The keys in the front door, the scribbling of a pencil, the bubbling of the coffee pot. These elements of our everyday soundtrack hold meaning for all of us, so we programmed these familiar objects to move to the rhythm of our global impact.
With our students of the Master’s program in Data and Design that we co-teach in Barcelona, we took part in an experiment to see how our everyday soundscape can connect us with overwhelming data that we couldn’t possibly comprehend otherwise.
The goal was to capture our manic contemporaneity through movement and create a space where global data can be heard, experienced, and shared as it is compressed into just one minute – we wanted to see what we could learn about our own contemporary moment of acceleration, by focusing on everyday sounds.
The result was an exhibition composed of several objects transformed into sound artifacts.
We experimented with the acoustic properties of the object (percussion, vibration, turning it on and off…) and the stimulation capabilities of an actuator (motors, solenoids, relays, etc.). The point was to not use speakers, spatial audio, or any kind of digital intervention, but rather rely on the placement of objects in the space relative to the viewer. In this way, we aimed to preserve the analog phenomenon throughout the process, knocking down any and every intermediary between the sounding object and the viewer.
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