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The first 30 min of my Dj-set at Club Bravehat at Landet, Stockholm, 24 March 2006.
dj_riri_landet_24mar06.mp3
dj_riri_landet_24mar06.ogg

VerhaverbekeWiderberg live at improvHelsinki 2 April 2006:
vw_live_improvhelsinki.mp3
vw_live_improvhelsinki.ogg

A lot of things going on now. Tomorrow Saturday April 1 at 17.00 my IMPROVe project will be used for a live concert at the Railway station in Helsinki. The concert is part of Pixelache 2006 festival in Helsinki and the Locative Media workshop hosted by Andrew Paterson and Meiju Niskala.

Then on Sunday I am performing with VeraverbekeWiderberg which is my guitar duo with Antoine Verhaverbeke. We perform at improvhelsinki, 20.00, Sturegatan 2a in Helsinki.

I am performing in Stockholm on friday this week. And it seems that I am the biggest ego of that evening. I am first performing as a guitar-duo with Antoine Verhaverbeke then with Love is a burning thing then as a dj-duo with Antoine. Maybe stupid but why not take the chance to play as much as possible while visiting Stockholm? Music is fun.

I just love to live in Helsinki on days like this. Take the tram to the seafront, walk out on the ice and then just listen to the crispy silence while watching the city from distance. Enchanting

Obviously I am too lazy to write something longer about the mobile music workshop. And obviously someone else was not that lazy: southbound’s comment on the workshop.

Recently visited Brighton, UK to present my IMPROVe project in the Mobile Music Workshop organized by the University of Sussex. Had a nice time there. But while we were having a lot of fun with all our gadgets, sounds and applications the question about what gathered us there kept on bothering me. What is mobile? And especially what is mobile music? Some projects shown could be done with a landline phone. Is that mobile? Some projects did not use a mobile phone at all. Is that mobile?

I guess you could spend a lifetime defining mobility in relation to space, body, sound and interaction. So let’s just keep on having fun.

Like I wrote earlier I was dissappointed by this years Transmediale festival. And I am obviously not the only one. Just read a good review of Transmediale and also about the death(?!) of media art.

I am djing on Friday 17 February in Taidehalli in Helsinki. I am dj Riri. 21-02.

Recently visited the seminar Creative communities and social innovation. There were among others talks about how we can design digital technology to help us make the world a better place. I believe in that. Otherwise I wouldn’t do what I do. But I also recently read an article in London musicians collective’s magazine Resonance no 10 about gadgets and the environment. It stated that it is needed a lot of energy to assemble a computer (much more than the computer needs to run during it’s lifetime). And also that the hunt for the mineral Coltan which is used in mobile phones is one of the reasons for the civil war in the Democratic Public of Congo.

And since we buy new computers and phones very often in the western world my question is: Will the world go under because of energy-crisis, pollution and war before we come up with the killer-apps that will save us all?