Mobile Sound
Sound, Mobile Media, Art&Culture‘Mobile Media and Interactive Arts’ at Carnegie Mellon University 6-8 Nov 09
Golan Levin is organising an event dedicated to ‘Mobile Media and Interactive Arts’ at Carnegie Mellon University from the 6th to the 8th of November. Many presenters and organisers of the Mobile Music Workshops will be there, including Lalya Gaye, Teri Rueb, Jürgen Scheible, and myself. The other presenters have also used sound and music in their works, or have other really exciting mobile media work, and I’m really looking forward to all their presentations and hands-on workshops. Check out the website and I hope to see many of you there! I’ll present a paper “Towards a history of mobile phone arts”, that will (of course) have a sonic and musical focus, while looking at the bigger picture of a decade of mobile phone art, and pointing out some historic framework that suggests even a century of mobile phone arts – kind of…we will see.
The event website announces:
ART && CODE is an event series and online community dedicated to the democratization of computer programming for artists, young people, and the rest Read the rest of this entry »
Date for Workshop on Sketching Sonic Interaction Design is Nov 16th
I got the date wrong in my previous post about the workshop – it’s November 16th, not 15th – apologies. The good news is that you can still sign up, and there is a lot of information on the website now.The European COST Action on Sonic Interaction Design is organising this Workshop on Sketching Sonic Interaction Design that will take place on November 16th in Holon, Israel. The deadline for submissions was August 15th – but you can still sign up for the workshop now. More detail on my previous post.
Pictures from the Sound – Space – Network Panel at ISEA2009
I uploaded some images from the panel and ISEA09. We had a great discussion – thank you to the organisers, other panelists and the audience!
If the link behind the above photo doesn’t work try (thank you Ralph for the error msg!), its http://www.flickr.com/photos/49689042@N00/sets/72157622091996497/
The Panel Discussion ‘Sound-Space-Network’ at ISEA2009 was presented by The Audio Cultures Seminar in GradCam and curated by Rachel O’Dwyer. It took place on Monday 31 August 2009 at the Broadcast gallery, DIT, Portland row, Dublin.
www.gradcam.ie/speaking_matters/audio_broadcast.php
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Sound-Space-Network Panel at ISEA, Monday 31 August
From the ISEA announcement:, hope to see you there:
Panel Discussion ‘Sound-Space-Network’
presented by The Audio Cultures Seminar in GradCam
Curated by Rachel O’Dwyer
Monday 31 August 2009: Panel Discussion: 11.00am – 1pm
Broadcast gallery, DIT, Portland row, Dublin.
Exhibition open to public 11am-5pm, 28th, 29th, 30th, and 31st August
What role does sound play in the informational society, as a strategy to convey information, produce experiences of place, and illicit new interpersonal behaviours? As part of the International Symposium for Electronic Arts, the Audio Cultures seminar at the Graduate School for Creative Arts in association with Broadcast Gallery, DIT, present a short exhibition and panel discussion around the themes of urban space, sound, and networks. In response to the ISEA theme of Engaged creativity in mobile environments, this exhibition explores the relationship between sound and the networked city, through site-specific audio installation and interactive media work. Those participating include Florian Hollerweger (Au), Matt Green (UK), Sarah Dunne (Ire), Tim Redfern (Ire) and Sharon Phelan (Ire).
As an intrinsic part of the exhibition a panel discussion will take place on Monday 31stSeptember and will address themes related to the exhibition and the symposium in general. The panelists include Tapio Makela, University of Salford, Frauke Behrendt, University of Sussex, Pedro Rebelo, Sonic Arts Research Centre, QUB, and Nigel Helyer, Industry Research Partner at Audio Nomad. Participants in the exhibition and Panel discussion will reflect on the potential of sound, as Read the rest of this entry »
Call: Sketching Sonic Interaction Design on 16th of November
The European COST Action on Sonic Interaction Design is calling for posters and demos for a Workshop on Sketching Sonic Interaction Design that will take place on November 16th in Holon, Israel. The deadline for submissions was August 15th – but you can still sign up for the workshop now. The below information is from the SID website.
Introduction
Sonic Interaction Design (SID) is the discipline that investigates the use of sound in interactive experiences. As technologies become more miniaturized and embedded, and their users more mobile, interactive sound becomes increasingly important. The experiences offered by sonic interactions need to be effectively and beautifully designed.
Sketching is a fundamental part of the design process. Designers sketch ideas for objects, spaces, interactions, experiences. Bill Buxton’s recent book, “Sketching User Experiences”, has laid out a palette of methods for sketching interactive experiences, that involve different forms of “visual storytelling”.
But how do we sketch when designing sonic interactions? This is the question at the core of this workshop. What is the equivalent for paper and pen when we come to design interactions that use sound as a main output?
A central topic in this workshop will be the use of the voice – vocal sketching – as one means of sketching sonic interactions. Can the voice for sound designers play a similar role as that played by the hand for the graphic designer? how can, and how do, people use their voice in the initial stages of designing sonic interactions?
Workshop Structure
The workshop will be composed of experiential sessions (voice warm-up session, a vocal sketching session in groups), invited talks to set the backdrop (on the topics of sketching, and on the human voice), and a poster and demo session (with a special interest in interactive experiences that involve the voice).
The workshop will end with a discussion focused on Vocal Sketching as a tool for SID.
