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Musical Rooms

Musical Rooms is a blog written by Sinéad Gleeson about the spaces in which people create music. It’s a really interesting collection of interviews with music creators about the where they make music and how it affects their process. The blog hasn’t been updated in a while but if you’re only finding it now it’ll take you quite a while to get through the more than a hundred odd interviews, it’s more than a weekend’s worth at any rate. I find it to be an interesting look at how the people behind the music and how they think and talk about what they do. As someone who makes music it has been great for me to read about other people’s experiences and try to incorporate ideas into how I work. There’s also some great photos of the musical rooms as well, Lisa Hannigan has to have the prettiest room, Valerie Francis the most minimal, there’s a great view from Teengirl Fantasy’s room and this one from Hunter Gatherer reminds me of my own:Musical Rooms – Hunter GathererDisclosure: I have no affiliation with this product or service, I just think it’s epic!

What is mobile music? – Mobile Music #5

While writing a post about the difference between mobile music and locative music I realised that I hadn’t defined what I meant by mobile music. I’ve been discussing different examples of what I’ve been calling mobile music but hadn’t been explicit about what this meant. I started thinking about it a bit and realised that I need to give a definition to avoid ambiguity.

Mobile Music is an ambiguous term. Do I mean music to move to or music that is mobile, like a marching band, or music for mobile phones? There are lots of ways the phrase could be interpreted. I did a quick search of mobile music which turned up a the Wikipedia Mobile Music entry. This describes mobile music as music streamed and listened to on mobile devices. This is not what I’ve been writing about, I looked to the top of the page and noticed “This article is about music on mobile devices, for the musical form see aleatoric music.” I clicked the link. Read more