June 2006


This August the IMPROVe team heads to the Campania region in south Italy to collaborate with radio artists Dinahbird, Kate Sieper and Jean-Philippe Renoult at the Interferenze new arts festival. This collaboration has been curated for the festival by Juha Huuskonen.

IMPROVe will be on demo at the Ars Electronica 2006 campus exhibit at Linz, Austria from 31 August to 5 September.

The IMPROVe project will be presented at Mobile HCI ‘06 conference in Espoo, Finland from the 12 to 15 September 2006.

Art gallery Myymälä2 on Uudenmaankatu was flooded with sonic waves induced by the participants of the Hearing Helsinki workshop who performed a live improvisation using the IMPROVe tool. The performance lasted 20 minutes and used sound samples that had been recorded the week before in the Hearing Helsinki workshop. The first 20 minutes was not enough for the participants, and they encored themselves to another, longer session. Guests and walk-in visitors to the gallery joined in the performance as well.

Mobile podcasting

Part of the IMPROVe team were teaching in the Hearing Helsinki workshop last week. For the workshop a mobile podcasting system developed by us and Jurgen Scheible was used. The workshop participants recorded sounds with the mobile phones and published them directly to the Hearing Helsinki podcast.