Sound / Multimedia Creative
Joseph Hyde is a musician and sound artist, with a long history in electronic music and sonic art. His recent work has moved into multimedia, where he is interested in the idea of ‘visual music’ – musical ideas explored through visual media. As well as making his own visual music works, he is undertaking a long term study of pioneers in this field, in particular Oskar Fischinger.
He is also an enthusiastic and experienced collaborator, particularly in the field of dance. Here he works both as a composer and in a broader capacity working with video, interactive systems and telepresence. His interest in movement and interactive systems has led him to an intensive exploration of the revolutionary Microsoft Kinect sensor, through several collaborative arts projects and theoretical writings.
Hyde also works as a lecturer/academic, as Professor or Music at Bath Spa University in the UK – as well as teaching on the BA Creative Music Technology,he runs the MMus in Creative Sound and Media Technology and supervisesa number of PhD students. Since 2009 he has run a symposium on Visual Music at the university, Seeing Sound.
Joseph Hyde has been commissioned for me and my shadow by MADE (Mobility for Digital Arts in Europe), a EU project in which body>data>space was involved as a co-organiser. A deeply immersive experience consisting of four separate portals in London, Paris, Istanbul and Brussels, me and my shadow is an international telepresence experience that connects participants through a shared online environment. Equipped with 3D motion capture devices, each portal features interactive life-size projections and immersive soundscapes. Participants are represented as live digital shadows and can communicate with each other in the real-time digital environment.
Joseph Hyde
Bath Spa
Joseph’s musical works
