Transcript 4Quarters: real-time collaborative music environment for mobile

Mobile Phones and Interactive Music
Systems: History and Forecast
Nathan Bowen, PhD
Moorpark College / CUNY Graduate Center
[email protected]
January 28, 2014
@ UC Irvine
history of mobile phone music
three histories:
telephone art
mobile music
networked music
telephone art
telephone art
interest in how this communication medium is
different than other available technologies
conversations as opposed to one-way ‘speeches’
(printing press, radio, TV, traditional concerts)
participative media: audience is given a voice
Art by Telephone – Robert Huot (1969)
artist creates context
for visitor to take part
in creative process
telephone used to
make art-making a
social experience
Max Neuhaus – Public Supply I (1966)
radio switchboard
plus callers making
sounds
mixed by Neuhaus at
WBAI, New York
performance space
over large geographic
area
Max Neuhaus (1939-2009)
Public Supply I (1966)
Public Supply IV (1973)
Radio Net (1977)
...It seems that what these works are really about is proposing to
reinstate a kind of music which we have forgotten about and
which is perhaps the original impulse for music in man: not
making a musical product to be listened to, but forming a
dialogue, a dialogue without language, a sound dialogue.
mobile music
mobile music
music on the go
old history – processionals, parades, marching
bands, etc.
instrument is frequently adapted for convenience
with mobile apps, the ‘pocket’ instrument carries on
this aesthetic
Lalya Gaye et al. – Sonic City (2002-04)
Mark Shepard – Tactical Sound
Garden(2007)
networked music
networked music
ability for ‘instrument’ to be played by multiple
people, intercommunication
ability to jam over great distances (JackTrip, The
Sound Wire Project, MUSE)
performer/composer/audience paradigm disrupted
(or not)
emphasis on new instruments, new configurations
League of Automatic Music Composers –
later… The Hub
laptop orchestras and other ensembles
Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk)
Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead – Telephony
(2001)
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/teleph.html
Ligna – Wählt die Signale (2003)
http://ligna.blogspot.com/2009/07/dial-signals-radio-concert-for-144.html
Levin et al. – Dialtones: A Telesymphony
(2001)
Ryan and Hays Holladay – Location Aware
Music (2011)
mobile phone orchestras
Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble
audience participation
Luke Dahl, Jorge Herrera, Carr Wilkerson
TweetDreams (2010)
distributed systems
Jesse Allison, Divergence (2012)