Rock N' Scroll is a software infrastructure for interventions into wifi-equipped public space.

Mobile wireless computing is usually a rather immobile affair: people working on laptop computers commonly stare transfixedly at the device's screen, typing, and occasionally clicking the mouse: computer work does not usually require much physical involvement.

Imagine walking into a coffee shop or another semi-public wifi-equipped place where people normally congregate quietly with their laptops: instead of working unbudgingly on their computers, they are shaking their office equipment and wildly tapping their cell phones. Joysticks and old mechanical mice serve as maracca-type rhythmic instruments or optical mice are used for DJ-like scratching motions, manipulated using fancier gyro mice, computer keyboards used as drumkits. Both mobile phones and computers are connected using Skype voice-over-IP telephony (VOIP) software. This creates delay effects depending on how good the network connection is. The sound itself is a combination of standard macintosh and windows sounds, as well as sounds that included in the Skype software, and pre-made drumloops. more >>