Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) is a research centre of the University of the Arts London dedicated to the exploration of the rich complexities of sound as an artistic practice.
Our main aim is to extend the development of the emerging disciplinary field of sound arts and to encourage the broadening and deepening of the discursive context in which sound arts is practised.
Research Feature: Using Real-Time Data Flux In Art – The Mediation Of A Situation As It Unfolds: RoadMusic – An Experimental Case Study
The practice driving this research is called RoadMusic. The project uses a small computer based system installed in a car that composes music from the flux of information it captures about the journey as it unfolds. It uses a technique known as sonification that consists of mapping data to sound. In the case of RoadMusic, this data capture is realtime, external to the computer and mobilised with the user. This PhD dissertation investigates ways in which such a sonification can become an artistic form.
Chen's research is interested in live performance, singing voice, computer music, pop music, and emerging music technologies. Her practice is exploring the musical possibilities of the human voice, developing creative works of novel compositional and performance practice to extend vocal abilities using computer technologies, including Open Sound Control (OSC), live sampling and synthesizing.
