On Friday 6th October the Post CS parking space in Amsterdam will be turned into a drive-in concert hall. The transmission of the gig will be reinforced by tuning your own car radio.

Each car stereo in the parking space will receive only one part of the live sound, as drums, guitar and vocals will each have their own radio frequency. Participating car owners will assume the role of musician, producer and sound technician.

Alongside participating cars, artists Sasker Scheerder and Aux Raus will be assited by several boomcars, made to deliver the most sound and deepest bass possible outdoors.

Organised by Mediamatic of course!

Talking about vehicles and music, check also Music for Public Rail, a sound piece designed by Benjamin Chaffee for downloading and listening on personal headphones while riding the MTA L line in New York.

The soundtrack is made up of ambient noises recorded from several rides on the train. The frequencies were then isolated and common themes that occured throughout the recordings at specific moments during the ride were discovered and mixed into a new ambient soundtrack.

The work creates a new interaction between the world behind the headphones and the world the rider is physically inside, proposing another way to listen. Apart from re-designing our exterior world, how can we change our experience through adjusting the way we attend to it? How can we change our environment through the way we perceive it?

Details found at fergus the squirrel. Image from Conflux’s website. Thanks Phillip!

Related: LocoSound, a work in progress that aims to synchronize an FM audio experience with the landscape viewed from a train window; headphones that turn urban noise into music.