Dérive en Mille Sons

Dérive en Mille Sons (Drifting in a Thousand Sounds) is an in-progress project presented at the 2009 SPARK Festival of Electronic Music & Arts.
ABSTRACT: "Dérive en Mille Sons" is a musical work that uses mobile media technology to artistically examine the relationship between music and the listener. Contemporary media technologies, be they at work, home, or in your pocket, emphasize playback. These devices are designed to facilitate the storage and retrieval of pre-made media assets. This work leverages the processing capabilities that rest dormant within these technologies. Drawing from the writings of Guy Debord and the Situationist/Surrealist practice of the dérive, "drifting" becomes a metaphor for instrumental performance in which the openness and emergence of interactivity is articulated through sound, as music.

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