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Incorporating immersive audio into a collaborative project for live art
Incorporating immersive audio into a collaborative project for live art
Using 360 audio software to create a spatialised soundscape
"This funding will allow me to spend time learning the software 360 Walkmix Creator to
create a spatialised soundscape. I will use Sony MDR-MV1 headphones that reproduce sounds in 360 format for better mixing outcomes.
I want to explore the use of immersive audio within a particular setting, so that users can wear headphones and move around a real life 'scene'. As this forms part of a collaboration with an actor, it is important that the users can see and are aware of the physical space
around them and that while wearing the headphones, certain noises will be played throughout the experience that transform their understanding of the space. For example,
they may be situated in a perfectly 'normal' living room but the sound they hear on the headphones could be quite ominous, even threatening. The sound being immersive but also physically separate from the 'scene' is a key component of the work"
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£5,000
Aims of the Project
This project will allow me to enhance my skills and techniques in immersive audio develop my profile in the immersive arts field.
Develop my skills in 360 audio production create accessible art content for a variety of audiences, create cross-sector collaboration opportunities enhance the quality of my artworks access new audiences create potential future opportunities expand my toolkit as an artist work with new partners.
Meet the artist
Sinéad O’Neill-Nicholl
Lead artist
she/her
Sinéad O’Neill-Nicholl (b.1974) studied fine art at Belfast School of Art (2015-2020). Sinéad is a current member and a former Chair and Trustee of Vault Artist Studios, Belfast.
Sinéad has exhibited locally and nationally and will undertake an international residency in Minneapolis in Summer 2025. Solo exhibitions include The C-word, paradox and optimism of the will (2022), University of Atypical (Belfast) and ni bheidh se mar a bhí (2022) at Gerard Dillon Gallery (Belfast).
Selected awards include Arts Council NI, Individual Artist Digital Evolution Award (2023), ACNI SIAP (2023)(2019), Screaming Pope Award Finalist (2021), Kilkenny Exchange Award (2020)
