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November 24, 2003
abstract|outline for 590 research @10:53 PM
Mobile Sound Communities:
Sonifying a Shared Landscape
William Carter
Division of Interactive Media | CNTV
University of Southern California
ABSTRACT:
Mobile Devices create the ability for users to form new relationships with the environment by allowing them access to embedded virtual layers of information. With this new environmental awareness, users forge new and unique experiences with the physical world. However, the discourse surrounding mobile media is typically centered upon a single user, documenting the individual’s emerging awareness of these new virtual layers. What is often overlooked in this rhetoric is the importance of community within the environment, the existence of discrete, idiosyncratic spaces forged through community and shaped by community members. Users should be able to interact with their environment, but they should also be aware of the communities that exist within the space they are engaging.
Oftentimes, we recognize communities by ear, listening to the music emanating from an open apartment window, or overhearing a conversation in a foreign tongue. Sound and music are therefore important means by which we establish relationships with specific communities.
The goal of this research is to leverage the power of mobile technologies to grow sonic ecosystems that reflect the fundamental nature of a community. By generating individual sounds on a mobile device and planting them in a location-embedded virtual layer, users are given the ability to generate emergent soundscapes that reflect upon the surrounding community.
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