| ‘Is that it?’ ‘No – there’s MORE ‘this soundworld is INDIVIDUAL’ ‘we are staging three seminar concerts in Belfast, Poole and Bristol’ ‘to make the individual COMMUNAL’ ‘your iPhone will track your individual route thru’ the soundscape. You can then, if you wish, upload your unique symphony to the SATSYTMPH website’ ‘at the concerts we will take selected user-created symphonies and have them played by the very best of contemporary musicians’ ‘and WE will talk about the technology, and YOU can talk about the technology’ ‘and the music’ ‘and the poetry’ ‘and the future’ ‘SATSYMPH' |
| ‘the virtual auditorium is layered with pools ('regions') of intricately worked sound’ ‘these regions are invested with multiple, complex behaviours to create an immersive sound world’ ‘when you are wandering around your REAL open-air space in your VIRTUAL auditorium these regions are satellite triggered by your POSITION’ ‘so what you hear depends on WHERE you are!’ |
| ‘SATSYMPH is not just A PERFORMANCE’ ‘It’s a completely new way of creating’ ‘and experiencing music and poetry' 'SATSYMPH composes with MUSIC' 'POETRY' 'and LANDSCAPE' ‘the music and words are digitally modulised’ ‘and mapped onto a virtual landscape’ ‘YOU layer this VIRTUAL soundscape over your chosen REAL landscape anywhere in the world by opening the SATSYMPH app on your iPhone’ ‘this unrolls a vast open-air virtual auditorium which you wander around in, sampling any part of the whole experience by your position within it’ |
SATSYMPH
A SATELLITE SYMPHONY
| Marc Yeats (composer), Ralph Hoyte (poet) & Phill Phelps (coder) |
| ‘You see, this is VIRTUAL but also PHYSICAL’ ‘the music, the poetry, the fusion, is not just in your head, it's under a tree, next to a river, at the top of the hill’ ‘GO FIND IT!’ |
| ‘this is a paradigm shift in how music is CREATED and how it is EXPERIENCED’ ‘we, the authors, compose, modularise and programme the highest quality original music and poetry’ ‘but YOU determine HOW you hear it!’ ‘each and every SATSYMPH experience is UNIQUE’ ‘bye bye to sitting in a concert hall listening to something someone else wants you to listen to’ ‘you are totally immersed in a musical universe, creating your own experience depending on your physical position –‘ |
PERVASIVE MEDIA
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
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SATSYMPH, a ‘satellite symphony’ using context-aware media is one of the five entries in the running to
win the ambitious PRS for Music Foundation New Music Award. SATSYMPH, a collaboration between
South West-based composer and artist Marc Yeats, poet (and concept-originator) Ralph Hoyte and
coder Phill Phelps, is a multi-facetted contemporary music and contemporary poetry sound world
triggered by satellites depending on the direction in which the user moves. The piece allows people to
create their own contemporary symphonic experience through an iPhone app.
The New Music Award’s prize money of £50,000 makes it financially more significant than both the
Mercury and Turner Prizes and underlines the PRS for Music Foundation’s long-standing commitment
to stimulating the creation of new music across all genres. As well as offering vital financial support to
new music creators, performers, promoters, producers and organisations, the PRS for Music
Foundation challenges established views about creative music-making in the UK and works to raise the
profile of music innovators.
This year’s judging panel includes artist Martin Creed, composer and pianist Michael Finnissy, pianist
and conductor Joanna MacGregor, and music journalist Paul Morley. The panel will be responsible for
choosing a winner from amongst the five new musical ideas which will be announced on 16 Sep 2010.
For the first time this year, the public will be able to watch films about the shortlisted entries and vote
for their favourite idea to be developed and realised by the end of 2011. (The public vote counts as
one judge.) The SATSYMPH team consider that a win will give context-aware media another boost to
really push this technology over the threshold to wide public interest and acceptance.
Marc Yeats, Ralph Hoyte and Phill Phelps said: "What is music? What is poetry? It's hard to believe that
we are now so close to realising SATSYMPH. We feel as if we are riding the crest of a technological
wave that will create a totally new paradigm of what music and word-music fusions are, how they are
created and how they are experienced. SATSYMPH offers that rare opportunity to move one's work into
a new arena - to the next level of innovation. We can't wait to get cracking.”
