Moving Audiences: a portfolio of site specific audio projects
- Submitting institution
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University of York
: A - A - Music
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : A - A - Music
- Output identifier
- 67315601
- Type
- J - Composition
- Month
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- Year
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- These three multi-disciplinary works were designed for promenade audiences wearing headphones in site-specific locations. The research for two 2014 projects: _The Claim_ (Transform Festival, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: 45min.) and _Cosi-Cosi_ (Infecting the City Festival, Cape Town: 39 min.) – was further developed in _A Collection of Small Choices_ (Hoxton Hall, London: variable duration, 40-60 min.). The pieces were developed collaboratively by Hannah Bruce and Company, featuring Eato as composer (with Sazi Dlamini for _Cosi-Cosi_) and sound designer. Two research questions underpinned Eato’s work:
a) how musical composition and sound design delivered over headphones can be used intermedially – with lighting (_The Claim_ and _Small Choices_), dance (_The Claim_), installation (_The Claim_ and _Small Choices_), spoken word (all) – to creatively guide promenade audiences through a performance environment; and
b) how the combination of sound design and musical composition can respond simultaneously to the changing acoustic environments encountered during promenade performances and the artistic aims of the piece.
The submission comprises: i) the soundfile for each work; ii) basic contextualising information for the two earlier projects; iii) more substantial contextualising documentation of _Small Choices_, evidencing research process and resulting experience.
All tracks were mastered for headphone use and for the specific environments, which ranged from very quiet to very noisy (often in the same piece). In _The Claim_ and _Cosi-Cosi_, audiences listened to mp3 tracks (as submitted here) via the TlotT App designed by Eato: this immerses listeners in an intense, individual soundworld by simultaneous delivery of multiple tracks to different audience members around a location. For the third project the Small Choices App was developed enabling audiences to trigger sound by moving through Hoxton Hall, with the app accommodating individual route choices. The submitted _Small Choices_ mp3 is a mock-up of what a typical audience member would have heard.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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