The Way In / UNPOP Redux
with Scott Smallwood, Professor of Music, Director, Sound Studies Institute
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
5:30pm
Sound Studies Institute
3-47 Old Arts Building
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The Way In is a prototype for a new album/game by Evidence, the long-running collaboration between Scott Smallwood and Stephan Moore, exploring music created in a giant water tank. The player explores 3D mazes through sound. Sound from The Way In was first exhibited at UNPOP, an 8-channel listening environment installation created by Scott Smallwood and Stephan Moore for Burning Man festival. This talk will feature both a discussion of the development of the sound material and the game mechanics for The Way In, and a discussion of the creation of the UNPOP project.
In conjunction with the talk is UNPOP Redux, a sound installation exhibited in the Sound Studies Institute Gallery, featuring different curated pieces from UNPOP every day. Read more here.
Scott Smallwood is a sound artist, composer, and sound performer who creates works inspired by discovered textures and forms, through a practice of listening, field recording, and sonic improvisation. He designs experimental electronic instruments and software, as well as sound installations and site-specific performance scenarios. Important to his process is exploring the subtleties of sonic texture through gradual transformations of timbre, particularly with sounds that may have originated from specific recordings of objects or spaces. His compositional and improvisational work makes use of space explicitly, and often involves multiple channel environments, found sounds, and non-conventional instrumentation. He works in a variety of sound and music genres, including instrumental concert and chamber music, electroacoustic music, sound art and installation, improvisatory performance, and more recently, audio game development.
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