Facilitation and Education

The progamme is unique in New Zealand as it provides on hands-on facilitation of artists’ bespoke requirements as negotiated. This may take several forms including:

• Technical assistance in studio operation (hardware/software, etc)

• Facilitation of creative ideas in the form of applied theoretical approaches -  drawing on the facilitator’s 30-years of experience as a university lecturer.

• Short educational programmes based on the facilitator's 265-page book Sonic Entanglements: Artmaking with Sound, which offers composers and sonic artists a powerful set of integrated concepts for discussing and creating sonic artworks. The innovative approach departs from previous stepwise, sequential ways of conceptualising the listening process and encourages creative individuals to think multimodally in their artmaking practices. Based on a collection of multisensory modes of listening, the model serves to simplify and unite numerous extant theories from the domains of electroacoustic music studies, psychology, and neuroscience. Eight interwoven modes of listening (or modes of auditory attention) are identified, representing the: expressive, formal, referential, visual, gestural, environmental, spatial, and structural qualities of sound. New insights are offered through the concept of entanglement – the way in which modes are simultaneously activated during the ordinary listening process, managed by different areas within the brain, and developed through crosstalk between layers of mental activity.