Immersive Audio-game Showcase
Friday 29th June 2012
Martin Harris Centre (MHC), University of Manchester, UK.

MEDIA INSTALLATIONS: AUDIOGAMES; THE VIRTUAL CITY
Place: MHC Foyer and G16 (MHC)
Time: Ongoing from 12:00 - 17:00

LIVE MUSIC EVENTS
Place: John Thaw Studio Theatre, (MHC)
Time: from 13:00-17:00

• LIVE EVENT ONE: 4 Hands iPhone/14 hands on a Manchester Car boot Sale
  Time start: 13:00 - 13:45
• LIVE EVENT TWO: IMMERSIVE GAME-AUDIO WORLDS
  Time start: 14:00 - 14:50
• LIVE EVENT THREE: THE ACOUSMATIC CITY
  Time start: 15:00 - 15:50
• LIVE EVENT FOUR: TALKS, PRESENTATIONS AND FINAL DISCUSSION
  Time start: 16:00 - 16:50
  

AUDIOGUIDE TOURS: SOUNDWALKS & PARKS
Workshop: Studio Cluster, NOVARS Research Centre (for futuresound students only starting at 11 am)
Departures: from 14:00 to 16:00
Participants are recommended to bring comfortable shoes for the walks and water proof chothing or portable umbrellas in case of bad weather. In case of crossing streets before reaching the park, it is imperative to take the headphones out.

PROGRAMME DETAIL (PROVISIONAL)
FRIDAY 29th June 2012
Martin Harris Centre (MHC), University of Manchester, UK

11 am: Workshop for Futureworks school (UCLAN)

WELCOME AND TALKS
Place: G16 (MHC)
Time: 12:00-12:50

• 12:00 Welcome: Drinks reception
• 12:10-12:30 Presentation: Listening to the City / Listening to Ourselves by Roddy Hawkins (2012); commissioned text.
• 12:30-12:50 Exploring Interactive Media Installations (list below)

MEDIA INSTALLATIONS: AUDIOGAMES; THE VIRTUAL CITY
Place: MHC Foyer and G16 (MHC)
Time: Ongoing from 12:00 - 17:00

• SU-Bahn Sonicography by Iain McCurdy - Interactive sound mapping installation in which visitors are invited to explore physical channels in the piece's surface with their finger tips.
• Interactive work by Ivica Ico Bukvic (installation version)
• Urbanvinyl by Mathias Fuchs - a virtual interactive world (installation version)
• Locally Toned by Teresa Foley - video documentary
• Sound Toys by Andrew Dolphin - E.g. MagNular: A collaborative sound toy in which players operate virtual magnets to create sound particle object collisions, resulting in clusters of sonic events. For 1-4 players.
• BMus Students Showcase - 2nd year students' coursework for the course Sounds for Digital Entertainment at University of Manchester
• NOVARS OpenSim by Ignacio Pecino- Select your avatar and Interact in this second-life like 3D virtual world created by the Interactive Media Group at NOVARS Research Centre.
  

LIVE MUSIC EVENTS
Place: John Thaw Studio Theatre, MHC.

LIVE EVENT ONE: 4 Hands iPhone/14 hands on a Manchester Car boot Sale
Time start: 13:00 - 13:45

• 4 Hands iPhone: Atau Tanaka & Adam Parkinson - Adam & Atau exploit a commonly available consumer electronics device, the Apple iPhone, as an expressive, gestural musical instrument. The device is well known an iconic object of desire in our society of consumption.
• 14 hands on a Manchester Car boot Sale: New piece by Julio d'Escrivan -
  Audiences are encouraged to bring small-size found objects from Manchester for the performance (which may have interesting sound properties; e.g. bell-like objects, etc)
  

LIVE EVENT TWO: IMMERSIVE GAME-AUDIO WORLDS
Time start: 14:00 - 14:50

• Hồ- a Sonic Expedition to Vietnam by Ricardo Climent: ;
• New Interactive Media work by Ignacio Pecino: Connects with
• New Sound Toy by Andrew Dolphin-Kingsley Ash: Connects with
• Live feed from Blacksburg, Virginia -Interactive work by Ivica Ico Bukvic
  

LIVE EVENT THREE: THE ACOUSMATIC CITY
Time start: 15:00 - 15:50

• Soundscape of Manchester (2012) 6:13 - Danny Saul
• The Noise Upstairs Piece ONE
• Cross:World (2012) 6:53- Nick Casswell
• Environ-cycle (2012) - Michael Lau
• Bus Piece (2012) (movement) - Brona Martin
• Nijo (2009) 13:00 by David Berezan
  

LIVE EVENT FOUR: TALKS, PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSION
Time start: 16:00 - 16:50

• Presentation by Frauke Behrendt - Title: "The sound of locative media"
• The Noise Upstairs "Guytonville"
• Presentation by Alex Allred - Manchester: Explorations of Meaning in the Sounds of the City
• Urbanvinyl by Mathias Fuchs - a virtual interactive world -
  
• CLOSURE

AUDIOGUIDE TOURS: SOUNDWALKS & PARKS
Worshop: Studio Cluster, NOVARS Research Centre
Departures: from 14:00 to 16:00

VICTORIA PARK, HEATON PARK AND BLACKSBURG TOURS

Victoria Park: Smartphones required ANDROID (with GPS, WIFI, 3G )

• Felipe Otondo - Soundcapes from Chile and other cities
• Enrique Tomas - NoTours
• Horacio Gonzalez- Escoitar
• Sonic-Metaontology Tours (Mark Pilkington, Brona Martin, Ricardo Climent, Suk-Jun Kim, Nacho Pecino)
• Narrations/ Original Texts by: Roddy Hawkins, Alex Allread, Caitriona Devery, Dr Melanie Giles and Prof Sian Jones, Angela Connelly, Alexander Pope / Voice actress for audioguides: Jenny Novitzky / Gordon Delap

Heaton Park: (Manchester North)
ANDROID (with GPS, WIFI, 3G )
iPhone, iPad (with GPS, WIFI, 3G)

• “Alice: Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady” by Ignacio Pecino

Backsburg TOURS:
ANDROID (with GPS, WIFI, 3G )

• Augmented Aurality Soundwalk by Ivica Ico Bukvic