Launch of "Our City, Our Music" this weekend!

Our City, Our Music Launch Events - Leeds 2009!

Saturday 20 June
The Party! - Official video release and live music
Doors open at 7pm – FREE @ Leeds Met Students’ Union, Civic Quarter, Calverley Street, LS1 3HE

Breaking The Illusion
Ellen & the Escapades
Cari Flower

Sunday 21 June - 11:00 – 16:00
The Tour! Music videos made by Yorkshire’s best! Shot in top secret spaces around Leeds.
Come pick up a GPS device from us and follow an interactive musical map around Leeds or join one of our walking tours departing from NTI at 12:00 and at 14:00.
@ NTI Leeds – Old Broadcasting House, 148 Woodhouse Lane, Lees, LS2 9EN

Musicians & Filmmakers featured include:

Breaking The Illusion & Patrick Garrigan

Cari Flower & Ben Waddleton

CHOPS & Ben Halsall & Dave Lynch

Ellen & the Escapades & Niki Naroz & James Rhodes

Eskimo Twins & Ben Waddleton

Gary Stewart Band & Ben Davis

Japanese Fighting Fish & Paul Emery

Superpowerless & Anna Palmujoki

TANK & Ben Waddleton & Ben Belmar

The French Defense & James Rhodes

Yonderboy & Tara Atkinson

Check out our site for more details.
http://www.OurCityOurMusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/ourcityourmusic

Location-Based Tracking Trials at Great Student Run

Today (10. May 2008, 10:30am)the Carnegie Great Student Run takes place at the Headingley Campus of Leeds Met. We have developed a simple tracking application which runs on mobile phones and allows that the position of runners (who carry their phones during the run) is automatically sent to our web server.

We have only a few participants, and we are using this to test the feasibility of a few approaches that can be empoyed in this technology field.

Check out our tracking site and monitor live the progress of a small set of runners!

Ben Dalton's MScape project shortlisted by b.tween!

Our Ben Dalton has been selected to be among the finalists for developing a pitch for his project Our Music, Our City. The competition has been organised by just-b Productions and HPLabs, where ideas have been sought for developing an "Exploding Narrative" using the location-based framework MScape. This is a software development framework which runs on Windows Mobile phones with GPS. The MScape software allows to develop location-based applications in a very easy way, linking events to actions. These actions can be playing media which are stored on the mobile device.

Congratulation, Ben!