embedded music / sound

new project:

- embed authored sounds in the physical world
- track gps user & continuously upload gps data to mySQL server using wireless/JDBC
- play appropriate sound back to user

this is relatively simple, once you get around the hurdles of maintaining a strong wireless signal. test device for this would clearly be a tablet, as my abilities to code jdbc stuff are pretty frail anyway, and would be particularly meek in a j2me vs. a full java environment. but this could be super cool. 2 specific content ideas are a) remote musical (and you could add video or whatever) performance using location as an instrument or b) I like the idea of embedding tracks from an album into the space, and having people interface with the music through the environment. so this was inspired by the fact that I'm trying to think of cool ways to release music (from my nascent label sao bento music), and it would be cool to release albums into the environment, provided that it would be someday feasible for people to easily access that content. Yeah, and I guess you wouldn't need gps for this either -- you could easily do a similar thing using other stuff like bluetooth or glyph stuff. I hope that some big record company steals this idea and makes it work. or better yet, hires me to make it work for them (in which case I would contract out other workers to make it work better). that would probably be the end of the hiring.

anyway, going to start building this...