Martin Keary:Strengths and Weaknesses of Sonification
with Scot Gresham-Lancaster / 12 April 2017 / 42:28
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Martin Keary
Composer - Visual Designer
Martin came to my attention when I ran across this well produced and thought provoking YouTube video on Sonification.
This is one of many excellent videos he has produced and distributed on YouTube, but this one was so germane to the topic of this channel that I had to give him a ring. In doing some research on him, I discovered that he is, himself,
a very talented composer, which for me gives him some basis for his well founded criticisms of many “sonifications” out there.
We had an freewheeling conversation that I hope you find interesting.
I refer but do not name the Temporal Semiotic Units developed at the Laboratoire Musique et Informatique de
Marseille. This work may be of interest to some as well
Bio:Martin Keary is a composer and visual artist based in London. He studied a masters degree at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland under Gordon McPherson, nishing in June 2016. He currently runs a music YouTube channel called ‘Tantacrul’ which has almost 200,000 subscribers and regularly takes part in music collaborations with other well known YouTubers, most notably on the the popular ‘5 composers, 1 Theme’ series. In addition to ‘regular’ composition, he has an interest in combining his visual and musical backgrounds. His large scale work, ‘NEW’, (for amplied chamber orchestra and screen) was performed during the 2016 PLUG festival in Glasgow. For this piece, he won the Craig Armstrong Prize and Patrons Fund Prize (Royal College of Music). He has had his visual music works performed at various conferences and exhibitions around the UK, including 'Seeing Sound' (2016, 2017, Bath Spa University) and 'SOUND/IMAGE' (2015, 2018, University of Greenwich). Other Awards include the West Cork Music Festival First Prize for his string quartet ‘Bangalorean Civic Duty’ in 2017 and the Claxica International prize for his piece 'Herostratic' (guitar and string trio) in 2015. As of November 2019, Martin is the Head of Design for the popular composition software, MuseScore.
(visual music work)
(acoustic compositions) more information here
Our Guests
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Pauline Oliveros founder of the Deep Listening Institute -
Jordan Wirfs-Brock Radio journalist & sonification -
Brian Foo The Data Driven DJ -
Clarence Barlow Data Composer Extrordanaire -
Dolores Catherino Poly Chromatic Music -
Ivanna Muse Cambridge Creation Lab -
Roger Dean musician, biochemist and cognitive scientist -
Konstantinos Vasilakos Sonification, gestural improvisation, and live coding -
Garth Paine Composer - Acoustic Ecology Lab -
Chris Chafe Sonification Research CCRMA -
Martin Keary Muse and Sonification Critic
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Mark Ballora The voice of real sonification -
Carla Scaletti Early Sonification Pio -
Gregory Kramer Early Sonification Artist -
Bert Barten The Talking Trees Project -
Paul Vickers Sonification and Stand Up Comedy -
L. Alexis Emelianoff Sonification of Electrical Field -
David Worrall Sonification guru -
Marco Buongiorno Nardelli Composer - Material Science Physicist -
Sophia Roosth The Art of the Senses -
Mike Winters Sonification and Emotion -
Florian Grond Sonification, Cognition and Interaction -
Margaret Schedele Composer - Art Science collaborator -
Andrew Blanton Percussion and sonification
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Carla Scaletti is an experimental composer and designer of the Kyma sound design language and co-founder of Symbolic Sound Corporation. Her compositions always begin with a “what-if” hypothesis and involve live electronics interacting with acoustic sources and environments. The listener is encouraged to first watch Carla’s brilliant keynote at the 2017 International Conference of Audio Display if possible at This Link
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