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Sound ecology and interactive technology

Taras Mashtalir

An Introductory Lecture on Sound Ecology Sonicology is an innovative international initiative to create harmonious sound aesthetics in urban spaces. Technological solutions and examples of the harmonious sound landscape formation using generative and interactive systems will be considered. Participants will explore the relationship between information technology and contemporary art.

Taras Mashtalir – a media artist, composer, producer – is the ideologist of the SONICOLOGY (Ecology of Sound) project. It is an innovative international initiative to form a harmonious sound aesthetics in urban spaces with the use of high-end technologies. His interactive multimedia installations have been exhibited at numerous international venues, and have participated in such festivals as: LUMEN EX, ISEA, ZEBRA, Brooklyn International Film Festival, FIFI, Moscow Book Festival, ELO, E-Poetry, Interrupt II, Oslo poesifilm, Liberated Words, Tarp and many others.

www.sonicsculpture.space

AR installations

Haptic Team

In the age of rapidly developing technologies, one of the most popular digital tools is augmented reality technology, which is being actively used both in educational spheres and as a means of creating pieces of art. Using our installation Bionic portal as an example, we will describe how you make an application a part of the installation, what problems we encountered during the development of our project, and what solutions we found.

Audio-visual synthesizer: when music and light are inseparable

Sergey Blagodetelev

Sergey Blagodetelev is an audio-visual artist and a media director.

Combining high tech with contemporary art, addressing to such forms of art as choreography, sculpture, painting, music, taking the most relevant meanings from them and expressing them in an indivisible integrity, Sergei creates works that reflect the current reality in its inner, afore-invisible spectrum. The artist collaborates with galleries in Russia and Europe, actively participates in various choreographic and art festivals.

AV performances with Dasha Rush

Stanislav Glazov

Within our four-year collaboration with Dusha Rush, we have created four author's performances: Antarctic Takt, Dark Hearts of Space, Sleepstep (Raster-Noton), and an audiovisual dance performance Les Territoires Ephemeres, with which we have traveled half the planet and performed at the largest festivals over these 4 years: Mutek Montreal, Ars Electronica, Resonance Tokio, LEV Festival, Todays Art, Gamma Festival, as well as many great theaters, galleries, and clubs: Berghain, Tresor, Barbican Center, Festspielhaus Hellerau, Funkhaus Berlin, etc. In my lecture, I would like to speak about the artistic and technical development that happened during this time and demonstrate examples of scenes created on the TouchDesigner media platform.

Performative media art

Maria Dantsis

Maria Dantsis is a senior lecturer at the Department of Interdisciplinary Art Research and Practices, an interdisciplinary artist working with media different media: video, experimental photography, and installation. She is currently researching the impact of mass media culture on people’s everyday life, their feelings, their relationship with society. Maria is the nominee and laureate of various awards and competitions in the field of visual art. Her artworks are presented at the exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, England, and Russia.

We know such performative forms of art as happening, performance itself, and Environment Art – these are actions where the viewer can communicate with the artist himself, a group of artists and get their own experience as a spectator through it all. In the field of media art, the idea is somewhat different: the viewer becomes a part of a work of art. The object is often

www.artesliberales.spbu.ru/contacts-ru/dantsis

Loneliness. Borealis Festival Grand Prix, the USA

Power of Light

Sonification and visualization in the art of sound

Andrey Smirnov

Andrey Smirnov is a founder of the Theremin Center, a researcher, and a senior lecturer at the Moscow Conservatory Center for Electroacoustic Music, lecturer at the A. Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia. He is a participant of numerous international conferences and festivals, a curator of exhibition projects in Russia and Europe; Smirnov is an author of numerous articles, as well as the monograph Sound in Z dedicated to the forgotten art of sound history and musical technology in Russia in the first half of the 20th century.

Sonification and visualization in the art of sound. History, methods, problems.

