Intangible : Final Project Proposal
Sounds Project
Project Summary
Sounds is one of the most effective tools to change and control our mood.
What if we could have a back up sound or some white noise setting that is able to automatically adjust its theme according to our mental and physical conditions to help us from depression? or at least add a little after taste to a bitter
Background and concept
As a person with depression myself, sometimes it is quite difficult to realize that I was already under depression phase, and most of the time close friends and family are the one who kept checking on me before I got too deep and have to go back to the pills. Though, another important thing that help lifting up mood condition up is a random happy accident. For example ; going out for a walk and suddenly got under a komorebi light or just ran into a friend and having a little good chat. But this kind of happy accident was all disappeared when you are practicing social distancing.
Surprisingly (and even might be a little cheesy enough), I noticed that everyday after 7pm clapping and chanting, I feel a little bit more cheerful and less negative, which means that the chant and clap sounds is not only do the honor to all workers who is fighting the coronavirus but also help lifting up my mundane mood as well.
Therefore, inspired by this happy accident from happening sounds around me, I want to use technology to imitate the same kind of accident or create a mood shifter tool to set a new mood condition to the space, or even to help the person with depression to cope with their mood conditions.
Project Description
This project is aiming to imitate the accidentally sounds such as white noises, voices, recordings and music for the user using sensors or machine leaning that were adjusted to fit with each users to predict the best moment ( Happy Accident ) to create the sound to shift the user mood condition.
sound calendar for personal use
Using a happy accident as inspiration, the Input and output of the project can be totally different according to what is the best for the user need as a mood shifter.
Prototype
….the hardest part of the demo is how to imitate the finger with my very limited material
Ideas for pubblic space?
Maia Urstad gathering of sonic details about time and place from local radio stations around the world, which are woven together in a subtle polyphony of voices, tones and white noise, transmitted via local FM-frequencies by a spiraling, labyrinthine collection of some 40 portable radio’s
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