steve symons :: projects

Since 2003 I have been exploring the interaction between sound and the location in which it is heard through a series of “aura” projects, which transform the way in which people experience their environment through an immersive sound work involving a backpack and headphones.

This has two strands :-

“aura - the stuff around the stuff around you”
– where audio loops fade in and out depending on your position in the real world and the direction you are facing;
“aura - the stuff that forms around you”
- where the aura system tracks the routes participants take on a walk as they experience evolving and changing sounds based on previous routes.

My other core interests revolve around making and hacking sound producing devices. I use a combination of wood, electronics and computer programming to produce tools for interaction and performance. The resulting artworks are exhibited for public interaction as well as being played and recorded in my doped semiconductor guise.

In November 2005, I joined the Owl Project, performing and creating traditional craft-based electronics.

muio.org is also used as a platform to release various opensource tools to the wider public, for example; the muio interface (a cheap modular system for sensing and controlling the real world from a computer) and software such as cyclOsc (a camera system for performance).

trio

cyclosc

audiostructure