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Domestic Sound-Scapes [Objects, Sound]

Created at the workshop with product designer and electronic music composer Yuri Suzuki, the following objects use the seemingly trite sound of a door bell as its starting point to create and suggest alternatives to the generic sound-scapes of everyday life that we often take for granted. Yuri designed the toolkit to make the door bell, which contain several actuators and plastic structure as seen in the photo below. The rest was down to the workshop attendees to make new door bells-sound machines.

What effect would a whispering or moaning doorbell have? How would we interpret bird songs or the sound of barking dogs – as visitor or host? What happens if the first impression is disturbed by an unexpected sound? Can the sound of a doorbell have an effect on the very notion of hospitality?

One day I found great kettle designed by Richard Sapper. The kettles’ beautiful sound plays the notes C and D and sounds like small locomotive. Inspired by this, I made a kettle of my own. A musical kettle, which became part of the series’ re-design sound scape’. As the kettle boils it whistles your favorite tune… I want to contribute to the design of daily domestic noises: alarms, mobile phones, a doorbell; I have the opinion that not enough thought has been given to the noises they produce. Yuri.

This workshop was the last event of Yuri’s residency at the Iaspis in Stockholm 1 Nov 2010 – 31 Jan 2011, a collaboration with Tokyo Wondersite.

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Posted on: 27/01/2011

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  • http://twitter.com/automatedchaos Alcwyn

    Does anyone know where you can buy the rapid prototyping materials used for this project? Looks like brilliant stuff for students to get to grips with modeling ideas fast!

    Thank u

  • http://www.creativeapplications.net Filip

    I would think most model shops sell acrylic like it, say 4mm thick then you can laser cut any shapes you like.