For the 2006 project Sonic architectures: mapping the ancient theatre in image and sound Stephen Ingham took the scanned rubbings of the theatre textures as a starting point, to create sound textures through merging innovative computer programs with musical thinking. He composed Akou in 2006. While the fields of electroacoustic composition and spatialised sound diffusion are not in themselves new, the composer’s ability to harness recent digital technologies to generate and spatially diffuse sound output from vast quantities of scanned (or otherwise derived) data - sonification – has emerged as an exciting field of creative investigation…
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Image of Stephen Ingham’s sound piece derived from scanned textures of the Paphos ancient theatre: Akou, 2006. Duration 12.57 minutes. From the exhibition Travellers from Australia, exhibited at the Pailia Ilektriki, Ktima Pafos, Cyprus, 2-15 October, as part of the official program of the Pafos2017 European Capital of Culture. Photo: Shelley Webster 2017.
Diana Wood Conroy, Efstorgis inscription from the Paphos theatre, graphite rubbing on rice paper, 45 x 60cm, 2006. Used for Stephen Ingham’s digital acoustic composition of Akou.