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Sonifying the Scene: re-framing and manipulating meaning through audio augmentation (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Chamberlain, A., & Hazzard, A. (2015). Sonifying the Scene: re-framing and manipulating meaning through audio augmentation.

Digital locative music technologies are transforming the ways in which we are able to manipulate and re-frame the meaning of architecture, landscape and art. In this note we explore and outline some of the key features that are associated with this.... Read More about Sonifying the Scene: re-framing and manipulating meaning through audio augmentation.

Understanding social media and sound: music, meaning and membership, the case of SoundCloud (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Chamberlain, A., McGrath, S., & Benford, S. (2015). Understanding social media and sound: music, meaning and membership, the case of SoundCloud.

Social media technologies have meant that people’s mu- sic consumption and production practices have rapidly changed and evolved. In this paper, we start to explore and present some of our initial findings in respect to this growing area of research... Read More about Understanding social media and sound: music, meaning and membership, the case of SoundCloud.

"I’ve got a sheep with three legs if anybody wants it?’" - re-visioning the rural economy (2015)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., Chamberlain, A., Valchovska, S., Davies, M., Glover, K., & Greenhalgh, C. (2015). "I’ve got a sheep with three legs if anybody wants it?’" - re-visioning the rural economy. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 19(8), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-015-0890-8

This paper reports on a study of 4CG, a cooperative enterprise located in rural Wales. 4CG operates for the good of the local economy and seeks to diversify its commercial portfolio through the creation of an online shop retailing goods and services... Read More about "I’ve got a sheep with three legs if anybody wants it?’" - re-visioning the rural economy.

Augmenting a guitar with its digital footprint (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Benford, S., Hazzard, A., Chamberlain, A., & Xu, L. (2015). Augmenting a guitar with its digital footprint.

We explore how to digitally augment musical instruments by connecting them to their social histories. We describe the use of Internet of Things technologies to connect an acoustic guitar to its digital footprint – a record of how it was designed, bui... Read More about Augmenting a guitar with its digital footprint.

Considering musical structure in location-based experiences (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Hazzard, A., Benford, S., Chamberlain, A., & Greenhalgh, C. (2015). Considering musical structure in location-based experiences.

Locative music experiences are often non-linear and as such the final structure of the music heard is guided by the movements of the user. We note an absence of principles regarding how composers should approach the structuring of such locative sound... Read More about Considering musical structure in location-based experiences.