Skateboard Synth is an interactive skateboard installation with Nintendo music. The installation plays Game Boy music when sensors on a ramp is activated by passing skateboards and rollerblades.







OctaBuddy is an octopus-shaped, interactive sound installation which four students from the Medialogy at Aalborg University Copenhagen have made. Octabuddy plays from loudspeakers in the body when the audience lifts its arms. The more arms are raised, the louder it plays.





Twistencer is an interactive, music-playing twister game. The audience hears the feedback when they move around on the big twister board. When many participants work together, music plays.

Roskilde Innovation

Story Field was at the Roskilde Festival 2010 for filming and evaluating 10 innovative projects for Roskilde Festival’s development group.

Story Field filmed all the projects, observed and interviewed festival guests about their experiences and their suggestions for improvements. Project organizers were also given pocket video cameras and filmed themselves how their projects progress. All videos are shared on Roskilde innovationssitet. Here, project organizers, spectators and others can share films and experiences related to the projects. Thus the evaluations themselves live and unfold online where everyone can give their views, and the development team has easy access to monitor and display projects.

Until now the festival’s various projects were evaluated through written reports, but this year video evaluation to document and convey moods and details were tested. The videos gives a more vivid insight than text and can be used for evaluation and development of next year’s festival.

Among the projects were, for example OctaBuddy, an octopus-shaped, interactive sound installation created by four students from the Medialogy study at Aalborg University Copenhagen. Octabuddy plays from loudspeakers in the body when the audience lifts its arms. The moreraised his arms, the more and more plays.
Audio Trashcan is a loud, interactive dustbin that detects when something is thrown into it, and in return gives one of 100 different sounds from applause to burp. Audio Trashcan hav also been tested in Nyhavn in Copenhagen, but the circumstances and amount of garbage is a bit different at a festival.
Another entertaining installation was Twistencer, an interactive, music-playing twister game. The audience was given sound feedback when they moved around on the big twister board. When many participants work together, music plays. However, many challenges arose for the installations at the Roskilde Festival, and organizers had much input on how to develop their projects, to make them more robust and userfriendly.
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