IMPROVe

IMPROVe is part of Pixelache 2006 festival in Helsinki. At the moment in the ongoing Locative Media workshop. On Thursday 30 March IMPROVe will be presented in the Mobile arts & experiments seminar.

Then the grande finale is the IMPROVe concert in the west wing of the Helsinki Railway station on Saturday 1 April 17.00. People from the Locative media workshop will improvise with sounds collected during the workshop. Free entrance!

Part of the IMPROVe team just visited the Mobile Music Workshop at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. Met a lot of friendly people, saw a lot of nice projects, got good feedback on IMPROVe, participated in interesting discussions. Many thanks to the organizers!

Crucial questions that kept popping up during the workshop were:
What is mobility?
What is mobile music?
What is a mobile environment/situation?
What is the relationship between mobile devices, body and movement?

A comment in these discussions was that we are using technology to re-socialize public space.

Worth thinking about. We will keep on investigating.

Three point overlapping definition of noise, compiled succintly by Torben Sangild , author of Aesthetics of Noise

acoustic - white noise, color noise
communicative - when noise is considered as that which disturbs communication
subjective - annoying sounds

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Dust and Noise is the theme of a 3-day seminar organized by NSU , a decades old travelling debate forum attended mostly by Nordic intellectuals.