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Nicole L Carroll PhD
http://nicolecarrollmusic.com/

World Forum for Acoustic Ecology 2023 Conference
Listening Pasts - Listening Futures
Thursday, 23 March, 2023. Presented remotely from Australia.
(c) 2023

Bio: Nicole Carroll is a composer, performer, sound designer, and builder working with audio, video, and tangible objects. Her work spans installation, improvisation, and fixed media performance, across noise, soundscape, and acousmatic genres. She is active as a sound designer and composer in theatre, performs electronic music under the alias “n0izmkr,” and builds custom synthesisers, controllers, and performance sensor systems. Her research focuses on generative systems that merge analog and digital technologies to create musical performance systems from non-musical sources. Additional interests include soft circuits and wearable sensors, augmented acoustic instruments, and AV synthesis on mobile devices and embedded systems.

Themes found in Nicole’s work derive from reflections on nature, occult philosophies, literature, and the human psyche. Inspired by divination folklore, chance procedures, and hermetic occult philosophies, she uses the tarot and W.B. Yeats’ esoteric system detailed in A Vision as conceptual and mapping frameworks in her music. Yeats’ system of moon phases and their correspondences are combined with chance procedures, which are driven by tarot card symbolism and numerology, to determine form, texture, rhythmic relationships, and processing parameters during performance.

Nicole’s works have been performed internationally in USA, Mexico, Wales, Germany, Greece, Australia, and China, including at SEAMUS, ICMC, and NIME conferences. Nicole holds an M.M. and B.M. in Composition from Bowling Green State University and Arkansas State University, respectively. During the 2017-18 academic year, she was an Adjunct Research Fellow at QCGU in Brisbane, Australia. She received a Ph.D. in Computer Music and Multimedia from Brown University in Providence, RI, USA and is currently Lecturer in Digital Composition at the University of Newcastle in Australia.


Abstract: This presentation offers listeners and viewers a glimpse of the Newcastle Harbour aquatic ecosystem. Audiences may be surprised by the density and intensity of the aural landscape. The complexities of life under the surface are both musical and oppressive, and a novel listening experience for most.

The first aim of this project is to collect recordings and to simply listen and to offer that listening experience to others through creative outputs, educational materials, and community workshops. A long-term goal of the project is to raise awareness of our current ecosystems, especially one so integral to the landscape and economy of Newcastle. Additionally, after analyzing the recordings and data, we can begin to form questions regarding the health of the port ecosystem and develop mitigation strategies around anthropogenic disturbances.

Hydrophones will be placed in several locations in the Newcastle Harbour and remain in situ as a semi-permanent installation to allow for collection of continuous 24/7 audio streams. The hydrophones will be in position for a minimum of six months to capture a full cycle of migrating marine life. While some assumptions of activity patterns can be made based on previous listening experiments, passive aquatic monitoring will provide the most reliable data to test these assumptions. Through long durational recordings from an array of hydrophones, trends in the acoustic profile of the harbor may be tracked in conjunction with vessel tracking data collected from an AIS transponder API service to corroborate the noise profile of the recorded audio to harbor shipping traffic. This information, combined with physical environmental sensors may be used to draw correlations between environmental changes, vessel activity, and marine life.

This project is a collaboration between researchers at the University of Newcastle and the Port of Newcastle (the world’s largest coal port). This project is set to commence in late October 2022.