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A site-specific audiowalk showcasing the work by students and staff of the Digital Music & Sound Arts Course (University of Brighton). The walk is launched as part of the Brighton Digital Festival 2017. 

The featured works were originally composed as part of assessed course work for another medium and context. Here the students choose a specific site to locate their work within and to give it a new life and identity.  


Featured works:
1) Jean Martin - L-deconstruction
2) Charles Pender - Metal Rods Under the Pier
3) Mandie Brooks - La Gran Ola
4) Sonny Bacon - Remains
5)Jordan Edge - Acclimate 
6) Jedd Winterburn - Transition
7) Olivia Louvel - Workshop I
8) Brianna Leeds - Terrore Impetum
9) Samirah Roye- Tweet tweet
10) Steven Mallinder - All the Fun of the Fair
11) Maria Papadomanolaki - Rewind
12) Jeph Vanger - Henosis

Tsunami at Brighton - Sound Design Installation.
This sound track is created for multitrack surround sound, “mix as you walk” through this sound installation experience. 
I have recorded most of the water effects myself with a Tascam hydrophone plonked in the sea. Although, whilst working with the water alot in this piece, I began to realise that water effects often sounded very serene and "wishy washy"…as if laying on a beach listening to the waves. I found that using mostly rumblings gave the effect more so, and ferocious water effects sparcely, and now and again.  I used “Latch” on moving Channel EQ effects to give the feel of water pressure and movement in the rumblings, and low pass EQ for rumblings, reverb and delay were used in this piece to give a sense of depth and space.

Bio
Mandie Brooks is a singer/songwriter artist/musician for over 30 years now, studio session vocalist for artists and fronting her own bands in live performance. Vocals are her speciality. Mandie dabbles in jingles and soundtracks for film, tv and stage. Sound art and design and sound engineering is a recent thing, dating back to 2012-ish. Here interests are also spilling over into the world of sound behaviour and architectural acoustics.

https://soundcloud.com/jingleworks

“Henosis” (Ancient Greek: ἕνωσις) is the classical Greek word for mystical “oneness”, “union”, or “unity.” Henosis is an Audio Visual composition / installation consisting of a multichannel 7.1 sound composition and a visual composition which is projected onto a sphere. This is the stereo version of the piece which you can listen exclusively through the ReHear soundwalk.

Bio
Sound Designer/Sound Artist, born & raised in Athens, Greece and based in Brighton, UK.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeph-vanger-06061874
https://www.facebook.com/Jeph1Music

This piece is entirely composed from field recording made in the art workshops at the University of Brighton Grand Parade. Drawing a parallel between the practice of sculpting material and sculpting audio.
Text: Barbara Hepworth
Writings by Hepworth © Bowness

Bio
Olivia Louvel is a French-born, British composer, producer and artist whose work draws on voice, computer music and digital narrative. She operates on the frontier of art and electronic music

http://www.olivialouvel.com/

The work is based on a single viola tone, which is subsequently deconstructed into its harmonic constituents. These partial tones are organised in a time line and composed with other musical and environmental sounds into a mysterious dreamworld.

Bio
Jean Martin is a writer, lecturer and composer.

http://www.soundbasis.eu/

I created this composition as a first person experience. You the listener will become the “person” within the composition, and go through their series of emotional events. These emotions are a mental state of anxiety and panic with in a public space. It is a journey starting off in a loud busy environment which triggers their anxiety attack and leading them away from the environment they were once in, down to the sea front. In order for a full effect of ‘out of the normal behaviour’ I have exaggerated sounds to make it more intense.

Bio
Brianna Leeds is a first year student at the University of Brighton. This composition was one of her first pieces created  since starting the course, as well as her first experiment with surround sound composition. Brianna has always found music and sound effects combined really exciting, and fascinating, as one has the ability to paint a picture with only sounds, and alter a listener’s reality. You can create an emotional reaction by tapping into a person’s empathy, through your choice of instruments, and the specific arrangements of sounds.      

Photo Credit: Brianna Leeds

Charles Pender's piece is taken from his recent immersive multi-channel installation entitled Maelström. In the ReHear version, Pender returns original contact microphone recordings featured in the installation back to their original site, asking us to rehear to what cannot norrmally be perceived with bare ears.

Bio
Charles Pender is a sound artist whose work explores the physicality and perception of sound within an installation context. His current practice combines multi-channel sound diffusion and the manipulation of sheet metal to produce immersive and engaging experi- ences for audiences. Influenced by architectural design and acoustics, Pender creates visceral environments through the articulation of space through sound, that are as much for the body as the ear. Pender also creates music under the alias face.v, with music released on Phinery (DK) earlier this year.

Web: http://www.charlespender.com/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/facevsl

Charles Pender - Metal Rods Under the Pier

Transition is a piece inspired by travel by train.

Public   Transport in the UK is an incredibly populated environment. Shared journeys have the potential to become the most intimate and social experiences, but instead people travel in solitary form confined by the rules they have made for themselves and learnt socially. This disconnection behavior breeds social anxiety and paranoia. It is a complete fallacy.

