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Mobile Phones and Interactive Music Systems: History and Forecast

Mobile Phones and Interactive Music Systems: History and Forecast. Nathan Bowen, PhD Moorpark College / CUNY Graduate Center nbowen@gmail.com. January 28, 2014 @ UC Irvine. history of mobile phone music. three histories:. telephone art. mobile music. networked music. telephone art.

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Mobile Phones and Interactive Music Systems: History and Forecast

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  1. Mobile Phones and Interactive Music Systems: History and Forecast Nathan Bowen, PhD Moorpark College / CUNY Graduate Center nbowen@gmail.com January 28, 2014 @ UC Irvine

  2. history of mobile phone music

  3. three histories: telephone art mobile music networked music

  4. telephone art

  5. telephone art interest in how this communication medium is different than other available technologies conversations as opposed to one-way ‘speeches’ (printing press, radio, TV, traditional concerts) participative media: audience is given a voice

  6. Art by Telephone – Robert Huot (1969) artist creates context for visitor to take part in creative process telephone used to make art-making a social experience

  7. Max Neuhaus – Public Supply I (1966) radio switchboard plus callers making sounds mixed by Neuhaus at WBAI, New York performance space over large geographic area

  8. Max Neuhaus (1939-2009) Public Supply I (1966) Public Supply IV (1973) Radio Net (1977) ...It seems that what these works are really about is proposing to reinstate a kind of music which we have forgotten about and which is perhaps the original impulse for music in man: not making a musical product to be listened to, but forming a dialogue, a dialogue without language, a sound dialogue.

  9. mobile music

  10. mobile music music on the go old history – processionals, parades, marching bands, etc. instrument is frequently adapted for convenience with mobile apps, the ‘pocket’ instrument carries on this aesthetic

  11. Lalya Gaye et al. – Sonic City (2002-04)

  12. Mark Shepard – Tactical Sound Garden(2007)

  13. networked music

  14. networked music ability for ‘instrument’ to be played by multiple people, intercommunication ability to jam over great distances (JackTrip, The Sound Wire Project, MUSE) performer/composer/audience paradigm disrupted (or not) emphasis on new instruments, new configurations

  15. League of Automatic Music Composers – later… The Hub

  16. laptop orchestras and other ensembles Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk)

  17. Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead – Telephony (2001) http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/teleph.html

  18. Ligna – Wählt die Signale(2003) http://ligna.blogspot.com/2009/07/dial-signals-radio-concert-for-144.html

  19. Levin et al. – Dialtones: A Telesymphony(2001)

  20. Ryan and Hays Holladay – Location Aware Music (2011)

  21. mobile phone orchestras Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble

  22. audience participation Luke Dahl, Jorge Herrera, Carr Wilkerson TweetDreams (2010)

  23. distributed systems Jesse Allison, Divergence (2012)

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