We invite practitioners, artists, designers, hackers and researchers from all areas, including music, technology development, new media, sound-art, music distribution, cultural/media studies, locative media and industry to submit work and register to attend.
Don't miss this chance to help shape the mobile music landscape of the future!
IMPORTANT DEADLINES: all closed
Submission deadline: 12th March 2007
Notification of acceptance: 2nd April 2007
Final submission deadline: 16th April 2007
Participants are encouraged to submit their work in mobile music technology to the categories below. The partnership with the Futuresonic Festival allows those coming to Europe to make a single trip to attend both events.
Papers
We invite submissions of workshop papers presenting new projects, approaches
or reflections exploring the topic of mobile music. Potential submissions
could include but are not limited to mobile music systems or enabling technologies,
interface design, legal issues, user studies, ethnographic fieldwork, social
implications, art pieces and other areas relevant to mobile music. Accepted
paper authors will be given a time slot during the workshop for presentation
and discussion of their work.
Format: up to 8 pages in ACM SIG publications format (shorter papers welcome). For templates, see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
Posters
We also invite the contribution of posters that document work-in-progress
projects or ideas in similar areas of mobile music technology as the papers.
Posters will be on display during the duration of the conference. We will
arrange a poster presentation session where attendees will be able to discuss
the works with the authors.
Format: 2 pages in ACM SIG publications format.
Demonstrations
We also invite submissions of work to the demo category. Besides encouraging
paper and poster presenters to bring a demonstration as a complement their
presentation, we encourage submissions of stand-alone demos of mobile music
systems or enabling technology. Their implementation should be ready enough
to be demoed, and will possibly be shown to the general public during open
sessions depending on their robustness.
Format: 2 pages in ACM SIG publications format.
Please email your submission as a PDF file in the appropriate format to . In the subject line, state MMW SUBMISSION followed by PAPER, POSTER or DEMO and the name of the main author. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by a committee of international specialists in the fields of mobile music, interactive music, and locative media.
Combining music and mobile technology 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?
This year's workshop was hosted by STEIM and Waag Society in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and partnered with the Futuresonic Festival in Manchester, England, which took place later that same week. The programme of the workshop consisted of keynote presentations from invited speakers, peer-reviewed paper presentations, poster sessions, in-depth discussions about the crucial issues of mobile music technology, demos of state-of-the-art projects, break-out sessions and live events. Registered participants took part in hands-on sessions conducted by leaders in the field. In addition to traditional presentation sessions, the programme included events open to a general audience, facilitating the presentation of artworks and technological breakthroughs to a wider public.
Participation is closed. To participate please submit a paper, poster or a demonstration. See PARTICIPATE for details. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by a committee of international specialists in the fields of mobile music, interactive music, and locative media.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES: all closed
Submission deadline: 12th March 2007
Notification of acceptance: 2nd April 2007
Final submission deadline: 16th April 2007
PLEASE NOTE
The Mobile Music Workshop is unable to provide fees, airfare or grants. There
is however a reduced fee for students.
The Mobile Music Workshop set the stage for a collaboration that brings together leading institutions in both experimental electronic music and mobile media. STEIM (the studio for electro-instrumental music) is a centre for electronic music production well known in the performing arts. STEIM promotes the idea that Touch is crucial in communicating with electronic and digital arts technologies, a vision that over the years has given birth to physical, sensor-based musical instruments. Waag Society is a research and development institute in the fields of networked art, education and creative industries. Waag Society develops platforms for artists to reach society through networked collaboration, media streaming, and locative media.
International Steering Committee
Atau Tanaka (Sony CSL Paris,
France)
Frauke Behrendt (University
of Sussex, UK)
Lalya Gaye (Viktoria Institute,
Sweden)
Local Organising Committee
Kristina Andersen (STEIM,
The Netherlands)
Robert van Heumen (STEIM,
The Netherlands)
Ronald Lenz (Waag Society,
The Netherlands)
Submissions:
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Info:
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Venues
STEIM
Achtergracht 19
1017 WL Amsterdam
Waag Society
Nieuwmarkt 4
1012 CR Amsterdam
All day open to the public
Location morning: Waag Society Nieuwmarkt and afternoon: STEIM
9.30 - 13.00 Registration desk open at Waag Society Nieuwmarkt - after that at STEIM
10.30 – 13.00 Welcome and keynotes:
Performance on the way from Waag to STEIM:
14.30 - 17.00 Demos and posters
Demos:
Posters:
17:00 - 18:00 PERFORMANCES
Location all day: STEIM
registered participants only
9.30 –10.00 Morning coffee
10.00 Keynote: Michel Waisvisz, introducing STEIM work + the hands + cracklebox
11.00 - 12.30 Papers
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch break
14.30 - 18.00 Python Programming for Symbian Series 60 (Jurgen Scheible Mobilenin)
18:00 - 19:00 Drinks at STEIM (registered participants only) - after diner at Bazar, Albert Cuypstraat (dinner tickets to be purchased during registration)
Location all day: Waag Society Nieuwmarkt
9.30 –10.00 Morning coffee (registered participants only)
10.00 - 11.30 Papers (registered participants only)
11.30 - 15.00 Hands-on [lunch break flexible] (registered participants only)
15.00 - 16.00 Mobile music community town meeting (registered participants only)
16.00 - 18.00 Closing sessions (open to the public)
20.30 PARTY(open to the public)
This series of annual workshops began to explore and establish the emerging field of mobile music technology in 2004.
The first International Workshop on Mobile Music Technology was organised at the Viktoria Institute in Göteborg, Sweden, in June 2004. The purpose was to gather a number of researchers with a shared interest in mobile music, and to attract additional people who might be interested in making the community grow. This workshop focused on presenting existing projects and defining the field. It had 15 external participants, plus organisers and student volunteers.
The second workshop was organised in May 2005 at NIME 2005 in Vancouver, Canada. This time, the community was better defined, and the workshop time was shared between presentations of new projects, in depth-discussions and hands-on brainstorming activities. It attracted 18 external participants plus the organisers.
The third edition of the workshop was a two-day event, taking place in March 2006 at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. It focused on the locative media aspect of mobile music, with presentations by invited speakers, feedback sessions about work-in-progress projects, and hands-on activities with the latest mobile music technology. Over 30 participants had registered. During this time, the mobile arena, both creatively and commercially has exploded. This sets the stage for a high level meeting like the Mobile Music Workshop to have increasing impact as a wider audience, both public and professional alike, start to become interested in the creative potential of mobile media.
The fourth edition of the Mobile Music Workshop in 2007 seeks to address these evolving contexts by reaching out to the creative industries all while maintaining the artistic focus that makes the workshop unique.
For information about the previous workshops, go to:
Mobile
Music Workshop 2004
Mobile
Music Workshop 2005
Mobile
Music Workshop 2006
This year's workshop had both closed sessions for registered participants and sessions open to the general public. The number of participants for the closed sessions of the workshop was limited to 50 places. Accepted submitters were given priority, other participants were accepted on a first-come first-served basis.
Regular fee: 75 euros
Reduced student fee: 45 euros
The fee included full access to all sessions and events of the workshops as well as a hardcopy of the proceedings. Please note that all participants needed to register in order to present.