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November 10, 2008 at 9:31 pm · Filed under call, Digital Culture, exhibition, interactive, public, social, urban
Until Friday you can apply for Production Stipends for Radiator. They offer a research stipend of £1200 plus production expenses towards exhibition, exhibition during the Radiator Festival in the East Midlands, etc. See below.
From their website:
Going Underground
Radiator – Call for Researched based Proposals
Nottingham | 24.10.08
Call for Artists
Radiator: Going Underground
Radiator Festival & Symposium, part of the Performing Space series
Nottingham 13th – 18th of Jan 2009
Sousveillance – the counterpart to surveillance, where the ‘observed’ turns around, to face and watch the ‘observer’, recording the observers actions and movements.
When and Where
January 2009 in Nottingham, Derby and Leicester, East Midlands, UK
What it is
Even as we enter a period of recession, there may be yet a glimmer of hope. Are we facing an about turn from the last 30 years of Milton Friedman inspired economics that has left our cities wastelands of corporate monoculture? If so, there are still a few questions left unanswered…
In an era when the phrase “affects a conservation area” has been no obstacle to the planning application for a shopping centre housing solely global brands; when 12 million pounds has been spent in the East Midlands for extending CCTV systems that have miserable figures for reducing crime; when urban regeneration means the extension of the corporate high street to the exclusion of independent, local communities; when half of the entire UK population now Read the rest of this entry »
September 29, 2008 at 1:54 am · Filed under course, event, public, reading, senses, social, Sonic Interaction Design, sound studies, teaching, urban
Sound, Media & Urban Space is a class I’m teaching at RISD at the moment. Some people not taking the class were interested in some topics and readings so here is a link to the class blog if you would like to have a look. It’s more of an internal class blog so some posts might not be relevant for anyone outside the class.
The students in the class are amazing and I’m really looking forward to their presentations.
July 24, 2008 at 7:47 am · Filed under interactive, public, senses, social, urban
I love the sound of velcro and mentioned this in the sonic interaction design workshop I ran recently with Lalya Gaye and Karmen Franinovic. One of the great workshop participants, Mie Nørgaard, sent me this velcro project link today (Thank you!). It is not exactly a mobile sound project but a great idea anyway. And if you think about the mobility of the jackets and the sounds they make when attaching or being separated…as a group performance…maybe it is mobile sound project after all…
From Yanko Design Website:
The Bored Jacket
Takkiainen is a jacket for lonely or bored people. It is designed to help the wearer to get in contact with others. Since we brush against each other every day as we move around in the city, we can use our clothes as a medium for meeting people and communicating with them. The jacket is made out of Velcro strips of different widths that Read the rest of this entry »
May 4, 2008 at 4:11 pm · Filed under conference, ipod, mobile phone, music, public, social, sound studies, Uncategorized
Music, Sound and the Reconfiguration of Public and Private Space Conference continued:
Nicola Dibben and Anneli Beronius Haake from the University of Sheffield presented their recent qualitative study of ‘The Experience of Music in Office-Based Workplace Settings’, based on the rich interview material they collected, presenting various ways of negotiating the acoustic, social and temporal aspects of the office environment.
May 4, 2008 at 4:09 pm · Filed under conference, ipod, music, social, sound studies
Music, Sound and the Reconfiguration of Public and Private Space Conference continued:
Tacchi’s talk was about the domestic soundscape and the affective; using case studies of radio listeners, showing how relationships and social life are related to listening to music, talking about it and exchanging it. Her focus is on the social and cultural context and the embeddedness of music as creative act in these contexts.
Tacchi suggests to examine “emotion discourses” as social discourses to examine the link between affect and the social in music. The affective dimension is usually studied in connection to the reflexive self, but not in connection to the social.
Rhythm is another focus of her talk: it is always Read the rest of this entry »
May 4, 2008 at 4:07 pm · Filed under conference, music, public, social, sound studies
Music, Sound and the Reconfiguration of Public and Private Space Conference continued:
Georgina Born gave a very rich talk “On the privatisation and publicisation of music” and her focus on the social aspects of listening chimed very much with my own work. These are some of the arguments I remember:
First, she was tracing the historic development of the relationship between public and private for music. The19th century is labelled “individuatisation and privatisation” (Sennett, Sterne), the late 19th century “Times-shifting and death”, the 1910s “Space-shifting and Hybridity”, 1920s “Consumerism and Mobility”, 1945 “Mass Public and Consumption”, the 1970s “Circulation and relay”.
Born suggests four optics to examine the relation of music to private and public: capitalism (e.g. commodification, markets), media&intermedia (e.g. file-sharing, intellectual property rights), subjectivity (e.g. modes of subjective listening, Bull, DeNora), and the social (that is constituted outside of mediated music (I need to clarify this point).
The concern with the social is Read the rest of this entry »
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