dynamo london

Similar to what I am working on in Banff, except we use GPS to trigger the content. We also go beyond audio to incorporate still image, animation, and screen based interactivity. MemoryScape brings location specific audio to physical space. "Using rare recordings from the Museum in Docklands archives as well as new interviews, cultural geographer Toby Butler has devised an audio CD and downloadable MP3 tour which uncovers the heritage of two routes. One walk takes in the scenery of West London from Hampton Court to Kingston; the other in East London from the Cutty Sark to the Millennium Dome." I suppose the interactivity takes the form of the user interacting with physical space and senses, not the technology that is delivering the experience. If this is anything like the project that I am involved in, it provides a very compelling experience that brings otherwise unexperienced points of view to the location you are in. If I were in London, I would try it out in a heartbeat. An alternative to going to a Sunday Matinee, this borrows the visual stimulation from the natural world. For fun, I will download the audio files and listen to them while walking the trail here to try to achieve some sort of parallel reality.

audio downloads are available here: http://memoryscape.org.uk

further reading here: http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?url=page.php&ID=150&iss=60