Steve Symons explores the use of sound in open and semi-open systems, creating challenging and exciting interactive experiences.

Since 2003 Steve has been exploring the interaction between sound and the location in which it is heard through a series of 'aura' projects, which transform the way in which people experience their environment through an immersive sound work involving a backpack and headphones.

This has two strands :-

“aura - the stuff around the stuff around you”
– where audio loops fade in and out depending on your position in the real world and the direction you are facing; and

“aura - the stuff that forms around you”
- where the aura system tracks the routes participants take on a walk as they experience evolving and changing sounds based on previous users' routes.

In November 2005, Steve joined the Owl Project, performing and creating traditional craft-based electronics.

From April 2000 Steve was a Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University. He left in October 2003 to set up 'muio.org' an Art and Technology Research organisation. 'muio.org' is used as a platform to release various opensource tools to the wider public, for example; the muio interface (a cheap modular system for sensing and controlling the real world from a computer) and 'cyclOsc' (a camera system for performance).

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