Interactivity has become ambient. Individual people are no longer isolated resulting from the scaling up of networks and the scaling down of the apparatus for transmission and reception. Various communication devices always carried are continuously emitting and receiving information. This continuous data flow is both invisible and often, by the majority of people, unknown. Today’s hand-held devices can be seen as extensions of the human body allow ubiquitous, inescapable network interconnectivity.
The ‘Sonification of You’ aims to make this data flow ‘visible’ to those people carrying the active devices. Our equipment will passively scan the various radio spectrum frequencies used by mobile phone devices, Bluetooth, WiFi networks, and others used by mobile devices, within a given space. The data information then represented by assigned audio sounds that will indicate activity, distance, and strength of signals.
Drawing on methods for monitoring large computer networks, the result is to create a background ‘sound’ for a space that is representational of the people, and their devices, present.
The invisible become audible and therefore visible. Allowing individuals to become aware of their constant connectivity.
The ‘Sonification of You’ aims to make this data flow ‘visible’ to those people carrying the active devices. Our equipment will passively scan the various radio spectrum frequencies used by mobile phone devices, Bluetooth, WiFi networks, and others used by mobile devices, within a given space. The data information then represented by assigned audio sounds that will indicate activity, distance, and strength of signals.
Drawing on methods for monitoring large computer networks, the result is to create a background ‘sound’ for a space that is representational of the people, and their devices, present.
The invisible become audible and therefore visible. Allowing individuals to become aware of their constant connectivity.
Installations:
FRAMED, Slade Research Centre, London, March 2006
Paraflows Annual Convention for Digital Arts and Cultures, Viennia, Austria, September 2006
Radio Tower XChange (RTX), April 2007
PixxelPoint, Nova Gorcia, Slovenia, December 2007
Netaudio'08, Shunt, London, October 2008
FRAMED, Slade Research Centre, London, March 2006
Paraflows Annual Convention for Digital Arts and Cultures, Viennia, Austria, September 2006
Radio Tower XChange (RTX), April 2007
PixxelPoint, Nova Gorcia, Slovenia, December 2007
Netaudio'08, Shunt, London, October 2008
Research & development conducted with Michael Rogers (UCL Computer Science)
Possible with the support of UCL Information System's Remote Support Team.
Also see: Symphony of the Factory Sirens, Arseny Avraamov