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David First
āI define immersive as the first time I realized that there was a bigger universe than my daily life.ā
David First is a many-sided composer-musician having played in Dead Cheese, a hippie guitar band in his youth, performed with Cecil Taylor in Carnegie Hall, produced many records of minimalist drone music some of which were released on Phill NiblockŹ¼s XI label, heās played in rowdy bar bands, led the no-wavish band the Notekillers, which had a significant influence on Sonic Youth and he has even conducted a MummerŹ¼s String Band in various Philly parades. The Village Voice once described him as "a bizarre cross between Hendrix and La Monte Young."
Heās performed at most of the avant gardeās hallowed halls including The Kitchen, Bang On A Can, Central Park Summerstage, The Knitting Factory, Tonic, the Deep Listening Institute, CBGBŹ¼s as well as De Ijsbreker in Amsterdam and many festivals throughout Europe. Other projects include working with the sonification of the atmospheric phenomena known as the Schumann Resonances and human brainwaves and other esoteric projects such as The Western Enisphere, a drone and micro-pulse acoustic-electric ensemble.
Samples PlaylistWave Music III - 60 Clarinets & a Boat ā¢ Charlie MorrowTape Letter to Michigan ā¢ David FirstDead Cheese Twice Daily live @ Cheese Nation 1971 ā¢ David FirstHarmonic Dance ā¢ David FirstThe Distant Softening Spirit Wave Pulse Tape Girder Interference Etude ā¢ Wreck, First & Morrow Live at AmbientChaos ā¢ David First Wave Music V - Conch Chorus and Bagpipe ā¢ Charlie MorrowTell Tale ā¢ David FirstEtude 15 ā¢ David FirstDistant Signals ā¢ Charlie MorrowPulse Piece ā¢ David FirstBlossom Dearie Snippet of her Air ā¢ Wreck MixSpirit Voices ā¢ Charlie Morrow
Subjects touched upon: drones, bar bands, rock & roll bands, Lamonte Young, Daveās Waves, Sunview Luncheonette Greenpoint, psychedelic revolution, poet Jerome Rothenberg, bending notes, Douglas Kahn, minimalist tendencies, free jazz, world music, Meteor Crater AZ, the heavens, the Kitchen, Phill Niblock, guitar, oscillators, signal generators, Muddy Waters, electronic music, Dennis Sandole, Hermann von Helmholtz, ancient voltaic cells, Harry Partch, Charles Ives, the minor third, blues, Gert Stern, new age, pseudo-science, Schumann resonances, improv, Discman, electrical engineer father, heterodyning, pursuit of magic, Canal Street ...
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Robin Sip as a Dutch writer-producer-director and CEO of Mirage3DRobin is best known for productions like Mars 1001, Dinosaurs at Dusk, Origins of Life, Natural Selection & Dawn of the Space Age, which was the worldās first 3D fulldome film. Sip is also an award-winning pioneer of special venue 3D cinema & his Mirage3D is a leading fulldome-VR producer, having produced some 20 fulldome shows.
He began his professional life as a computer engineer, moved on to become a 3D modeler, & eventually, a writer-director. More recently, he has focused His is on the improvement of live action capture for domes, with the design of new camera rigs for films & fulldome-VR productions.
I met Robin over a decade ago in Denver, Colorado when his work was featured by Dan Neefus in the Gates Planetarium at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Since then, weāve collaborated on the creation of the Planetarium version of the feature documentary Moonwalk One on the anniversary of Apollo 11. It has my music & Sound by Robin.
Topics discussed: love of space flight, astronauts, Apollo 11 & 12, immersive practice & work flow, studied electro-computer engineering, Omniversum, tilted dome, digital projectors, space flight narratives, immersive educational films, fulldome cinema, planetariums, research, Darwin, soundtracks, dinosaurs...
