FUTURE SOUND
Resounding the urban environment



SIAL Team:
    Mark Burry
    Lawrence Harvey
    Gregory More
    Jules Moloney






Upper Pool Design Studio | Studio Coordinator: Lawrence Harvey

Lecturers :
Prof. Mark Burry,
Lawrence Harvey,
Jules Maloney,
Gregory More,
Melanie Tonkin

(Additional guests and field trip details will be available at first lecture).


Historical envisioning of future soundscapes - whether Marinetti's Futurism, or Bacon's utopian vision of sound houses - relied on text as the medium of realisation, and the aural imagination of the reader. Utilising the StringCVE software environment, a suite of sound design tools and spatial sound technologies, participants will realise sounding models of speculative virtual acoustic environments.

These speculative environments for immersive sound technologies, will investigate human aural experience within urban acoustic environments, using 'actuality' from, and enhanced audio for, those environments. This iterative translation between the virtual and the actual will be further investigated as a mode of learning, and research for design.

This design studio continues an investigation of sound as a conceptual medium for architecture started with the Memory Games studio undertaken at SIAL in 2002.





The Memory Games studio examined the potential of StringCVE (Collaborative Virtual Environment) software to enable design with equal emphasis on sound and spatial design to explore architectural ideas. The trajectory of the design research will continue via this joint virtual design studio between students from the Spatial Information Architecture Lab (SIAL) at RMIT and the Auckland School of Architecture.

For more information about the StringCVE software please visit:
http://www.architecture.auckland.ac.nz/stringhtml/default.htm

Location
SIAL Presentation Space, Bldg 9 Level 2
SIAL Student Labs, Bldg 8 Level 8
SIAL Sound Studios, Bldg 9 Level 1

Lecture Times
Wednesdays 6:00pm-9:00pm
Tutorial times by arrangement


For Future Sound students
Link to Forum outside the StringCve Engine

Final Projects of SIAL students year 2003