Audio Augmented Reality (featuring music composed by plants and spambots!)

About the Talk

In this talk, Laurence will introduce the subject of 'Audio Augmented Reality' (AAR), its relationship to visual Augmented Reality, and share some examples of its potential applications.

He’ll be sharing his recent collaboration with 'The Science Museum Group', where two exploratory AAR based sound installations were used to connect musical and media technologies from their collection with digital audio archive material.

There'll be a little AAR demo app for those who want to have a go and you'll get to learn more about music composed by plants and poetry composed by spambots. 🌵 🤖

About the Speaker

Laurence is an EPSRC funded PhD student at The University of Nottingham’s 'Mixed-Reality Laboratory' researching Audio Augmented Reality.

He has a unique mix of a Masters degree in Fine Art and an Undergraduate degree in Music Technology & Sonic Art.

Between and during his studies he's worked as a freelance web developer, graphic designer, digital artist and music producer for almost 20 years.

In 2015 Laurence received a Net Art grant from 'The New Museum' in New York for my proposal entitled An Open Call For Spambots.