BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20111106T020000 RDATE:20111106T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120102T191957Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120111T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120111T183000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120102T191957Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120102T191957Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250461779 DESCRIPTION:Designing Experience with Sound \;\n \;\nThe Haunted Ga rden is a sonic environment that participants control by their mere pres ence. It is a room that listens to the notes in your voice and uses them to compose music and change the color of the room. As the project progr essed\, further opportunities for control were implemented. An interacti ve kiosk gives users the ability to choose instruments and control sensi tivity and reactivity parameters. The next step was to insert audio from other times and places by playing field recordings (e.g.\, baby yaks in Tibet\, the 8-line in San Francisco)\, allowing the Haunted Garden to a ctively respond to the augmented sonic environments. \;\n \;\nSim ran will discuss the challenges of designing with sound\, and how he dev eloped “listening agents” who react and comment on sound in the environm ent. He will relate experiences—both as software developer and sound art ist—and explore sound as a medium. Topics will include what is sound scu lpture\, what challenges were uncovered in creating it\, whether the exp erience worked according to plan\, the challenges in developing applicat ions for these sorts of interactions\, the unforeseen consequences resul ting from initial forays into these kinds of devices\, and how an interf ace based on sound might change how we relate to sound and sonic devices . \;\n \;\nAbout the Speaker \;\n Simran Gleason is an artist a nd professional nerd. He started drawing the day after getting a master’ s degree in computer science (symbolic and heuristic computation) from S tanford and drifted through many media before arriving at his current fo cus: making algorithms that make music. Among his more successful instal lations is Haunted Garden\, a room that listens to you\, finds the notes in your conversation\, and uses them to compose an ambient sound and li ghtscape. He also did the generative music and light algorithms for SWAR M\, a gaggle of open source someday-autonomous spherical robots. His wor k has been shown in galleries in San Francisco and Palo Alto\, as well a s installations at Maker Fair\, Yuri’s Night\, Coachella\, and the speci al olympics of art: Burning Man. Kepler’s Orrery is his first iPhone app . \;\n \n\nTags: music\, art\, ux\, sound\, tech\n\nImported from: ht tp://calagator.org/events/1250461779 URL:http://www.chifoo.org SUMMARY:CHIFOO January Meeting/Speaker LOCATION:CMD Agency: 1631 NW Thurman Street\, Portland OR 97209 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR