Published on May 12, 2007 by admin
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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Published on June 18, 2006 by admin
夜射是在我參加2006夜市工作坊時 與小組成員共同激盪出的創意
將夜市的射氣球與影像捕捉結合 創造新型態的夜市遊樂
裝置上的輪盤 陳列著裝有不同政治人物臉孔的氣球
玩家藉由怒吼 發射出虛擬飛鏢 隨機射中某位政治人物
裝有該政治人物的氣球應聲而破 同時攝影機擷取玩家的臉
將玩家的臉裝在新補上的氣球裡取而代之
最後 玩家發洩不滿的對象 其實只會是自己
由此顯示民主政治裡 民眾必須為自己的選擇負責
否則不管再怎樣抱怨 後果都還是自己承擔
Night shoot–A shout-to-shoot game in the nightmarket
Night shoot is an interactive game which combines the feature of a blowgun and a balloon-shooting game. It consists of a projective wheel with six virtual balloons on it.
Shout to shoot, shoot to be shot
While people shout to the wheel via the microphone connected to this game, an virtual arrow will be triggered on the projective screen and shot toward the continuously rotating wheel. The flying arrow may hit one of the balloons or not according to the probability. Once one of these balloons is broken, a new balloon will be generated at the same position.
Shoot politicians, shoot yourself
Each balloon shows a picture of a famous politician in Taiwan or other countries. People can try to hit any specific balloon with the politician they dislike. Once that balloon is broken, the shooter’s picture will be capture by a camera hidden in front of him/her and be placed on the next new balloon. Sooner or later, the participant will break all the original balloons with politicians’ image, and eventually he/she will have to shoot himself/herself instead.
This shout-to-shoot game is aimed to help people who suffer from the chaotic situation of domestic politics to release their pressure. However, it also implies that people should aware their responsibilities to a better political condition in a democratic country.
[Prototype]
Hardware: webcam, microphone
Software: attention meter (provided by MIT Media Lab), Flash
[My contribution]
Idea brain storming
Flash programming (video detection and sound sensing)
Integration of hardware and software
(Team work with Sean, Carven, Tu ,Dong and Zhong)
[General info.]
June 16-18, 2006
Nightmarket 2006:Workshop on Interaction Design, Augmented Reality and Telecommunication Taipei, Taiwan
Photo: courtesy of Carven and Show