Call for posters and demos
We invite submissions of demos and posters dealing with sketching in Sonic Interaction Design.
Of particular interest are:
- Sketching techniques for SID – theory and experiences from the field
- Interaction techniques that are tailored to make use of our vocal capabilities
- Interactive experiences that involve the voice (in non-speech contexts)
- Tools and techniques for extracting useful information from vocal sketches
Important dates
Posters and demos deadline: August 15th
Notifications of acceptance: September 15th
Submit your posters and demos to sketchingsid@cost-sid.org
5th call for Sonic Interaction Design STS Missions
Here is the fifth call for SID Short-Term Scientific Missions, published at http://www.cost-sid.org/wiki/STSMCall5. Please note this particular call is aimed at addressing a number of STSMs to the upcoming SID Workshop in Holon (topic: sketching sonic interaction design). Applications for this call should be sent before June 1st 2009. Notifications of decisions will be sent by June30th 2009. For this call, STSMs should take place before December 31st 2009.
To find out more about SID STSMs, see my previous blog entries.
Mobile Music for Everyday People: A Symposium on Mobile Music and Sound
If anyone is in the area next week, this is of interest to mobile music and sound community, hope to see you there:
Mobile Music for Everyday People: A Symposium on Mobile Music and Sound
Friday, May 22, 8am-6pm
Saturday, May 23, 8am-3pm
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
Keynote Speaker:
Michael Bull, author of Sound Moves: iPod Culture and Urban Experience
(2007)
Featuring Ali Momeni and Jenny Schmid with Minneapolis Art on Wheels
Participants:
Frauke Behrendt
Michael Bull
Patrick Burkart
Sumanth Gopinath
Heather Horst
Charity Marsh
Ali Momeni
Marc Perlman
Alexander Rehding
Sindhu Revuluri
Jason Stanyek
Atau Tanaka
Chris Tonelli
Tim Wall
Ge Wang
Justin Williams
This symposium is coordinated with the forthcoming Read the rest of this entry »
New CC Book: “Emotional Cartography – Technologies of the Self” by Nold
This publication is about data visualisation and not concerned with sound and music, but it is easy to make links to the sonification of biomedical data community from Sonic Interaction Design (SID). Also, some of the issues raised in this book are relevant for mobile music and sound projects, such as Sonic City, and others in the proceedings of the Mobile Music Workshops. I look forward to reading it in more detail soon.
Emotional Cartography – Technologies of the Self
Edited by Christian Nold, 2009
Emotional Cartography is a collection of essays from artists, designers, psychogeographers, cultural researchers, futurologists and neuroscientists, brought together by Christian Nold, to explore the political, social and cultural implications of visulising intimate biometric data and emotional experiences using technology.
Essays by Raqs Media Collective, Marcel van de Drift, Dr Stephen Boyd Davis, Rob van
Kranenburg, Sophie Hope and Dr Tom Stafford
This is the first section of the introduction:
”This book is a collection of essays from artists, psychogeographers, designers, cultural researchers, futurologists and neuroscientists, brought together to explore the political, social and cultural implications of visualising people’s intimate biometric data and emotions using technology. The book is the outcome of a research process which Read the rest of this entry »
Call: Community Practices and Locative Media. Workshop at MobileHCI 2009
And another call for papers that might be of interest to the community:
Community Practices and Locative Media
Workshop at MobileHCI 2009, Bonn, Germany
15th September 2009
Outline
There have been many developments in the design of applications of locative media in urban settings, such as LBS, location-based gaming and mobile social software applications but little which investigates the use and integration of such media within existing community structures and practices. The workshop will address the dual challenge of capturing the temporary and spatially changeful nature of behaviours with locative media, as well as responding to the intricate web of strong and weak social ties that make up local social networks, in order to find ways to support community practices. In terms of methodology it will focus on the potential of ethnographic approaches for investigating and evaluating the integration of media in these social settings.
Workshop Aims
• How can mobile media be located within existing communities and social settings?
• How can we find better ways of enabling and supporting locative media in community practices?
• How can mobile media foster communities and facilitate daily living, such as for communities in rural areas or the elderly?
• How can ethnographic methods inform and evaluate the place and integration of media in community settings?
We welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners from a diverse range of fields such as HCI, media, anthropology, sociology and urban studies. Selection of workshop participants will be based on refereed submissions. It is our aim to publish and document the outcomes of the workshop.
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Call: MAPPING, MEMORY AND THE CITY. University of Liverpool, 25-26 February 2010
This call looks very interesting. There is no specific address to sound and music, but this perspective would be very relevant for this focus on “Mapping, Memory and the City”. I’m hoping to see some sound and mobile media submissions.
MAPPING, MEMORY AND THE CITY
An International Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Liverpool, 25-26 February 2010
School of Architecture / School of Politics and Communication Studies
INITIAL CALL FOR PAPERS
This conference invites a re-evaluation of the role of maps and mapping practices in cultural explorations of urban space and memory. We invite contributions from across a broad interdisciplinary field, drawing together scholars and practitioners working in film and cultural studies, architecture, geography, urban studies, as well as those with interests in social and cultural memory, archival practice and urban heritage. Of special interest are contributions addressing the role of film and film historiography in relation to place, landscape and urban memory. Scholars, filmmakers and designers engaged in Read the rest of this entry »
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