Imaginary Berlin by Anna Xambó @ Web Audio Conference 2018 (September 19, 2018)
Music Performance of Imaginary Berlin. Factory Berlin, Berlin, Germany. September 19, 2018.
Program notes
Audience participation performances are a recurrent theme in the Web Audio community and can take as many shapes as imaginable. Berlin, the city hosting the Web Audio conference this year, has been a source of inspiration for innumerable artists, both known and unknown. This performance is an anonymous celebration of participatory music in Berlin in the form of a collective soundscape. Inspired by John Cage’s Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (1951), twelve audio streams from the Berlin area will be sonically distributed, repeated, delayed, amplified, reverberated, distorted and finally vanished.
Audio / Video
Audio
Video
Code
- Code available here:
Publications
- Xambó, A., Lerch, A. and Freeman, J. “Music Information Retrieval in Live Coding: A Theoretical Framework”. Computer Music Journal, 42(4), Winter 2018, pp. 9-25.
- Roma, G., Xambó, A. and Freeman, J. (2018). “User-independent Accelerometer Gesture Recognition for Participatory Mobile Music”. Journal of Audio Engineering Society, 66(6), pp. 430-438.
- Roma, G., Xambó, A., Freeman, J. (2017) “Handwaving: Gesture Recognition for Participatory Mobile Music”. In Proceedings of the Audio Mostly 2017 Conference. London.
Acknowledgments
This work relates to the AudioCommons project, which is funded by the European Commission through the Horizon 2020 programme, research and innovation grant 688382.