Spectropolis projects: Sonic Interface by Akitsugu Maebayashi

About Sonic Interface: Sonic Interface is a portable hearing device that is made from headphones, microphones, and a laptop computer. The participant is invited to walk around the city, and experiences modified sonic environments processed real time from the sounds it picks up. Three different stages generated by the software program influence and question our sense of space and time. Sonic Interface was created in 1999, and was exhibited in Japan, Canada and Europe.
About Akitsugu Maebayashi: Akitsugu Maebayashi has focused on auditory sense as an interface between the body and the environment, and has created installations as opportunities for personal experience. His work Audible Distance was awarded the runner-up prize in the ICC Biennale '97, and the honorable mention in the Ars Electronica '98 in Linz. He created Sonic Interface in 1999, which examines the influence of changes in the sense of hearing upon perception. This work was exhibited in Akihabara TV2 (Tokyo, 2000), DEAF_00 (Rotterdam, 2000), and Villette Numerique (Paris, 2002). The piece, [I/O] distant place was developed with a 3D acoustic technology and was shown in ICC (Tokyo, 2001).

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