we-make-money-not-art link: more notes
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08/05/2007
Mobile music community town meeting: Notes Ronald
In the Mobile Music community town meeting we discussed how the participants experienced the workshop and what the differences with previous workshops were, but also what the everyone thought Mobile Music to be.
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Some comments on the workshop:
Bart: Need for a theme to connect different subjects and hands-on sessions.
Lalya: might help if there would have been brainstorming sessions.
Kristina: focus is maybe too much on technologies and phones as opposed to music.
Kristina suggests that we could have an audience - let's say 30 kids.
Frauke remembers that a lot of projects were about walking
Dan Wilcox : easier to use a mobile phone when you're walking
Atau: is it because we're in Europe?
Lalya remembers projects in Canada that we're based on cycling
When you walk you can pay more attention to your surroundings
Yolande: open session on sunday had an audience - a good way to start the workshop.
Atau: The participants we're the audience in Cathy's performance.
Each workshop has been very different - no general theme has emerged.
The workshop has grown only a little (3 & 4 are about the same size)- it's kept small on purpose.
Is the community growing or shrinking? The community is not necessarily growing but the type of participants has shifted - from more tech-oriented to more musical.
Anna Dumitriu remarked that the workshop had a real 'make' feel to it - really hands-on.
Atau: 2 years ago there was no hands-on at all...
The mobile music workshop is not quite there yet to be taken up into the ACM library - it took NIME 6 years.
Adding another category of submission which is not necesarily very academic but more like a (free) position paper might be a good addition to the workshop. This category should not necessarily be published.
More performances and demo's would be a good addition as well.
The workshop could be more open - more installations and demo's - inviting a bigger crowd such as kids. This would then require a different festival-like structure.
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Then the discussion continued trying to find a definition for Mobile Music:
There has always been mobile music - the workshop focusses mostly on the technology part of mobile music. The word mobile in mobile music is misleading because it relates to a mobile phone. Do we need a new term? locative audio?
What is Mobile Music
- using a phone? is a phone important?
- is it technology driven
- is it participatory/collaborative?
- is it a performance?
- does there have to be an audience?
Are we too early to define what is mobile music - focus on thought-provoking strong projects and let the collage of them be the definition of mobile music.
Frauke: Should Mobile Music be an intervention - how do public and private play a part?
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And there were some comments on Mobile Music Workshop communication:
Preparation is very formal - ACM format might be a hindrance - in most cases an abstract is sufficient for other workshops. Participants are not all used to writing papers.
Not every community was addressed - the call did not reach everyone.
Communication - no press was invited intentionally apart form Amsterdam Weekly. Should a workshop like this be on the local news?
Record sound & upload on the go: Geotracing session - notes by frauke
During the hands-on session at Waag I had a go at MobiTracer together with one other participant (see www.geotracing.com). You take out a mobile phone connected to a small wireless GPS device on a walk through the city. On the way you can stop and take pictures or record sound and immediately upload your media to the geotracing server. On your return you can then look at a map of your walk (trace on Google maps) and there are little coloured points on your trace where you uploaded your media. You can click on the media spots, or re-plot your whole trace with the media playing alongside.
While walking around you can also scan your surroundings for media traces left behind by other people. We were so busy recording our own sounds, taking pictures and uploading them that we actually forgot to scan for other people's traces. The constant but slow beeping indicating a working GPS connection was very reassuring and was a great way of conveying this information as we didn't have to stare at the screen while walking. Unfortunately it was raining so we didn't go too long in order to safe the equipment.
We were taking pictures of the walk...but they are now on the server. And we didn't take any other ones with our own cameras. So much documentation, and all in different places. So you'll have to look them up on www.geotracing.com.
Accidentally drew the trace of an M .... easy.....
arduino workshop a set of how-to notes by kristina
- plug the arduino board in and download the software and drivers from arduino.cc
- install driver, restart, get LED and plug into 13 and GND
- choose: tools/serial/tty-usb-serial
- choose: tools/microcontroller/choose 8 or 16
- find example code in scketchbook/examples/blink-led
- press button on board and choose upload
- et voila *blinking*
- look through the code - change the delays
- no short circuit if you want your computer to live
- follow the course in the handbook...
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idea: using toys as buttons [not quite circuit bending]
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build your own touch sensor:
it works through 10 cm of stuff
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plug and play sensors from phidget
Arduino physical computing workshop
Arduino physical computing workshop
Originally uploaded by mobilemusicworkshop.
Yolande Harris / Taking Soundings: kristina's short notes
some notes from descriptions of installations:
a gps receiver is fixed in space yet the signal keeps changing. reading a satellite is a mobile situation. you are inferring your position from a moving object. the stationary gps device thinks it is moving and it infers the direction it is supposedly moving in. it is traveling through an imaginary space of position error.
using a gps is believing you know where you are and getting lost. this data is changing our relation to the landscape. it gives us a sense of false security. how do we understand where we are? you, as a person, is mobile and the gps data infers that static objects like buildings are also mobile.
what does the word mobile actually mean? is the entire system actually floating?
the history of astronomy is the beginning of navigation: positions is derived through the the comparing of spinning motions. satellites spinning in orbit are part of this navigational system and through gps reflects back on us its data and inaccuracies.
coastal navigation: the sextant and the chronometer allows you to work out where you are. you can determine your height above and below equator. the light house declaring its identity through different flashing sequences.
images of tracing along the coast of brittany. the moving tract of a boat on anchor. the anchor point is somewhere in the center of the trace. google earth taking pictures as events passed. the pull of the wind on a windy day. all this data is translated into sound. the sea disrupts your sense of balance...
asking the strawberry seller for directions.
Tuesday
Location all day: WAAG Nieuwmarkt
9.30 –10.00 Morning coffee
10.00 - 11.30 Papers (registered participants only):
• 10.00 Isabella van Elferen, Imar de Vries / Floating Fabulousness: Representation, Performativity and Identity in Musical Ringtones
• 10.45 Yolande Harris / Taking Soundings - Investigating Coastal Navigations and Orientations in Sound
11.30 - 15.00 Hands-on [lunch break flexible] (registered participants only):
• Geotracing (Just van den Broecke)
• Arduino (Bas van Abel - Waag Society and Ubi de Feo - TwoDotOne)
• KeyWorx Live (Lodewijk Loos - Waag Society)
15.00 - 16.00 Mobile music community town meeting (registered participants only)
16.00 - 18.00 Closing sessions (open to the public):
• 16.00 Critiques and comments: Paul Keller
• 17.00 Closing keynote address: Régine Debatty
20.30 PARTY
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