[microsound] Exit Through the Gift Shop

[Jeffrey Melton]

IIRC, these kind of noise cancellation systems are also in some luxury cars.
Who's got the chops to create a Massive Unsound System?

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Steven Ricks <stevericksmusic at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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