undersound

undersound is a new type of experience, an interface that is on your mobile phone and in the underground stations you pass through every day. [via we-make-money-not-art.com]

undersound will be spatially distributed at individual stations and throughout the wider tube network. You can add music to the system at upload points in the ticket halls, and you can download tracks on the platforms.

Each track in the undersound system will be tagged with its place of origin (the station where it was uploaded) and this information is visible as the track is being played. This may trigger memories and musings around your personal relationship to that place.

While in the carriages of the tube, you can browse undersound music of other people in range.

Because the system will be gathering metadata on the stations where the track has been (via uploading/downloading at the transfer points) and thus its spread within the network, the time it has been in the system, the number of times it has been played, the number of people who have played it, and so on, you will be able to see this information when you look at other people's music.

You can browse through other's tracks anonymously, but if you decide to download a song from someone else an alert will be triggered on their phone letting them know that you are grabbing one of their tracks.

emily | 8:28 AM | P2P for mobile phones |
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