Benjamin Louis Mawson (http://benjaminmawson.com/):
Composer & Virtual Performance Developer working at Southampton area with noTours and geolocated technologies.
Interview on Xan Philips’ “South by Southampton”, Voice103.9 FM     25.08.2012
Audio Portrait of Southampton
Private preview, October 2012: Southampton Common.
 
Listen Here to the Interview
 

Come and see us at the Creative Digifest, Friday 18 May 2012
University of Southampton, Highfield Campus

A combination of sounds – composed and distributed virtually around a place – with GPS data about the listener’s location and movement recreate the music in a unique way for each listener.
noTours can be been used in diverse ways to augment and shift the way we hear the sounds of a place. You can leave messages, tell stories about the surroundings or – as composer Ben Mawson has done – build a musical composition invisibly into a landscape.

A combination of different projects brought us to Barcelona.

I was invited to play in a mini tour with Madame Humtata, Horacio found a cheap flight from Santiago, Giga Circus took their van and drove eight hours from France, Helena Torres had time to contribute, and even more Luca surprised us attending to the workshop. We are becoming a small family. Pedro Soler was not physically there but was always around in the atmosphere. Pedro is not only friend, but a contributer, mentor…

Video documenting the works composed by NOVARS artists for the project “cities@Manchester” on an interview to Enrique Tomás and Ricardo Climent.