[microsound] Exit Through the Gift Shop

[Steven Ricks]

I like this . . . perhaps one could take the Bose headphone noise canceling
technology and create something . . . I'm imagining it in the hands of
someone with a lot of funding and creating a sort of giant
silence-projecting ray gun . . . then if one could apply filtering to this
concept, canceling out only certain frequencies . . . anyone have contacts
at Bose r&d?

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:07 AM, David Powers <cyborgk at gmail.com> wrote:

> A little food for thought:
>
> Do we not suffer from too much noise in our cities already? At least
> in Chicago, I am subjected to large amounts of unwanted noise, whether
> it is the dangerously loud sound of elevated trains, or the unwanted
> (and almosty always terrible) background music that plays incessantly
> indoors everywhere one goes.
>
> So I suggest that the ultimate sonic intervention would not create
> noise, but SUBTRACT noise--creating an unexpected pocket of silence in
> the midst of the city would be fantastic, in my opinion.
>
> ~David
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Bernhard Living <mumixer at me.com> wrote:
> > Dear Hans,
> > This is a very beautiful and effective installation, and as you said, the
> > sound of the card was able to cut through the background noise of the
> > traffic. Graffiti art has always had a slightly ‘naughty’ if not illegal
> > aspect to it. It’s also fairly low cost (the price of a spray can). Your
> > sound intervention certainly fits into that way of doing things.
> > Regards,
> > Bernhard
> > On 16 Feb 2011, at 10:03, hans w. koch wrote:
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