The Living Sonic Organism: An Interactive Live Performance Audio System
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This project is an effort to create a live performance system borrowing features from different disciplines in sonic arts and employing multiple audio techniques. The project involves an immersive interactive sonic arts system that combines aspects of sound installation, interactive lighting design, and live sonic arts performance. The completed system was demonstrated with a live performance including three performers from different disciplines in music. The main idea of this project is to create a system that brings together elements from different concepts in sonic arts such as spatial audio, generative music, interactive audio system, and electroacoustic music. The system can be described as a living organism which interacts with the audience while being controlled by both humans and machines in real time. I designed a sonic environment which is alive and running from the very first moment that the audience enters the venue until they leave; a hybrid human-machine controlled system that can project sound through the performance space. In addition to sound art and digital audio, this project examines the relationship between sound and lights in music performances and how the use of lighting in live music can enhance the audience’s experience.