This lecture will cover the following topics:
• technical possibilities of combining music and color; music and gesture; music and touch; music and smell. Thereminvox, illumovox, farsightedness, terpsiton
• biomechanics, multimedia technologies of the 1920s
• sound visualization, optical synthesis
• complex oscillations analysis, Fourier transform, spectrum; spectrum visualization, sonogram as a "score" of sound. ANS synthesizer and UPIC system
• sonification and mapping; history and methods

And many others.

www.asmir.info

Multi-component audiovisual installations

Tundra

Technology & Immersiveness (disguise + BlackTrax + Notch)

Evgeny Stepanov (development director of Dreamlaser)

Modern AV technologies are wonderful because they compete with each other not by increasing FPS, Lumen or TFLOPS, but by how their use in life will increase the user's or viewer's immersion in “what is happening around”. What BlackTrax and Notch technologies, powered by disguise technologies, give us is immersiveness as it is. During the lecture, you will see some of the possibilities realized by this bundle of technologies.

About the speaker:Eugeny is an expert and practitioner in the world of mapping (equipment, content, tracking). You can find his articles and publications on the Internet (hashtag #realmapping ). His team has hundreds of mapping projects managed and dozens of publications and public speeches presented. The main theme is advanced technologies and trends in mapping.

About the company:Dreamlaser is one of the leading innovative companies in Russia 3D mapping and laser shows. 13 years of work and more than 3000 completed projects – from concept development, laser scanning, and virtual visualization to content production and full technical implementation, thanks to our fleet of equipment and video engineering. Eugeny is a partner of Disguise (since 2013) and an official representative of BlackTrax (since 2016); he has been working in the Notch environment since the closed beta test in 2016.

Sound of Color

Andrey Svibovitch

Sound of Light is an original lecture by audiovisual artist Andrey Svibovitch. This lecture will cover the topic of the influence of light on human consciousness, both psychological and physiological, as well as how light and color affect people through art with direct references to the Kandinsky and Scriabin theories.

The audiovisual artist Andrey Svibovitch applies the experience of various practices in art, using a synesthetic approach: a combination of graphics, light, sound, and movement in a common audiovisual structure; the aleatoric principle is periodically introduced into compositional structures, too. His works show the connection between the visible and the audible, the differences between what we feel and observe.

www.soundcloud.com/svibovitch

www.facebook.com/andreysvibovitch

www.vk.com/artist_svibovitch

Armoniapolis

Svetlana Maras

Svetlana Maras is a composer and a sound engineer from Serbia. She works with experimental music, sound art, and new media. Her work covers a wide variety of forms – live electronic music, performances, interactive sound installations, electro-acoustic compositions, radio works, web applications, film and theater music.

During this lecture, Svetlana is going to speak about her project Armoniapolis, which encourages conscious listening to the sounds of our environment and interaction with it without using the musical technologies. It draws attention to the richness of the soundscape around us and makes it possible to rearrange such a landscape by combining and freely modifying the sounds.

www.svetlanamaras.com

Festival of Light

Evgeny Gudov, Ildar Yakubov, Natalya Bystryantseva, Evgeny Potapenko

The visitors might ask why we would hold the Festival of Light. What are the goals set for such an event and how to achieve the success of their implementation? What public and private organizations are interested in creating such a holiday and who can make it better? These and other important issues will be discussed by the founder of Planetarium 1 Evgeny Gudov; the head of the ITMO Higher School of Lighting Design department Natalya Bystryantseva; the curator of the Festival of Light business program Ildar Yakubov.

www.sonicsculpture.space

Connection between audio and video

Stanislav Glazov, Agdrey Smirnov, Sergei Blagodetelev, Mitya Vikhornov

The Future of the Industry

Anastasia Filatova (Power of Light), Andrey Tuboltsev (Dreamlaser), Mikhail Antykov (Videofabrika.ru), Evgeny Gudov (Planetarium1), Ivan Logos

LedMapper platform

Tim Tavlintsev

LedMapper is an Open Source platform for controlling LED lighting systems over a network. Tim Tavlintsev, the LedMapper developer, will present a two-day masterclass on using its software and hardware

Workshop outline
• Introduction to digital LEDs
• Overview of available solutions
• A story about LedMapper
• Practice

LedMapper

Workshop results presentation

Tim Tavlintsev

AI visual creativity

Vadim Epstein

Neural network technologies rapidly capture a wide variety of areas of human activity, including deeply creative ones. Under the guidance of the artist Vadim Epstein, the participants of this workshop will practice some of the popular applications of neural networks in computer graphics for creating, reconstructing, and processing images – in real time, too.

