Mobile 2.0 Europe – Atau Tanaka

Keynote on the ‘Play’ theme by Prof. Atau Tanaka, Chair of Digital Media, Acting Director of Culture Lab in Newcastle.

2 Responses to “Mobile 2.0 Europe – Atau Tanaka”


  1. 1 nb23

    Atau:

    About Malleable Mobile Music – What in your mind was the major hang up for this to be a successful experience for the user? Or was it successful in your opinion? Do you have any more footage besides concept stuff?

  2. 2 Atau

    hey Nathan-
    Ironically, the issue that kept Malleable Mobile Music going from concept to reality was simply that…. people don’t walk fast enough. Classic sensor-music interaction mapping problem. At the speed people walk, the listener just couldn’t hear meaningful change in the mix fast enough. We tried to address these issues in a much more conceptual piece, Net_Dérive, where relative proximities modulated polyrhythmic blips, and also triggered voice commands. A lot of this is written up in:
    Atau Tanaka and Petra Gemeinboeck. “Net_Dérive: Conceiving and Producing a Locative Media Artwork” 2008. In Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media. Gerard Goggin, Larissa Hjorth (eds.) Routledge.

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