I wrote an article on Connecting cultures through music for edition #16 of the Vodafone Receiver magazine. The main topic was ‘A Night Out’, interesting challenge and braintwister to write. This issue is covered with some excellent articles by authors like Charlie Schick, Mark Curtis, Lee Humphreys, Tim Cole, Karenza Moore, Frank Lantz, and Antony Bruno (sorry Bruno could not find your link). Definately worth a read, check out the Receiver archives too!
“This receiver issue wants to spark off some ideas about social networking the mobile way: clubbing, seeing your favourite band, sharing memories of a night out or playfully exploring the city, getting to know and experiencing, even creating, music – can mobile add to all these? And how does it affect how we get our friends together for joint action? Does it trigger emergent behaviour? Or is it the ideal means to pull it all together? What do *you* think?”
There is room for discussion on the website, needless to say it would be great to get some of your comments, thoughts and ideas on the evolution of music culture from our mobile lifestyle perspective.
The Artwork for receiver #16 is done by Zaza+Crusher, illustrations by students from the University of Duisburg-Essen (Essen, Germany).
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Excellent article in the receiver, Rudy! It’s interesting to see you form and mold all those technology advances into a vision for a lifestyle from which I seem to be quite distant. I see the technologies you describe in quite a different light, I see them how they help me in my everyday life as a restless international traveler, being in one country today, in another tomorrow. Very refreshing to see how new technology can touch different kinds of people and the way they interact. Thanks, Martin
[...] Rudy wrote an excellent article on Vodafone’s Receiver on how music will turn mobile. [...]
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Good stuff – Vodafone Receiver … its like the days of “The Feature” – could do with some RSS feeds tho (geeky but i’ll miss the new stuff otherwise)
You missed out the “return of the ghetto blaster” from your article tho – the main urban mobile music trend I see in London is kids playing music on their phones as a kind of call-sign when they’re walking along or to entertain themselves/ annoy everyone else on the top of the bus. It’s completely reversing the ipod mentality of putting on your headphones and shutting everything out.
[...] Justin Oberman’s got the 41th edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists at his MOpocket site. Good work on the editing, Justin, and congrats to Rudy de Waele for getting selected as the best post. [...]
[...] I could perfectly browse my MyStrands Mobile account, I had some problems though listening to the Real Player audio previews due to some tough operator proxy settings. I read Justin Oberman selected my Connecting Cultures through Music article as Post of the Week of his Carnival of the Mobilists #41 hosting. I’ll accept the invitation for the brownies, Paula! I also installed the Free Mobilists’ Mobile RSS Reader package so I stayed tuned on my mobilists friends’ feeds, nicely bundled. [...]
[...] You can vote for me of course, Carnival of the Mobilists #33, I previously got selected for best host of the month in the awards sponsored by Khosla Ventures for June. You can still vote for my post of the week from August in the 41th edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists of Justin Oberman at his MOpocket site. That post relates actually to the “Connecting cultures through Music” article I wrote for Vodafone Receiver. [...]
[...] Connecting Cultures Through Music From the Mobilist daddy himself, Rudy De Waele of M-Trends.org sends in an article he wrote for Vodafones Reciever Magazine in which Rudy talks beautifully and eloquently about the ways in which mobile technology makes music into a social networking phenomena the likes of which we have never seen. While Rudy’s article is meant to be about music specifically it has some real buried treasures deep inside its discourse that can be used to discuss the greater impacts that mobile technology will have on our smartmobby like existence. [Read] [...]