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From: Drew Hemment <drew@futuresonic.com> Date: September 14, 2005 1:18:11 PM EDT To: fibreculture-announce@lists.myspinach.org Subject: ::fc-announce:: CFP - Mobile Music Technology workshop 2006

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THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MOBILE MUSIC TECHNOLOGY 2-3 MARCH 2006, BRIGHTON, UK http://www.viktoria.se/fal/events/mobilemusic/

Combining mobile technology and music promises exciting future developments in a rapidly emerging field. Devices such as mobile phones, walkmans and iPods have already brought music to the ever-changing social and geographic locations of their users and reshaped their experience of the urban landscape. With new properties such as ad hoc networking, Internet connection, and context-awareness, mobile music technology offers countless new artistic, commercial and socio-cultural opportunities for music creation, listening and sharing. How can we push forward the already successful combination of music and mobile technology? What new forms of interaction with music lie ahead, as locative media and music use merge into new forms of everyday experiences?

Following two successful workshops that started to explore and establish the emerging field of mobile music technology, this third edition offers a unique opportunity to participate in the development of mobile music and hands-on experience of the latest cutting-edge technology. The programme will consist of presentations from invited speakers, in-depth discussions about the crucial issues of mobile music technology, hands-on group activities and break-out sessions where participants can get valuable feedback on their work-inprogress projects. The invited speakers include Michael Bull (University of Sussex, UK), often dubbed by the press as 'Professor iPod' for his iPod and car stereo user studies that reveal fascinating trends for mobile music.

The workshop will take place at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK. Brighton is situated on the British 'Sunshine Coast' and easily accessible: only 30 minutes from London/Gatwick airport and 60 minutes from central London.

Don't miss this chance to help shape the mobile music landscape of the future!

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

We invite practitioners, artists, designers and researchers from all areas, including music, technology development, new media, sound-art, music distribution, locative media and industry to register for this international mobile music workshop.

CALL FOR WORK-IN-PROGRESS

Are you working on a mobile music project and looking for feedback from like-minded people to help you to move on with your ideas?

We invite submissions of work-in-progress projects exploring the topic of mobile music. Projects will be discussed, receive critical review as well as support with ongoing problems and issues. Your work should not be completed yet, but either be on-going or just about to get started. Potential projects could include but are not limited to mobile music systems or enabling technologies, interface design, on-going or planned user studies, ethnographic fieldwork, art pieces and other areas relevant to mobile music.

Submissions should include a presentation of the project, explain its relevance to the field of mobile music and describe issues and problems that could be discussed during the workshop. Please include a short biography with the submission. Accepted project authors will be given time to present and discuss their work and will receive feedback by smaller groups of workshop participants including specialists in the field. Authors are encouraged to bring material and prototypes to the workshop.

Submission format: one page in ACM SIG publications format. Submission deadline: 28th November 2005 Notification of acceptance: 15th December 2005

CALL FOR MOBILE PLATFORMS AND SYSTEMS

In addition to the presentations, discussions and project feedback sessions the workshop will also offer handson group activities to explore technological platforms.

We are looking for mobile platforms, systems, installations, applications or devices that include music features or can be used for musical projects. The workshop participants will get hands-on experience with these platforms, so they should be suitable for groups of at least 8 people. This provides you with the opportunity to introduce your platform to experts and practitioners in the field of mobile music and to gain valuable feedback. We invite you to submit a platform description, explain how it can be used for mobile music and how larger groups can use it during the workshop.

Submission format: one page in ACM SIG publications format Submission deadline: 31st October 2005 Notification of acceptance: 14th November 2005

SUBMISSIONS

Please send your platform or project submission as a PDF file, to all three, f.behrendt@sussex.ac.uk (Frauke Behrendt), lalya@viktoria.se (Lalya Gaye) and dh@loca-lab.org (Drew Hemment). In the subject line, state MOBILE MUSIC WORKSHOP SUBMISSION followed by PROJECTS or PLATFORM and the name of the main author.

REGISTRATION

The number of participants is limited to 25 places. Accepted submitters are given priority, other participants are accepted on a first-come first-served basis. Regular fee for the workshop is 70 Euros (47 GBP), and reduced student fee is 45 Euros (30 GBP). The fee includes morning and afternoon coffee breaks and lunch for both days.

Registration deadline: 17th January 2006

MORE INFORMATION

For more information about the previous and up-coming workshops, as well as the ACM SIG publications format and travel and accommodation information, please consult the website:

http://www.viktoria.se/fal/events/mobilemusic/

The 3rd international workshop on mobile music technology is organised by the Department of Media and Film Studies, University of Sussex (UK), the Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute (SWE) and Adelphi Research Institute, University of Salford (UK). In collaboration with PLAN (Pervasive and Locative Arts Network) and Futuresonic.

CONTACTS

Frauke Behrendt: f.behrendt@sussex.ac.uk Lalya Gaye: lalya@viktoria.se Drew Hemment: dh@loca-lab.org

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