Whispers is about exploring how to transform a static building into a dynamic space, by integrating music and architecture. People’s presence in space and their movements and interactions with the space can lead to the creation of both individualized experiences with the sound as well as a collected representation of the sounds. This offers unique ways to capture occupants presence as they make their way through a building. When walking alongside the colonnade in the Storrs Salon, occupants can begin to hear “whispers” of low volumed sounds responding to their presence. Here, architectural elements are the instruments and the occupants are the musicians. The trouble becomes how to create a “controlled chaos”. We used a randomizer, a change in measured delays, and a translation from one octave to another while remaining to notes all in the same key of C. With this method we found consistency while also allowing for chaos and the unexpected to occur.
ARCHITECTURE AS SOUND VARIATIONS
RECORDED SOUND
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CREATING THE VARTIATION
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MELODY
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TEMPO
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RYTHM
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PITCH
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INSTRUMENT
INSTRUMENT 1
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It’s from the columns. Let’s go find out!
Mommy! What is that sound?
! g n i !D g n i D
As we get closer they sound different!
Oh! Lights!
! m oo
B ! m
Boo
That other column is playing drums!
This one sounds like a Piano!
People’s moving in the Salon and their interaction with the building elements creates music.
Center of the Salon hosts a set of collective speakers that collect sounds played at each of the columns.
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Each column has a set of sensor and speaker that translate proximity to a series of notes from different instruments
People’s moving and interaction also create a projected wave pattern.
Ding !! Din g!