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Sonic
City (2002-04) is a new form of interactive music instrument using the
city as an
interface. It enables users to create a real-time personal soundscape
of electronic music by walking through and interacting with urban
environments. Paths are considered as musical compositions and mobility
through the shifting contexts of a city as a large scale musical
gesture.
We have [designed], [implemented]
and [evaluated] a wearable prototype. The
system retrieves information about environmental context and user
action, and maps it to the real-time audio processing of urban sounds,
resulting in music heard through headphones. When
wearing this
system,
one engages into a musical duet with the city: urban atmospheres,
random encounters and everyday activities all participate in creating
music as you are walking.
At the cross-road
between urban exploration and experimental music
making,
Sonic City promotes the integration of everyday life settings and
practices into personal forms of aesthetic expression with the help of
Ubiquitous Computing.
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* sonic city in 5min 20s
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Sometimes, a video says more than 5
webpages. See our project presentation [video]
(105M)
(If you cannot view the video: open it in a new window or download it
to your harddrive,
then try again)
Background
music: Tamghra
Nouchen (Naab / Naab - (P) et © Bloom records 2002). Track
from
"Salam Haleikoum" Lp.
Naab appears courtesy of Bloom records, Paris. naab@bloomrecords.com
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* news
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Nov 2006
Sonic City is featured in the book "World Changing: A User's
Guide to the 21st Century" (p. 98) |
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* affiliations
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Sonic City is a
collaboration
between Future
Applications Lab (Viktoria
Institute)
and PLAY
Studio (Interactive
Institute), in Göteborg, Sweden. This is the
Sonic City website at FAL. PLAY's own
Sonic City website available here.
Project members include:
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Lalya's supervisor at Future Applications
Lab: Lars
Erik Holmquist
Participating Master's
students (IT-University
Göteborg): Magnus Johansson (HCI /
interaction design) + Sara
Lerén (cognitive
science)
This project is funded by
the
Swedish
Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) through
the Mobile
Services project,
by the European Union IST program through the Smart-Its
project, and by VINNOVA through the IT+Textiles
project.
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Future
Applications Lab - Viktoria
Institute
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