New to You: The Wikimixes
It’s Friday night, so I’m going to make this one short.
Earlier this summer I put together a project that I called “Wikimixing” for the Megapolis Audio Festival. Here is a blurb I wrote about it at the time:
“Mixing on a computer is usually a solitary endeavor: one person controlling one mouse and keyboard making one decision at a time. We’re going to try to fix that. Part workshop and part experiment in “crowd-sourced” audio art, this is like editing Wikipedia but with sound instead of text. We’ll … collectively mix and manipulate sounds as a group in real-time using a bunch of colorful customized keyboard controllers, all connected to a single computer. The idea is to get as many hands/ears/minds at once collaborating (and competing) on the same soundscape, so that whatever strange, beautiful, or frightening noises that emerge are the product of our group’s collective will. Everyone is in control at the same time and yet no one is!”
You can read more about the ideas and technical aspects of the project here. But for whatever reason, I never got around to posting the final mixes on my own site…until TODAY. So unless you’ve been to the Megapolis 2010 Archive, they’re NEW TO YOU!
And here are some pics of the workshop, courtesy of fellow Megapolis presenter David Levin.
A few of us were hanging out in a hotel room after the festival and decided to play with it some more.
(Photo credits for above: Andrea Silenzi)
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