Prepare to not turn off the phone in this concert of House of Music – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

The Casa da Música in Porto, will present on 26 October in his room Suggia an unprecedented concert that only exists if people participate in it and, above all, if they use their mobile phones. There can, of course, be a simple mobile phone but an smartphone that allows you to make the download of an application that mark the tone and concert pace that will have on stage Digitópia Collective, the ensemble of the House of Music that explores digital music.

 

A concert is an experience and an adventure. No one here will look aside when picking up your phone, let alone someone get bored if not mute. In fact, the rule is same as the sound of your phone to listen. Sound, this, that mistake with percussion André Dias, saxophone Gilberto Bernandes and musical innovations of Digitópia Collective.

The initiative is the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), which wants to show how these mobile devices do not necessarily have to be disruptive objects of collective social experience, but a means of interaction with multimedia capabilities.

All you have to do to participate in this unprecedented time is free to download the application “a.bel” available Android and iOS as your smartphone. a.bel is not only the application name as the concert, inspired by Abel Salazar and Alexander Graham Bell.

“This application provides, on the one hand to artists and programmers a way to test and distribute content created for interactive media and on the other to the end user, a way to participate seamlessly in live performances, “writes in a statement Rui Penha, INESC investigator TEC, professor at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP) and one of the concert organizers. “Contrary to what happens in other shows, we want the public to keep the phone’s sound on and use it to actively act in concert. Also contrary to what is usual, we want the mobile phone is not here an element that interferes with the attention of its user, but rather to unite all stakeholders in a collective sharing of experience, “he adds.

At Lusa, the investigator explained that the concert is not yet fully prepared, lack “to understand how is that [can] give each person at the concert feeling that has actively participated in the concert, it was a musician “. For this concert, Rui Penha is working with Carlos Guedes, of New York University in Abu Dhabi, Neil Leonard, the Berklee College of Music, and José Alberto Gomes, the Digitópia. Are the four composers on the 26th will also be on stage

Main rule for the night:. The mobile phone is on but in flight mode (do not go get a call and disrupt the musical process). Will also have to respect the place that has the ticket, will be covered in the application. From there is follow the instructions and get going at pace.

Tickets for this concert, you want to mark the 30th anniversary of INESC TEC, are on sale in the usual places and cost ten euros.