This Lunchtime talk will be broadcast Live on Watershed's Youtube Channel.

Spatial sound composition is an emergent practice as a mainstay of immersive music, sound design and VR audio. However, most spatial sound design relies on the simulation of space through software encoding, and the use of fixed arrays of speakers to create immersive sound environments. Nik’s project has created a system that offers an alternative methodology, by using a wireless and mobile multi-speaker array that can be physically moved in space to rapidly create spatial sound performances and recordings.

The performance work breathing.systems explores fluid, mediated and granular experiences of gender, embodiment and neurodiversity; by using their wireless spatial sound system worn on the bodies of performers and live vocal processing, Nik creates a living and breathing network of voices and a communal sound body they sing through. Each performer/speaker in the work forms a networked node and a collaborator, a carrier and a community member. The form of a community, the relationships between bodies; leading the form of the sound in space.

In this talk, Nik explores what they’ve learned through their R+D process, their approach to spatial composition and the place of wireless systems in the future of sonic practices.



Join us, on Friday 10th September, 13:00- 14:00 for the talk and to take part in the discussion afterwards. 

Watch Live on Youtube