August 18, 2004
play that space
Intelligent Street
Intelligent Street by the Swedish/UK group Ambigence is a multi-space interactive sound installation that processes text message commands sent via mobile phones to create an ever-changing musical composition. The text commands determine the mood, energy and style of the music. The intention is to use the music to create a more flexible space and a more stimulating environment, where the users of the space become the co-creators of the musical composition.
iHiFi-the intelligent hi fi
iHiFi by the Ambigence group is an extension of the domestic hifi and is used in a domestic environment to provide music as a source of entertainment according to taste, mood and user activity. Unlike a standard hifi it has an intelligence that gives it a flexibility to change and adapt the content of the music to provide a personalised or enriched experience for the user. The idea is to create not consume. The catch may be that you have to buy it first.
Speaker Phone
Jonah Brucker Cohen did something similar to this with his SpeakerPhone project where a sequence of individually addressable speakers could be controlled with a mobile phone and sound targeted instantly to a precise location and to travel along a path. The project enables a range of presence applications including the creation of highly customized spatial soundscapes and the transmission and layering of sound information across multiple locations in space or time.
Posted by jo at August 18, 2004 07:18 PM
