IMPROVe

Richard presents IMPROVe on Monday 14 April 13.00 at Vetenskapsfestivalen (The Science Festival) in Nordstan in Göteborg. He will also run sound workshops for teenagers and an IMPROVe concert in Bältespännarparken 15.00 on 17 April.

Recently IMPROVe were part of a workshop at K2 art center in Izmir, Turkey. We had a performance at K2 where we used recordings of the bazaar in Izmir.

Listen to the performance:

The performance with IMPROVe at the Railway station in Helsinki was great. We used sounds recorded in the station and played them back in loud-speakers. Four phones controlled the processing and playback of the sounds. The phones were passed around in the audience. To control big sounds in a big space with a small device was a very nice experience. Look at the video-documentation from the performance (and listen carefully…):

Streamed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKEF1-CYkPc

Download: improve_pixelache.mov (10.7 mb)

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.