Stuart Jones
My background
Interactive environments and sound. My career has taken me from working with Cage and Stockhausen, living with desert nomads and playing Japanese classical music, to where I currently am – still composing and building installations.
Recent initiatives
The Walls have Mouths – Interactive Architecture, an AHRB research project (in collaboration with Foster and Partners). This project is about designing an intelligent building and how that intelligence would be embodied and enacted.
Given – Taken / Remember to Forget, dance piece with choreographer, Emilyn Claid (2003).
...upon the seas to which it eventually flows, site-specific sound installation, The Biosphère, Montréal (2002).
My expertise
My practice is in music composition and sound art, and in collaboration with visual artists, mixed media art. A lot of my installation work is interactive. To the course I bring expertise in sound, moving image and interactivity, which is my research specialism at CSM. I also play a role in developing theoretical background to and analysis of narrative environment practice and run a weekly seminar on Narrative Environment Theory in the second year.
My focus
In my practice I am currently working on the analysis re-presentation of birdsong as human performed music, using PureData as my main programming environment. In my research I am examining how metalepsis can apply to the narratee in interactive environments, and how developmental stages in young children are reflected in changes in their narratee position in storytelling, and how this throws light on adult responses to interactive environments.