SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP VANCOUVER, CANADA, MAY 25, 2005 In association with NIME 2005, The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression INTRODUCTION In the late 1970's, the Walkman liberated recorded music - it allowed you to carry the listening room with you. Today, iPods and mobile phones allow new forms of private and social music experiences. What are the trends in mobile music technology? What kinds of new modes of musical interaction are becoming possible? Will peer-to-peer sharing and portable MP3 players destroy the music business - or will new technology let artists reach more people than ever before? This event was the second in a series, following a successful first workhop in Sweden in 2004. We invited contributions from practitioners and researchers from all areas, including technology development, content creation, music distribution and community building. The program consisted peer-reviewed of paper presentations, interactive posters and hands-on break-out sessions. For information about the other workshops in the series, go to: Webpage of the 1rst workshop in 2004 Webpage of the 3rd workshop in 2006 Webpage of the 4th workshop in 2007 PROGRAMME 09.00-09.15: Introduction by organizers [introduction power points] 09.15-10.30: Presentations (20 minutes + 5 minutes questions each)   - Location 33: A Mobile Musical by William Carter and Leslie S. Liu   - The New Cosmopolites: Activating the Role of Mobile Music Listeners by Gideon D'Arcangelo   - From Calling a Cloud to Finding the Missing Track: Artistic Approaches to Mobile Music by Frauke Behrendt 10.30-11.00: Interactive poster session (informal session with tea and coffee)   - Solarcoustics: CONNECT by Morgan Barnard   - Mobile User Interface for Music by Takuya Yamauchi and Toru Iwatake 11.00-11.30: Follow-up discussions 11.30-12.00: Preparation of afternoon activities, separation into groups 12.00-13.30: Lunch break 13.30-15.30: Group activities [bodystorming power points] 15.30-16.00: Coffee break 16.00-16.30: Presentations of activities results (about 10 minutes per group) 16.30-17.00: Final discussions and sum-up Later: Informal dinner and/or visit the movie screening of The Future Is Not What It Used To Be (18.30-20.30) - see details at the main NIME program! PROCEEDINGS Papers: Location 33: A Mobile Musical -  William Carter, Leslie S. Liu [pdf] [power points] The New Cosmopolites: Activating the Role of Mobile Music Listeners - Gideon d'Arcangelo [pdf] [power points] From Calling a Cloud to Finding the Missing Track: Artistic Approaches to Mobile Music - Frauke Behrendt [pdf] [power points] Interactive Posters: Solarcoustics: CONNECT - Morgan Barnard [pdf] Mobile User Interface for Music - Takyua Yamauchi, Toru Iwatake [pdf] PICTURES BODYSTORMING ACTIVITIES Besides presentations and discussions, the workshop included hands-on activities that focused on bodystorming of mobile music applications and scenarios. Bodystorming is a method where participants act out a particular scenario of use, taking the roles of e.g. users or artefacts and focusing on the interaction between them [Buchenau et al.]. With this method, participants explored various mobile music themes, developed simple application ideas, and physically enacted scenarios of use in order to get an embodied understanding of design challenges and opportunities specific to mobile music. Participants first combined randomly chosen instances of the following categories: situations (e.g. driving a car while it snows); users (e.g. school kids); technological infrastructures (e.g. Wi-Fi, GPS); types of music uses (create, share, organise...). Combinations were assigned to each group and developed into 3 application or scenario ideas per group during short brainstorming sessions. Each group decided on one idea and further developed it through bodystorming. Scenarios were then acted out to the rest of the workshop to stimulate discussion. An example of scenario was a bicycle-taxi working as a peer-to-peer server and broadcasting its clients’ music on loudspeakers in Kingston, Jamaica. This scenario generated discussions on mobile ways of sharing and outputting music in public space, and of their social adequacy. LIST OF PARTICIPANTS Jamie Allen - ITP/NYU, USA Petter Karlsson - Nokia, Finland Hugo Desmeules - Concordia University, Canada Morgan Barnard - ITP/NYU, USA Frauke Behrendt - University of Sussex, UK Will Carter - University of Southern California, USA Gideon d'Arcangelo - ITP/NYU, USA Takuya Yamauchi - Keio University, Japan Oren Levine - Nokia, USA Michael Lyons - ATR, Japan Rob Rampley - Line 6, USA Leode Jong - Sense4motion, the Netherlands Ivan Franco - YDREAMS, Portugal Robert Huott - USA Stefan Lindberg - Interactive Institute, Sweden Cornelius Poepel - Academy of Media Arts, Germany Ian Stevenson - University of Western Sidney, Australia Johnny Wingstedt - Interactive Institute, Sweden REVIEW COMMITTEE The papers and posters were reviewed by a committee consisting of people active in the mobile music area, including participants of the previous Mobile Music technology workshop. Teri Rueb, Rhode Island School of Design, USA Maria Håkansson, Viktoria Institute, Sweden Frauke Behrendt, University of Sussex, UK Mattias Östergren, Mobility Studio, Interactive Institute, Sweden Chris Salter, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada Arianna Bassoli, London School of Economics, UK LOCATION The workshop took place at UBC's Forest Science Centre (FSC) 1613. The NIME registration centre was in FSC room 1402 which is just off the main atrium of the building.  Click here to see a map with the Forest Science Center indicated! Check the NIME site for more maps of UBC. REGISTRATION & ACCOMODATION The workshop was part of the NIME 2005 conference and took place on the day before the main conference. All information on registration and accomodation available at the main NIME conference homepage. It was possible to register at the workshop without attending the main conference. ORGANIZERS Lalya Gaye + Lars Erik Holmquist Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute Sweden Atau Tanaka Sony CSL Paris France CONTACT NUMBERS Lalya Gaye +46 703 80 01 34 Lars Erik Holmquist +46 703 55 85 00