Milena Droumeva
302-1610 E 5th Ave. Vancouver, BC V5N 1L7; Tel: (604) 628 2800, E-mail: mvdroume@sfu.ca

[Work]

Research Assistant, Project Evaluation, Interaction design Jan 06- present
socio-ec(h)o project, supported by Lightpaths and Am-I-Able network Development and implementation of an evaluation protocol for the socio-ec(h)o project.

Sound Editor , Spring 2005
The Computational Poetics Group, One River [running] project
Field sound recordings, intreviews with museum patrons, and editing and organization of oral history interviews for a museum art installation

Tutor Marker, CMNS 259: Acoustic Dimensions of Communication
SFU School of Communication, Summer 2005 Semester
Teaching theory and terminology of sound as a physical and cultural phenomenon (online Distance Education course)

Video Programmer , CMNS 259: Acoustic Dimensions of Communication
SFU School of Communication, Summer 2005 Semester
Teaching theory and terminology of sound as a physical and cultural phenomenon (online Distance Education course)

Teaching Assistant, CMNS 258: Intro to Electroacoustic Communication
SFU School of Communication, Spring2005 /Fall 2005 Semester
Teaching theory of acoustic communication, as well as intro to audio production techniques in analogue and digital media

Research Assistant, Soundscape Design September 2004 - present
SFU Surrey socio-ec(h)o project
> Conceptual soundscape design for ambient intelligence responsive environment
> Programming of an audio engine in Max/MSP to network with a reasoning system and a custom-designed Motion Capture engine in Max/MSP

Sound Technician, Oral History Project July 2004
Britannia Museum of Mining
Recording, editing and collaging of oral history interviews for a museum collection

Research Assistant, Audio Production Sept 2003 - April 2004
SFU Surrey Ec(h)o Project
> Conceptual development of audio components of an augmented reality museum installation (narratives, earcons, dynamic soundscapes, etc.)
> Recording and Organization of a database of sounds
> Soundscape design of six environmental soundscapes for a museum exhibit

[Papers]

Droumeva, Milena (2005) Understanding Immersive Audio: Historical and Socio-Cultural Aspects of Auditory Displays. Published in ICAD 2005 Conference Proceedings July 6-9, 2005.

Ron Wakkary, Marek Hatala, Rob Lovell, Milena Droumeva. (2005) "Ambient Intelligence Platform for Physical Play." ACM Multimedia Conference 2005.

Ron Wakkary, Marek Hatala, Robb Lovell, Milena Droumeva, Alissa Antle, Dale Evernden, Jim Bizzocchi. socio-echo: Ambient Intelligence and Gameplay DiGRA Conference Proceesings, 2005. This paper is also to be included in a DIGRA related publication, as a book chapter.

Ron Wakkary, Marek Hatala, Kenneth Newby, Dale Evernden, Milena Droumeva (2003) Interactive Audio Content: An Approach to Audio Content for a Dynamic Museum Experience through Augmented Audio Reality and Adaptive Information Retreival. Conference Proceedings, Museums and the Web 2004. To read more about ec(h)o click on the Projects link.

"Social exploration of mobile telephony" (Unpublished) Summer 2003
Directed Studies (with Barry Truax)
Paper included documentation of a related web survey of 60 participants

Droumeva, Milena. (2003) Electroacoustic sound in the public and private spheres. Published in Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology, 2005

[Discography and Sound Work]

I Do (octophonic work) May 2005 Artist-in-residence programme with Deep Wireless and CBC's Outfront

socio-ec(h)o audio display (Max/MSP) - 2004 -present
Level 1. Day, Night, Day
Level 2. Stormy Light
Level 3. Calm Light
Level 4. Spring
Level 5. Winter
Level 6. Emerging Forest
Level 7. Nirvana

Aural History Project (stereo) July 2004
17 aural history narratives from old-time Britannia Beach residents
4 compilation pieces from original interview footage at the 2004 Aural History Project at Britannia Beach, hosted by the Britannia Mining Museum

600+ Audio Narratives for the Museum Of Nature's Finders Keepers exhibit
Voice recordings with 6 different voice talents
600+ vocal prefaces as auditory icons to the narratives

History Repeating (3 Parts, 8-channel) Spring 2003
Soundscape meta-narrative composition re-living the history of Bulgaria. This octophonic work has been featured in ElectroCurrents, an SFU women composer series in November 2004.

Soundbyte society (8-channel) Fall 2002
Voice-based audio commentary on the culture of cell phones in Canada. It won the 2004 CBC Deep Wireless competition and will be featured on a CD published by New Adventures in Sound Art. It also entitles me to a compose-in-residency opportunity for a first-person story piece, to be completed and broadcasted in May 2005.

Magic Words (stereo) Fall 2003
Text-sound piece in stereo, which entered the 2003 JTTP Young Composer's competition at Concordia University and was featured in a concert at SFU (Electro Voices 2003), Sonic Boom 2004 and EuCuE 2004-2005 XXIII series concert at Concordia.

[Awards]

[Conference Presentations]

ICAD 2005 (Ireland) July 6-9: Conference Presentation of paper
Deep Wireless Conference May 26-29, 2005: Panel Discussion
Communicator's Conference 2001: Poster Presentation

[Education]

Master of Art Program, September 2004 - present
School for Interactive Arts and Technologies, SFU

Bachelor of Arts, Department of Applied Science, 2000 - 2004
School of Communication, Simon Fraser University