To push the boundaries of what's possible in this field, an international group of people meet at Notam's spatial audio meetups once a month to explore techniques, workflows, aesthetics, ideas and sounds.
Notam's Spatial Audio meetup is a meeting place for working with surround sound for artistic purposes. Here, some of the world's leading experts and technologists meet curious artists and beginners. Together, they explore new ways of expressing themselves in broadcast formats.
Meeting ID: 926 0674 7841
Link: https://zoom.us/j/92606747841
Programme
Polina Khatsenka – Grassroots ambisonics & diy
Polina Khatsenka presents an overview of phonon~’s three summer labs and the collective’s collaboration with OTTOsonics, alongside reflections from her recent site-specific spatial sound projects. A brief look into how DIY immersive audio and attentive listening shape new artistic practices and communities.
Polina Khatsenka is an audiovisual artist, sound designer, and curator from Minsk, Belarus, currently based in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. Her practice focuses on spatial sound, site-specific installations, and electroacoustic composition. She is pursuing a PhD at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University with the dissertation project «Location vs. presence: aural perception as an existential tool in the digital age«. A founding member of the phonon~ collective, she co-organizes educational and artistic activities in quadraphonic, octophonic, and Ambisonic formats. Since 2021 she has taught the course Silence. Pause. Quiet. at the Co.Lab Acoustic Ecology, Kunstuniversität Linz.
https://www.instagram.com/phonon.crew/
https://www.instagram.com/mudaki_sound/
Amelie Nilles – Working as an independent artist in spatial audio : methods, challenges and sustainability
I will speak about my artistic practice in spatial audio, focusing on live performance situations, the tools I use, and the concrete realities of working with spatial audio as an independent artist. I will share reflections on what we call “immersion” and on the importance of mediation and training both for artists and technicians. Finally, I will discuss the role of the artist in today’s context and the place of immersive setups within current artistic and technological ecosystems.
Based between Paris and Athens, Amelie Nilles is a composer of avant-pop music and a live performer, working with spatial audio. Explorer of experimental realms, she offers an aesthetic approach to spatialisation in her music. Under the guidance of composer Régis Renouard-Larivière, she honed her skills in electroacoustic composition, while she was simultaneously pursuing her Master’s degree at Paris 8 University, delving into research exploring the spatial dimension of music. Constantly in the process of creating immersive sound environments, she crafts captivating soundscapes weaving together her voice, field recordings, electronic textures, and organic rhythms. In November 2021, she unveiled her debut EP, A croqué le fruit étrange, on Planisphère label, introducing listeners to her deeply personal and experimental universe, both dark and pop. Since then, she has performed live at various venues across Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Portugal and Slovenia ; has designed multichannel sound installations and immersive live performances, collaborating with diverse artists along the way.
https://amelienilles.com/
https://www.instagram.com/amelie_nilles/
These meetups are led by American artist Monica Bolles and composer Mariam Gviniashvili.
Mariam Gviniashvili is a sound artist and composer who combines electronics, electroacoustics and 3D sound with visual material, dance and performance to penetrate the physical and emotional essence of sound and space.
Monica Bolles is an artist, audio engineer and composer who utilises emerging technologies, science and design to create spaces for the exploration of human experience in an ever-evolving and transforming world. Through the juxtaposition of the organic and the digital, art and science, technology and humanity, hub continually investigates what it means to be human in today's society.
