Back to my zealous report on Cybersonica:

Stanza presented his own work and the Sountoys website he’s “curating”.

Soundtoys provides a meeting point for the community of audiovisual artists and users, an exhibition space for innovative audio visual projects (over 200 projects so far), areas for artists interviews, links to resources, and texts by contributing writers, etc.

Soundtoys is open to artists, designers, musicians, writers and programmers who make (or who are interested in the aestheticsof); interactive web soundtoys, artworks and related texts.

The artist then gave an overview of his most recent projects:

– Sensity artworks are made from the data collected across the city. The data is interpreted then published online to display the emotional state of the city and the information will be used to create installations and sculptural artefacts.

These artworks will represent the movement of people, pollution, vibrations and sounds of buildings, etc. to inform the world and creates new meaningful experiences.

For example, pollution data recorded via sensors located in the street could be used to create audio acoustic files expressing the pain and suffering of the air as it pollutes. Weather and forecast data, acquired via weather station equipment could be used to create ambient soundscapes and morphing visualisations as the wind shifts direction or the rain increases. Noise monitor levels could be to create sound reactive sculptures.

– Authenticity is an interactive online installation made with live CCTV images from around London.

– Soundcities is an online collection of audio samples he collected around the globe. The sounds are open access, you can add your own and even mix them together.

– for the now legendary Genomixer project, Stanza created online artworks inspired by the human genome sequence and developed from dna profile which are sequenced from his own blood. He also “infected” with his DNA website like the one of the BBC, the ICA and the Tate .

Other works by Stanza: Robotica.
Picture of Stanza hacked from Chris‘s Cybersonica set.