Abstract:Music business is undergoing a tremendous change in the early twenty-first century. Similarly, the landscape of music delivery and discovery is drastically evolving because of new technologies. This paper presents SoundAbout, a platform for locationbased music services. It enables new applications running on mobile phones and desktops. It allows users to share music and information about music they listened to in different locations. With SoundAbout people can experience music related to the different location… Show more
“…Commuters are able to upload tracks at particular upload points, where others can then download them. Similarly, Åman and Liikkanen () describe the development of the SoundAbout application, which enables users to access information on what music has been listened to in particular locations in the city at a particular time, as well as to ‘attach' music to particular locations. Such location‐based mobile information services, then, ‘augment' the city with a digital information layer—situated data about soundtracks in place —which people can add to and draw from:Imagine that you have a spray can full of music, millions of songs you can use to paint the city with music, take over the city by dropping music in places meaningful to you, all over the town and share those location, time and music combinations with your friends, or with anybody to explore, enjoy and modify (Åman and Liikkanen, : 542).…”
Section: Location‐aware and Context‐aware Musical Exchangesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Imagine that you have a spray can full of music, millions of songs you can use to paint the city with music, take over the city by dropping music in places meaningful to you, all over the town and share those location, time and music combinations with your friends, or with anybody to explore, enjoy and modify (Åman and Liikkanen, : 542).…”
Section: Location‐aware and Context‐aware Musical Exchangesmentioning
Mobile music listening has become an increasingly pervasive part of urban life. Yet it represents an area of enquiry with which urban studies scholars have yet to engage meaningfully. This essay considers the role of mobile music devices in creating new sonic, emotional and social interactions with and within the city. While academic work in this area has emphasized the use of these devices as a 'tuning out' of the physicality of the city, we suggest that they might also be used as part of a 'tuning in' that enhances the meaning and intensity of engagements with the city. In making this case, the essay considers two areas of academic enquiry that highlight the use of mobile music devices in intensified engagements with the city: first, recent writing on the sonic ecologies of the city that emphasize 'city sounds' as part of the urban experience; and secondly, recent advances in the field of urban computing that provide technologies for location-aware music exchanges and mediated social interactions. The essay emphasizes mobile music listening as one area of critical enquiry that can help develop our understanding of the ways in which the pervasiveness of mobile devices is recalibrating the experience of urban spatiality.
“…Commuters are able to upload tracks at particular upload points, where others can then download them. Similarly, Åman and Liikkanen () describe the development of the SoundAbout application, which enables users to access information on what music has been listened to in particular locations in the city at a particular time, as well as to ‘attach' music to particular locations. Such location‐based mobile information services, then, ‘augment' the city with a digital information layer—situated data about soundtracks in place —which people can add to and draw from:Imagine that you have a spray can full of music, millions of songs you can use to paint the city with music, take over the city by dropping music in places meaningful to you, all over the town and share those location, time and music combinations with your friends, or with anybody to explore, enjoy and modify (Åman and Liikkanen, : 542).…”
Section: Location‐aware and Context‐aware Musical Exchangesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Imagine that you have a spray can full of music, millions of songs you can use to paint the city with music, take over the city by dropping music in places meaningful to you, all over the town and share those location, time and music combinations with your friends, or with anybody to explore, enjoy and modify (Åman and Liikkanen, : 542).…”
Section: Location‐aware and Context‐aware Musical Exchangesmentioning
Mobile music listening has become an increasingly pervasive part of urban life. Yet it represents an area of enquiry with which urban studies scholars have yet to engage meaningfully. This essay considers the role of mobile music devices in creating new sonic, emotional and social interactions with and within the city. While academic work in this area has emphasized the use of these devices as a 'tuning out' of the physicality of the city, we suggest that they might also be used as part of a 'tuning in' that enhances the meaning and intensity of engagements with the city. In making this case, the essay considers two areas of academic enquiry that highlight the use of mobile music devices in intensified engagements with the city: first, recent writing on the sonic ecologies of the city that emphasize 'city sounds' as part of the urban experience; and secondly, recent advances in the field of urban computing that provide technologies for location-aware music exchanges and mediated social interactions. The essay emphasizes mobile music listening as one area of critical enquiry that can help develop our understanding of the ways in which the pervasiveness of mobile devices is recalibrating the experience of urban spatiality.
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