augmented ear reality
MATERIALS, BINAURAL SOUND, & SENSORIAL EXPERIENCES
• 24. July - 4. August 2017 (Two-week Formal class)*
• 7. August - 17. August 2017 (Two-week optional Residency for class participants)*
• up to four weeks, full-time in Berlin, Germany
• Up to 10 participants accepted
• Based in ACUD MACHT NEU
Pricing
Artist / Student (Full Time)*
€675
Professional*
€775
course
description
*Note: This program has evolved into a half lecture course, half residency program. In addition to attending our two-week intensive course, you have the option to continue your work here in a two-week intensive residency as you work towards the creation of a final project for exhibition.
Augmented Ear Reality is a workshop led by sound artist Antoine Bertin and visual artist Helene Combal-Weiss. They meet in the design practice of sensorial experiences. Their hybrid creations merge auditory and tactile senses in the completion of objects, installation and participative experiments.
Leading an exploration of materials, shapes, human body, binaural recordings, interactive audio, and listening practices, participants are taken on a journey to reveal new and unexpected sensations.
Our listening reality is intimate, tactile, spatial, social and temporal. Using creative, analog and digital means of bending the sense of hearing, students are invited to explore the idea of a sound-driven virtual reality. Listening through the ear, listening through skin, listening through bones: through the creation of wearable ‘ear accessories’, the group will devise original strategies of blurring the boundary between the virtual and the real.
This workshop will take you from the inticacies of the ear to the surface of the skin and the resonance of spaces on a journey through the new possibilities in sound experience design that have emerged through the boom of virtual reality.
in this course,
you will be
introduced to
Binaural recording techniques and 360 audio mixing
Interactive sound design with basic Max/MSP skills
Tactile audio: Skin, Bones and Organ vibrations.
Ultradirectional audio technique
Molding of ears and body parts. Alginate, Silicone. -Explore the architecture and mysteries of the hearing apparatus.
Create your own binaural recording rig (dummy ears)
Playing with the vibrational and acoustic properities of an exotic range of natural or synthetic materials, shapes and structures for the design of innovative wearable listening devices.
An amazing network and community of like-minded creative beings and potential future collaborators in the field of sound installation, virtual reality sound design, audio experience design.
An independent creative project for online portfolio and public exhibition
course outline
Two-week Intensive Course: Introductions, concepts, narratives, play, and critical discourse. Binaural Field Recording Techniques Molding and Casting of your own silicone ear Binaural sound recording Ambisonic sound recording and decoding Alginate based S
who is this
program for?
This workshop is geared toward artists, designers, musicians, and anyone interested in experimenting with tactile materials, and the possibilities of storytelling with perception and 3D sound.