Mobile Sound
Sound, Mobile Media, Art&CultureCall: “Sound as Art – Sound in History. Sound as Culture – Sound in Theory” Conference
Ansa Lønstrup who I met at a conference a few years ago, is organising a sound studies conference titled “Sound as Art – Sound in History. Sound as Culture – Sound in Theory” with her colleague Morten Michelsen and others. The conference takes place September 23–25, 2010 at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. The submission deadline is 1st April 2010 (see below). The event is organized by the Danish “National Research Network on Auditive Culture’, the Aarhus University research project “Audiovisual Culture”, and the Nordic Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music.
This is the call for papers, including some very interesting questions:
Today, sound studies provide an important framework for furthering cultural research related to a broad range of historical and contemporary issues. Also, Read the rest of this entry »
Get Funding to visit a European+ Institution for your Research in Sonic Interaction Design
Get some funding for your Sonic Interaction Design (SID) related works. It’s called STSM but is really worth applying for as I wrote before. Duration: Minimum one week (5 working days), maximum 3 months. Applications for this call should be sent before December 31st 2009. Notifications of decisions will be sent by January 31st 2010. For this call, STSMs should take place before June 30th 2010.
Check out all the previous missions here http://trac.sme-ccppd.org/SID/wiki/STSMs.
Recent examples include Read the rest of this entry »
‘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
Panelists: Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
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