Optosonic Design
Optosonic design is an artistic gesture where light and sound waves are bound together and perceived as integral and correlated. The resulting phenomena contains elements of space, time, colour and sound or a combination thereof. Over the course of centuries, many attempts have emerged in combining different mediums, but we have yet to discover convincing methods of creating an integrated art form embodying all aspects of human perception. This leaves much room for exploration and luckily, art has the inherent capacity to convey what is intangible and insatiable.
This web site was created to gather information about projects involving sound and visuals, particularly focussing on the interactive nature of these mediums. The aim of this initiative is to encourage intuitive and abstract experimentation relating to optosonic design, a concept in constant evolution.
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Ivan Zavada
Searching for a correlation between sciences and musical creation, Ivan Zavada studied electroacoustic composition at the University of Montreal, Canada. He has lectured in computer music and electroacoustic theory. As a composer, he created several soundtracks for documentary film, as well as short and feature films. As a violinist and composer he also participated in several concerts and recordings with various music ensembles. His current research focus is on the interactive relationship between image and sound. Ivan Zavada is currently based in Sydney, Australia and mainly devotes his time to research, teaching and composition.
Ivan Zavada’s role as a composer, programmer and designer is strengthened by the prospects of creating innovative, large scale and high impact multi-sensorial events incorporating sophisticated audiovisual techniques to express artistic individuality in a post-modern society in a clear transition toward a more defined digital era. In general, Zavada’s work questions the conceptual nature of music by examining the relationship between concrete sounds and visual elements of abstraction. The combination of sound and image in multiple layers challenges the medium’s representational paradigm in the digital realm, and makes electroacoustic composition and optosonic design particularly interesting and significant today.
contact information:
Ivan Zavada
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
The University of Sydney
Macquarie Street, Sydney
NSW 2000, AUSTRALIA
email: info@optosonic.com