Installation:
A parabolic microphone has been cable-tied to a drain pipe outside my studio window at the University of Wollongong. Buses, cicadas, theatre majors, and Galahs (Eolophus roseicapillus) may be heard with some frequency.

Locus Sonus streams are basically open-microphones, continually uploading chosen sound environments. Streaming content is produced by a global community of artists from North America, Europe, Africa, and this site in Australia. All streams may be approached as playable material. The Locus Sonus group works with other people to set up and maintain the streams, constructing a sonic/human network.

The first version of the installation featured a binaural microphone lashed to a 1.5-meter pole. After moving to a new office, I bulit a parabolic microphone to focus on the insect and bird sounds I heard in the secluded garden courtyard that I face. An op-shop kitchen bowl scoops sound to a monaural electret condenser microphone, that is routed through a PureData patch.

The Organizers:
Locus Sonus is a research group specializing in audio art. The group is based at École Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence, and École Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Nice Villa Arson.

They explore and evaluate the innovative and transdisciplinary nature of audio art forms in a lab context. A concern for the communal, collective or multi-user aspects of audio art is central to the practice of Locus Sonus. Two main themes define this research: audio in it's relation to space, and networked audio systems.