Comments: i walk around w/ speakers on my back
Hmmm, very interesting solution for now.
BTW, a link to Maryanne Amacher's IMMERSIVE AURAL ARCHITECTURES work (the composer I mentioned today:
http://www.kaiserworks.com/amacher/
and a (very large) pdf about her work on our server:
Download file
Posted by sfisher at January 27, 2004 6:41 PM
Oops, that pdf link was:
http://interactive.usc.edu/archives/Maryanne Amacher.pdf
Posted by sfisher at January 27, 2004 6:42 PM
There is a backpack made by Jansport which was written up in WIRED a few months ago. It had HI-FI speakers in the side pockets, so you could play tunes on hikes with your friends...for the enjoyment of all. Look into it, it may be an answer to your problem.
But then the problem could become volume...how many people would you want to hear you while performing...10, 100, 1000 and so on?
Posted by Samuel McMullen at January 30, 2004 4:36 AM
I like this idea very much and would love to work on this. I think you hit on somthing interesting when you said, "if i just sit there, can the sound fade slowly out?" I find that this is probably the most intrigueing/gripping way of getting someone interested in a public media related piece of work/art. If the user is challenged to figure out the source and the cause, then loses it with the puzzlement, starts it back up with their movement, they are are all the more intrigued/agitated to learn more.
A note about the space, as it sounds now, I think this should be done on campus and definitely NOT in the Z center. Disturbances can be an issue, especially with classes and the variety of students moving in and out of spaces deemed "quiet" or "un-interruptable".
Oh, and I hate to pop your mobile-geek answer to the ghetto-blaster, but there is a dude that walks...no, sorry...skates along Venice beach with speakers strapped to his back as he plays the guitar. Check it out sometime.
Posted by Mike at February 1, 2004 11:05 PM