Medialab Prado

Artist will present video and audio clips of his work and will speak about his art and sound making processes and concepts, including his unique sound diffusion strategies and production techniques implemented in the broad range of his artistic practice. These techniques will touch on such early concepts as Squaring the Circle, the Soundpool, Acoustic Mapping Process, and Dynamic Voltage Mapping, along with newer diffusion strategies such as Wind Space Architecture and the Illusion of Repetition. Heimbecker will bring focus to the development of his Wind Array Cascade Machine (2003), a 64 channel, field like, digital sensor network he built, that records the cascading wave patterns of the wind, and the history and use of this data within his work since 2003. Steve will complete his talk with his most recent installation and concert system, the powerful and "portable" Turbulence Sound Matrix, a 64 channel, 3,200 watt sound diffusion instrument / system.