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Phill Niblock migrated to New York after completing a BA in economics at Indiana University, determined to pursue his passions: photography and film, often documenting jazz and modern dance performances. [Playlist below]
But, despite having no formal musical training, he soon found himself inspired by the New York music scene and immersed himself in experimental music, specifically loud sound, microtonal work, minimalism, and drones, producing works of often epic length. Fifty years later we can see how influential he has been in these genres with his copious output of records, videos and films and having won numerous awards along the way.
He has served as director of the Experimental Intermedia foundation for avant-garde music since 1985 and curates the record label XI. Niblockās films includes a series called The Movement of People Working, which features workers at work in mostly rural setting worldwide.
Niblock has often collaborated with musicians, which include David First, Lee Renaldo, Thurston Moore, Susan Stenger, Al Margolis, and David Soldier as well as with me.
He just turned 90. He and I first connected in the 1970s when he attended Rhys Chathamās presentation of my Spirit Voices in the Kitchen of the Broadway Central Hotel. He invited me to perform at his loft in Chinatown where he had just begin what has become a historic series. He came to my home sound studio on West End Avenue and West 77th Street for a session. I engineered and removed all the pauses from his solo cello work, making it a drone work. Phill's sunsets shone in our 1987 International TV Solstice. His Glittering Stream graced our Winter Solstice Celebration 2020.
Topics discussed by Morrow and Niblock: immersion, Lenny Tristan, Empress Dowager Cixi, China, rule of thirds, photography, high fidelity, history of hifi, speakers, dark room techniques, New York City water, performances, listening to records as immersion, tenement life, Mingus, Ellington, Monk, alcoholism, loops, file storage, loud sound, tech and gear, sound editing, reel to reel, archives, old trains, wire recorders ...
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Vitiello, a New York native, is an internationally recognized sound artist and mainstay of the New York scene since his early days as a punk guitarist. He has been influenced by Nam June Paik, has collaborated with Scanner, Pauline Oliveros and Frances-Marie Utti. He is also an electronic musician and visual artist. And, according to Morrow, āan absolute Geiger Counter for places.ā
In 1999 he did a residency at the World Trade Center managing to capture the Towersās swaying in the wind and recorded the creaking and cracking of the buildingās skeleton. He has produced countless recordings on various labels such as Sub Rosa and has had many solo exhibitions that combine sound, installations, photos and drawings at museums and galleries and has been part of many Group shows including Soundings: Contemporary Score at MOMA, the Whitney and the Sydney Biennale. Vitiello serves as a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Kinetic Imaging department.
I met Stephen in the 1980s. We worked together on Nam Jun Paikās Zapping for Swatch watch. Then on some of Paikās soundtracks, including "Did George Sand Kill Chopin." Stephen curated the show, New Sounds New York, for the Kitchen in New York. It included the New York unveiling of my patended 3D soundcube with series of commissioned works including his most evocative, āCinematic, With Crashing Roof,ā one of 12 designed for the cube by an array of artists.
Samples Playlist Question Of Temperature ā¢ Balloon Farm Electrinocellia ā¢ MEM1 + Stephen Vitiello Train to the Plane ā¢ Charlie Morrow Brood IX ā¢ Stephen Vitiello Breath Chant ā¢ Charlie Morrow Bell Bell Horn Horn ā¢ Charlie Morrow Mental Radio ā¢ Stephen Vitiello Cascoplecia ā¢ MEM1 + Stephen Vitiello Genesis Song ā¢ Charlie Morrow Iron Oxide ā¢ Stephen Vitiello Thinking In, Thinking Out ā¢ Stephen Vitiello Trainslation ā¢ Steve Roden Spring Helsinki ā¢ Charlie Morrow Humming ā¢ Charlie Morrow
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Pierre Brand began sound mixing and editing for film in 1994 and has made a name for himself on feature films such as Ghosted and Trial by Fire and on international documentaries of note such as Blue Note A story of Modern Jazz, Absolute Warhola, Wildnis Europa and The Hunt for Gaddafi's Billions.
He attended the Berklee College of Music and currently works out of his Primetime Studio in Hamburg He has collaborated with me on planetarium installations using MorrowSound software. We work together on the International Planetarium Society immersive sound committee, which has created a survey on sound practise in Planetariums.
