You’ll never walk alone: designing a location-based soundtrack

Musical soundtracks have great potential to enhance mobile walking experiences such as tours and guides, much as they already do for films and games. They also raise new challenges for composers as the music must fit a given landscape and respond to walkers’ trajectories. We present a design for an...

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Main Authors: Hazzard, Adrian, Benford, Steve, Burnett, Gary
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33142/
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author Hazzard, Adrian
Benford, Steve
Burnett, Gary
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description Musical soundtracks have great potential to enhance mobile walking experiences such as tours and guides, much as they already do for films and games. They also raise new challenges for composers as the music must fit a given landscape and respond to walkers’ trajectories. We present a design for an interactive mobile soundtrack to accompany a visit to a sculpture park. We describe the motivating factors used to structure soundtrack and drive the compositional process.
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spelling nottingham-331422020-05-04T16:48:56Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33142/ You’ll never walk alone: designing a location-based soundtrack Hazzard, Adrian Benford, Steve Burnett, Gary Musical soundtracks have great potential to enhance mobile walking experiences such as tours and guides, much as they already do for films and games. They also raise new challenges for composers as the music must fit a given landscape and respond to walkers’ trajectories. We present a design for an interactive mobile soundtrack to accompany a visit to a sculpture park. We describe the motivating factors used to structure soundtrack and drive the compositional process. 2014-06-30 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Hazzard, Adrian, Benford, Steve and Burnett, Gary (2014) You’ll never walk alone: designing a location-based soundtrack. In: 14th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 30 June - 4 July 2014, London, UK. Composing Music Mobile Exhibits Experiences Location Metaphor http://nime2014.org/proceedings/papers/506_paper.pdf
spellingShingle Composing
Music
Mobile
Exhibits
Experiences
Location
Metaphor
Hazzard, Adrian
Benford, Steve
Burnett, Gary
You’ll never walk alone: designing a location-based soundtrack
title You’ll never walk alone: designing a location-based soundtrack
title_full You’ll never walk alone: designing a location-based soundtrack
title_fullStr You’ll never walk alone: designing a location-based soundtrack
title_full_unstemmed You’ll never walk alone: designing a location-based soundtrack
title_short You’ll never walk alone: designing a location-based soundtrack
title_sort you’ll never walk alone: designing a location-based soundtrack
topic Composing
Music
Mobile
Exhibits
Experiences
Location
Metaphor
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33142/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33142/