Steve Symons
muio.org

I work exclusively with technology as an art medium exploring weak A-Life and emergent audio systems.

Current work explores the interaction between sound and environment in a project titled 'aura – the stuff around the stuff around you' (an Arts Council funded project). 'aura' is a sonic multi-user augmented reality and has been exhibited at Fururesonic04 in Manchester and at Deleite, Barcelona June 2004 and recently in New York.

An almost designerly or scientific rigour to my work is deliberate and frames my thought processes. The project 'neuralMix' is a good example of this. 'neuralMix' is a piece of software for listening to, managing and breeding autonomous gene-based sonic agents. Based upon abstractions of computer science neural networks and real neural systems neuralMix is a generative audio system that makes the creation of audio akin to horticulture. neuralMix has been exhibited as a piece of software, it has been used to create particular agents for installation and has been streamed online (“p++” project). The successor -“neuralToolkit”, a visual environment for designing neuronal sonic systems - is underdevelopment.

I direct ‘muio.org’, an organisation aimed at facilitating my art practice and exploiting the technology produced, e.g. the opensource “muio interface” project.

Steve Symons' vision