iMMERSE! with Charlie Morrow

Thomas Kraupe is a German astrophysicist who specialized in x-ray astronomy at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. He’s managed a kind of magical situation by combining math & physics with his love of planetariums & music to create numerous interactive edutainment & art science crossover projects that have attracted artists such as Snap, Heaven 17 & Pink Floyd at several planeta...

Canadian artist-professor Luc Courchesne was an early convert to media arts some 50 years ago. He began utilizing computer technologies in 1984 to create interactive video and later with his immersive and interactive installations, "panoscopic" images, and devices of his own, he helped transform spectators into visitors, actors and inhabitants of his experiential crafts. Charlie Morrow interviews...

Canadian Claude Schryer is a Zen practitioner who believes in the power of art to shape a better future & dedicates much of his life to this pursuit. He has been a sound & media artist, having released several electroacoustic soundscape CDs in the 90s. for 20 years, He served as an arts administrator with the Canada Council for the Arts in Inter-Arts after creating that department.  Schryer is  an...

“I realized that we were going to be able to take audiences & immerse them in the universe, take them on a journey & surround them with the mystery & the beauty of the universe.” Ian McLennan is a pioneer in the development of planetariums, museums, science centers, & other high-content public attractions. Based in Vancouver, Canada, he has shepherded attractions from the days before Imax to inter...

A re-airing of the iMMERSE! with Charlie Morrow pilot broadcast, with a new special introduction. A special 80-minute celebration & investigation of the life & work of audio pioneer Michael Gerzon, inventor of Ambisonics & lossless audio, which revolutionized recorded sound. The podcast series launch came in conjunction with the immerse! online event: Celebration of the Vernal Equinox & Michael Ge...

Neafus as the co-founder of IMERSA has hosted numerous international fulldome summits & is considered a pioneer in the field of immersive & experiential arts & technology. He strives for the synergistic convergence of the fulldome experience, VR, immersive cinema, science, education, culture & performance art. Charlie Morrow came into contact with him via the planetarium & fulldome people & became...

The immerse! project was initially sparked by astrophysicist-educator Ka Chun Yu’s essay, "A Brief History of Immersive Experiences Before Computers." Yu is the Curator of Space Science at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. He has performed educational research on the utilization of digital planetariums for the teaching of astronomy & has created numerous planetarium shows as a universe maker...

Monica Bolles already wears many hats. She’s an artist, music producer, audio engineer, and composer who is very involved in three-dimensional environments and the creation of immersive experiences, especially in full-dome setting. She loves exploring the fusion of multimedia arts, science, sound, and immersive environments that submerge the audience in multi-sensory sonic, visual, and tactile sen...

Capt. Rip Hayman (US Merchant Marine) is a sailing musician & musical sailor who has traveled to many faraway places at sea & in sound imagination. He eventually became a mainstay of the Ear Inn & New Wilderness crew. Produced events like Dreamsound for sleeping audience, Blindsound for blind audience and On the Way, a film & sound meditation on his near death experience. Read entire interview pdf...

American archaeologist & anthropologist heads the Smithsonian’s Arctic Studies Center & is a Senior Scientist at the National Museum of Natural History. He's done extensive research on the history & archaeology of Arctic peoples & their responses to climate change. Morrow & Fitzhugh worked together on Fitzhugh’s exhibit The Vikings, which made the cover of Time & Morrow’s Solstice 24, a 24-hr cele...

Martyn Ware, a man of many talents: English musician, composer, producer, & podcaster, is a founding member of the synth-pop groups Human League & Heaven 17. He's also an explorer of immersion & 3-D sound. Charlie Morrow discusses their mutual interest in immersion, both the technological & the psychological aspects... Read entire interview pdf here * production & audio backdrop: bart plantenga

Pamela Z is a composer-performer & media artist who creates works for voice, electronic processing, samples, & video.  She has composed scores for dance, film, & chamber ensembles. She was commissioned by the Kitchen in NYC to create a 3D music work for Morrow's True3D Soundcube in 2004. Morrow interviewed her 2021. Read entire interview pdf here * production & audio backdrop: bart plantenga

Paco Underhill was inspired by the methodology of urbanist William H. Whyte & the fact that he has lived in many cities around the world as the son of a diplomat, is a retail space doctor, consumer behavior consultant and best-selling author of Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping, founded the first iteration office of his consultancy Envirosell in 1986. He became the chairman of the New Wilderness...

Brian Katz is an acoustican, CNRS Research Director at Sorbonne University's Institute Jean Le Rond d'Alembert Sound Lab, a specialist in spatial hearing, room acoustics, and virtual reality. Read entire interview pdf here * production & audio backdrop: bart plantenga

Miya Masaoka is an utterly fascinating Fluxus-nfluenced artist who was inspired by her childhood fascination with her cat's purring vibrations. She often works  with environmental sounds in natural settings and has produced intriguing performance duets with insects. Read entire interview pdf here * production & audio backdrop: bart plantenga

David Toop, the poetic musician and author of Ocean of Sound & Haunted Weather who has followed the path of shamanism and sonic experience is here engaged in a fascinating conversation about memory & immersion. He is a respected improviser and thinks of all his creative activity as improvisation. Read entire interview pdf here * production & audio backdrop: bart plantenga

Charlie Morrow & Annea Lockwood, New Zealand-born American composer & environmental musician discuss immersion. She has taught electronic music at Vassar College. She’s known for her explorations of natural acoustic sounds and environments, in works ranging from sound art & installations, to text-sound, performance art & concert music. She's recorded Fluxus-inspired pieces involving burning or dro...

Charlie & Jaron Lanier, pioneer of virtual reality, met in the late 1970s at Rip Hayman's famous Ear Inn in New York. Jaron worked on EAR Magazine and created a cover with New York’s subway stops as musical instrument play buttons. He jammed in the Ocarina Orchestra. Jaron shares his earliest experiences with immersivity and some of his latest work.    Read entire interview pdf here   * production...

Pilot broadcast of the immerse! podcast series is a special 80-minute celebration & investigation of the life & work of audio pioneer Michael Gerzon, inventor of Ambisonics & lossless audio, which revolutionized recorded sound. The podcast series launch came in conjunction with the immerse! online event: Celebration of the Vernal Equinox & Michael Gerzon on Sunday March 20, 2022. Read entire trans...