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Sound Art

Canadian Governor General’s Award for Sound Artist Gordon Monahan

SpeakerSwinging-GordonMonahan

 

I just learned that Gordon Monahan received the 2013 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts. The picture shows a performance of his piece Speaker Swinging, premiered in 1982. It uses three or more swinging loudspeakers and eight audio oscillators. Congrats!

 

 

Publication research

Best paper award at SMC 2012

Today Trond LossiusJan C. Schacher, and me received the Best Paper Award for “SpatDIF: Principles, Specification, and Examples” at the 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference.

 

This paper presents the current state of our long-term effort in creating a community-driven interchange format for spatial audio scenes. More on www.SpatDIF.org.

Here the reference:

@inproceedings{SpatDIF-SMC12,
 Address = {Copenhagen, DK},
 Author = {Nils Peters and Trond Lossius and Jan C. Schacher},
 Booktitle = {Proc. of the 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference},
 Title = {{SpatDIF}: Principles, Specification, and Examples},
 Year = {2012}}

We are now invited to submit a revised and expanded version for publication in The Computer Music Journal (MIT Press).

 

I am similarly excited that the paper “An Automated Testing Suite for Computer Music Environments” I wrote together with Trond Lossius and Timothy Place was also nominated for Best Paper.