ExoSound is an artistic research project in the domain of electronic music which investigates the prospects of outdoor electronic musicianship. The project envisions future forms of sonic culture, where groups of participants join in to co-inhabit their local environment through shared music making on their personal mobile devices, connecting with each other, the sound and the place. The research in ExoSound aims at providing new ways of working with sound in an outdoor environment, developing and distributing mobile device apps for the sound work, as well as gathering knowledge on how mobile device music making can be a vector for social belonging, togetherness, and local bond. The research project employs three researchers, one from artistic research, one from music technology, and one from sociology. The research outputs involve artworks, open-source technological tools as well as academic outputs.

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2028