[ISEA2022] Paper: Yoni Collier — ‘Taman Tugu: Interference/Resistance’ – addressing urban rewilding with a musical augmented reality experience

Abstract

Short paper, theme: Natures and Worlds: Data, performances and urban environments
Venue: CCCB, date: June 15

Keywords: Placed sound, locative media, site specific art, rewilding, augmented reality

‘Taman Tugu: Interference/Resistance’ is a site-specific musical work based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The work uses Augmented Reality and placed sound to raise questions about the importance of urban green spaces in general and rewilded urban spaces in particular.

‘Taman Tugu: Interference/Resistance’ is an immersive, interactive musical work that has been mapped onto the pathways of the Taman Tugu jungle park in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Taman Tugu is an unusual place – a large rewilded space teeming with wildlife in the centre of a modern metropolis. ‘Taman Tugu: Interference/Resistance’ uses Audio Augmented Reality and placed sound to raise questions about the importance of urban green spaces in general and rewilded urban spaces in particular. This paper explains how the work asks these questions of its audience through the mapping of electronic sound over the unique geography of Taman Tugu. https://www.cloakanddagger-music.com/taman-tugu

  • Yoni Collier (UK) is currently working towards a practice-based PhD; an examination of how location-based recording, musical performance and production can be used as tools for examining artistic practice, landscape and history. Alongside a written thesis, Yoni is composing and producing immersive, interactive musical pieces that are laid over specific landscapes and ‘performed’ through location-aware Smartphone apps. Yoni holds a BA in Popular and World Musics from Leeds University and an MSc in Sound Design from Leeds Beckett University. Alongside his research, he continues to work as a freelance producer, composer and performer. His experience in composition for visual media includes work for dramatic film, corporate clients and video games. His music has featured on TV shows on ABC Family, ITV and Sky Sports, and he has scored films that have been exhibited at numerous international film festivals including the BFI London Film Festival and The ECU European Independent Film Festival.