The Living Sonic Organism is an effort to create a live performance system borrowing features from different disciplines in sonic arts and employing multiple audio techniques. The ongoing project involves an immersive interactive sonic arts system that combines aspects of sound installation, interactive lights design, and live sonic arts performance. NUM demonstrated the system with a live performance including three performers who come from different disciplines in music.

The main idea of this project is to create a system that brings together elements from different concepts in sonic arts such as spatial audio, generative music, interactive audio system, and electroacoustic music. The system can be described as a living organism which interacts with
the audience while being controlled by both humans and machines in real time. The idea is to design a sonic environment which is alive and running from the very first moment that the audience enter the venue until they leave; a hybrid human-machine controlled system that can project sound through the performance space.

The premiere performance of the system took palace on July 2023 at F.R. Matthews Theatre on the University of Calgary’s main campus.