UrbanRemix

UrbanRemix is a collaborative and locative sound project. Our goal in developing UrbanRemix was to design a platform and series of public workshops that would enable participants to develop and express the acoustic identity of their communities, and enable users of the website to explore and experience the soundscapes of the city in a novel fashion.

The UrbanRemix platform consists of a mobile phone system and web interface for recording, browsing, and mixing audio. It allows users to document and explore the obvious, neglected, private or public, even secret sounds of the urban environment. Participants in the UrbanRemix workshops become active creators of shared soundscapes as they search the city for interesting sound cues. The collected sounds, voices, and noises provide the original tracks for musical remixes that reflect the specific nature and acoustic identity of the community.

The web site is available at http://urbanremix.gatech.edu.

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Publications

2011

  • Freeman, J., DiSalvo, C., Nitsche, M., and Garrett, S. (2011). “Soundscape Composition and Field Recording as a Platform for Collaborative Creativity” in Organised Sound, Cambridge University Press, 16:3.

  • DiSalvo, C., Freeman, J., and Nitsche, M. (2011). “Participatory art as inner city workshop: The UrbanRemix sound project” in Proceedings of the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA 2011), Istanbul, Turkey.

  • Freeman, J. (2011). “Listening, Movement, Creativity, and Technology” in S. Mass and K. Wurth (eds.), Liminal Auralities. New York, New York: Fordham University Press (in press).

Press

  • Sarre, C. (2011, May 27). “Am New Yorker Times Square entstanden im Projekt ‘Urban Remix’ hunderte Geräuschinstallationen als lebendes Audio-Archiv dieses Ortes” on Ö1 / ORF Austrian Radio.

  • Sarre, C. (2011, May 18). “Times Square Medley – neu gemischt” on DRadio Wissen German Radio.

  • Lewis, S. (2011, May 12). “Artists Mix Times Square Street Sounds into Music” on WNYC (New York, New York public radio).

  • Kirn, P. (2011, April 26). “Remixing Times Square, with Mobile Field Recordings” on Create Digital Music.

  • Ross, A. (2011, April 19). “Miscellany: Philly crisis, etc.” on The Rest Is Noise. Alex Ross is the classical music critic for the New Yorker.