Listen

by Kabir Carter
http://www.kabircarter.com/listen

Listen is embedded within the tradition of Adventure or Interactive Fiction games, except that here image is accompanied by a series of sound events that can be audited. The game can be played using ADRIFT, a game development and playing system. Listen consists of a series of modules that each focus on the soundscape of a specific physical environment. Individual modules will be made available for download on a fortnightly basis, and slight changes in each module will be made over time.

Beginning with the first module, a sealed room, one encounters objects and architectural spaces that may or may not generate, activate, or alter a variety of sounds. Building upon my ongoing work with environmental sound and language, the game uses simple text commands germane to Interactive Fiction: Look, Take, North, Wait, and--particular to the game--Listen.

Bio

Kabir Carter has studied electroacoustic composition at Bard College. His compositions, performances, and sound installations have been presented at Atlantic Center for the Arts; PS122 Gallery, d.u.m.b.o. arts center, and in public presentations throughout New York City. He continues to realize Walking in the City, a net art project first commissioned by the Miami-based music festival Subtropics. Kabir has been an artist-in-residence at LMCC/Workspace: 120 Broadway and is currently a guest composer in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Create @ iEAR residency program. Upcoming activities include presentations of his work Shared Frequencies at Diapason in New York City and at this year's Subtropics Festival.