Ear to Waipapa Taumata Rau

Visda Goudarzi, and Anna Xambó

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

Ear to Waipapa Taumata Rau’ is a live-coding performance by performers from two different continents remotely exploring the sonic components of Waipapa Taumata Rau. Our improvised performance would last 15-20 minutes, would feature field recordings collected by the participants of the conference in location, and would make use of multiple live coding platforms. The duo has been developing various strategies for online and hybrid performances which adapt to the uncertain circumstances during and post-pandemic to encourage participation and interaction with a global and inclusive audience. The prompts asked the participants in conference location, to explore their surroundings through soundwalks inspired by John Cage’s "A Dip in the Lake". They are supposed to collect 1-2 minute field recordings from their sound walks and upload the recordings on Freesound using hashtags including NIME2022 and their location (e.g.#NIME2022, #WaipapaTaumataRau). The live-coding performance organizes all these recordings and crowdsourced sounds of the geographical area of the conference, incorporates them into a live processed and synthesized composition. The defining feature of this piece is although the conference participants, listeners and performers are globally distributed, by listening and contributing to the whole composition they can feel in location by their ears. One of the authors has created an online platform that interacts with the audience visually and sonically on their mobile devices.

Citation

Visda Goudarzi, and Anna Xambó. 2022. Ear to Waipapa Taumata Rau. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.8b20f442 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{nime2022_music_18,
 abstract = {Ear to Waipapa Taumata Rau’ is a live-coding performance by performers from two different continents remotely exploring the sonic components of Waipapa Taumata Rau. Our improvised performance would last 15-20 minutes, would feature field recordings collected by the participants of the conference in location, and would make use of multiple live coding platforms. The duo has been developing various strategies for online and hybrid performances which adapt to the uncertain circumstances during and post-pandemic to encourage participation and interaction with a global and inclusive audience. The prompts asked the participants in conference location, to explore their surroundings through soundwalks inspired by John Cage’s "A Dip in the Lake". They are supposed to collect 1-2 minute field recordings from their sound walks and upload the recordings on Freesound using hashtags including NIME2022 and their location (e.g.#NIME2022, #WaipapaTaumataRau). The live-coding performance organizes all these recordings and crowdsourced sounds of the geographical area of the conference, incorporates them into a live processed and synthesized composition. The defining feature of this piece is although the conference participants, listeners and performers are globally distributed, by listening and contributing to the whole composition they can feel in location by their ears. One of the authors has created an online platform that interacts with the audience visually and sonically on their mobile devices.},
 address = {Auckland, New Zealand},
 articleno = {18},
 author = {Visda Goudarzi and Anna Xambó},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.21428/92fbeb44.8b20f442},
 editor = {Raul Masu},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {jun},
 title = {Ear to Waipapa Taumata Rau},
 track = {Music},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.21428/92fbeb44.8b20f442},
 year = {2022}
}