Dinacon dates: august 3-7
project: A musical composition exploring the history and nature of Gamboa and the Panama Canal
Heriberto Pinzón
Cherise Fong
8/24 – 8/31
Project: Field sound recording along Pipeline Road in order to create a radiophonic journey into its birdsong and wildlife around the clock. Hard science will inevitably be mixed with soft fiction, so zoological correctness not guaranteed.
Writer and journalist, budding birder, interested in both science and fiction involving non-human perspectives, zoology, ecology, technology, evolving ecosystems and documenting the sixth mass extinction.
Lisa Schonberg
DATES: Aug 24-31
BIO: I am a percussionist, composer, writer, and field recordist with a background in ecology and entomology.
PROJECT: My collaborator Kristina Dutton and I will compose new music and sound work based on observation and field recordings. I am particularly interested in the sounds of ants and the Passalid beetles, and have been researching these sounds in the Brazilian Amazon. Kristina and I will illustrate contrasting ecological variables through our recording and composition processes. We will use hydrophones, ultrasonic mic, contact mics, and shotgun mic, and build the compositions using found instruments and Ableton Live. If there is mutual interest, we can create this work as a sonic aspect of another researcher’s work at Dinacon. We also want to interview participants at Dinacon about larger questions related to artists and scientists producing work together.
www.lisaschonberg.com
Susan Booher
Dates: 04/8-10/8
Project: Susan will be recording her travels to and around Gamboa, Panama as well as the local flora and fauna (on land, in the air, and along the river) with a 360-degree camera to deliver an immersive experience in virtual reality to aging and/or disabled people through technology and digital recordings.
Bio: I’m a graduate student in Design Research and Development with a specialization in Aging at the Ohio State University. I practiced commercial interior design for 13 years before returning to academia to pursue an MFA. I’d like to continue with a career that supports the aging population and dementia. It’d be a dream to create an experience that can benefit the cognitive and emotional health of older adults who can no longer travel.
Phillip Hermans
Dates: 8/19 – 8/25
Project: Sonification of Rainforest Sensor Data
I plan to create a software system for transforming sensor data from DINALAB’s LARA network into audio. I hope to collaborate with other scientists, artists and researchers to create audio that is communicates information from the sensor’s via sound. I am also interested in using this system purely to generate music.
My backup plan is to use local materials to build some bio-degradable sound sculptures.
Bio: I’m a musician, programmer and educator interested in interactive audio, sonification, acoustic ecology and bio-acoustics.
Jennifer Payne
August 4th – 11th
I’m thinking of working on a physical visualization of someone’s data*, perhaps using natural materials. (Aside from physical representations of data, I’m keen on collaboration, paper crafts, physical computing, felting, and climbing trees!)
* perhaps collected by you, at Dinacon!?