Environ Presentation 021809

Mixed Signals Environment Mini-Project Conway Liao Spring 2009 - Major Studio 2 MFA Design + Technology Parsons School of Design 18 February 2009

Concept • To develop an installation that interprets data from ordinary senses (sight and sound) and presents them by unordinary means. • Allow users to simultaneously “experience” dierent locations without having to actually be there.

Synesthesia • A condition in which normally separate senses are not separate. Sight may mingle with sound, taste with touch, etc. • The words synesthesia is a hybrid of Latin and Greek -- the Latin “syn” (together) + “esthesia”, from the Greek aisthesis (sensation or perception) • All babies are synesthetes • Can be induced by certain hallucinogenic

What Does Sound Look

Louis Bertrand Castel • Ocular Harpsichord (1725) • 60 small coloured glass panels • a curtain opened when a key was struck • His instrument “painted sound” so even a deaf listener could enjoy music

Robert Hodgin • Flight 404 • Algorithmically generates animation with sound input using Processing • Click Here

What Does an Image Sound Like?

Venetian Snares

Venetian Snares • Canadian Electronic Musician • Spectrograph (ImageSynth) Program • Analyzes and outputs sound waves (representation of sound spectrum) • Hidden images in sound • Click Here

Aphex Twin

Daito Manabe

Daito Manabe • Uses sound to control visuals • Uses sound to control various body parts • Uses body to manipulate sound • Click Here

IsoPhone Click Here

The Prototype + Experience

LONDON SAN FRANCISCO NEW YORK TOKYO Placement: Golden Gate Bridge Placement: Times Square Placement: Picadilly Circus Placement: Shibuya Pedestrian Crossing Sound: Repeative waves Sound: Pedestrian + automobile traffic Sound: Light pedestrian + automobile traffic Sound: Heavy pedestrian traffic + automobile traffic Visual: Trees swaying gently back and forth from the light wind Visual: Pedestrian + automobile traffic Visual: Bright neon lights Visual: Bright neon lights + rain reflection Colour Temp: 8000 Kelvin Colour Temp: 2500 Kelvin Colour Temp: N/A Colour Temp: N/A

LONDON SAN FRANCISCO NEW YORK TOKYO 192 BPM 228 BPM 288 BPM 96 BPM

Environ Presentation 021809

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