The Sonic Art Group
The sonic art group explores music that is not from pitches or rhythms but sound. It does this through practical experiments in electronic and computer composition useing contemporary techniques and expression in music. This includes techniques such as; musique concrète, signal processing, algorithmic composition, sound synthsis and sound spatialisation.
The group is made up of composition students at the School of Music – Conservatorium and other interested students. The group is run by Composition Lecturer Peter Mcilwain. Members of the sonic art group work with Peter on projects for concerts, CDs and and contribute to research into computer music.
Contact details
Peter Mcilwain
Telephone: 03 9905 1330
Email: Peter.Mcilwain@arts.monash.edu.au
Cage - Synthesis Project
The MaxMSP collective below requires MaxMSP Runtime to work. It should work on you Mac but let me know if you have problems.
Download (Max Collective): Timepoint Synthv2
Download: MaxMSP Runtime
Nodal Project
Materials and plans for the current Sonic Art project
Iago Morse Code Project
Materials and plans for the Iago Morse Code project
Visit the Sonic Art Sound Gallery
Recent Concerts
Hear the results of a great collaboration between the Sonic Art Group and the Plans jazz ensemble. The concert will feature live acoustic and electronic improvisation with the raw sounds and musical gestures provided by Plans and signal processing and sound spatialisation provided by the Sonic Art Group. Beautiful and intriguing musical textures are created by the sounds from jazz being fractured and recombined into a rich sound field that is distributed in space around the audience. The concert also features the work of a duet of computer and piano provided by Tom Dunstan and David O'Brien. Tom and David's work is very expressive and diverse in its sonic range.
June 26 - 8pm - Music Auditorium, School of Music – Conservatorium
Electronic Antiphony
This concert featured works by sonic art and prominent composers from around Australia for 8 channel sound.
Sonic Art at the Make It Up Club
The Sonic Art Group featured in a night of live improvisation at the Make It Up Club. The Venue specialises in live improvisation and presents many of the most talented musicians from around Melbourne.
Australasian Computer Music Conference
The Sonic Art Group presented live electronic music for 8 channel sound in the ACMC 2002 concert series.
The Monash Lunchtime Concert Series
The Sonic Art Group presented a series of works in a concert in the popular Lunchtime Concert Series.
Live electronic music by students and staff from Simulation, the electronic music ensemble of the Queensland University of Technology and The Sonic Art Group from the School of Music Conservatorium.
The Sonic Art Group
The concert will feature experiments by the sonic art group including 3 software programs written in Max4, microphone feedback, cello, oboe and the old, but still interesting, VCS3 synthesiser.
Simulation
For examples of work by Simulation see: http://www.academy.qut.edu.au/music/simulation/
Original Members
Matt Baxter, Andrew Ross, Kim Lajoie and Clint Small from the Sonic Art Group.
Useful Links
Trevor Wishart author of the book On Sonic Art