Playlist iMMERSE! Podcast 26
excerpts of Charlie Morrow trax & examples of Pierre Brandās sound mixing
The Fire Trial by Fire (Henry Jackman) ā¢ Pierre BrandBlue Note A Story of Modern Jazz ā¢ Pierre BrandSweeter Times (Henry Jackman) ā¢ Pierre BrandABSOLUT Warhola part3 ā¢ Pierre BrandYou Can Trust Me Ghosted (Lorne Balfe) ā¢ Pierre BrandChant with Watches ā¢ Charlie MorrowUnder Suspicion (Henry Jackman) ā¢ Pierre BrandAmplified Piano ā¢ Charlie MorrowElizabeth (Henry Jackman) ā¢ Pierre BrandChoral Bounce ā¢ Charlie MorrowGendernauts ā¢ Monika Treut
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This is a summer interlude, a special remixed iMMERSE! version of the summer of 2022 broadcast of the Wreck This Mess radio show: Wreck the Drowning World 1249 & serves as a reaction to the countless 2023 summer climate catastrophes that have hit far & wide ā including the iMMERSE! & Charlie Morrow archive & headquarters in Vermont.
Iāve been researching flooding & other climate crisis extreme weather globally ā & notice that governments, companies & individuals talk the talk, especially for the cameras where their self-aggrandizing lies sound genuine until out of view, companies are dumping harmful chemicals into the waterways & individuals are still buying Hummers, dumping their garbage on the streets under cover of night. They hold onto their entitled pleasure & comfort-driven habits as if there is no tomorrow.
Electronic music + rain + water & sea + Gavin Bryars āTitanic,ā global flooding news + leftist analyses + audiobook citations from JG Ballardās THE DROWNED WORLD to create a mesmerizing sonic pool of beguiling beauty upon which floats the nauseating & heart-wrenching news.
Excerpts :: Base inTRO2final ā¢ Charlie Morrow vs bart / Emptied spaces ā¢ def / 24H 48 Demo Water Morrow & Remes / Atlantis ā¢ nthng / Svalor ā¢ Purl / fld-001.2 rain ā¢ .foundation / Ten Years of Rainy Autumn ā¢ Raflum / Cool Watery Depths ā¢ Rod Modell / FEAR FLOOD ā¢ B/art / Relaxing ocean waves & beautiful misty beach ā¢ OnSite / Butterfly Remix ā¢ Halftribe vs Warmth / Falling Mountain ā¢ Mount Maxwell / Sea ā¢ Delia Derbyshire / Oceanima ā¢ Purl /Warm Rain & Sleepy Water ā¢ KeepSleep / Cool Cool Water Alt Mix ā¢ Beach Boys / Spring Helsinki ā¢ Charlie Morrow / Cool Cool Water ā¢ Slim Whitman / Swamp Island Remix ā¢ Echo Box vs Volunteer / WHALESONG ā¢ DF Tram / Something in the Water ā¢ Mt Eden Dubstep & Khadafi Dub / Hold Dearly ā¢ Fuubutsushi / Space 1.8 ā¢ Nala Sinephro ā¢ WATER ā¢ Beat Pharmacy vs Mutabaruka / Waves Coming In, Surf, Seashore ā¢ Charlie Morrow / Walking Waves ā¢ Miruga / Lights In Window ā¢ 110ml / Out of Source ā¢ Alphaxone / Drowned World ā¢ JG Ballard / Endless Imbalance ā¢ Addex / Mind Bypassed ā¢ Respira / Floating ā¢ Lauge / Floating World ā¢ Anne Lockwood / Cascade (The Deluge) ā¢ William Basinski / Water Drums ā¢ Union Jack + Baka Pygmies / Thirsty ā¢ Orb vs Lee Scratch Perry / On Second Thoughts ā¢ Halftribe / Wishing Well ā¢ Julianna Barwick / fld-001.1 ā¢ .foundation / Last Hymn Sinking of the Titanic ā¢ Gavin Bryars
LISTEN to the original expansive version: https://www.mixcloud.com/wreckthismess/wreck-the-drowning-world-1249/
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Tim is a museum designer who transforms the static notion of a museum into something dynamic and engaging. He has worked for Ralph Appelbaum Associates, an award-winning international interpretive planning and exhibition design firm, for over 28 years. He is the director of RAAās Berlin-based studio.
