Urban sound experience

Posted Feb 29th 2008 9:18PM by Will O'Brien
Filed under: misc hacks

[Christiane] sent in a project prepared at the University of Applied Sciences in Würzburg/Germany. The idea is to experience urban sounds at various heights in a variety of cities. As feet are detected on a step, the experience changes to simulate an increase in altitude. A pair of surround sound headphones, some proximity sensors, an Arduino and instantaudio make everything work.

Reader Comments

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1. this is the weirdest thing I've seen all week .

Posted at 12:50AM on Mar 1st 2008 by Ray

2. Hell yeah :D

Posted at 6:55AM on Mar 1st 2008 by Christian

3. thats an art installation

artists have been experimenting and inventing things forever. art is deeply entwined with the hacker ethic!

Posted at 9:05AM on Mar 1st 2008 by geek

4. the thing about art is that you cant really say something negative no matter how inconsequential the work is, or you'll get snubbed by an army of led throwie wielding gents out to make a statement.

Posted at 12:12PM on Mar 1st 2008 by jeff

5. I don't particularly like cities, but this is an interesting concept.

Posted at 1:16PM on Mar 1st 2008 by BigD145

6. This would be interesting combined with that 3D audio recording concept - I recall hearing a very 3D sounding matchbox. Anyone remember what I'm talking about?

Posted at 9:26PM on Mar 1st 2008 by Skysat

7. I have to wonder if hearing a city from different distances is all that interesting, but it's an interesting concept none the less. I would like to throw those headphones on for a test run...

Posted at 10:14AM on Mar 3rd 2008 by a.ntivir.us

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