Daichi Misawa: Data Auditorio
Daichi Misawa: Data AuditorioMuseum of Greek Folk Music Instruments (ΜουσείοΕλληνικώνΛαϊκώνΜουσικώνΟργάνων), lecture room
1–3 Diogenous St. (Plaka), 105 56 Athens http://goo.gl/camQp3
Data Auditorio is an interactive sound which is produced in a certain space. It enables audiences to participate in a game called “performance play”(e.g. playing piano, playing music, being a play actor, playing the game for the game’s sake, etc.). The interactive sound software processes the feedback signals between the microphone and the hyper-directional speaker and aims to ultimately give rise to a kind of sonic organism; the sound is, in fact, an algorithmic composition which is entirely derived from the feedback signals in a real-time sonic environment. The installation utilizes the format of a performance stage and encourages the audience to interact in a natural fashion with the interactive sound, thereby making the game of Data Auditorio a more active endeavor.
Daichi Misawa works in the fields of interactive art, intermedia and sound. He has participated in the exhibitions at Institut français du Japon, Ars Electronica, TEI, Japan Institute, among others. Nowadays, Misawa is based in the Interface Cultures Lab, Linz, Austria.
Kiyomitsu Odai (Ph.D., music composition, UCSB) is a composer/piano improviser from Japan. For his music, he has adopted multidisciplinary (mathematical, psychoacoustic, linguistic, algorithmic, etc.) approaches. He has studied with Don Malone, Hilda Paredes, Roscoe Mitchell, Curtis Roads, and Clarence Barlow. His Passacaglia di Fibonacci was played by Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra in 2011.