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January 21, 2004
enviro-embedded album @12:10 AM
early stages of the location-embedded album concept. using the W,A,S,D keys (use space or any non-W,A,S,D key to stop player movement), you can move to specific zones within the (test) environment, activating different zones and the resulting album tracks associated w/ that zone (in this case, the album is Chutus Too Narrow by The Shins). Unfortunately, unless you have the jSyn plugin, the audio won't work, so I disabled it for this web version (to limit download time). Up next: crossfade songs as you move throughout zones, so you can tell when you are "exiting" a song. This would be handy if you wanted to keep listening to a certain song -- you would hear a bit of something else creep in, and you would backtrack a little bit. So this album by the band ::tintin:: on my label (Sao Bento Music) is being released soon and I want to try and actually embed it in the environment, hopefully getting some people around campus to test it (and as a result, buy it).
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Coooooool. Let me know when you test it out. It brings to mind(in a free-association way) this piece done semi-annually in NYC called "Unsilent Night". Everyone brings tape players and are given a tape by the composer. You press play at the same time and then everyone walks from Washington Square, all through the East Village, and end up Tompkins Square Park. You can move around in the crowd, or go down another street; the sounds of the music, your environment, and the people around you combine to create a composition that's partially your own, because of your ability to control how you hear it.
Have you taken into account the sounds of the environment that will be added to the groups record? It might be that doing this test at different times of day will produce different results.
Posted by: kellee at January 21, 2004 12:49 PM
The USC soundtrack eh? This looks very interesting Will. I would like to know more about your process and how the project is moving forward. Is the music in a particualar key and/or at a certain rythm? Is the scale of the "zones" dictated by a GPS? It would also be interesting to get a "preview" of the song by facing a certain direction (lord knows how you would do that).
Posted by: andrew at January 25, 2004 09:26 AM