Transition is an Electro-Acoustic piece using the combined mediums of recorded and synthetic sound sources in juxtaposition, representative to these points. The arranged elements are sculpted to echo the taste of your surroundings e.g. the drum pattern has the same inflections of a train cartridge running over the tracks.

Links
https://soundcloud.com/jedd

www.facebook.com/pages/JengaSound/313372005371044

'Remains' focuses on the concept of process. With an emphasis on the forces involved in the manipulation or changing of a form. The piece attempts to give insight into the consequences of past actions that shape the current state of an object or place.

Bio
With a strong interest in Perception, Psychology and Created Experiences Sonny’s work stems across diverse mediums; Moving Image, Still Image Animation and Sound Design. He is currently studying ​Digital Music & Sound Arts BA​ in Brighton, East Sussex 

http://sonnybacon.com/
https://www.instagram.com/sonny.bacon/

The media is dominated by decisive political rhetoric. During the time of Trumps presidential campaign I felt bombarded by the coverage of such a divisive, populist politician. I am also aware of the impact repetition of certain “alternative facts” being forced into your path can shape your own views. Tweet Tweet reflects my opinion on the subject of media bombardment by being a totally immersive and relentless experience. It includes audio relating to Donald Trump and powerful words and phases said by him throughout his campaign. (This piece was originally composed in 5.1 surround sound)

‘Rewind’ is a travelogue across time and place. It was originally composed in 2006, in Brighton. ‘Rewind’ contemplates on the role of memory and the trickery of dream in how we construct the realities we live in. What we believe to be true  often is a cluster of long, interwoven threads of sensual registers, words, transmissions, memories and reflections; rewinding across our perceptual timeline. We are bound to a journey. ‘Rewind’ was slightly reworked in New York and was released in 2009 as part of the album ‘Loop over latitudes’ on Californian label n5MD. The track featured here is the original version of the track.

Bio
Maria Papadomanolaki is a sound practitioner and researcher. Her work and research focus on creating collaborative listening experiences in sites within the urban environment that are associated with migration, transience and change. Either in the form of conversational and telemetatic soundwalks, outdoor listening events, durational broadcasts or exploratory workshops. Maria has also released electronic music, designed sound for dance and installation art, written and edited for music publications and produced for radio.

www.voicesoundtext.com

The piece is made up of multiple layers of field recordings done in a stereo surroundsound around the Level capturing the skate park, the various people who congregate to meet and drink in the space, and those going to and from work or shopping. The layers were all processed to differing degrees to make the experience for the listener hyperreal. The fair is on and this adds a certain manic edge to the recording.

Bio
Stephen Mallinder is an English singer/musician who was a founding member of Cabaret Voltaire, Sassi and Loco, the Ku-Ling Bros and Hey, Rube!. While in Cabaret Voltaire, he contributed lead vocals, bass and occasional keyboards. He is also a member of Wrangler.

He is a former journalist, including as a music journalist for Australian publications Ministry Magazine, Sunday Times and West Australian – and as a radio presenter and producer for RTRFM.

Steven Mallinder - All the Fun of the Fair

Acclimate is originally created as a temperature-reactive sound installation exploring the physical and psychological effects of noise on the human body.

Four prepared oscillating fans are positioned in a cross formation; each fan coupled with a loudspeaker emitting pink noise to articulate its position in space. The fans act as sonic objects, generating their own sound as well as modulating the sounds from the loudspeakers through airflow regulation. Temperature sensors dictate the speed of each fan, which in turn, create fluctuations in air pressure at a molecular level. These subtle shifts in the air affect the way in which sound is propagated and spatially diffused; creating a complex listening experience that is different with every encounter. The piece acts as a metaphor for homeostasis, the human body’s ability to constantly regulate itself in response to changes in external conditions. 

In 'ReHear' a binaural recording of the installation is used to reenact the same effect through sound on a different site across the city where the presence of ventilation is equally prominent.

Bio
Jordan Edge is a Brighton-based sound artist, sound designer, and performer. Edge’s practice communicates the act of listening over time, and listening as a process to develop greater un- derstanding of our environmental and sonic surroundings. In his most recent work, Edge has been experimenting with industrial fans to manipulate the medium through which sound trav- els, creating reactive sound environments that explore the physical and psychological effects of noise on the human body. Edge was the recipient of the Seoul Award of Excellence for his most recent installation work, Acclimate. Edge also produces music under the alias Red Hook Grain Terminal with future releases confirmed on Always Human Tapes (US) and Audio.Visuals. Atmosphere (BE).

Web: http://www.jordanedge.co.uk/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redhookgrainterminal
Instagram: r_h_g_t

ReHear: DMSA Audiowalk (Brighton Digital Festival 2017)

ReHear: DMSA Audiowalk (Brighton Digital Festival 2017)

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Mandie Brooks - La Gran Ola

Jeph Vanger - Henosis

Olivia Louvel - Workshop I

Jean Martin - L-deconstruction

Brianna Leeds: Terrore Impetum

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ReHear: DMSA Audiowalk (Brighton Digital Festival 2017)

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The Echoes

Mandie Brooks - La Gran Ola

Jeph Vanger - Henosis

Olivia Louvel - Workshop I

Jean Martin - L-deconstruction

Brianna Leeds: Terrore Impetum

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