[xtypo_dropcap]E[/xtypo_dropcap]very once in a while there is a change in music either facilitated by an advance in technology, social change, or a need to explore different sounds and feelings. Last week artists and visitors at Atlanta, Georgia’s Art on the Beltline experienced a new type of music made from sounds which we hear everyday and everywhere.
Urban Remix includes the public by encouraging people to record sounds along Atlanta’s Art on the Beltline. People on the 22 mile loop of former rail lines can record and upload sounds via iPhone or Android devices directly to the show’s website. Local musician Recompas remixes the sounds into a concert. The project lasts through October. The entire park is designed to engage people and encourage them to participate in the arts. The Atlanta Beltline, a project intended to span a generation, is meant to jump start culture and growth in the city.
The urban remix project was the brainchild of Georgia Tech professors Jason Freeman of the Center for Music Technology in the College of Architecture, Michael Nitsche of the Digital Media program in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, and Carl DiSalvo, who is the Assistant Professor in the Digital Media program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The project has been done in other cities, like San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood during the San Francisco City Festival. Local musician Ken Ueno mixed visitor’s sounds into a performance.
“It’s about pausing and thinking about the sounds that make up our environment and how those sounds are special from one neighborhood to another,” said DiSalvo, in a press release.
Future projects include middle-school students from Atlanta’s Public School system who will be using “Urban Remix” and other programs to create music using the sounds from their environments. The students will be join in this adventure at the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta. Like the park participants, they will create music, but they will also receive lessons in culture, music, and fine listening.
Inspired by a push for public involvement, Urban Remix may challenge the public to imagine and create. To experience “Urban Remix” for yourself please visit: http://urbanremix.gatech.edu/. To hear an Urban Remix concert from San Francisco’s City Centered Festival, visit:
http://urbanremix.gatech.edu/sites/ur.edu/files/ken-ueno-remix.mp3
Urban Remix includes the public by encouraging people to record sounds along Atlanta’s Art on the Beltline. People on the 22 mile loop of former rail lines can record and upload sounds via iPhone or Android devices directly to the show’s website. Local musician Recompas remixes the sounds into a concert. The project lasts through October. The entire park is designed to engage people and encourage them to participate in the arts. The Atlanta Beltline, a project intended to span a generation, is meant to jump start culture and growth in the city.
The urban remix project was the brainchild of Georgia Tech professors Jason Freeman of the Center for Music Technology in the College of Architecture, Michael Nitsche of the Digital Media program in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, and Carl DiSalvo, who is the Assistant Professor in the Digital Media program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The project has been done in other cities, like San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood during the San Francisco City Festival. Local musician Ken Ueno mixed visitor’s sounds into a performance.
“It’s about pausing and thinking about the sounds that make up our environment and how those sounds are special from one neighborhood to another,” said DiSalvo, in a press release.
Future projects include middle-school students from Atlanta’s Public School system who will be using “Urban Remix” and other programs to create music using the sounds from their environments. The students will be join in this adventure at the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta. Like the park participants, they will create music, but they will also receive lessons in culture, music, and fine listening.
Inspired by a push for public involvement, Urban Remix may challenge the public to imagine and create. To experience “Urban Remix” for yourself please visit: http://urbanremix.gatech.edu/. To hear an Urban Remix concert from San Francisco’s City Centered Festival, visit:
http://urbanremix.gatech.edu/sites/ur.edu/files/ken-ueno-remix.mp3
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