How to leverage wireless networks and urban mobility to create participative music remixes? Can these new ways to listen in community lead to entirely new forms of music ?

These are the questions Atau Tanaka tries to answer at Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris.

“Malleable Mobile Music takes social dynamic and mobility as inputs to a streaming music re-mix engine. The work extends on simple peer-to-peer file sharing systems towards ad-hoc mobility and social computing. It extends music listening from a passive act to a proactive, participative activity. The system consists of a network based interactive music engine and a mobile rendering player. It serves as a platform for experiments on studying the sense of agency in collaborative creative process, and requirements for fostering musical satisfaction in remote collaboration. Urban mobility of communities of users create a ‘social re-mix.’”