Materials for Download
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| ate: | 10 October 2024 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
| Mode: | Online through Zoom |
| Speakers: |
Dr Douglas McCausland |
| Moderator: | Dr Chi Hin LEUNG Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, The Education University of Hong Kong |
| Target: | For staff |
| Language: | English |
Participation in this seminar can be counted towards the Certificate Course “Introduction to Teaching in Higher Education” under the theme, “Seminars/Workshops in Learning and Teaching”.
Abstract
What is spatial audio? What is ambisonics, and how does it fit into the broader “soundscape” of spatial audio technologies? What kinds of advantages, opportunities, and creative concepts can be explored through the novel applications of full 3D sound? In this workshop, Dr. Douglas McCausland will discuss and demonstrate some technologies that can be leveraged to explore the exciting creative frontiers at that further sonic horizon. Using a mixture of audio materials as examples for real-time demonstration, this workshop will touch on how spatial audio, and ambisonics in particular, can become a crucial tool for the modern electronic music composer, recording engineer, and / or sound designer.
Bio
Douglas McCausland is a composer / performer, sound designer, and digital artist whose visceral and often chaotic works explore the extremes of sound, technology, and the digital medium.
As an artist, he researches and leverages the intersections of numerous technologies and creative practices, such as real-time electronic music performance with purpose-built interfaces, spatial
audio, interactive systems, intermedia art, musical applications of machine-learning, experimental sound design, and hardware-hacking.
Described as “Tremendously powerful, dark, and sometimes terrifying…” (SEAMUS) and “Ruthlessly visceral…” (The Wire), his works have been performed internationally, including features at Sonorities, Gray Area, SEAMUS, the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, MISE-EN Music Festival, Klingt Gut!, Sounds Like THIS!, NYCEMF, Sonicscape, and Ars Electronica. Recent collaborations
include artists such as bassist Aleksander Gabryś, cellist Seth Parker Woods, the Quasar Saxophone Quartet, the TAK Ensemble, and vocal ensemble Variant 6. His work is available through various online platforms, and on SEAMUS, Plyta Z Audiomatu, and Jikken Records.
Recent honors include an award of distinction in the 2021 Prix Ars Electronica for his piece“Convergence”, winning 1st-Prize in the 2021 ASCAP/SEAMUS commission competition, the gold-prize award for “contemporary computer music” in the Verband Deutscher Tonmeister Student 3D Audio Production Competition, and being awarded the runner-up nomination for the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music’s 2019 CIME Prix.
Douglas is currently the Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) Studio Manager at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the founder of ex_log.records. He holds a DMA in music composition from Stanford University, where he studied with Chris Chafe, Patricia Alessandrini, Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, and Mark Applebaum. He additionally holds a MSc in Digital Composition and Performance from the University of Edinburgh, a MM in Music Composition from Michigan State University, and a BM in Music Composition, Saxophone Performance, and Music Education from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.