NEWS: Announcing the 4th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MOBILE MUSIC TECHNOLOGY 6-8 MAY, AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND! This edition of the workshop will be the bigger and more exciting than ever! It will take place at STEIM and Waag Society and is a collaboration with Futuresonic! More information and a call for participation coming soon on this website: http://www.mobilemusicworkshop.org/ 20-29 July 2006: The mobile music workshop series as well as some mobile music projects will be featured in a mobile music track of the PLAN exhibition Off The Map, at the Futuresonic festival in Manchester, UK. Talks and live performances by IMPROVe (Richard Wideberd & Zeenath Hasan) and Atau Tanaka! 4 June 2006: A report about the workshop series was presented at the NIME 2006 conference (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) in Paris, France! [PDF] [power points] THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX, BRIGHTON, UK, 2-3 MARCH 2006 INTRODUCTION Combining mobile technology and music promises some exciting developments in a rapidly emerging field. Devices such as mobile phones, walkmans and iPods have already brought music to the ever-changing social and geographic locations of their users and reshaped their experience of the urban landscape. With new properties such as ad hoc networking, Internet connection, and context-awareness, mobile music technology offers countless new artistic, commercial and socio-cultural opportunities for music creation, listening and sharing. How can we push forward the already successful combination of music and mobile technology? What new forms of interaction with music lie ahead, as locative media and music use merge into new forms of everyday experiences? Original calls for participation. The workshop was the third in a series that offers a unique opportunity to participate in the development of mobile music. It followed two successful workshops that started to explore and establish the emerging field of mobile music technology. For information about the other workshops, go to: Webpage of the 1rst workshop in 2004 Webpage of the 2nd workshop in 2005 Webpage of the 4th workshop in 2007 PROGRAMME The programme consisted of presentations from invited speakers, in-depth discussions about crucial issues of mobile music technology, hands-on group activities, and break-out sessions where participants received valuable feedback on their work-in progress projects (see reader [pdf]). Invited Speakers The invited speakers included: * Michael Bull (University of Sussex, UK), often dubbed by the press as 'Professor iPod' for his iPod and car stereo user studies that reveal fascinating trends for mobile music [pdf] * Tim Cole, multi-media artist and co-founder of SSEYO, the company behind the generative music and vector audio system KOAN as well as the mobile music mixing programme MiniMIXA. [pps] * Michael Sharon, a strategist, consultant, writer, occasional photographer and ITP-NYU graduate focused on new musical instruments, sociable software and non-linear narrativesand. Michael is a co-founder of the locative media company socialight. (Unfortunately, Michael was not able to attend the workshop so his talk was given by Lalya). Work-in-Progress Work-in-progress projects that explore the topic of mobile music were discussed in groups during feedback sessions. These uncompleted yet on-going projects received critical review and support with on-going problems and issues from the workshop participants as well as experts in the field of mobile music (Atau Tanaka, Lars Erik Holmquist, Maria Håkansson, etc). Projects included mobile music systems and enabling technologies, interface design, art pieces, and philosophical approaches to mobile music. The following projects had been accepted for the workshopon the basis of their innovativeness, relevance and level of completion (neither completed nor too preliminary). They were grouped according to three key themes: * Mobile collaborative music making Sequencer404: A Networked Telephonic Composer - David Jimison & Travis Thatcher [pdf] [power points] CELLPHONIA: In The News - Steve Bull, Scot Gresham-Lancaster & Tim Perkis [pdf] China Gates - Arthur Clay & Dennis Majoe [pdf] [power points] IMPROVe: Mobile architecture for sonic socio-cultural exchange - Richard Widerberg & Zeenath Hasan [pdf] [power points] * Soundscapes & mobile music listening Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] Toolkit - Mark Shepard [pdf] [power points] Composing the soundscape: Re-engaging with place - Anthony Phillips [pdf] BluetunA: music sharing through mobile phones - Arianna Bassoli & Stephan Baumann [pdf] [power points] * HCI in mobile music and uses of music in mobile setting SonicPulse: exploring a shared music space - Akseli Anttila [pdf] [power points] Minimal Attention Navigation via Adapted Music - Rachael Hunt, Mark Apperley, Sally Jo Cunningham, Bill Rogers & Matt Jones [pdf] [power points] Music