Jerry Rothenberg (poet, anthologist), Rip Hayman (composer, sound artist, publisher), Gideon D’Arcangelo (technology architect, experience designer), Paco Underhill (sociologist, entrepreneur, author), Annea Lockwood (composer, sound artist), Karin Bacon (event designer, producer, costumer), Jaron Lanier (musician, virtual worlds innovator, author), Steve McCaffery (poet of word, sound, image, performance), Gerd Stern (poet, art technology pioneer), Michael Gerzon RIP (inventor, sound recordist, poet), David Toop (musician, author, teacher), Christopher Wangro (event producer, musical instrument builder), Stephen Vitiello (musician, sound artist, curator), Diana Deutsch (music psychologist, teacher), Stephanie Morrow (marketing strategist) Gunnar Wille (artist, author, teacher), anthropologist, arctic specialist), Brian Katz (acoustician), Paul Geluso (sound engineer, author, teacher), Dan Neafus (planetarium technologist, organizer), KaChun Yu (astrophysicist, planetarium technologist, author), Martyn Ware (activist musician, sound artist, podcaster), Michael Schumacher (musician, sound artist, curator), Pamela Z (composer, sound artist), Miya Misaoka (composer, sound artist, teacher), Tim Ventimiglia (architect, museum designer), Monica Bolles (sound engineer, sound artist), Alan Nursall (science media reporter, planetarium director), Jamie O’Boyle (author, cultural literacy consultant, venue design), Margaret J King (author, cultural literacy consultant), Robin Sip (fulldome show producer, founder of Mirage3D) Barry Threw (curator, producer of new media) Henry Stewart (immersive media producer), Ian McClennan (designer of planetariums), Louis-Philippe St Arnault (artist-technologist) Thomas Kraupe (planetarium director, curator), Luc Courchesne (artist-technologist), Anne Stenros (activist architect, designer), Carlos Casas (multimedia artist-technologist), Stewart Bird (multimedia artist-technologist), Pierre Brand (sound engineer, planetarium shows), Travis Price (architect, author, speaker), Micky Remann (producer, immersive experience designer), Annie Mitchell (light artist), Jenny Woo (director of immersivity at IBM), Martine-Nicole Rojina (sound engineer, artist technologist), Sjoerd Postema (event & co-living producer, virtual world developer), Philippe Grotsch (physicist, oceans analyst), William Fitzhugh (anthropologist, arctic specialist) & Phil Niblock (composer, filmmaker, director of Experimental Intermedia).
iMMERSE! with Charlie Morrow
Composer-Techie Charlie Morrow & colleagues explore the immersive world
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Episodes
Friday Jul 15, 2022
Friday Jul 15, 2022
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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Friday Jul 01, 2022
Friday Jul 01, 2022
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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Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
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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Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
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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Monday May 16, 2022
Monday May 16, 2022
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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Saturday Apr 30, 2022
Saturday Apr 30, 2022
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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Saturday Apr 16, 2022
Saturday Apr 16, 2022
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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Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Charlie & Jaron Lanier, pioneer of virtual reality, met in the late 1970s at Rip Hayman's famous Ear Inn in New York. Jaron worked on EAR Magazine and created a cover with New York’s subway stops as musical instrument play buttons. He jammed in the Ocarina Orchestra. Jaron shares his earliest experiences with immersivity and some of his latest work.
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Saturday Mar 19, 2022
Saturday Mar 19, 2022
Pilot broadcast of the immerse! podcast series is a special 80-minute celebration & investigation of the life & work of audio pioneer Michael Gerzon, inventor of Ambisonics & lossless audio, which revolutionized recorded sound. The podcast series launch came in conjunction with the immerse! online event: Celebration of the Vernal Equinox & Michael Gerzon on Sunday March 20, 2022.
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iMMERSE! Sound Light Space
CHARLIE MORROW, Composer-sound-artist-eventsmaker, investigates immersion in 40 interviews with his past collaborators, all luminaries in the fields of immersion including music, events production, architecture, anthropology, archaeology, visual art, psychology, literature, performance, sound engineering, 3D technology, artificial intelligence, marketing ...
The series commences with the nearly 80-minute "The Gerzon Factor" & will continue with uniquely produced & focused interviews at regular intervals, averaging 25-45 minutes.
Read more about Michael Gerzon in Jon Kalish's PC MAGAZINE article
Read “Charlie Morrow, Sonic Nomad,” bart plantenga, Musicworks.