Mobile Sound
Sound, Mobile Media, Art & CultureArchive for March, 2008
Call: Solving the tensions between musicians and technology
Check out this Integra call for their closing event in June 2008; especially the sections “Using technology to engage and interact with new audiences” in conjunction with “Creating interactive environments for performers” might be relevant for some mobile sound/music projects. Quite a few interactive/mobile music/sound projects have originated from the involved institutions in the past.
Integra 2008 Festival and Conference
“Solving the tensions between musicians and technology”
Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham, UK 5-7 June 2008
http://www.integralive.org/festival-2008
The organisers of Integra 2008 invite artistic directors, researchers, composers and performers to participate in the Festival and Conference. Integra 2008 is the closing event of “Integra – A European Composition and Performance Environment for Sharing Live Music Technologies”, a 3-year EU-funded project led by Birmingham Conservatoire inthe UK.
We welcome presentations on the following topics:
* Issues in programming concerts with live electronic music.
* Using technology to engage and interact with new audiences.
* Developing new formats for presenting mixed media works.
* Designing interfaces for live electronic music.
* Creating interactive environments for performers.
* Integrating technology into the creative process.
* Modernising works that use obsolete technologies.
* Developing new models for transfer and storage of performance data.
Deadline for submissions: Friday 2nd May 2008.
Please see the website for submission information and registering
online.
http://www.integralive.org/festival-2008
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FILMOBILE event in London
The organiser, Max Schleser, also presented one of his projects at Conflux in 2007.
From the Filmobile website:
FILMOBILE is a network project bringing together the mobile phone industry, filmmakers and artists working with mobile devices. FILMOBILE is organising a major event in the spring of 2008 consisting of a three parts: a gallery exhibition, cinema screenings and an international conference. This event will explore the cultural impact brought about by new mobile technologies and initiate debates between artists, the media and the new mobile industry.
Conference and screenings at The Old Lumière Cinema
309 Regent Street, London W1R 8AL (tube Oxford Circus)
Friday 4 April
16:00 – 18:00 FILMOBILE conference
18:30 – 20:30 FILMOBILE cinema screening
20:30 FILMOBILE wine reception
Saturday 5 April
10:30 – 18:30 FILMOBILE conference
The events are free to attend but registration via email or text-message is essential. See Filmobile website.
The FILMOBILE EXHIBITION will feature mobile art works by Mark Amerika, Camille
Baker, Bebe Beard, Melissa Bliss, Elly Clarke, Romain Forquy, Steve Hawley,
Brian House, Brooke A. Knight, Simon Longo, Anne Massoni, Kasia Molga, Sylvie
Prasad, Michele Pred, Henry Reichhold, Max Schleser and Jo Thomas.
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