He has directed the interpretive planning and exhibition design for many major institutions, including the visitor center for Grand Teton National Park in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the Smithsonianās Arctic Studies Center in Alaska, the First Nations Museum in Oklahoma, the Museums of Ethnology and Asian Art in Humboldt Forum in Berlin, the World Museum Vienna in Austria and is currently leading the design of the new Museum of the Viking Age in Olso Norway.
Subjects discussed: collaborations, immersive environments, Berlin, museum design, Holocaust Museum in Washington, fly fishing, Norway, Montana, Vienna, Cornell, outdoors, bringing museums to life ...
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Gideon DāArcangelo is a man of many ambitions. His main interests include the integration of virtual and physical worlds, working toward the design integration of physical, media, systems, graphic & content to ultimately create holistic experiences.
He joined Arupās New York office in 2019 where he is a Principal and serves as the Americas Digital Services Portfolio Leader and a designer of interactive and immersive environments.He has been the VP of Strategy and Communications at ESI Design. He has worked on the Hall of Human Life at the Boston Museum of Science, and the Institute for War and Peace Reportingās web platform the Reuters Sign at Three Times Square, and the on-island and on-line ancestor search at Ellis Island Ellis Island Heritage experience. Another focus has been the intersection of new technology and musical experience. He is currently a contributing producer for WNYCās Studio 360. From 2005-2008, he produced the series Listening In on āWeekend America.ā In the 1990s, he worked with ethnomusicologist-folklorist Alan Lomax on the Global Jukebox, an illustrated database of world song and dance styles. I met Gideon when he was a youngster, living in upstate New York in the 1970s where his family was based. His father, painter Allan DāArcangelo ā briefly as well-known as Andy Warhol - and mom Sylvia were close friends of my mentor and artistic collaborator, poet Jerome Rothenberg and his anthropologist wife, Diane. Gideon and I were more in touch after his time at University of Chicago and continue through to the present. His interweaving of creative and social threads, his easy and evergrowing technological learning is a driver of this constellation. Aside from the magic Gideon has brought to his own designs he has kept his father's extraordinary art legacy alive.
Playlist of audio samples
A Future Harvest ā¢ Charlie MorrowEin Feuer Aus Licht Und Liebe ā¢ Die Welttraumforscher vs Klangwart Hamanamah ā¢ KlangwartWater & Ocean ā¢ Charlie MorrowSalmiana ā¢ Marc SloanInsurrection Oratorio 1 ā¢ Charlie Morrow & Bread & Puppet TheatreO Yeh Charlie Echomix ā¢ Charlie Morrow & b/artLeave With You ā¢ 2XMThalys bells + lobby & elevator & hotel ambience + mall muzak + distant trains + crickets + radio signals
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Ville Pulkkiās fame reached the techno avant garde with the adoption of his ingenious VBAP (vector-base amplitude panning) a tool for creating spatial sound. When I met him in Helsinki, I was delighted to discover that behind the techie who developed VBAP, a charming jokester. Since then, Iāve enjoyed his warmth and his efficient organizing of the Acoustics Department at Aalto University, including the 2023 convention of the Audio Engineering Society of Europe. Maija-Leena Remes and I interviewed Ville in his lab where he was studying the acoustic layers of the Earthās atmosphere. He also talked about his learning to dance at the age of 40 and performing on television for commercials and musical events, where the delight of performance must compete with his delight of invention.
