At the moment, I am thinking of creating:
A device that the user can plug their headphones into, which will scan the existing radio waves in their proximity and present them in the form of sound, light, and, haptic feedback. These presentations will be mappings of the observed frequencies to tones, visible light frequencies, and haptic feedback frequency and/or intensity, respectively. While this physical feedback is being presented, there is also a sound walk audio track that will guide the user to walk around their surroundings to observe how their location changes this output. The sounds walk will allow the audience to experience the here and now, and also give them the opportunity to experience what this feedback would feel like if they were in the National Radio Quiet Zone and imagine if this was what life was like prior to the harnessing of radio waves. The audience will then also get to experience an imagined future – what will radio waves feel like in the year 2223?
Ideas for the sound walk script:
- The air all around you is complex. It has nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and a bit of carbon dioxide. It changes temperature and can carry small particles like pollen. When it’s foggy, the air changes feels denser, and is opaque.
- What is the quality of the air where you are?
Sketch of device:
Questions I’m hoping to answer in this piece:
- How do we experience an invisible phenomenon?
- How are radio waves related to WiFi?
- How do radio waves & all this data flowing around us affect us? The environment?
Questions for my meetings:
- Does this make sense?
Thanks for posting. I really enjoyed reading it, especially because it addressed my problem. It helped me a lot and I hope it will help others too.
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