EAR TO THE EARTH: 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:

• Deep level artist-led analysis of creative work in progress

  • Based on the facilitator's 285-page book Sonic Entanglement: A Framework for Discussing and Creating Sound-Based Music, which offers a powerful set of integrated concepts for discussing and creating sonic artworks

• Technical assistance in studio operation

  • Hardware, software, multichannel spatialisation techniques

• Digital instrument design for live and interactive artworks

  • Gesture to sounding result models, audiovisual relationships, live electronics

• Field Recording Trips

  • Three-dimensional (ambisonic) recording, zoned field recording, sonification of visual images, environmental sensors​