IMPROVe

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.