[Rumori] idea to port over to audio domain?

[Bob Boster]

bb> I'm less concerned about the yellow garbage issues for  the following 
reasons:

1) If someone can invent a bio-degradable plastic garbage bag (I'm using 
them now), then certainly a bio-degradable post-it note is simple...

2) The idea of a spectator using some additional object (a yellow arrow) to 
litter the world minutely towards creating more artwork seems fairly 
benign.  Given that I'm actually pro-tagging, this is a very minor 
consideration given how low the impact is.

3) The object itself is then subject to further hacking (adoption, 
redirection, etc.) in ways that are also interesting and in ways that an 
"invisible" tag would not be.


As to the audio version, I'm not sure about the application, but ideally 
some way to be cued to identify a space where some systematic audio event 
is happening, or even likely to happen, and then contact a registry that 
would then text you a message identifying what the initial observation 
was.  In a perfect world a listener could then text back an update, which 
could be appended to the initial message for future listeners.

Imagine the opportunity to even compose with same via the text by sending 
the new listener back instructions like:  "play along with the subway 
sounds by tapping the rusty gate with a pencil in a counter rhythm..." or 
"get your friend to hum 'frere jacques' facing NW into the bus stop - acts 
as a resonator - while the bhangra blaring from the store front serves as 
an audio bed, then trade places..."



At 06:05 PM 7/4/2005 -0700, Steev Hise wrote:
>on Mon, 4 Jul 2005 Bob Boster told me:
>
>->bb> Got tweaked to the Yellow Arrow Project on another list I'm on and I
>->think it has promise.  Even more so for audio...  If someone has nothing
>->better to do that port this over to a revised version for audio, I think it
>->would be a great public service, not to mention probably a lifelong gig
>->with some clever grant writing.  Sounds like an Aaron Ximm kind of thing,
>->but the more the merrier...
>
>Muy intersante.  especially since i just found out and blogged
>about Geotagging last week:
>http://detritus.net/steev/mt/archives/000397.html
>(basically a database of photos tagged to coordinates on the
>globe, using Flickr, Google, and some custom software)
>
>I share Rheingold's reservations about littering the world with
>yellow trash.  i like the idea of *invisible* tags - what if you
>had a PDA/GPS unit that automatically told you when you passed by
>a location that had been tagged? no unsightly sticker  involved.
>
>funny how they mention the Situationists but get it wrong,
>they started in France not Italy. plus, i dunno, the
>psychogeographical  seems in direct friction with the
>cybernetic nature of the yellow arrow thing.  computerizing
>(mechanizing, automating) the whole experience of wandering and 
>discovering was, i think, never
>a priority of Debord's, or Benjamin's or Baudelaire's either
>http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/314
>http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/Literary_Criticism/postmodernism/postmo_urban/flaneur.html
>but maybe that's just my luddic interpretation...
>
>but anyway what would be an audio version?  when you see an
>arrow, look up the appropriate podcast on your Ipod, and listen?
>or when you hear an arrow?  ;-)
>
>thanx bob!
>
>smh
>
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