| I worked on the UsicUp project in 2007 with Adrien Demay, designer.
We aimed through this project to promote a sustainable and responsible consumption of digital music. Today, it’s no longer possible to make true choices through large music lists. Broadcasting models are massive. The musical diversity isn’t represented. Digital process has transformed music into an hackable product, accessible for free. Our question was : how could we use the technology as a mean to add value to music more than a mean to unrespect and uniformize it ? UsicUp is a digital service and aims to change relations between music consumers and music. It relies on attention & rarety economy. It positions robotic and collective intelligence to the service of the emergence of a new approach of music and of its broadcasting. Music files become intelligent & autonomous robots. Users become the core of the service through pick ups widgets they install on their computers or on their mobile devices. These pick ups allow them receiving & listening to music files for a limited period. They are both a welcoming platform and a player. |
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Our proposed scenario is the following :
First step – one configure one’s pick up choosing 7 tags. First 7 music tracks arrive on one’s pick up.
Second step – one can listening the music files. Depending on the listening frequency, music files stay and bloom, … or leave.
Third step – one share the 7 files created (because of his enjoyment of a specific music file) with others UsicUp members.
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