falls

Client: Mira Calix/Elmsly Arts

Premiered at Sydney Festival 2015

"An installation in the form of a shimmering labyrinth, Inside There Falls invites audiences to individually explore and seek out its secrets. From hidden pathways made of paper, voices emanate from all around and the entwinements of a pair of illusive and elusive dancers may be glimpsed. In this astonishing creation from UK-based artist Mira Calix, the walls literally speak – music, voice and dance converge into a profound and fully immersive experience. Inside There Falls is a space to dream and discover. Visually and aurally sublime, this world premiere features choreography by Sydney Dance Company’s Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela, performances by Sydney Dance Company dancers and Associate Artists and narration by Hayley Atwell."

Role:

- Research for paper speakers

- Research, development and fabrication for paper ball audio system

- Fabrication and install of paper speakers

Artist: Mira Calix

CHOREOGRAPHER: Rafael Bonachela

DANCERS: Sydney Dance Company

NARRATOR: Hayley Atwell

ORIGINAL TEXT: Brett Clegg

MUSICIANS: Violin: Daniel Pioro & Charlotte Bonneton/Viola: Robert Ames/ Violoncello:Oliver Coates/Clarinet: Stuart King/Flute: Sarah O’Flynn

DANCERS: Sam Young-Wright /Luke Mangraviti/Laura Wood/David Mack/Juliette Barton

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Brett Clegg

PRODUCER: Keri Elmsly

PROJECT MANAGERS:  -AUSTRALIA: Erin Milne  UK : Aymie Backler

FABRICATION: James Shearer (Other Fabrications)

SOUND DESIGN & TECHNICAL CONSULTANCY: David Sheppard (Soundintermedia)

ARCHITECT: Irene Shamma

LIGHTING DESIGN: Alexandros Tsolakis & George Konstantitou (Overcraft)

CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIST: Jonathan Green

FABRICATION ASSISTANTS” Lily Hunter Green, Bob Bicknell Knight, Ali Orr, Ruth Lea, Isabelle Harte

COSTUME DESIGN: Fiona Holley

RECORDING ENGINEERS: Adrian Libeyre Ramirez, Neil Quinlan

ASSISTANT TO MIRA CALIX: Eleanor Beck

Inside There Falls
Inside There Falls
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Inside There Falls

Vanishing Point

Client: UnitedVisualArtists

Towner Gallery, Eastbourne

The sound was manipulated and spatialised across 4 loudspeakers in realtime fitting with the current state that the installation was in.

Role:

- Sound design

- MAX/MSP programming

http://uva.co.uk/work

Vanishing Point
Vanishing Point
United Visual Artists' Vanishing Point at Towner, Eastbourne (long version)

Parallels

Client: UnitedVisualArtists

Salon di Mobile, Milan

Created for MINI, and with music by Mira Calix, this piece used circular angled mirrors to reflect animated laser light. Audience members' movements were tracked and various parts of the composition were played back and spatialised in realtime.

Role:

- MAX/MSP programming

- Audio system design

http://uva.co.uk/work

Parallels
Parallels
Mini & UVA showed Parallels laser installation at Salone del Mobile 2014

Aurora

 

Client: Arquileds/Claudia Paz/Cinimod Studio

Lima, Peru

Reactive light and sound installation which tracked the audience member's arms so they could point and move the light and sound around them. Adapted from a previous work by the great Henrik Ekeus.

Role:

- Sound design and music

- MAX/MSP programming

http://www.arquileds.com/

http://www.hekeus.co.uk/

http://cinimodstudio.com/

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Aurora Interactive Lighting Installation

Hydrophone

Client: PiP

Floating Gardens, Amiens

Two hydrophones are placed in the water around the phone box. Audience members can pick up the vintage dial phone and listen to the live feeds from the water. They can then dial numbers and listen to audio recordings of water creatures.

Role:

- Custom adaptation of vintage dial phone and audio switching circuit

- Raspberry Pi/Python programming

- "Hold" music

http://pippartnership.com/

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Seeds of Colors

Client: Thomas Traum/Melissa

Manhattan, New York

Reactive installation which created blades of grass rendered in realtime 3D from audience movements. 

Role:

- Sound design

http://thomastraum.com/

 

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Melissa — Seeds of Colors

Project Runway

Client: Nexus Interactive Arts

Highline, New York

Reactive installation for the anniversary of the Project Runway series. Audience members' movements were tracked and the judges would react and respond to them.

Role:

- Sound Design

- SuperCollider programming

Directed by Evan Boehm 

with Tim Gfrerer video programming and Max Worgan on interaction programming

http://www.nexusproductions.com/interactive-arts

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Project Runway Installation NY

Origin

Client: UnitedVisualArtists

Dumbo, New York

Light and sound installation with sound design by Scanner. The piece moved through various states and the sound was manipulated and spatialised in realtime.

Role:

- MAX/MSP programming

http://uva.co.uk/work

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