This is a rough and ready demo video of the app I made for the 2015 Conference on World Affairs (http://www.colorado.edu/cwa/). It's shot in the building where my studio is at the University of Edinburgh. Start the app, adjust volume settings and hit start. Walking provokes changes in the music and triggers a range of excitation on audio files from the CWA archive. Standing or sitting still tends to stablise things. The best way to experience this piece is to set yourself off on a journey that doesn't have to get you somewhere. As listener, you are to some extent, in control of the form and time-span of the piece. Get tired of what's going on, move, enjoying what you're hearing, try to stand still. You don't have to dance, or move in a special way, just start the piece and put the phone or tablet in your handbag or pocket and walk. You may find interest in the piece for up to 5 minutes, though some have spent much longer with it. Different panels from the CWA archive have been captured and placed loosely on a compass, your heading will set what you focus on, but it's intentional that you'll hear plenty of overlap between speeches. You're not expected to get a sense that this piece is necessarily 'about' anything. Panels that could have mobile-phone related themes have been sampled. Valerie Plame Wilson's session on spying for the CIA is juxtaposed against Tom Imboya talking about Africa's nationhood. Questions about the future of art may crop up against panels where the role and responsibility of the media is challenged. To me these ideas resonate with the contemporary smart phone, alluding to commercial mining exploitation in Congo necessary to source the raw materials that allow smart phones to work and perhaps reminding us that, post-Snowden, your smart phone is the ideal device for corporations, colleagues and governments to spy on you. Musically I have tried to reflect the vibrant noise of the conference itself. The piece is jittery and crowded but burns itself out after around 10 minutes, when it's a good idea to quit the app and start it again (if you want to listen to more). A final note is that this is an experimental project and I hope you enjoy it as such. Contact me to get a copy. Android only for now, iOS is in development and will be ready soon. CREDITS: journeyMan was developed by in 2015 by Martin Parker and implements some spatialisation and app-based technologies by University of Edinburgh startup Two Big Ears (http://twobigears.com). journeyMan's initial development was funded by a small projects grant from the the Development and Alumni office at the University of Edinburgh. The technology concept behind the archive searches that made this possible was conceived by Ramsay Thurber and further developed by a consortium of Boulder, Colorado technologist Wyndham Hannaway, CWA Director of Public Affairs Maura Clare, University of Colorado Archives Director Bruce Montgomery, Sébastien Charrot of SAS Research and Development Scotland's Advance Technology Team and University of Edinburgh spin-out Quorate Technology (quoratetechnology.com) who provided automated speech recognized transcripts.