The following requirements for participants are mandatory to work with workshop materials:
• good computer literacy (command line skills)
• familiarity with basic programming concepts
• Windows 10 computer with NVidia video card at least 750/950/1050
• 10-15 gb of free disk space is desirable (for further independent work):
• knowledge of the Python basics
• knowledge of the vvvv environment or similar

It is highly advisable to pre-install Visual Studio 2015, CUDA 9.0, Python 3.5

Program
• Neural networks principles and features
• Popular types (CNN, RNN / LSTM, GAN, etc.)
• Popular libraries, work with Tensorflow
• Image reconstruction (pix2pix): principles, nuances
• Style transfer: principles and implementation, preparation nuances
• Working with video (sequences, realtime), process control
• Practice with your models

Visual creativity AI

Isadora

Taras Mashtalir

During the masterclass, we will cover the basics of the Isadora environment program, the basics of Ableton Live, and new music interfaces (iOS / Android)

We will get acquainted with the Isadora software environment principles in the context of interactive sound sculpture.

The result of this workshop is the creation of sound interactive interfaces for managing the installations.

Laser control

Tundra - Sasha Tit

Laser module control (diode), dmx controller based on the Outlines installation.

Laser animation installations control, ILDA protocol, eatherdream controller based on the installation The Day We Left Field.

One needs to have a laptop with TouchDesigner preinstalled, and a mouse with a scroll wheel. Having your own modular synthesizer would be your bonus.

Tunddra

Workshop results presentation

Tundra

Armoniapolis

Svetlana Maras

Since 2012, Serbian artist Svetlana Maras has been working on the Armoniapolis project where she invites the visitors to creatively interact with the sound environment around them. For this Festival of Light, Svetlana has prepared a special edition of her master class with projections on buildings in the city. The master class will be held for two days, during which the participants will study the concept of musical instructions in an urban environment, create their own projects, and demonstrate them to the general public.

armoniapolis.com

Cloud services for multi-user interactive installations

Andrey Rylov

Under the guidance of Andrey Rylov, participants will learn how to create installations that many people can interact with at the same time via a smartphone and a website. The following cloud technologies will be used:

• Firebase Realtime Database for data synchronization;
• Firebase Hosting for a website;
• and Cloudinary for storing pictures and videos.

The workshop will last for two days. On the first day, we will discuss different approaches to managing the installation, and set up an environment for working with Firebase. On the second day, we will deal with installations.

TouchDesigner will be used for rendering but any environment that supports OSC would work.

This is what you need to participate:

• bring a computer with Python 3.6.6 and TouchDesigner (or a similar environment) installed;
• basic use of Python and JavaScript;
• basic skills of TouchDesigner (or similar environment);
• no fear to enter commands at the command line.

At the end of the second day of the workshop, a demonstration of the works to the general public will be organized on a large diode screen.

Generative graphics and modular synthesis

Stanislav Glazov

Stanislav will present a workshop on controlling TouchDesigner applications using modular synthesizer signals. The class leader will show you how to set up communication between the visual development platform and the legendary type of electronic musical instrument – the modular synthesizer.

You have to have a laptop with preinstalled TouchDesigner with you and a mouse with a scroll wheel. Having your own modular synthesizer would be a bonus.

The studio creates projects with artists such as Dasha Rush, Robert Lippok, and Dorit Chrystler.

Works were presented at Berlin Atonal, Mutek Montreal, Mutek Dubai, Ars Electronica (Linz), Resonance Festival (Tokio) Raster-Noton night in Berghain, Raster-Noton Campfire Rome, Telefonica in Lima (Peru), Unsound Festival in Krakow, LEV Festival (Gijon), Gamma Festival (St. Petersburg), Lowry Theater in Manchester, Barbican Center (London), Hamburg Philharmony, Blick Festival (Georgia), Volt Festival (Uppsala, Sweden), DAVE Festival at Festspielhaus Hellerau (Dresden).

http://lichtpfadstudio.com/

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AV live and workshop results presentation

Stanislav Glazov