Architecture Ladies and Gentlemen: Audio Graffiti
posted by October 5 at 17:26 PM
onHis name is Michael Dory and he’s filling New York City with the sounds of digital crickets.
Graffiti is… nearly always visual in nature, making this experience one-dimensional. Furthermore, rarely does the work have a brain of its own, and is usually incapable of reacting to anybody observing it.
The crickets are…
… small devices that will be aware of passers-by as well as other units of their kind. Each unit consists of a sound generator, amp, speaker and sensory system, and is housed in camouflage appropriate to the streets of the city — soda cans, cigarette packs, and the like.
When approached, the crickets fall silent (as would crickets and cicadas in nature). Each are sensitive to what happens to the others, and the end result will be waves of songs, changing and adapting to their surroundings.
This idea sounds great, for now. But imagine what it’ll be like once the taggers start their turf wars…
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Yeah, put a bunch of these little battery-operated devices around... BOSTON! Get hauled into court for being an EVIL DOER. Man, this country is fucked.
Oh man. Crickets are one of man kind's only natural enemies. If I lived there I would take great joy in finding those things and smashing them. They can't get away from me like the real little bastards can.
I wonder if I could rig something to replace the chirping sounds with shouted random expletives?
Oh what a glorious song that art would sing then.
looks like a hoax device to me... OFF TO GITMO WITH YOU! AL-KADER SCUM!
Cool!
Finally some art that isn't "ooh lookit the stacked boxes, isn't it thought provoking" style bullshit. Pretty damn cool idea that actually required some effort. Though I bet people would go around snatching these things off the roads...I would. Is that a damn camera in the soda can?
Oh yes, this is absolutely the next tagging, just as soon as your average drugs-addled skate-baording enthusiast can afford "a sound generator, amp, speaker and sensory system" for every tag, instead of paying, what, $4.95 for 40 territory-emblems, if we're looking at the current premium end of that me-marking media.
Thank heavens for market forces, that's all I have to say about that.
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Closed?
Will it be open for lunch?
Yeah, this is going to end well.
Evacuations, anyone?
The two dailies in New York, Metro and AM New York, are always running articles about how NYC is losing its soul and becoming a city just for the rich. But something ingenious and cool like this guy's art makes me think New York will be just fine. Seattle's awesome too.
My mind is blown.
Great, litter as art. I can't wait for the dogshit-on-the-sidewalks installation piece.
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