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| The Secret Hole | ||
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| Author(s): | Sawako Kato |  |
| Instructor: | O'Sullivan, Dan Moeslinger, Sigi |
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| Class: | Networked Expression Designing for the Five Senses |
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| URL: | http://www.troncolon.com/ITP/DF5S/5SFinal2/index.html | |
| Documents: | (JPEG) | |
| Keywords: | bone conduction, tactile, sound art, mobile phone | |
| The sound art work using the bone conduction sound technology. The Secret Hole is the confession room and the regend of the digital world. | ||
| The Secret Hole is the confession room. The Secret Hole is the legend of the digital world. The Secret Hole is the sound art work using the bone conduction technology. The work is inspired by the chinese traditional story about the hole of secret : A woman whispers her secret into a hole and then fills the hole with mud so that the secret will remain unrevealed. In The Secret Hole, people send their secret by telephones, then, the audiences listen the eternal loop of layers of distorted secrets putting their skulls on the installation. CALL HERE and LEAVE YOUR SECRET ! 917-591-9207 | ||
| Background: | This work is inspired by the chinese old traditional story about the hole of secret : A woman whispers her secret into a hole and then fills the hole with mud so that the secret will remain unrevealed. The episode was used in Kar Wai Wong's cinema "2046." The bone-conduction technology is used for person with hard hearing, noisy situations and under the water. Usually we listen the sound as the vibration of air transmission, but with the bone-conduction devices, the sound wave is transmitted through the bone. The physical contact with the device is required to listen the sound. With the bone-conduction technology, the feeling of experience of listening becomes different. | |
| Audience: | everyone | |
| User Scenario: | In "the secret hole," people can send their secret by the mobile phone. The voice messages are processed by Max/Msp. Then, at the installation, the audiences can listen the distorted secret when they put on their ears or skull on the installation. When the audience put their head on the art work, they can listen the sound. The harmony of the sound and the tactile sensation makes the new way of story telling. | |
| Technical System Description: | - bone conduction speakers - material for tactile sensation - max/msp/mxj and java | |
| Project References, Research and Literature: | an article about the bone-conduction technology on the wired news http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64963,00.html "headphone table" by Laurie Anderson in 1978 http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog/2005/01/11/design-handphone-table/ the body as a sound installation http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/002341.php "oto makura" (the bone conduction sound pillow) http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/gadgetbuzz/0,39041749,39210110,00.htm | |
| Conclusions: | The work create the new path for the application of the bone conduction technology and gives the audience the new way of listening sound with the tactile sensation. | |