Starts:
Apr
03
2013
Performance:

A Serenade in Rome

POSTED BY: Salvatore Iaconesi | Thu Jan 3rd, 2013 12:15 p.m.
LOCATION: city of Rome

music you can't buy: you have to go there, at a specific time/date

http://www.artisopensource.net/2013/01/03/radiohead-made-a-new-record-but-you-cant-buy-it-you-have-to-go-there/

"The musical tracks are disseminated through the locations of a city, created to integrate with the city’s texture, with its daily sounds, with its atmosphere. They connect to the things that happen everyday in those places, or with things which happened in the past, in its history, maybe revealing some interesting facts or stories, or building upon them to suggest narratives and possibilities."

To listen to A Serenade in Rome you have to download an App and come to the city of Rome anytime from April 3rd 2013 (Salvatore’s birthday) to Sept. 6th 2013. And walk through the locations pointed out on the map shown in the app.

Android version coming right up.

Source code will be released under GPL in a couple of weeks on

http://www.artisopensource.net

Link:
http://www.artisopensource.net/2013/01/03/radiohead-made-a-new-record-but-you-cant-buy-it-you-have-to-go-there/

Salvatore Iaconesi (xdxd.vs.xdxd@gmail.com) works with technology in several ways. Starting out in the hacking and pirating scenes all over Europe at the beginning of the '90s, he used several digital identities to experiment in various areas: ANSI/ASCII art, software art, mxed-media. Rave parties and engineering represent the two turning points of his evolution. Through engineering he started creating projects on web and mobile technologies for both artistic and commercial purposes: games, mixed-media concepts for events and performances, location based systems, distributed systems, computer/human interaction, artificial intelligence, robotics. Through raves and rave culture he focused on the performative aspects of art. In 2004 he assembled in Rome a 3-months continuous festival of the digital arts, called Art is Open Source (AOS). Since then he has been performing mainly on the network and on performances. His recent work focuses on the theories of the virtual, extended and mixed realities, on software as art medium, on hacking and hacktivism.
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