Sound in Public Space

Sophea Lerner

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What kinds of public space exist in your city? Who can use these spaces and how? Who controls the sounds you hear in public spaces? How is sound involved in the control and flow of spaces around us? How can we participate in the sonic life of our cities? What signals can we find and process and transmit?... Come and explore and participate in the sonic landscape of San Jose.

Over two days of discussions, presentations and practical workshops you are invited to engage in listening as an active research tool for exploring the city around you and find ways to respond to or intervene critically in the sonic environment. Using simple DIY electronics to draw out unheard elements of the electromagnetic and acoustic environment, participants will work in groups to prototype ideas and undertake processes of negotiation with the various stakeholders in the spaces at hand in order to actualize a work in progress in and around the Signal | Process workshop and the context of ISEA 2006 http://01sj.org/content/view/630/114/

Sophea Lerner is an Australian sonic media artist working with sound and movement in public space, networked participatory audio performance and experimental open content radio broadcasting.

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