- Title Information
- Title
- Diacousticon: Curation, Audience, and the Listening Machine
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Moore, Stephan M
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- creator
- Origin Information
- Copyright Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 14, 198 p.
- digitalOrigin
- born digital
- Note
- Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2015)
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Winkler, Todd
- Role
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Text
- Director
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Osborn, Ed
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- Reader
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Rovan, Joseph
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- Role Term:
Text
- Reader
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Greenlee, Shawn
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- Reader
- Name:
Corporate
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- Brown University. Music: Computer Music and Multimedia
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- sponsor
- Genre (aat)
- theses
- Abstract
- Abstract of Diacousticon: Curation, Audience, and the Listening Machine by Stephan M. Moore, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2015.
This thesis provides a thorough discussion of the interactive sound art piece Diacousticon, created by the author in 2014, including a description of the current state of the field of sound art. Diacousticon is a system of eight robotic musical instruments installed around the inner perimeter of a fountain at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, outside Katonah, NY. The instruments listen to each other and to their environment, and respond musically to what they hear. The installation of the piece is site-specific and site-responsive, attuned to its immediately available circumstances. The author discusses his work in relationship to the ideas of philosopher Jacques Ranciére, the field of surveillance art, and the recent revelations of government privacy violations by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The author also discusses the evolution of his personal approach to generative, algorithmic art making that he refers to as ecological composition. Diacousticon is discussed in the context of the major sound art exhibition In the Garden of Sonic Delights, which the author curated, and the effects of his curatorial decisions on the work and the exhibition as a whole. An explication is provided of the physical structure, circuitry, code, and installation of the work, as well as a narrative of the work’s development, an evaluation of its impact, and a summary of outcomes and future implications.
- Subject
- Topic
- sound art
- Subject
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- installation art
- Subject
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- generative composition
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- machine listening
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- surveillance
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- physical computing
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- curation
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- Caramoor
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- Arduino
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- MaxMSP
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- slide whistle
- Subject
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- Lucie Rosen
- Subject
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- Jacques Ranciere
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- Jeremy Bentham
- Subject
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- Edward Snowden
- Subject
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- emancipated audition
- Subject
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- ecological algorithm
- Subject
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- Yanira Castro
- Subject (FAST)
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- Topic
- Sound installations (Art)
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- Topic
- Site-specific art
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- Topic
- Installations (Art)
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- Name
- Name Part
- Rancière, Jacques
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- Name
- Name Part
- Bentham, Jeremy
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Date
- 1748-1832
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- Name
- Name Part
- Snowden, Edward J.
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Date
- 1983-
- Subject (FAST)
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- Name
- Name Part
- Castro, Yanira
- Record Information
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- RPB
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- 20150601
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- eng
- Language Term:
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- English
- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.7301/Z0KK995K
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- In Copyright
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- Collection is open for research.
- Type of Resource (primo)
- dissertations