{"id":629,"date":"2012-07-08T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/08\/a-symphony-of-speakers-carried-by-a-crowd-as-choir-of-sleeping-birds-androidgeolocation\/"},"modified":"2012-07-08T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T14:47:00","slug":"a-symphony-of-speakers-carried-by-a-crowd-as-choir-of-sleeping-birds-androidgeolocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/08\/a-symphony-of-speakers-carried-by-a-crowd-as-choir-of-sleeping-birds-androidgeolocation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Symphony of Speakers, Carried By a Crowd, as Choir \u201cOf Sleeping Birds\u201d [Android+Geolocation]"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Symphony of Speakers, Carried By a Crowd, as Choir \u201cOf Sleeping Birds\u201d [Android+Geolocation]<\/a>: <\/p>\n

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 \u201cOf Sleeping Birds,\u201d those boundaries are all erased.
In \u201cOf Sleeping Birds,\u201d dubbed \u201ca geo-locative multi-speaker symphony,\u201d mobile speakers held by participants form a chorus of sound. Location is everything: it spreads the music through a city, and, with the aid of GPS satellites, determines the music that the speakers play. That same mobility also gets an audience on their feet, participating in the performance.
All of this aside, the work both sounds quite lovely and<\/em> adds some drama with all the people roving about with their speakers in hand.
Composer Duncan Speakman explains the work to CDM:<\/p>\n

We call it a \u201cpedestrian symphony.\u201d (When we\u2019re feeling arty and trying to come up with cheap terms for new forms\u2026) Basically, we had 40 Android phones placed in 40 portable speaker boxes. Each one was running geolocative software and played a different element of our composition (e.g. one might play a lead voice or synth, another a violin) and all synced\/triggered by their physical location.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Details:<\/p>\n

\u2018Of Sleeping Birds\u2019 was created and composed by Circumstance, http:\/\/productofcircumstance.com<\/a> \/ @ofcircumstance<\/a><\/p>\n

with additional performances by Chloe Herrington (Chrome Hoof), Chantal Lewis Brown (Do Me Bad Things, Invasion) and Alex Thomas (Air, Squarepusher)<\/p>\n

The locative audio software was built using Appfurnace http:\/\/appfurnace.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The speakers inside the boxes came were Minirigs by Pasce http:\/\/minirigs.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

The phones were Samsung Europas http:\/\/www.samsung.com\/uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Camerawork for the video by Geoff Taylor
The project was commissioned by Anglia Ruskin University + Futurecity as part of Visualise \u2013 a public art programme for Cambridge, UK 2012<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Really brilliant work. I see they\u2019ve made the film extra arty by de-saturating all the colors so everything in the UK looks gray.
What do you mean, you didn\u2019t use a de-saturation filter?<\/p>\n

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