Interface[s] Montréal

Digital Audio and Music

Steve Heimbecker

Artist

The fabric of Wind Space Architecture and multi channel sound

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Formally trained in visual arts, Montréal based Intermedia and Audio Artist Steve Heimbecker has been creating eight channel sound compositions and installations on sound systems of his own design since the early 1990's. His first DVD 5.1 was produced in Montréal in the spring of 2002 and later published with 3 other of his 5.1 productions in 2005. Originally from Saskatchewan, Heimbecker has retained a strong sense of the open prairie landscape which has inspired his sound space diffusion concepts, techniques, and designs. His award winning work has been presented in Québec, Canada, and Europe, plus the USA, and Peru. His most recent production, the Turbulence Sound Matrix, a 64 channel, 3200 watt sound system together with the composition Signe, recently premiered at the Elektra (9) Festival, Montréal.

Steve Heimbecker will speak about his unique sound diffusion strategies and techniques developed over 16 years of independent multi channel sound production such as his Acoustic Mapping Process, and Dynamic Voltage Mapping. Along with newer concepts such as Wind Space Architecture, Heimbecker will focus on the creation of the Wind Array Cascade Machine (2003), a field like digital sensor network that can data record the wave patterns of the wind, and specifically his recent 64 channel sound diffusion system, the Turbulence Sound Matrix (2008), together with Signe, his first composition for the TSM.

Steve Heimbecker recently in his Montréal studio with his Turbulence Sound Matrix (2008).