Audience Experience in Sound Performance

This paper presents observations from investigating audience experience of a practice-based research in live sound performance with electronics. In seeking to understand the communication flow and the engagement between performer and audience in this particular performance context, we designed an experiment that involved the following steps: (a) performing WOSAWIP at a new media festival, (b) conducting a qualitative research study with audience members and (c) analyzing the data for new insights. Although this study is only at an initial stage, we already found that the post-performance interviews with the audience members is a valuable method to help identifying instrument design and performance considerations.