Ville Pulkki is a professor in the Department of Information and Communications Engineering at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland who has worked in the field of spatial audio for over 25 years. He developed VBAP for his PhD. in 2001 and later, directional audio coding with his research group. He has also made contributions to the perception of spatial sound, laser-based measurement of room responses, and binaural auditory models. He received the Samuel L. Warner Memorial Medal Award from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and the AES Silver Medal Award. He enjoys being with his family, building his summer house, playing various musical instruments, and acting, dancing and singing in musical ensembles.
Playlist of samples:Score The World contest STW2618 ā¢ Ville PulkkiSongs of Flowers and Stones ā¢ Charlie MorrowChorale bounce 1 ā¢ Charlie MorrowSoundflake orchestral version ā¢ Ville PulkkiMusical fractal Kuusi Soundflake instrumental ā¢ Ville PulkkiTous les Matins du Monde (Marin Marais) ā¢ Jordi SavallElla (1960) ā¢ Charlie MorrowUltrasonic spatial superhearing ā¢ Ville PulkkiA Future Harvest ā¢ Charlie MorrowScruTiny in the Great Round ā¢ Charlie MorrowDaydream musical composition ā¢ Ville PulkkiBinary sequences Six variations for orchestra ā¢ Ville PulkkiWave Music III - 60 Clarinets and a Boat ā¢ Charlie Morrow Sun Chant (1975) ā¢ Charlie MorrowBat Sounds
Themes discussed: VBAP, perception of spatial sound, early immersive experiences in Finland, experiencing silence, bat sounds, ultrasonic super hearing, physics vs music, esoteric inventions, ambisonics, performing music live.
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Micky Remann is a German media artist and producer of media events. He invented the āLiquid Soundā concept and its installation in various locations with exceptional waters such Bad Orb & Bad Sulza in Germany. They involve participants floating in body temperature salt water where they participate in immersive experiences that includes underwater sounds, music, lights and surround video.
Remann also developed the popular international FullDome Festival at the Zeiss Planetarium in Berlin. It features innovative productions, music and entertainment in the genre of 360-degree, audio-visual media and immersive fulldome theatre performances. He is also a some-time singer, a songwriter, and an author. I met Kicky in Bad Sulza where I could enjoy the underwater sound system. In this podcast Remann discusses his explorations of whale & dolphin languages and his more recent exploits expanding the Liquid Sound concept.
Playlist of samples:Underwater bubble soundsAquasonic ā¢ Between MusicPhoning Annea ā¢ Charlie Morrow & Annea LockwoodConcert for Fish ā¢ Charlie MorrowLive at Liquid Sound ā¢ BalsamfieberComet, Fire, Water ā¢ Charlie MorrowLiquid Sound Festival 2014 exc ā¢ Thomas Kagermann Liquid Sound Festival 2014 exc ā¢ Jim NollmanWater, Ocean ā¢ Charlie Morrow
Subjects discussed: immersion concerts, salt water flotation, pre-birth experiences, fulldome experiences, first immersive experience at age 3 when he almost drowned in a pond, his sister saw him in a dream-like state and yelled to his mother who ran to save him, mermaids, underwater crystal palaces, temple for underwater listening, communicated with whales of the Pacific Northwest coast with music, environmental opera & symphony, reincarnations as an Orca Whale, body temperature and salt water while simulating the musical experience of whales, underwater concerts, thermos / bad / spas, DJ nights, full moon concerts, Liquid Sound Festival ...
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Todayās iMMERSE podcast is even more unusual than many of the others. I interviewed Elke and Peter Schumann in February of 2020 in their Glover, Vermont home along with Jay Walbert, the archivist for my Archive in nearby Barton, Vermont.
The octagenarian Schumanns immigrated from Germany to New York in 1961 and have led the Bread and Puppet Theater since 1963.
In this podcast, they share their history and artistic politics and bread. As Peter says here: We went around and gave them pieces of bread to eat and found they were a better audience when they were chewing ā we liked them betterā¦"
In the beginning of our chat, Peter turns to Elke and says, "When I donāt remember something, you will".
