International Community for Auditory Display

I am looking for institutional support in Paris (space and equipment) to develop three workshop activities with participants , from middle of Septembre to middle of October, within my post-doctoral research "Linking Urban soundscapes via commuters' memories".

In exchange I am willing to deliver a conference about this research, and establish other paths of collaboration.

Website: http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/projects/ISE.html

E-mail: XAlarcon@dmu.ac.uk

Abstract:

This research will explore stories in sound made by people about
their commuting experience. Using an online 'Interactive Sonic
Environment', and taking the acoustic environments of the Paris and
Mexico City metros as counterparts of the London Underground, commuters
from all three cities will express memories of their daily routines
using text, voice, and other sounds. In this way, listening becomes
creative, enhancing commuters' experience, while building a collective
memory amongst remote populations in a virtual space. The project will
thus dynamically reveal the changing state of the contemporary urban
soundscape through participants' creative input.

Three principal outcomes are expected: the expanded and implemented
'Interactive Sonic Environment', offering the available options of
collaboration to all commuters; a blog that relates dynamically the
process of the research; and an article in an academic journal that
will describe the conceptual, artistic, methodological and
technological achievements of the research.

This research is funded by The Leverhulme Trust - Early Career
Fellowship 2007 - 2009, and takes place in the Institute of Creative
Technologies - De Montfort University.