{"59769":{"#nid":"59769","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Transforming Noise into Music with Urban Remix","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis Saturday, June 26, artists and visitors to Atlanta\u2019s Art on the Beltline will participate in a public exhibition that takes the sounds we hear every day and transforms them into music. The show, titled Urban Remix, allows the public to record sounds from all along Atlanta\u2019s newest public place using their iPhone or Android device and upload them to the show\u2019s website. Once there, the sounds will be remixed into a concert by local musician Recompas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s about pausing and thinking about the sounds that make up our environment and how those sounds are special from one neighborhood to another,\u201d said Carl DiSalvo, assistant professor in the Digital Media program at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUrban Remix is a project devised by Georgia Tech professors Jason Freeman of the Center for Music Technology in the College of Architecture, Michael Nitsche of the Digital Media program in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and DiSalvo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re exploring how new media lets people participate in art in new ways,\u201d added DiSalvo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEarlier this month DiSalvo, Freeman and graduate student Stephen Garrett took Urban Remix to the City Centered Festival in San Francisco, where they brought visitors to record sounds from the city\u2019s Tenderloin neighborhood. After uploading them to the project\u2019s website, San Francisco musician Ken Ueno mixed them into a performance piece. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis weekend, they\u2019ll be taking their show to Atlanta\u2019s Art on the Beltline exhibition, an ongoing event through October, designed to entice people to experience this 22-mile loop of rail that aims to revitalize city life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a few weeks, middle school students from the Atlanta Public School district will be using Urban Remix as well as another musical iPhone app created at Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Music Technology, ZOOZBeat, at the Woodruff Arts Center.\u0026nbsp; In addition to learning how to use the sounds in their environment with Urban Remix, they\u2019ll also use ZOOZBeat to create music. In addition, they\u2019ll learn about DJ and VJ cultural practices and receive other lessons on music and listening.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThrough Urban Remix, we want to encourage people to listen to the sounds around them, to discover the hidden music in our neighborhoods, and to collaborate to shape and share that music,\u201d said Freeman.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo experience Urban Remix, visit: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/urbanremix.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/urbanremix.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo hear an Urban Remix concert from San Francisco\u2019s City Centered Festival, visit: \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/urbanremix.gatech.edu\/sites\/ur.edu\/files\/ken-ueno-remix.mp3\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/urbanremix.gatech.edu\/sites\/ur.edu\/files\/ken-ueno-remix.mp3\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo see a map of where sounds were recorded at San Francisco\u2019s City Centered Festival, visit: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/urbanremix.gatech.edu:8080\/urbanremix-webapp\/?projectid=1086\u0026amp;latitude=37.7727\u0026amp;longitude=-122.41\u0026amp;zoom=14\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/urbanremix.gatech.edu:8080\/urbanremix-webapp\/?projectid=1086\u0026amp;latitude=37.7727\u0026amp;longitude=-122.41\u0026amp;zoom=14\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EParticipants in Atlanta\u0027s Art on the Beltine will get a chance to turn everyday sounds in to music.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Participants in Atlanta\u0027s Art on the Beltine will get a chance to turn everyday sounds in to music."}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2010-06-22 18:07:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:25","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-06-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-06-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"59767":{"id":"59767","type":"image","title":"Sewer Remix","body":null,"created":"1449176227","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:57:07","changed":"1475894265","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:37:45","alt":"Sewer Remix","file":{"fid":"190985","name":"UR-CityCentered-Glide1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/UR-CityCentered-Glide1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/UR-CityCentered-Glide1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2611855,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/UR-CityCentered-Glide1_0.jpg?itok=KqkAOkHO"}},"59768":{"id":"59768","type":"image","title":"Pigeon Remix","body":null,"created":"1449176227","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:57:07","changed":"1475894265","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:37:45","alt":"Pigeon Remix","file":{"fid":"190986","name":"UR-CityCentered-Glide2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/UR-CityCentered-Glide2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/UR-CityCentered-Glide2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2948761,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/UR-CityCentered-Glide2_0.jpg?itok=H1CCiVQD"}}},"media_ids":["59767","59768"],"groups":[{"id":"1217","name":"Digital Lounge - Digital Life"}],"categories":[{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10157","name":"carl"},{"id":"121","name":"DiSalvo"},{"id":"4284","name":"freeman"},{"id":"10158","name":"jason"},{"id":"6355","name":"Michael"},{"id":"1274","name":"Nitsche"},{"id":"10156","name":"remix"},{"id":"1695","name":"Urban"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}