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Ho - a sonic expedition to Vietnam ( Interactive Multimedia physics/ graphics/ audio-engine oriented immersive environment installation)

Ho (2009) - A sonic Expedition to Vietnam. Interactive Media work.

Installation premiere: Festival Transitio MX Mexico City, Fonoteca Nacional Mexico (Sept 2009-March 2010). Pre-premiere: Projectraum Schwarz, Berlin. Other project installations: Campus Party Mexico; Sounding Festival Aberdeen; Push Festival Sweden; Futuresound: Sound @ Kraak Gallery, Manchester (concert version with Kraak Gallery ensemble). Morelia CMMAS (concert version); Locativeaudio.org 2012 festival (concert version with The Noise Upstairs).

Ho - a sonic expedition to Vietnam is a graphics-physics-game engine performative work based on the Navigation System Through Sound; a novel sonic orientation tool for assisting dynamic composition methods in live performance or sound installations (created by this author). Ho combines methods of 'Visual anaesthesia' and 'Aural memory' in virtual game-like scenarios where the visual element no longer provides key information for decision-making, forcing the user to find alternative ways to retrieve information throughout the sensorial system (especially the ear). Ho aims to help general audiences to understand and enjoy more the complex language of electro-acoustic music and to provide them with an enhanced surround participatory sonic experience by building the environmental sounds as the immersive experience progresses. The performer/composer, as ‘the captain of the ship,’ controls the interface of a 'sound-wheel’ inspired by maritime navigation, leading audiences to an aural journey with unique sonic character unfolded by colliding with objects with embedded sound in 3D. Ho's first scene was created in 2009 and since then new parts were accomplished, incorporating upcoming technologies like locativeaudio and alternative wheel-like interfaces (physical and virtual). The construction of grammar is grounded in Schaefferian/Spectromorphology typo-morphological research (Schaffer, 1966; Smalley, 1997; Thoresen, 2007), to which is implemented searchable metadata for sonic retrieval, post-organisation, phrasing and articulation of materials.

Associated Paper: 'Ho - a sonic expedition to Vietnam" – Music Proceedings of the AudioMostly Conference, Corfu. Sept 2012.