Mobile Music Making with Sonic City

Sonic City is a wearable system in which the urban environment acts as an interface for real-time electronic music making; the user creates music dynamically by walking through a city. The system senses the user's activities and the surrounding context, and maps this information in real time to the processing of urban sounds that are collected with a microphone. This video shows participants of a short-term study using our prototype in everyday settings. The actual music created with the system is heard together with users' comments. The Sonic City project illustrates how ubiquitous and wearable computing can enable new types of applications that encourage everyday creativity