Digicult interviews Locus Sonus

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Digicult presents:

Locus Sonus.
The sound of space and the art of radio

Locus Sonus is a France-based research network that mainly focuses on the relationship between sound and space. The Centre’s first inception and early projects date back to 2005, and during this ten-year activity Locus Sonus has collaborated with several international research labs, such as the sociology lab CNRS, LAMES in Aix en Provence, the CRESSON, the architecture lab CNRS in Grenoble, the School of the Art Institute in Chicago (SAIC) and other partners worldwide.

At the heart of Locus Sonus there is a strong interest in the multidisciplinary nature of audio art forms within the framework of networked/multiuser sonic spaces. Peter Sinclair – together with Jérôme Joy, is Locus Sonus research director. Peter is a digital media and sound artist, professor and supervisor of the sound department at the École Supérieure d’Art in Aix en Provence, and member of the French Ministry of Culture’s scientific council for research studies at the Fine Arts Department.

Elena Biserna is an Italian researcher (she is also part of the Digicult team of authors http://www.digicult.it/authors/elena-biserna/) whose interests primarily focus on the interdisciplinary areas of aesthetic research, concentrating particular attention on expanded sounds and contextual, urban, ephemeral and participatory practices. Elena has recently joined the Locus Sonus lab team and has been working on the construction of a chronology and a catalogue of artistic projects using mobile media (Walkman, MP3 players, portable radios, sensor based computing, mobile phones, applications, locative media and GPS) from the 1980s to now.
What follows is the outcome of an exchange of ideas with both Peter and Elena, which opens up new insights on the marvellous world of audio streaming, mobile sound practices and human networks.

An interview by Donata Marletta