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This paper updates an earlier review of “Seattle Band Map” with real time information on the development and evolution of the analogue-to-digital represeantation of the cultural and musical life of Seattle. Seattle Band Map is a real time, “crowd-sourced” map of the relationships and interrelationships between musician and bands in Seattle and outlying areas. Initially emerging from analogue, “back-of-an-envelope” exercises, through to a fully formed, Council-funded art installation, the map was established as a fully interactive website in February 2011(http://www.seattlebandmap.com/). The conception and development of the project will be described in detail, and the its subsequent evolution is considered not only geographically, but also contextually. Musical collaborations are common, but there are similar, regionally-embedded networks of relationships within, for example, design, art, film and electronic games. These relationships also touch upon musical collaborations and activities at a variety of points. The paper will therefore consider how the project might expand to cover other forms of individual and collaborative artistic and cultural expressions. Through co-presentation with the creator, and her narrative around the history and current activities of her funders, collaborators, and members of the city’s council the preesntation of this paper reveals how this technologically-mediated project adds a rich layer of understanding of the city’s artistic and cultural communities. It illustrates how the website not only reflects current linkages between individuals and communities, but also how it is supporting the creation of new communities in the musical life of the city, across a wide variety of musical genres from marginal to major. The expansion of the map to other geographic and sescor based areas is also described. The theoretical foundations of the paper lie in Granovetter’s 1975 seminal concept of ‘The Strength of Weak Ties’ as well as the author’s own doctoral work on the changing nature of value frameworks in the music industry
Author(s): Berry J
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: Connected Communities
Year of Conference: 2011
