Sounds of Weatherサウンド・オブ・ウエザー

Project Members: Philip Samartzis, Simon Perry, Dominic Redfern, Kristen Sharp, Christophe Charles and students from Musashino Art University / Special Guests: Haco, Sato Minoru m/s ##Sounds of Weather Official Homepage [here](http://home.att.ne.jp/grape/charles/sounds_of_weather.html) 　 "Sounds of Weather" is a project by Philip Samartzis (RMIT, Melbourne) and Christophe Charles (MAU, Tokyo). Together with researchers, artists and students, they will undertake fieldwork in different locations in Japan and Australia to document the effects of weather on the built and natural environment through sound recording. 　 The aim of the project is to interrogate the effects of climate change by concentrating on the propagation of acoustical phenomena over time and space to promote a deeper understanding of how weather events shape specific environments. 　 To achieve this, a specially designed multi-microphone recording station will be deployed in a variety of locations over sustained periods of time to simultaneously record air, water and structure based sound using a combination of accelerometers, hydrophones and omnidirectional microphones synchronized to a multichannel recording device. 　 These recordings will be translated into surround sound compositions to afford immersive and tactile experiences of the fieldwork. As a result of this process surround sound maps of various meteorological events will be produced to incorporate the full morphological development of sound spectra over time and space to enhance the experience and understanding of these events. 　 The result of this research will be presented in different venues in Tokyo and Melbourne. The first event will happen on November 12, 2011, at Tokyo Superdeluxe with special guests : Haco and Sato Minoru -m/s. 　 The event, from 18:00 to 22:00, will hold a presentation of the field research with a sound installation documenting the project, screenings of video works by Dominic Redfern and Simon Perry, a talk by Kristen Sharp, a series of live performances based on the field research by Philip Samartzis, Dominic Redfern, Christophe Charles, students of Musashino Art University, Haco and Sato Minoru -m/s. 　 Artists and Researchers Profiles: ##Philip Samartzis Philip Samartzis is a composer, musician, and coordinator of sound in the RMIT School of Art. He researches in the areas of sound art, acoustic ecology and spatial sound practices, with a specific focus on art and emergency medicine, and environmental sustainability. His PhD, Surround Sound in Installation Art, examined the place of sound in contemporary art practice through a range of site determined sound art projects. In 2010 Philip was awarded fellowships by the Australia Council for the Arts, and the Australian Antarctic Division to document the effects of extreme climate and weather events on the human condition at Davis Station in Eastern Antarctica. [microphonics.org](http://www.microphonics.org/) ##Simon Perry Simon Perry is a visual artist and academic and has a particular interest in Art in Public Space. Over the last 20 years the key focus of his art practice has been the research, design and production of significant and high-profile urban public art in Australia and internationally. His more recent interest in the emerging field of art and ecology is demonstrated by his participation in a pioneering international exhibition "Heat: Art and Climate Change". [rmit.edu.au/staff/SimonPerry](http://www.rmit.edu.au/staff/SimonPerry) ##Dominic Redfern Dominic Redfern, video artist, has worked at the interaction of site, screen and identity. The screen then, is both subject and medium for his work, which gives critical expression to the complexity of screen-mediated experience. Dominic has shown his works at Perth international Arts Festival; Brisbane Gallery of Modern Art; Bangkok Experimental Film Festival; Chulalongkom Art Centre (Bangkok); Tate Modem (London); Te Tuhi Centre for The Arts (New Zealand); the Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of New Art (Detroit), Art in General (New York); Hamburger Bahnof (Berlin); Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo); Alternative Space Loop (Seoul); Gallery Minami, Tokyo Wonder Site (Tokyo). [dominicredfern.net](http://www.dominicredfern.net/) ##Kristen Sharp Kristen Sharp is Coordinator of Art History and Theory in the School of Art, she researches in the areas of cultural studies and art history, with a specific focus on globalisation, urbanisation and cultural identity. Her PhD, Superflat Worlds: a topography of Takashi Murakami and the cultures of Superflat art, examined the contemporary Japanese artist Takashi Murakami as an example of a contemporary art practice that is strategically located within the processes of contemporary globalisation. She is currently conducting research on art and the urban experience, and is a member of the RMIT Global Cities Research Institute (Globalization and Culture program). [rmit.edu.au/staff/KristenSharp](http://www.rmit.edu.au/staff/KristenSharp) ##Christophe Charles Christophe Charles (born Marseille 1964), works with found sounds, and makes compositions using computer programs, insisting on the autonomy of each sound and the absence of hierarchical structure. Currently Professor at [Musashino Art University](http://eizou.musabi.ac.jp/) (Tokyo). C.C. has released solo CDs on the German label [Mille Plateaux / Ritornell](http://milleplateaux1.wordpress.com/ritornell/) ("undirected" series), and on several compilations (Mille Plateaux, Ritornell, Subrosa, [Code](http://www.sitesakamoto.com/), [Cirque](http://www.yoshihirohanno.com/cirque%20discs.html), Cross, X-tract, [CCI](http://www.ryojiikeda.com/), [ICC](http://www.ntticc.or.jp/index_e.html), etc). Group exhibitions include ICC "Sound Art" (Tokyo, 2000), V&A "Radical Fashion" (London, 2001), etc. Permanent sound installations at Osaka Sumai Jouhou center (1999), Narita International Airport Central Atrium (2000). [home.att.ne.jp/grape/charles](http://home.att.ne.jp/grape/charles/) Special Guests: ##Haco A composer, vocalist, electroacoustic performer, sound artist, and a founding member of After Dinner (1981-1991) and Hoahio. Haco has created numerous recordings both as producer and sound designer. As a musician, she has given performances throughout Japan and the world. With her unique sensibility, Haco has developed a practice based on principles of post-punk, electroacoustics, the avant-garde, improvisation, post-rock, environmental sound, and technology. In 2005, her CD "Stereo Bugscope 00" was awarded a prize in the digital music category at Prix Ars Electronica in Austria. [hacohaco.net](http://www.hacohaco.net/haco/home.html) [japanimprov.com/haco](http://www.japanimprov.com/haco/index.html) ##Sato Minoru m/s minoru sato -m/s, SASW is a japanese artist. he has interested in the relationships between the description of nature and art representation, and he is creating art works per physical phenomena and various concepts. He has several music projects - solo, collaboration with ASUNA, "IL GRANDE SILENZIO", "f u r" and so on, and as a curator he is organizing contemporary art exhibitions and various events. [ms-wrk.com](http://www.ms-wrk.com/) [myspace](http://www.myspace.com/minorusato) Students from Musashino Art University: Dept. of Imaging Arts and Sciences, and Dept. of Visual Communication Design: Kondo Kazumasa Matsui Tadashi Miyakawa Miyamoto Kazuyuki Mizokawa Yuki Tajima Chiho Tsurukai Yuko Ujita Eri Woo Hi Teak Yamana Tomoyo Yoshida Hideto