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IMPROVe

Posted by Richard on 3 October 2007⋅ Comment⋅ Share⋅  Email ⋅  Print
Tags: Interaction Design, Mobile Music, Sound-Art

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