A couple of Wednesdays ago – on the invitation of the curators of Next in Audio at
@artscentremelbourne (
@amruta_nargundkar ,
@weirdalpianobar ,
@ryan.powderly ) – we spoke to the spatiality of sound (as distinct from audio) … and followed it with our first spatial captioning experiment, using the new multiple instance functions of the live captioning tool that
@lloydmst has been developing in collaboration with
@j4k3b0n1n .
It was a thrill and a privilege to do this for the very first time in collaboration with more than 30 workshop attendees; to witness and prod its possibilities together. Thank you to everyone who came and embraced this exercise with openness and spirit! (And thanks to
@weirdalpianobar and Sam for letting us shunt two dozen screens around the studio without shedding a single drop of perspiration.)
In the video slide (sixth in the carousel), some people walk around the workshop space with balloons, brushes, radios and other instruments. On various screens, meanwhile, captions describe either the prerecorded sounds or those being newly and spontaneously created in the room.
Hot on the heels of this, we'll be collaborating on a (remote) spatial captioned performance with
@ecstatic.magic and
@whiskeysaurus this week. It'll take place at MIT Spatial Sound Lab, on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag Nation and Massachussetts people; we'll be languaging sounds from the unceded Country of the Wurundjeri-willam.
Access Lab & Library is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. #creativestate
@creative_vic
Image descriptions in alt text. Photos by
@infojewels .
#writing #captioning #spatial #spatialaudio #spatialsound #livecaptions #lovecaptions #access #accessibility #sensory
![Three weeks ago, in the midst of planning our next steps as Access Lab & Library, we spent an hour or two with Nelly Kate – experimenting with live performance and collective captioning across about 17,000km ... or a few milliseconds of time displacement over our internet connections.Nelly Kate is one of our dear collaborators on ~~~~~“...derelict in uncharted space...” and a Massachusetts-based access coconspirator deeply driven by sense, time and magic. For this performance workshop, she drew a sonic world from synthesisers, tape, signal processors and voice. In Naarm, we replicated it on loudspeakers as we each captioned it in real-time, using the tool developed for October’s show.Here are some short excerpts of the performance – we’re calling these experiments ‘smalls’, and plan on sharing more of them as we attempt various things over coming years, months, hours. Lloyd and Fayen are currently visiting Nelly in Boston for of a series of workshops and discussions this week, exploring tactile printing, captioning, spatial sound, access-driven XR, sonification and publishing.We undertake this work and these experiments with the heavy knowledge that we are in the throes of multiple mass disabling events. Mindful of our communities, we look forward to a week of connecting with our peers and bringing you some promising new developments on ALL’s future very soon.@ecstatic.magic @fkxde @infojewels(image descriptions in alt text)[reposted from @accesslabandlibrary]](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6811455034181010383010_0_9cce200b87458c33c50a1aa6e1baebbc.jpg?o=aHR0cHM6Ly9zY29udGVudC1vcmQ1LTIuY2RuaW5zdGFncmFtLmNvbS92L3Q1MS43MTg3OC0xNS82MjQ5Nzg1OTVfMTk4MTg0MDA2Mjc0NDk3MV84OTQzNzg0MTE1NDg1MTY5MzM2X24uanBnP3N0cD1kc3QtanBnX2UxNV9zNjQweDY0MF90dDYmX25jX2h0PXNjb250ZW50LW9yZDUtMi5jZG5pbnN0YWdyYW0uY29tJl9uY19jYXQ9MTExJl9uY19vYz1RNmNaMmdHTUpHNkVWLTNwakdRSVMyVzZpMGJieGtoZ05YYk9udWFvb1FKNTFueWpyVDhPQkFaS3VscWpzS0laTU9wSkpuWTJQZl81T3VNVHNPRVB2bFpwNkRzTCZfbmNfb2hjPUZLcFBldlluZnRzUTdrTnZ3RTFBSWZVJl9uY19naWQ9ckZ0VlZ6c2lWZnJDWkF3dUQ4d2I1USZlZG09QVBVODlGQUJBQUFBJmNjYj03LTUmb2g9MDBfQWY1N2x3NEE1aEtLa0k2N1dDc3cwWk1qTndvSGd5dTRHdkczWi0xRXI4VFM1USZvZT02QTEwRTUyQSZfbmNfc2lkPWJjMGMyYw==&h=cbd93e7cfbb6bb0e325c2009a2fb2dc4)
