This is a project that I am designing and producing to be explored in the winter of 2012. Here is more information about the site and how it will works with phones.

Here is an abstract to give you some more background about the project.

Locusono is an innovative platform through which one can experience personal stories, public events, and histories of the City of Flint. By linking a Global Positioning System (GPS) location with the story recorded on the phone, Locusono weaves the physical space where the story is recorded with the content of the story to create a more impactful and immersive experience.

Over the past five years, I have developed techniques to create an experience similar to Locusono using FM radio technology. For Locusono, I will develop a new platform for sharing audio recordings of stories that will be realized as a mobile phone application. This phone-based software would give partcipants the possibilities of posting stories on GPS coordinates to give the story a “place” as if it were a monument in a local city park or street.

The use of this application will create a valuable resource to the community for listening to and sharing stories about the City of Flint and the public history of the area. Also, it will allow people to become part of a collective body of local participants listening and sharing to learn and inform others about the local community and the rich and multi-faceted history of Flint, Michigan.

http://joereinsel.org/locusono/

If you are interested in learning more about this project please leave me a comment.