A sonic walking experiment

As a first experiment for an initial exploration about space as interface but also non-linear narratives I’ve decide to prototype a sound walk using Raymond Quenau Hundred Thousand Billion Poems a book in which he proposes sonnets which lines can be mixed in many ways creating multiple poems.

Pin on Oulipo

For doing this I made a project in Echoes an app which allows to geolocate audio for creating auditive walks, and then use a mobile app for interacting with them.

The sound walk was made in a park in Mexico city , it is a small park which I go often. Within the  park I placed sounds corresponding to the line of sonnet inside the Quenau book, they are organized for walking through the park in a linear way with a degree of freedom for choosing between 2 or 3 options for each of the 14 lines a sonnet structurally have. This opens the possibility for walking the park in many ways hearing a different poem each time.

Sonnet lines were extracted from the book using an online version from it, generating random options for each one

Conversion from text to speech was made using a free web tool.

Finally I’ve tested the walk with help from my girlfriend.

My Cornell box

It contains:

-Wood puzzle

-Pin

-Mini harp

-Some crazy geometry coin

-Musical glove toy

-Business card from my actual job

.ITP Camp sticket

-Pinecone

-Notebook from Transitio

-Guitar pick

-2 dices

-Pawn

-Arduino

Possible persons in my topics

–Luisa Pereira (Music interfaces)

-R Luke Dubois (Generative composition)

-Michael Breidenbruecker (RJDJ augmented audio)

-Ken Perlin (Future interfaces)

-Janet Cardiff (Sound walk)

-Yotam Mann (AI music)

-Rafael Lozano Hemmer (Relational architecture)