Make a story/soundscape for a certain route or locations around Midi Station – Cureghem area .

Produce a sound epic project for TodaysArt Brussels Festival: Make use of Audio (and the fact that it is bound to GPS locations).

Shoudio is the Location Based Audio Platform. It is Twitpic but for audio. And GPS bound.

Shoudio is in beta and every day there are new features appearing. Via this app and site, widgets and podcast feeds users and visitors can share and play audiofiles. All audio on Shoudio is bound to the GPS location of recording, combined together they form a virtual hidden, but noisy, dimension around us.

By attaching every recording to it’s physical place, the content popups whenever some user is in the neigborhood and tunes into nearby sounds. Or when he/she scans a QR code. Shoudio is available for iPhone and Android and our site and codes are scannable and playable by all major smartphones out there (Blackberry/Nokia/ iPhone)

Currently Shoudio invite various Location Based Audio projects from across the world, many originated from Universities. Recently NYC’s Soundseeker project and Manchester’s SoundAroundYou were added. At the Oerol festival Shoudio made a radio-map together with visitors, media and other professionals. As well as on Awakenings, Appelsap festival, Lowlands and PICNIC festival…

More information:

Shoudio is the location based audio network.

Use the app and site to share audio snippets on the map and leave it there for others to hear. Explore and enrich the hidden auditive dimension in your city.

Shoudio is being used to publish location based audio recordings ranging from audioguides from Amsterdam to backyard spring whistly sounds, from motorbike engines to streetmusicians in Venice and from church prayers to intimate music performances.

Join Shoudio project on MyCityLab Community

Shoudio is currently for free (registration required) as an iPhone app.

Articles:
Shoudio: Share what you hear, show where you heard it

Shoudio for iPhone: Share Location-based Recordings With Your Friends

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Sometimes one gets the funny idea that a certain trend is gathering memento. One thinks about it and presents the notion to a couple of friends. Given the opportunity, one writes an article about it. And then one organizes it as a proposal for a potential exhibition that will allow for further research.

With the notion of Performance Architecture most of these steps took place around 2006. My first article on it came out in a student archizine in 2007. The “exhibition” was first suggested to Mirko Zardini at the CCA, just before the 2008 finantial crash put an halt to all the institution’s external projects. And then it was again proposed to Laboral, and the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, and the Barbican. However, it seemed to be too soon* to all of them.

Finally, a few weeks ago I’ve signed the contract that signals the idea found its first partners at the Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture. As such an international competition is to be launched in October for five ephemeral interventions in the Portuguese “cradle city.” Look forward to it.

At the same time, events coincidentally started to pop-up across Europe suggesting that the unexpected relationship between Performance Art and Architecture is now something to watch for.

In fact, while Madrid-based Ariadna Cantis curated an event along similar lines in 2009, it seems that it is only this year that the notion is being more amply recognized and debated – when some of its noteworthy protagonists have reached already more than a decade of consistent urban interventions .

After the unexpected, yet historical and festive gathering of some relevant protagonists of this tendency at the disPlace conference, as organized by Dédalo magazine in Porto, new conference events around the theme will now take place in Den Hague and Brussels, at the TodaysArt Festival, and later this year again in Madrid, at the IV Encuentro Internacional El Arte Es Acción.

It might take a few years for certain tendencies to become clear. But when they do, they do. Or they will. Specially when they are coming from the streets. And this is not a bonfire of vanities. It is a matter of both emergency and urgency.

Via shrapnel contemporary