I / O s o n i c

andreas krach, johannes sienknecht a.o.
netzklang, Weimar (D).
In collaboration with:
- bauhaus university weimar, media faculty
- studio for elektro-acoustic music (seam), hochschule für musik franz liszt, weimar

krach@uni-weimar.de
DIRECT LINK TO I/O/SONIC : http://iosonic.de


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I/Osonic opens the network as a multi-channel, on-site sound installation, "radio sculpture" and venue for remote live interaction. The local sonosphere flows back and forth through the internet as a RA/MPEG3 audio stream, becoming available to other project participants.
I/Osonic is presented in Weimar, Europe's Cultural City of 1999
I/Osonic was broadcasting data and audio streams via internet and radio as well as within a stationary sound space to be installed in Weimar from September 1st to 6th, 1999. The web presence of I/Osonic consists of a webpage and a permanent RA/MPEG3 stream. This part of the project was broadcasted in stereo in Weimar over a university-based radio station, broadcasting at 106.6 MHz. In a glassed-in space on the roof of the university 's "Limona" building, a sound installation was open to the public. From here, overlooking the city of Weimar, I/Osonic was receiving, transforming and broadcasting sound in real time.
Up to 4 independent data streams from connected projects are received simultaneously over the internet. These streams are decoded, analysed and transformed with specially designed audio signal processing (MAX/MSP). Directional microphones, placed outside the installation area, one on each of the four corners of the glass space, picked up sounds from the Weimar area. These sounds are processed and mixed into to the local 16-channel sound installation. A stereo mix of the installation was broadcasted via the university radio station as well as via internet as a RA/MPEG3 stream. The streamed data are in turn be used by the other connected projects as a base for their own transformations.
I/Osonic is produced in Weimar at SeaM (Studio für elektroakustische Musik) of the Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT as well as at the media faculty of Weimar's Bauhaus University with special support from the department of "Experimental Radio".