TO VOTE FOR SATSYMPH follow the links above, or click HERE
Please note: If you do not wish to vote online, an alternative voting system via mobile phone texting will
be up from 12 July.
According to Sally Taylor, Chair of the PRS for Music Foundation, this year’s shortlist is arguably the
boldest and most exciting yet. Just as the Turner Prize makes people talk about art, we hope that this
year’s New Music Award will stimulate debate and draw attention to the wide range of creators who are
pushing the boundaries of new music in the UK, Taylor explains.
Previous winners of the award are The Fragmented Orchestra in 2008 and Score for a Hole in the
Ground in 2005 by former Pogue Jem Finer.
win the ambitious PRS for Music Foundation New Music Award. SATSYMPH, a collaboration between
South West-based composer and artist Marc Yeats, poet (and concept-originator) Ralph Hoyte and
coder Phill Phelps, is a multi-facetted contemporary music and contemporary poetry sound world
triggered by satellites depending on the direction in which the user moves. The piece allows people to
create their own contemporary symphonic experience through an iPhone app.
The New Music Award’s prize money of £50,000 makes it financially more significant than both the
Mercury and Turner Prizes and underlines the PRS for Music Foundation’s long-standing commitment
to stimulating the creation of new music across all genres. As well as offering vital financial support to
new music creators, performers, promoters, producers and organisations, the PRS for Music
Foundation challenges established views about creative music-making in the UK and works to raise the
profile of music innovators.
This year’s judging panel includes artist Martin Creed, composer and pianist Michael Finnissy, pianist
and conductor Joanna MacGregor, and music journalist Paul Morley. The panel will be responsible for
choosing a winner from amongst the five new musical ideas which will be announced on 16 Sep 2010.
For the first time this year, the public will be able to watch films about the shortlisted entries and vote
for their favourite idea to be developed and realised by the end of 2011. (The public vote counts as
one judge.) The SATSYMPH team consider that a win will give context-aware media another boost to
really push this technology over the threshold to wide public interest and acceptance.
Marc Yeats, Ralph Hoyte and Phill Phelps said: "What is music? What is poetry? It's hard to believe that
we are now so close to realising SATSYMPH. We feel as if we are riding the crest of a technological
wave that will create a totally new paradigm of what music and word-music fusions are, how they are
created and how they are experienced. SATSYMPH offers that rare opportunity to move one's work into
a new arena - to the next level of innovation. We can't wait to get cracking.”
TO VOTE FOR SATSYMPH follow the links above, or click HERE
Please note: If you do not wish to vote online, an alternative voting system via mobile phone texting will
be up from 12 July.
According to Sally Taylor, Chair of the PRS for Music Foundation, this year’s shortlist is arguably the
boldest and most exciting yet. Just as the Turner Prize makes people talk about art, we hope that this
year’s New Music Award will stimulate debate and draw attention to the wide range of creators who are
pushing the boundaries of new music in the UK, Taylor explains.
Previous winners of the award are The Fragmented Orchestra in 2008 and Score for a Hole in the
Ground in 2005 by former Pogue Jem Finer.
Is this the most pioneering music in the
UK? Should this idea win £50,000? Have
your say. Vote now. This video is one of
the 5 PRSF New Music Award 2010
finalist videos. To cast your vote for
SATSYMPH visit PRS Foundation New
Music Award
Or view all 5 contestants at short-list
UK? Should this idea win £50,000? Have
your say. Vote now. This video is one of
the 5 PRSF New Music Award 2010
finalist videos. To cast your vote for
SATSYMPH visit PRS Foundation New
Music Award
Or view all 5 contestants at short-list
Further Information
Join the SATSYMPH Facebook group HERE (ffi: discussion threads), double-click on the video to watch
on YouTube and take part in the YouTube discussion or TEXT '5' TO 70099 to text-vote
on YouTube and take part in the YouTube discussion or TEXT '5' TO 70099 to text-vote
And how exactly does SATSYMPH work???
The authors
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