On 23 June, Lalya from Dånk! co-organised a hands-on workshop about Exploring Sonic Interaction with Artefacts in Everyday Contexts at IRCAM in Paris, France, as part of the 14th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD’08) (more…)

A catalogue called “Creative Interactions: The Mobile Music Workshop 2004-2008″ has been released at the occasion of the 5th edition of the Mobile Music Workshop! The catalogue features a compilation of key mobile music and locative audio projects presented at the workshop, as well as keynotes transcriptions, descriptions of workshop focus and activities, and an overview of the origins and of the field of mobile music in general and its evolution (more…)

The mechanical and optical constraints specific to analogue cameras have disappeared with the advent of digital technology but still limit the way we conceive photography. In the Context Photography project, we developed a digital still camera augmented with sensors that gathered real-time context information and visually affected a photograph as it was taken, thereby also capturing some of the larger context surrounding the scene (more…)

Sonic MobLog lets you with a simple interface record and publish your found sounds using your mobile phone where the sounds goes straight to a podcast. This was used during ASEF Hearing Helsinki artcamp in Helsinki 2006 where you could follow the participants sonic traverses in realtime. It consists of a mobile phone application and a WordPress hack. I am working on releasing the software for mobile phones and a as a WordPress plugin. From a conceptual viewpoint this work explores my interest into different ways to publish and access sound.

Sonic MobLog was developed with the help from Jürgen Scheible.

IMPROVe is an aural architecture for socio-cultural exchange. Sonic realities of the everyday are improvised live in a non-linear mode. Local and remote audiences contribute and access open content.

IMPROVe explores the role of the mobile phone user as a creator of her/ his own content. It attempts to define the mobile device as a tool for environment awareness by making the user conscious of their immediate sonic surrounding. By exploring the role of the mobile phone as a medium of sonic content creation and exchange, we propose the understanding of the music making mobile device as a medium of empowerment.

IMPROVe is a collaborative project between Richard Widerberg and Zeenath Hasan. More.

It was Richard Widerberg’s Master thesis project in Medialab, University of Art and Design Helsinki called IMPROVe - Exploring modes of listening (pdf).

The sound and video examples belonging to the thesis can be accessed here.

Photo by Antti Ahonen