iMMERSE! with Charlie Morrow

Monica Bolles - Immersed in the Brain 12

Monica Bolles already wears many hats. She’s an artist, music producer, audio engineer, and composer who is very involved in three-dimensional environments and the creation of immersive experiences, especially in full-dome setting. She loves exploring the fusion of multimedia arts, science, sound, and immersive environments that submerge the audience in multi-sensory sonic, visual, and tactile sensations. 
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Rip Hayman - Forever Reverb Immersion 11

Capt. Rip Hayman (US Merchant Marine) is a sailing musician & musical sailor who has traveled to many faraway places at sea & in sound imagination. He eventually became a mainstay of the Ear Inn & New Wilderness crew. Produced events like Dreamsound for sleeping audience, Blindsound for blind audience and On the Way, a film & sound meditation on his near death experience.
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William Fitzhugh - Immersed in the Arctic 10

American archaeologist & anthropologist heads the Smithsonian’s Arctic Studies Center & is a Senior Scientist at the National Museum of Natural History. He's done extensive research on the history & archaeology of Arctic peoples & their responses to climate change. Morrow & Fitzhugh worked together on Fitzhugh’s exhibit The Vikings, which made the cover of Time & Morrow’s Solstice 24, a 24-hr celebration of the summer solstice.
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Martyn Ware - Electronically Ours 9

Martyn Ware, a man of many talents: English musician, composer, producer, & podcaster, is a founding member of the synth-pop groups Human League & Heaven 17. He's also an explorer of immersion & 3-D sound. Charlie Morrow discusses their mutual interest in immersion, both the technological & the psychological aspects...
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Pamela Z - Words Move Electronically 8

Pamela Z is a composer-performer & media artist who creates works for voice, electronic processing, samples, & video.  She has composed scores for dance, film, & chamber ensembles. She was commissioned by the Kitchen in NYC to create a 3D music work for Morrow's True3D Soundcube in 2004. Morrow interviewed her 2021.
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Paco Underhill - Immersive Consumer Behavior 7

Paco Underhill was inspired by the methodology of urbanist William H. Whyte & the fact that he has lived in many cities around the world as the son of a diplomat, is a retail space doctor, consumer behavior consultant and best-selling author of Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping, founded the first iteration office of his consultancy Envirosell in 1986. He became the chairman of the New Wilderness Foundation, an ethnopoetics and performing arts group, co-founded by poet Jerome Rothenberg and Morrow in 1974.
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Brian Katz - Reconstructing Notre Dame’s Acoustics 6

Brian Katz is an acoustican, CNRS Research Director at Sorbonne University's Institute Jean Le Rond d'Alembert Sound Lab, a specialist in spatial hearing, room acoustics, and virtual reality.
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Miya Masaoka - Being in Awe of What Eixsts in Nature 5

Miya Masaoka is an utterly fascinating Fluxus-nfluenced artist who was inspired by her childhood fascination with her cat's purring vibrations. She often works  with environmental sounds in natural settings and has produced intriguing performance duets with insects.
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David Toop - Echoes of Immersion 3

David Toop, the poetic musician and author of Ocean of Sound & Haunted Weather who has followed the path of shamanism and sonic experience is here engaged in a fascinating conversation about memory & immersion. He is a respected improviser and thinks of all his creative activity as improvisation.
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Annea Lockwood - From Burning Pianos to Immersive Sound[s] 2

Charlie Morrow & Annea Lockwood, New Zealand-born American composer & environmental musician discuss immersion. She has taught electronic music at Vassar College. She’s known for her explorations of natural acoustic sounds and environments, in works ranging from sound art & installations, to text-sound, performance art & concert music. She's recorded Fluxus-inspired pieces involving burning or drowning pianos. Her CDs include: Thousand Year Dreaming/Floating World, World Rhythms, A Sound Map of the Hudson River, Tiger Balm.
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