Project:

‘Musique Concrete’: Transforming Space, Sound, and the City Through Skateboarding.

In our increasingly mobile civilization, walking has been replaced by rolling. Wires have been replaced by radio signals. Consequently, the urban environment has been transformed from a public space into an intimate sphere often acting as playground for personal expression. This project examines skateboarding as a physically engaged dialogue between the individual and the city.

Exploring movement, acoustics and space, wireless sensors will trigger sound creating musical compositons The skateboarder therefore becomes a perceptual instrument which interacts both visually and acoustically within new spatial surroundings.

Objective
The primary objective is to work towards a coherent relationship between musical sound and skateboarding as a perfomative critique of architecture, social spaces and the city. Secondary objectives are to:

Demonstrate practical applications of musical movements as expressed in skateboarding as tools in performance, improvisation and composition.

Refine techniques for capturing, processing, and representing musicrelated physical movement.

Provide an audience of all ages with a different and stimulating experience of new media, skateboarding and its relationship to art.

Stimulate dialogue between the skateboarding community, the youth and the general public.

Celebrate the skateboard as a cultural object and an artistic inspiration.