Bloc Jam is a session of improvised music, collectively composed by passerbys on a busy street. For the performance, the side of UQAM’s Science Pavillion came alive with interactive projections filled with colors and moving to the rhythms of music controlled by the cell phones of the viewers. The multi-sensory experience lights up the entire side of a building, a musical score that corresponds with beats dialed in via cell phone, by anyone, and processed through a sequencer.

The large-scale public piece is the result of a collective effort, directed by Mouna Andraos & Melissa Mongiat, in collaboration with Rob Seward and Kelsey Snook.  The underlying telephone portion of the application was built by Michel Vaillancourt using an open source Ruby framework called Adhearsion.

BLOC JAM MUTEK 2010 from florian brucker on Vimeo.