From Vodafone’s receiver mag - Vodafone’s cool think tank, on Art, Music, Communication, Interaction and technology - comes an article by David Toop ( http://www.davidtoop.com/) in which he focuses on wireless technologies and the idea of peripatetic music.

Cole sees the mobile phone as a "computer on a stick that just happens to be a communications device." With this shift of perception, we can see that mobile phones can become ubiquitous in electronic music in just the same way that laptop computers are now standard performance tools for musicians in many different genres. "Provided computers have key components in place," he writes, "for example, audio out and audio connectors, they become software configurable."

These imagined sonic capabilities of the technology may be fascinating, but for
some of the artists using wireless devices, their current potential lies with the
capacity to increase interactivity between performers and audience, better still to blur the distinction between producer and consumer. If the history of 20th century art and technology is a reasonable guide to the future, then wireless sound art will combine unexpected mutations of the sound producing capacities with innovative approaches to behaviour, perception and social use.

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