"I will" she says. This happy conversation is ever so dear to me because Elke passed away on August 1, 2021.
I first met Peter in New York in the 1970s through public events maker, Karin Bacon. I first came to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont in 1968 to work with Fluxus artists Dick Higgins and Alison Knowles.
In the years that followed, I bought some land from them and built a house there in the 1990, the house where I now live and am recording this introduction. Since 1990, my relationship with Bread and Puppet and the Schumann in the neighboring town of Glover continued to grow.
The Bread and Puppet Theater engages people, after filling them with hand-milled sourdough bread. They work environmentally and for many decades now, they've been making amazing use of the landscape, natural light changes and natural acoustics. Puppets from tiny to gigantic, signs, banners and hand-made art have always animated their events. Their roadside museum is filled with decades worth of their fanciful performance objects from their local, national and international pageants.
The tradition of handing-out bread always guarantees good spirits and an enthusiastic audience ready to be entertained by the humor, irony, politics, pageantry and their deep concerns for humanity. But letās just let them tell their own story.
Topics covered in podcastJohn Cage, Merce Cunningham, Claes Oldenberg, anti-Vietnam war protests, Judson Church, Living Theatre, Red Grooms, Stefan Brecht, Tompkins Square Park, Lower Eastside, Daily street muggings of the Bread & Puppet performers, street performances, Grace Paley, volunteerism, Burning Man, War Resisters League, Strike for Peace, Vermont, Barton, Glover, Northeast Kingdom, Socialist pageants, searching for clay, puppet historian, John Bell, Alison Knowles, Dick Higgins, Earth People Park, Burke, pianist Karl Schwartz, Sheffield, baking rye bread, summer Bread & Puppet performances in Vermont, homemade clay bread oven, May Day, Pageant Park, Crystal Lake, Peter Schumannās sculptures, the Bread & Puppet Museum, Sheffield River clay wall, The Charlie Morrow Archive ...
Samples playlist:Insurrection Oratorio ā¢ Charlie Morrow / Strange Circus ā¢ Lee Volfoni / Carnival Of Souls ā¢ Verne Langdons / Wonder Bread Commercial 1950s / Bread and Puppet Theater 2021 ā¢ Tetsuro Hoshii / Brother Bread Sister Puppet ā¢ Grace Paley / Grosse Fuge ā¢ Charlie Morrow / Felliniās Circus ā¢ Daniele Benati / Kiddie Land ā¢ Prelude to a Nightmare
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iMMERSE! 19 Charley Morrow interviews Chris Wangro
Today we talk with my long-time friend & co-conspirator in public events, Chris Wangro. We met through the New City Department of Parks, where he just had been hired as events coordinator. My colleagues and I at the New Wilderness Foundation were producing a summer solstice celebration in New York's Central Park. Chris had, at the time, the early 1980s, just returned from working in Europe with experimental rock band Henry Cow. We have continued to make things happen to the present-day.
Chris Wangro started out as the ringmaster of a one-man circus and rose to become the tzar of Special Events for the City of New York in the 1980s.
These days, he works as a Sought-After Public Space Strategist who pursues the improved design of public space, employing placemaking, community-building strategies that are enhanced by his PASSION FOR BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER IN JOYFUL, DYNAMIC, AND UNEXPECTED WAYS ā all across the globe. He has produced countless prestigious events for audiences from intimate to massive including festivals, cultural programs, presidential summits, NASCAR rallies, papal visits, Dolly Parton conerts, pachyderm parades and art festivities worldwide. The event we produced was broadcast internationally.
Topics discussed: immersion, VR vs real immersion, the park as ultimate immersive experience, the circus as a tangible immersive experience, solstice events in Central Park, PT Barnum, concert hall vs informal space performance, immersive experiences are as old as mankind, what makes a good circus, magic tricks, experimental & political performance, live events & festivals, feeling the space, Olmstead, improv, homemade musical instruments, independent & noncorporate events.
