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A Symphony of Speakers, Carried By a Crowd, as Choir “Of Sleeping Birds” [Android+Geolocation]
Orchestras generally sit in place, safely contained in a hall. Speakers are arranged in twos, fours, and sixes in fixed positions. Audiences sit and listen, and players play. In “Of Sleeping Birds,” those boundaries are all erased. In “Of Sleeping Birds,” dubbed “a geo-locative multi-speaker symphony,” mobile speakers held by participants form a chorus of […]
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On Record Store Day, Music in Physical Places – In a Forest, Even?
If you’re heading out into the wilderness to find a record store, why not actually head out into the wilderness – the one with trees – and find music there? Today, a you’ve no doubt heard, is Record Store Day. The official site is a useful resource, today and around the year. Today brings a […]
Peter Kirn - April 21, 2012
Music Music tech
Music for a Place, as Central Park Becomes a Score, and Location Meets Recording
There was a time when the ability to record and playback music didn’t exist – such things were magical fiction no one had seen. So, the idea of playing one channel of recorded sound, then two channels, had to be invented. Artists hadn’t created something called an “album” until there were devices that played back […]
Peter Kirn - March 7, 2012
Music Music tech
A Kinetic, Experimental Typeface Made by Running Around Cities with GPS
Peter Kirn - February 20, 2012
Archive Motion Music tech
Locative Art, Now: Microsoft’s Photosynth Makes Photography into 3D Virtual Reality
Peter Kirn - November 19, 2008
Archive Motion Music tech
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