Giorgio Klauer and Annalisa Metus: A Sonic Art Book Kostis Palamas Building (Κτήριο «Κωστής Παλαμάς»), Office of Kostis Palamas

Giorgio Klauer and Annalisa Metus: A Sonic Art Book

Kostis Palamas Building (Κτήριο«ΚωστήςΠαλαμάς»), Office of Kostis Palamas

48 Akadimias & Sina, 10672 Athens http://goo.gl/XRg3eW http://goo.gl/1H049J

The Sonic Art Book project focuses on narrating fairy tales avoiding written media. The tradition of artist books lends itself to this kind of research. The aim of the project is to design a user experience that inspires a sense of childlike wonder. Once the book has been opened sounds emerge from the page and move around in space in response to user's gestures and movements in a not obvious way. Each opening provides a sound characterization of the scene, as if the story was told in other words, with variants or variations highlighting different details. Scenarios are implemented through automata which modelize a varying sonic display (e.g. winter forest; city park; a teenager Little Red Riding Hood), interleaving samples belonging to predefined categories. At the present time, the prototype makes use of eight light sensors and eight miniature dynamic speakers lodged in the thickness of the page. DSP is implemented on a wired computer. The very low amplitude of sounds contribute to the sense of privateness and to an ecology-aware listening.

The research by Giorgio Klauer as a composer concerns the application of techniques such as perceptual feature extraction, physical modeling, and interactive systems. Inquiring into the unity of the musical work, he aims at resolving creative issues by developing original toolkits to be used along the compositional process from the sketch to the performance. He is professor of Electronic Music at the Conservatory of Padua. http://klauer.it, http://www.sampl-lab.org, http://www.cantierezero.org

Annalisa Metus studied architecture and performing arts subjects before obtaining her master degree in Music and New Technologies at the Conservatory of Trieste (Italy). Her outputs implement expressive modalities which avoid written and spoken media as a primary narrative tool, also using technology to interleave a sonic display. http://www.annalisametus.it