Interview Transcript to Follow
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Charlie Morrow: The Magnetic Still Point
[hors-serie iMMERSE! podcast]
Hello, Iām Charlie Morrow. Welcome to iMMERSE! & our conversations on immersivity. Today is a still point. One of those moments when time seems to have stopped.
Iāve been moving further & further north from my origins in New Jersey, US & art & business beginnings in New York City. As a 7 & 8 year-old, my summers in Maine began my north-o-tropia. In 1968, I visited Dick Higgins & Alison Knowles at their Something Else Press workshop & home in Barton, Vermont.
In the 70s, I bought property there & in the 80s built a sugar house, where maple sap is boiled to become maple syrup, in the 90s I built a Vermont home in the sugar woods, the local name for a forest of maple sugar trees.
On my first trip to Lapland in 1986, I had come the furthest north Iād ever been. It was late autumn with light snow. In the night light, as I drove north through Finland toward Kat Kat Keino, I appeared to drive past giant, very wide, dark trunked trees, separated by narrow passages of white light. I came to understand that these were tiny trees & wide expanses of tundra! Still points can be just like this, moments when life turns inside out.
Thereās a ready connection to what some call vertical time. Time when the past & the present & the future are one. Music & sound, like words & images, open the mind to immersion & to time travel. Human communication starts with gestures & graphic images evolve into writing & printing, photography & sound recording, visual & sonic transmission.
Memory & imagination starts with capturing experience, evolves storing selected information & distilling information.
The phrase still point appears in T.S Eliotās poem āBurnt Nortonā: āAt the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. & do not call it fixity, Where past & future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards.ā
Medically speaking, the still point is a period of time when the movement of brain activity is not apparent. This temporary cessation of motion can last from a few seconds to a minute or two. It is thought that still points occur spontaneously as well as being able to be induced.
& then there is the vanishing point, which Wikipedia tells us is āThe point at which parallel lines receding from an observer seem to converge. The point in linear perspective at which all imaginary lines of perspective converge. The point at which a thing disappears or ceases to exist.
Poet Armand Schwerer writes of an Aleut shamanās statement to anthropologist Franz Boas: āWhen I do the ceremony just right & the setting sun light is just right I disappear.ā Today is a still point. One of those moments when time seems to have stopped...
All iMMERSE! texts & transcripts available here: https://www.charliemorrow.com/immerse-podcast.html
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This is a relaunch of immerse! 6 with updated information on the Notre Dame renovations
Brian Katz, acoustican, CNRS Research Director at Sorbonne Universityās Institute Jean Le Rond dāAlembert Sound Lab, is also a specialist in spatial hearing, room acoustics, and virtual reality. The most interesting development in the past few years was his work on the Notre Dame reconstruction with regard to the acoustics in trying to reproduce the century-old sound.
April 2023 will see the launch of a 4-part French podcast series called āUne Fiction Sonoreā @ http://alarecherchedenotredame.pasthasears.eu/.
It includes āIn Search of Notre Dameā which claims to plunge listeners Victor Hugo mind as he researches his new novel about the Notre-Dames in 1828. Hugo was upset by the poor condition of the cathedral. Hugo leads listeners on an investigation/experiment regarding Notre-Dameās acoustics and soundscapes over the centuries.
April 2024 will see the streaming (audio or VR), of various works played in Notre-Dame in the simulated historic acoustic conditions appropriate to their composition period, spanning choir, organ, to full orchestras.
He is currently working on a listening study that examines how the acoustics affects the transmission/reception of medieval music via various virtual acoustic conditions
He and his colleagues are also placing a small choir in various virtual acoustic conditions corresponding to different historical states, and examining how their performance is modified.
as well as refining acoustic material definitions by measuring various tapestries, rugs, and other fabrics at the Louvre and National Monument Archives. The results will be incorporated into simulations examining the more decorated periods of Notre-Dameās history.
