Urban soundtrack- A bike bell rings the acoustic story of the city
[Introduction]
城市音軌(Urban soundtrack)透過腳踏車日常行走的路徑
以腳踏車鈴為介面 演奏出屬於每個騎士與隱藏在城市內各處聲響間的獨特音調
Urban soundtrack is a location-awareness bike bell attached on a bicycle which collects, mixes and plays sound that is associated to specific places in the city. As a sensitive bike bell, Urban soundtrack has these main features:
- It receives and collects pieces of sound from surroundings when people ride bikes around different places.
- It plays mixed music instead of ordinary bike ring while being triggered.
- It modifies and mixes the sound it has restored according to the relationship between itself and other bikes.
In this sense, the Urban soundtrack transforms a bike from the ordinary transportation tool to an musical instrument and augments people’s daily moving experience.
A place is not only a spot on the map- it is also associated to an specific context and stories. However, it is usually ignored by people in their daily life. The Urban soundtrack assigns each area within a city its own unique and representative sound which can be received by the special bicycle bell. For example, when people pass a bridge across a canal by bicycle, their bicycles will receive a piece of romantic music which can be associated to this place. In this way, a historical building, an open market and even a construction site can be more meaningful to the citizens.
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