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This is the Sound Studies Group at the SUSTech School of Design, Shenzhen. It is led by Dr. Qiushi Xu and Dr. Marcel Zaes Sagesser. Our research focuses on sound in relationship with technology, the environment, and human listening. It includes sound technology, sound studies, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), sound design, philosophy of science and technology, spatial audio, interactive audio, and creative media. The output of this team is published in prestigious international journals, at domestic and international conferences, and at international exhibitions and concert halls.

We are continuously looking for exceptional students for short-term or long-term internships and visiting student positions in our group. Please send us your CV and your portfolio if you are interested.

SUSTech School of Design ● Sound Studies Group
南方科技大学创新创意设计学院 ● 声音研究科研组

#Sound Studies

#Creative Media
#Digital Media Arts
#VR + Sonic Architectures
#Interaction Design
#Sound Design
#Auditory Interaction

#Human Computer Interaction HCI

Projects

Flowing Sound

Performative Installation + Research
Shenzhen’s Aural Economy of Portable Low-Tech Sound Sources
Yaohan Zhang, Yujing Ma, Marcel Zaes Sagesser
2024

#Shenzhen Soundscape
#Portable Sound Sources
#Street Sound

Production team: Xiaoyao Ma, Sihui Li, Ziye Chen
In co-production with PAM, Pingshan Art Museum, Art Delivery program

Urban Sound Diary

App Development + Research
Browser-Based Sound Recorder, Visualizer, & Explorer for Social and Cultural Study
Xuehua Fu, Marcel Zaes Sagesser
2024

#Urban Sound Studies
#Audio Data Visualization
#Browser-Based App

Research team: Zhaorui Lio, Hao Zheng, Jiayi Wen, Sihui Li

Project funded by a research grant by:
Key Laboratory of Intelligent Processing Technology for DigitalMusic (Zhejiang Conservatory of Music), Ministry of Culture and Tourism

A Grain Of

Series of Installations + Artistic Research
Rendering Shenzhen's Techno-Natural Materialities Audible+Visible
Enza Migliore + Marcel Zaes + Team
2022-2024

#Urban Matter
#Urban Sound

Production team and collaborators: Hanyu Qu, Yaohan Zhang, Yujing Ma, Yiyuan Bai, Bo Dong, Zhiyi Zhang, Zhaorui Liu, Minghim Tong, Simeng Wang, Xiaoyao Ma, Zichun Xiao, Zhonghui Tang

For more, see also the publication:
Enza Migliore, Hanyu Qu, and Marcel Zaes Sagesser. 2023. A Grain of: A Multimodal Representation of the City’s Ecology Through Material and Sound. In TEI ’23: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’23), February 26- March 1, 2023, Warsaw, Poland. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (doi)

Low-Tech CitySound

Installation + Participatory Electronics Sound Walk
Shenzhen’s Urban Sounds Through Low Tech Electronics
Marcel Zaes Sagesser, Bo Dong, Zhaorui Liu
2024

#Shenzhen Soundscape
#Low Tech Electronics
#Participatory

Production team: Bo Dong (workshop, installation), Zhaorui Liu (electronics + tech development), Simeng Wang (workshop), Binghuang Xu (field work)

The workshop took place at, and first public exhibition, at SeeD Creative Commune’s “SeeDling Art Fair,” Shenzhen, 2024

High Sections / Low Leaps

Installation + Artistic Research
Speculative Urbanism Between Low and High Tech
Marcel Zaes Sagesser, Zhen Wu, Tristan Braud, Sylvia Lee
2024

#High Tech Cities
#Low Tech Sound

Production team: Zhen Wu (3d modeling), Tristand Braud (3d rendering), Sylvia Lee (AIGC), Minghim Tong (sound design), Zhaorui Liu (CRT shooting), Binghuang Xu (desk research), Yang Gu (assistance)

Exhibited at SeeD Pilot Project Exhibition, Shenzhen, 2023

In & Outside of Electric Vehicles

Field Study + Research
Listen to the City from Inside & Outside of an Electric Car
Qiuya Xiang, Zhaorui Liu, Marcel Zaes Sagesser
2024

#Urban Sound Studies
#Electric Vehicles

Production team: Yuning Zhang, Yeqi Shen, Jiayi Luo, Yu Huang

In Idle Mode (Noise)

Installation + Artistic Research
Data-Driven Sound: Fish Farming Noise Scapes in the Pearl River Delta
2022 - 2024
Marcel Zaes Sagesser

#High Tech Transcoding
#Low Tech Sound

Production team: Yixuan Jin, Yujing Ma, Yaohan Zhang, Xuehua Fu, Hanyu Qu, Binghuang Xu, Zhaorui Lio (production); Binghuang Xu (desk research)

Exhibited at Shunde Food Museum (Greater Bay Area), 2022;
and at Wuhan Biennale, 2024-2025

Sensing Materials Through Sound

Creating the Illusion of Touching Physical Matter with Sonic Interaction
MA project in Robotics and Additive Manufacturing
Bocheng Zhang
Supervised by Marcel Zaes Sagesser
Ongoing since 2023

#Materialities
#Auditory Feedback
#Prototyping

First presented at CVVR Conference, China, 2023

Sound Studies Group
SUSTech School of Design