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The Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) and Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO) :: in the conclusion of their 2010-2011 season :: Wednesday June 1st, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. :: in the Dinkelspiel Auditorium, 471 Lagunita Drive, Stanford, CA 94035 :: free and open to the public ::

In celebration of the conclusion of a wonderful 2010-2011 season, the Stanford Laptop Orchestra performs on Wednesday with a full-scale laptop orchestra concert. You are cordially invited to an evening of all new works for the full ensemble of humans, laptops, hemispherical speaker arrays, and crazy new instruments!

Featuring new works and performances by Linden Melvin, Nick Kruge, Hyung Suk Kim, MK Li, Chang Yea, Mike Rotondo, Ben Roth, Chris Beachy, Ben Olson, Jason Riggs, Spencer Salazar, John Granzow, Hongchan Choi, Jieun Oh and Ge Wang.

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Washington, D.C.-based band Bluebrain’s new album dropped yesterday, Friday, May 29, 2011, but not in the way one might think. It is available on iTunes, but not in MP3 form — rather as a location-aware app that only works within the stretch of park in downtown D.C. called the Mall.

“The music changes and evolves based on your chosen path within the park,” says Ryan Holladay, one half of the band. (His brother, Hays, makes up the other half of the outfit.) “To do this, the app uses the phone’s built-in GPS capabilities.” The app features a map of the Mall that shows what locations are tagged with sound.

The album, titled The National Mall, contains about three hours of music that the brothers composed while traipsing around the area. “It was certainly the most amount of exercise I’ve ever gotten while making an album,” Holladay says.

The disc will not be available for standard download as a musical piece, since it will only work when one is standing in the Mall.

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Moori: Audience Participatory Performance :: May 14, 2011; 9:00 pm + May 20, 2011; 7:00 pm :: Barkroom, Parsons, 2 W. 13th St. Ground Floor (corner of 5th Ave), New York, NY.

Moori, by Haeyoung Kim, is an interactive audience participatory audio-visual performance. By incorporating multiple modes of messaging on a mobile phone, users tell their stories to guided questions by the performer. User data is processed to generate algorithmic audio and visuals while creating a larger narrative. This collaboration creates dialog among the performer and audience members and suggests new possibilities that can exist through the combination of algorithmic animation, audio and language. Continue reading

UrbanRemix is a collaborative and locative sound project developed by Jason Freeman, Carl DiSalvo, Michael Nitsche, and many of our students at Georgia Tech. Our goal in developing UrbanRemix was to design a platform and series of events that would enable participants to develop and express the acoustic identity of their communities, and enable participants to explore and experience the soundscapes of the city in a novel fashion.

The UrbanRemix platform consists of a mobile phone system and web interface for recording, browsing, and mixing audio. It allows users to document and explore the obvious, neglected, private or public, even secret sounds of the urban environment. Continue reading

The Location-Based Mobile Music App Explosion, A Survey by Antony Bruno, Denver :: March 25, 2011 :: thanks to billboard.biz

Adding location awareness to music apps is fast becoming a major mobile trend, as is evident by a rash of new mobile music apps hitting app stores of late.

Use of location technology is taking many forms. Many, if not most, are designed to let users tag a location with a song. The result can be a localized, crowdsourced playlist, add context to the discovery of a new song or even be used as a way to find concerts and live shows. Other apps flip it around a bit by letting users in the same area determine what the venue should play.

Here are some of the apps available today that blend music with location:

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Nancy Garcia :: April 9 - June 9, 2011 :: Opening: April 9; 7:00 - 10:00 pm :: Bas Fisher Invitational, 180 NE 39th Street, Suite 210, Miami, Florida.

Nancy Garcia’s interdisciplinary practice incorporates choreography, music/sound, video, performance, image making, and new media. Often slinging the viewer to the edges of performative events, Garcia draws attention to the exultant body, considering it as a site as well as a vehicle for sound and movement. For her first solo exhibition in Miami, Garcia shows a new body of work incorporating photography, a new video entitled Power Trio, and a concept audio compilation, Lover’s Alarm Clock, for which she asked artist friends to “create a sound you want your lover/s to wake up to.” Each track will be downloadable and sharable as a smartphone ringtone at www.loversalarmclock.com, and be available for listening in the gallery. Continue reading

Joseph Young :: The End of Listening (ReAwakening of a City#5):: January 7, 2011 - January 23 (weekends only) :: a&e gallery, Cheltenham Place, Brighton :: Preview: Friday January 7, 2011 from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m ::

On the 20th of April, 1914, immediately before the outbreak of the First World War, the premiere performance of a revolutionary noise symphony, Awakening of a City by futurist artist Luigi Russolo took place.

Almost a century later, a group of artists, led by Brighton-based Sound Artist, Joseph Young, come together to respond to the surviving 7 bars of the printed score in a series of ReAwakenings. Continue reading

The Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra(MoPho) :: a mini-concert :: Thursday, November 18, 2010 @ 7:00 p.m. :: as part of the CCRMA Fall Concert :: before the Musicircus begins at 8:00 p.m., at Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) Stage, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-8180 :: tel: (650) 723-4971::

The works played will feature all pieces involving audience participation. One of the pieces by Jieun Oh and Ge Wang invites you to submit images and sounds of your daily life (starting today!) to be used in the performance: see: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jieun5/converge/

This then leads into the Cagean Musicircus, starting at 8pm!:: see: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/ccrma-fall-concert-cagean-musicircus

MobileArtCon 2010 :: October 23-24, 2010 @ ITP with offsite events October 22-25, 2010 :: 721 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY.

The International Association of Mobile Digital Artists (iAMDA) will hold its first annual event Saturday & Sunday October 23-24, 2010 at ITP. Artists, app developers and art historians will come together for the first time to discuss the creative possibilities of touch-screen technology on mobile devices. Sessions will focus on technique, technical developments and theoretical discussions of mobile digital media in an art-historical context.

Aside from its value as a creative medium, we will be looking at the social aspect of mobile digital art and its role in creating a diverse international community based on common artistic and technological interests. Continue reading