In the 20 of May i´ve made a very short presentation of the research work-in-progress to Professor Sally-Jane Norman.
It was a great opportunity to share my developments and receive great insights from someone with so much experience.
Sally-Jane Norman delivered a lecture entitled “Instrumentalised spaces/ spaces as instruments” in the 21th of May at FEUP.
ABSTRACT:
Today’s technologies enable us to situate sonic events beyond the confines of traditional cultural spaces (auditoria, concert halls, and other performing arts venues). Challenging earlier definitions of music and noise, data culled from everyday environments are used to drive soundscapes deployed across different kinds of infrastructure, geared towards both intimate and collective listening. These variably scaled communications platforms extend the potential reach and resonance of the physical envelopes that must be instated to frame art as shareable experience.
In an attempt to understand such transformations, this paper proposes: i) to look at structural features of selected historic places designed to separate “art” and “noise”; ii) to look at structural features of selected recent sonic art creations, iii) to see how, in light of these examples, cultural affordances and expectations from the past might be reconciled with those offered by emerging technologies.
BIO:
Sally Jane Norman is a New Zealand / French scholar (Docteur d’état, Institut d’études théâtrales – Paris III) and practitioner working on live art. At the University of Sussex since 2010 as Chair of Performance Technologies and founding director of the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, she promotes interdisciplinary activities and contributes to an MA in “Music & Sonic Media”. From 2004-09 as founding director of Culture Lab, an interdisciplinary research hub at Newcastle University, she collaborated on initiatives including Bennett Hogg’s ongoing “Music & Machines” programme. Sally Jane works closely with a wide range of international organisations and networks; she was previously artistic co-director of STEIM (1998-2000) and is currently international advisory board member of Sonic Acts.
