**NEW CLUB NIGHT** on Thursday 2nd NOVEMBER with **BRIAN KAVANAGH**

Thursday November 2nd, 6-8pm in the Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building, 
Goldsmiths, University of London, New Corss, SE14 6NW

FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME

**SONIC SENSORIUM**

This talk will explore issues related to human perception of sound.

Sound, in its essence, works in the same way that it has always worked 
throughout time. Simply defined, sound is vibrations transmitted through 
an elastic solid or a liquid or gas. What has changed is that, over 
time, new sounds have been introduced to our soundscape, which in turn 
affect our perception of sound. During the industrial revolution, for 
example, people were introduced to all kinds of new machine-like sound 
and more recently the sound of the mobile phone has become a ubiquitous 
sound in our soundscape.

The introduction recording machines had a profound impact not only on 
the listener but also on composers and musicians alike. How novel it 
must have been for people to hear the sound of their own voices when the 
tape machine was made commercially available in the late 1940s. And what 
of Steve Reich’s use of the tape machine as musical instrument in his 
work ‘It’s Gonna Rain’ in 1965.

The limited nature of neural science makes it impossible to fully 
understand how perception works. What we can do is speculate on various 
topics relevant to this subject matter. For example, the conversion of 
analogue sound to digital sound, the liberation of music from the 
concert hall as a result of technological developments and the potential 
to use technology, within this code culture, to create new forms of 
interactive sound art. Of especial interest is ‘acousmatic sound’ or 
sound that does not require any visual representation.

This evenings presentation will include the showing of a short extract 
from my film ‘6 Swords at the Crossroads’, which broadly speaking pays 
homage to craft and the importance of craft in the creation of art.


Brian is an established artist, musician and filmmaker who has performed 
around the world and has received several awards for his work. He also 
is a PhD candidate at the Goldsmiths Centre for Cultural Studies.

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The rest of the Autumn term's Club nights are:


on 16 NOVEMBER with TIM HOPKINS

*ELEPHANT AND CASTLE: A PRESENTATION OF WORK-IN-PROGRESS ON A LYRIC 
THEATRE PIECE*

Tim is an opera and multimedia lyric theatre director, and a NESTA Fellow.
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on 30 NOVEMBER with MARK D'INVERNO

*CELL: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT LOOKING AT NEW THEORIES OF STEM CELL 
BEHAVIOUR*

Mark is Professor of Computing at Goldsmiths with a research interest in 
intelligent agents and multi-agent systems.
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on 14 DECEMBER with CHRIS BRAUER

HIT SONG SCIENCE

Chris is a PhD candidate in Sociology and Computing at Goldsmiths 
College, Visiting Lecturer at City University, as well as owner and 
principal consultant of Smoothmedia http://www.smoothmedia.com/

For more information on the Thursday Club check 
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cccc/thursday-club.php or email maria x: 
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Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] PhD Art & Computational 
Technologies http://www.cybertheater.org

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