The IMP (Interactive Multimedia Playroom) will be up for exploring again from Monday Mar 2 through Saturday Mar 7—so if you missed it last year, or just want to come with friends and play some more then please sign up for a time below or contact Rosemary directly for an alternate viewing time.
Description
The Interactive Multimedia Playroom (IMP) by CIRMMT member Rosemary Mountain is an installation designed to stimulate discourse about sound and its interactions with image & movement, especially within artistic and analytical contexts.
Rosemary is working to identify people who might be interested in periodic or ongoing collaboration with this project as she establishes different nodes in Montreal, Halifax, Portugal, and elsewhere. As the project is fully customizable, it is well-suited to numerous different contexts—artistic collaboration resource, music / sound analysis, education, science and gallery exhibits, team-building, marketing, etc.
Roles could include software development - including integration of useful tagging, promotion, hosting, or simply helping with set-up and running. Anyone curious is welcome to come and talk with Rosemary during the week, subject to availabilities.
See imp-nestar.com for outlines of the project (PDFs and video), previous installations, and links to a few papers.
How to play
It’s easy—you scan a barcode and hear a short sound or see a short video or still image. Keep going till you find an example you like, or a sound/image pair. Then place it in a ‘sorting’ system—a 3-D grid, sorting racks, etc. while explaining to others why you think it belongs there. Listen to other participants as they do the same. (Sign up with up to 6 friends / colleagues / students if you wish to play with people you know.) Simple, fascinating, and challenging!
How long does it take? 5-10 minutes to grasp how the system works; 5-10 minutes to learn about future plans (& your potential for contributing); 15+ minutes to play. Want your own system? Talk to us!
Registration
Due to space and time limitations, please register by filling this excel form. An email will be sent to confirm your visit.
*Note: if you do not want to publicly share your email on the excel form, please email Rosemary with your contact details at armchair.researcher[AT]gmail[DOT]com.
Biography
CIRMMT regular member Rosemary Mountain, PhD (music/interdisciplinary) has an eclectic range of interests within music, art/music, perception of time & rhythm, etc. with a formal background in composition (acoustic & electroacoustic) and analysis.
The IMP was conceptualized by Rosemary Mountain around 2002, and her partner Harry Mountain (sculptor/researcher) imagined the physical means to realize it; various students and colleagues helped develop it into a workable model which was shown in numerous different contexts in Montreal and internationally (see booklet for details 2002 - 2012). Triggered both by the image of Grey’s timbral similarity graph and the banal but potentially intriguing ‘musical’ greeting cards, the project was a solution to various problems emerging from the PI’s interest in music analysis, particularly the lack of adequate descriptors for musical ‘textures’ and ‘gestures’ and music in multimedia contexts.