Mood Wheel: Auditive Interfaces for Mobile Music Devices - Andreja Andric & Pierre-Louis Xech [pdf] [power points] Hands-on activities During this session, participants got their hands-on the cutting-edge mobile music and locative audio technology. They were introduced to socialight - a platform for sharing location-based media - and were given tutorials about miniMIXA - a music mixing programme for mobile phones - and about sensor technology for mobile music making. The tutorials were followed by bodystorming sessions where participants sketched application ideas for mobile music using the presented technology as well as simple audio devices as props. Michael Sharon - socialight [ppt] Tim Cole - miniMIXA [pps] Lalya Gaye - Sensors and mobile music [ppt] Timetable Thursday 2nd March - morning 09.15-09.30: Introduction 09.30-10.15: Invited speaker: Dr Michael Bull 10.15-10.30: Break 10.30-12.00: Introduction to projects and breaking into groups 12.00-13.30: Lunch Thursday 2nd March - afternoon 13.30-16.30: Feedback sessions in three groups (45 minutes per project). Incl. coffee break 16.30-17.30: Presentation of each group’s results + discussion Friday 3rd March - morning 09.00-10.00: Presentations                       Tim Cole: miniMIXA                       Michael Sharon: socialight                       Lalya Gaye: sensors and mobile music making 10.00-11.00: Tutorials session I 11.00-12.00: Tutorials session II 12.00-13.30: Lunch   Friday 3rd March - afternoon: 13.30-15.30: Hands-on brainstorming activities 15.30-16.00: Coffee break 16.00-17.00: Presentation of results and discussion 17.00-17.30: Wrap-up PICTURES LIST OF PARTICIPANTS Akseli Anttila - Nokia Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland Andreja Andric - State University of Milan, Italy Anna Dumitriu - Phoenix Arts Association, Brighton, UK Anthony Phillips - Interact Lab, University of Sussex, UK Arianna Bassoli - The London School of Economics, UK Arthur Clay - ETH Zurich, Switzerland Atau Tanaka - CSL Sony, Paris, France Ben Russell - PLAN (Pervasive and locative arts network), London, UK Bruno Roques de Borda - France Chris Hand - Interaction Design, Royal College of Art, London, UK David Jimison - Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA Frauke Behrendt - Department of Media and Film Studies, University of Sussex, UK Jerome Hansen - Department of Media and Film Studies, University of Sussex, UK Julie Andreyev - Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada Lalya Gaye - Viktoria Institute, Gothenburg, Sweden Lars Erik Holmquist - Viktoria Institute, Gothenburg, Sweden Maria Håkansson - Viktoria Institute, Gothenburg, Sweden Mark Shepard - Departments of Architecture and Media Study, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Matthew Shorter - BBC Radio & Music Interactive, London, UK Michael Bull - Department of Media and Film Studies, University of Sussex, UK Michael Sharon - Socialight, New York, USA Mikel Maron - worldKit, Brighton, UK Rachael Maree Hunt - University of Waikato, New Zealand Richard Widerberg - Media Lab, University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland Sarah Kettley - Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland Stephan Baumann - Competence Centre Computational Culture/German Research Center for AI - Germany Steve Bull - New York, USA Thor Magnusson - Interact Lab, ixi-software, University of Sussex, UK Tim Cole - SSEYO and Minimixa, UK ORIGINAL CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION Click here to read the original calls for participation BLOGGING The following blogs have reported on this year's workshop: IMPROVe blog Competence Center for Computational Culture plus six (day one) plus six (day two) Southbound Socialight News LOCATION The workshop took place at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK. Brighton is situated on the British ‘Sunshine Coast’ and easily accessible: only 30 minutes from London/Gatwick airport and 60 minutes from central London. Map of campus. TRAVEL AND ACCOMODATION How to get to the University of Sussex: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/howtofindus.html Where to stay in Brighton: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/schoolsliaison/visit/wheretostay.shtml Information about Brighton and surrounding area: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/brightonandbeyond.html ORGANISERS The 3rd international workshop on mobile music technology was organised by the Department of Media and Film Studies, University of Sussex (UK), the Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute (SWE) and Adelphi Research Institute, University of Salford (UK). In collaboration with PLAN (Pervasive and Locative Arts Network) and Futuresonic. Contacts: Frauke Behrendt (University of Sussex): f.behrendt@sussex.ac.uk, +447840148789 Lalya Gaye (Viktoria Institute): lalya@viktoria.se, +46703800134 Drew Hemment (University of Salford, PLAN and Futuresonic): dh@loca-lab.org