Headphone Space
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HEADPHONE SPACE
Modified headphones explore a sensory relationship between private and public space mediated by an object.
Headphone Mediation
Mediating technologies play a unique role in the space between our conscious and unconscious activities, affecting the information we may or may not perceive, process, and interpret in our daily lives.
More than simply observe or bridge context, these technologies filter context, skewing our sensory relationship with the physical world. Headphones, for example, skew sound.
Listening to music through headphones, we cancel out the sounds of the people talking and traffic whistling, choosing to exist in a silent cinematic world narrated only by our selected, personal soundscape.
We are challenged not only with new ways of hearing, but new ways of interpreting sound. New meanings emerge from the hyper-real contexts these mediating technologies manifest.
Headphone Recorder:
Headphones that allow the user to record the external sounds missed while listening to internal music.
Headphone Mixer:
Headphones that allow the user to mix volume levels of the external and internal sounds to create a sonic blend of private/public auditory space.
Headphone Heterotopia:
Two headphones that invert and displace the spatial relationships of two users by capturing the external sound space of their environment and amplifying it as the internal sound space of the other.
Headphones are built by discreetly modifying the circuitry of pre-existing, commercial headphones.
Current developments include Multiuser Headphones, Phonehead Headphones, I Need You Headphones, Performance Headphones, and Poetry Headphones.