A|B Smith

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Festival programme

A/B Smith

ICU (2021)

Venue

Brighton CCA: Dorset Place
BN2 1ST

Dates & time

Friday 4th March – Saturday 19th March 2022
12.00 – 17.00 (Tues–Fri)
14.00 – 17.00 (Sat)
Late opening Thurs 17/03: 12.00 – 19.00

A|B Smith - ICU
© A/B Smith

ICU’ is an immersive interactive sound installation made from a networked collection of interactive devices and custom software, which renders data from the faces of the audience and their movements.

Five speakers and two projectors surround the visitor with sound, light and images. A giant projection of abstract data towers over the visitor. An interactive scenario is projected on two screens, which flank a camera that reads the visitor’s facial expressions. The left screen encourages the visitor to move, while sharing their emotion. The right screen projects the data extracted from the visitor and reveals associated images and classifications.

At the same time, the data harvested by the AI facial recognition system are sonified to reveal the hidden processes at work. These sounds are diffused around the visitor: five speakers at ear-level create the data sonifications and emit an array of digital crackles and arpeggiated granular melodies.

The system exposes the classifications that allow this machine to understand what it sees. Sound is used to reveal these secretive processes and to create an experiential reflection of the workings of this technology.

A/B Smith (UK)

A/B Smith aka Boblete is a music producer, hacker, coder, educator, data scientist, VJ, DJ and immersive experience artist operating in a space that weaves spatial sound, technology, politics and electronic club culture into art. With a background in computer science and education his current work investigates the politics of AI and the possibilities of sound as a catalyst for revelation. He has released music under various guises from the found-sound audio collage contained in the recording of ‘The Average Man’, to the underground club sounds released on various imprints between the late 90’s to the present. His previous artistic output includes an impossible musical score for The Imagination released on Matthew Herbert’s Accidental editions, to an interactive ‘Sonic Pong’ installation on the massive 4DSound system at Muziekgebouw aan het IJ, during the ADE Festival in Amsterdam.

A/B Smith
© A/B Smith

Venue information

Brighton CCA: Dorset Place
6 Dorset Place
Brighton
East Sussex
BN2 1ST

https://brightoncca.art/
brightoncca@brighton.ac.uk
01273 643010

 

Opening hours

Friday 4th March – Saturday 19th March 2022

14.00 – 19.00 (Tues–Fri)
14.00 – 17.00 (Sat)

Other events

Bernhard Leitner • Kopfräume / Headscapes

SOUND INSTALLATION

 • Attenborough Centre
 • 09 March – 18 March 2022

A/B Smith • ICU

AUDIOVISUAL INSTALLATION

 • Brighton CCA: Dorset Place
 • 04 March – 19 March 2022

SOUNDER • Sounder Postcards

SOUND INSTALLATION

• Brighton CCA
• 04 March – 19 March 2022

Joshua Le Gallienne • Surrender

SOUND INSTALLATION

 • Wild Park
 • 12 March 2022

Sensing Sound: Ali Donaldson in Conversation with Chris Cutler

EVENT

 • ONCA Barge
 • 17 March 2022

Jez riley French • Microlistening Workshop

WORKSHOP

 • Hillcrest Centre, Newhaven
 • 02 March 2022

Kathy Hinde • Chirp & Drift

SOUND + LIGHT INSTALLATION

 • Attenborough Centre
 • 09 March – 20 March 2022

Jean Martin & Wil Pennycook • One Minute Past

AUDIOVISUAL WORK

 • Brighton CCA
 • 04 March – 19 March 2022

Chris Sciacca • Integrated Soundscapes: Brighton

AUDIOVISUAL INSTALLATION

• Attenborough Centre
• 09 March – 18 March 2022

SOUNDER • Sound Skater

PERFORMANCE

 • The Level
 • 06 March 2022

Sound Art Brighton's Sound Art Disco

EVENT

 • The Rose Hill
 • 17 March 2022

Place Metal Strings (Jez riley French, Adam Bushell + Alice Eldridge)

PERFORMANCE

 • The Rose Hill
 • 01 March 2022

Olivia Louvel • Doggerland Channels

AUDIOVISUAL INSTALLATION

 • Phoenix Art Space
 • 02 March – 06 March 2022

Toby Hinks • Foci

SOUND INSTALLATION

 • Gallery Lock In
 • 09 March – 13 March 2022

Sanja Matkovic • Stolen Childhoods

SOUND INSTALLATION

 • ONCA Gallery
 • 10 March – 02 April 2022

Chris Sciacca • Patcham to Chattri War Memorial Soundwalk

EVENT

 • Patcham
 • 19 March 2022 (re-scheduled date)

Non-binary & Queer Perspectives on Listening

WORKSHOP

 • Brighton CCA
 • 19 March 2022

Sound Art Brighton Festival is a city-wide programme of events presenting sound installations, sound sculptures, interactive sound events, performances, sound walks, audio and audiovisual works, both in galleries and outdoors, throughout the city of Brighton and Hove (UK).

Combining local sound art talents with international guests, the festival celebrates the diversity and range of this broad and hybrid art practice and pays hommage to the multitude of sounds to be found in our city – with the Downs on one side and the sea on the other, as part of a UNESCO biosphere.