Brian FG Katz, Research Director, CNRS, Sorbonne UniversitƩ, CNRS, UMR 7190, Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, http://www.dalembert.upmc.fr/home/katz
photo of Brian Katz used with permission, Notre Dame Gargoyle by bart plantenga
All iMMERSE! texts & transcripts available here: https://www.charliemorrow.com/immerse-podcast.html
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iMMERSE! is a series of podcasts I produce with Charlie Morrow who interviews colleagues & collaborators on the trending topic of immersion [think sensuround sound +]. For Morrow, it all began in the motherās belly, eventually migrating to the Ear Inn where he met a pack of audio outliers & ended up with Ear Magazine & the Audiographics series of cassettes + countless events, interventions & concerts that forever changed the mindscape of NYC & elsewhere. We are now embarking on a sidebar Sub-iMMERSING!, which will feature offhand impromptu audio diversions ... here is the short intro to Sub-iMMERSING!
All iMMERSE! texts & transcripts available here: https://www.charliemorrow.com/immerse-podcast.html
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Thomas Kraupe is a German astrophysicist who specialized in x-ray astronomy at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. Heās managed a kind of magical situation by combining math & physics with his love of planetariums & music to create numerous interactive edutainment & art science crossover projects that have attracted artists such as Snap, Heaven 17 & Pink Floyd at several planetariums most recently as Director of Planetarium Hamburg, which he transformed into one of the most advanced planetariums in the world before retiring in late 2022. He continues to serve as a consultant for immersive theaters worldwide. I met Thomas in Colorado Springs, Colorado at one of the first immersive gatherings.His invitation for me to join & chair the International Planetarium Society Committee for Immersive Sound has opened the door for many projects. Charlie Morrow & Thomas again crossed paths at Imersa Montreal 2022.
All iMMERSE! texts & transcripts available here: https://www.charliemorrow.com/immerse-podcast.html
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Canadian artist-professor Luc Courchesne was an early convert to media arts some 50 years ago. He began utilizing computer technologies in 1984 to create interactive video and later with his immersive and interactive installations, "panoscopic" images, and devices of his own, he helped transform spectators into visitors, actors and inhabitants of his experiential crafts. Charlie Morrow interviews on immersive common ground.
Read entire interview pdf here
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Canadian Claude Schryer is a Zen practitioner who believes in the power of art to shape a better future & dedicates much of his life to this pursuit. He has been a sound & media artist, having released several electroacoustic soundscape CDs in the 90s. for 20 years, He served as an arts administrator with the Canada Council for the Arts in Inter-Arts after creating that department.
Schryer is an environmental activist and in 2020 launched his bilingual āradical listeningā Conscient podcast, which explores art and the ecological crisis. He also offers workshops on art and sound & the climate emergency.
When I heard Schryerās podcast with Hildegard Westerkamp, I was moved as much by the interviewer as by his inspiring guest. Thoughtful dialogue and warm atmosphere. I reached out to Schryer and came away with this interview. He is enthusiastic and engaged. He welcomed the opportunity to discuss immersion and the moderating of a podcast. Midway through our interview, he turned the tables and began interviewing me and, in the end, we each came away with our own podcast ā one for immerse!, a second for Conscient.
Schryer: āThe worldās a bad place and there are those who are raising awareness. And there are those who say: Hereās what you can do about it. That sort of action-oriented activist, engagĆ© art. And then thereās a third category of escapists and dreamers, also very important ... so somewhere between those who are raising awareness, those who are inciting us into action and those who are helping us escape from it.ā
Read entire interview pdf here
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āI realized that we were going to be able to take audiences & immerse them in the universe, take them on a journey & surround them with the mystery & the beauty of the universe.ā
Ian McLennan is a pioneer in the development of planetariums, museums, science centers, & other high-content public attractions. Based in Vancouver, Canada, he has shepherded attractions from the days before Imax to international fairs to today's immersive projects. Heās also music lover & a lover of his daily walks during which he captures special moments in his photographs. I met him through Dan Neafus at Imersa in Denver, when he was being honored for his life's work in the field of planetariums, science domes & immersive environments.
Read entire interview pdf here
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