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Episode 15- The Sound of the Artificial World
Without all the beeps and chimes, without sonic feedback, all of your modern conveniences would be very hard to use. If a device and its sounds are designed correctly, it creates a special “theater of the mind” that users completely buy into. Electronic things are made to feel mechanical. It’s the feeling of movement, texture and articulation where none exists. We talk with Sound Designer Jim McKee of Earwax Productions about the art of designing organic sounds for inorganic things.
In addition to product (and film) sound design, public radioheads may know Jim McKee from his work with the Kitchen Sisters. They are both based in the Sentinel Building in San Francisco, which makes them extra fun to visit.
Protools photo by The Cowshed.
Dream Tweet
Interactive Installation
“Dream Tweet” is an interactive installation that creates a collective dreamscape of the crowds’ dreams and nightmares from the night before. Visitors at “Dream Tweet” were asked to share their dreams from the night before via twitter with hash tags to describe the characteristics of the dream. Projection mapped Tweets poured out into the “Dream Tweet Bedroom” with typefaces unique to their hash tags.
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Tristan Perich is thinking through recording and performance in interesting and striking ways with his 1-Bit Symphony.
As described on his website:
1-Bit Symphony is an electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip. Though housed in a CD jewel case, 1-Bit Symphony is not a recording in the traditional sense; it literally “performs” its music live when turned on. A complete electronic circuit—programmed by the artist and assembled by hand—plays the music through a headphone jack mounted into the case itself.
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Untitled (Pyramid II, 2010)
Pyramid II is a hybrid media sculpture which exploits the simplicity and harmony of pure geometric form, and then transcends physicality to become an incandescent prism of refracted space. While the sculptural formalism draws from Pythagorean tenants of pure symmetry, the manipulation of light and color puncture this thin membrane of dull matter. A hypnotic simultaneity takes over, leaving the viewer hovering at the threshold of the limited and the limitless.
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DaDa Box by Jifei Ou
An interactive storytelling object.
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Fine Collection of Curious Sound Objects
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What happens if products that were proposed as a relief against social isolation begin to become the solution? How will this affect human to human interactions? What will these products look like, or more important how will they behave?
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