Abstract
The project “Audio Satellites – overhearing everyday life” consists of a number of mobile listening devices (audio satellites) from which sound is distributed in real time to a server and made available for listening and mixing through a web interface. The audio satellites can either be carried around or displaced arbitrarily in a given landscape. In the web interface, the different sound streams from the individual satellites can be mixed together to form a cooperative soundscape. The project thus allows people to tune into and explore the overheard soundscape of everyday life in a collaborative and creative process of active listening.
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This research has been funded by Aarhus University’s interdisciplinary research centre, Participatory IT, www.PIT.au.dk (project code 10509) and European Capital of Culture, Aarhus 2017. Also thanks to the people at CAVI (Centre for Advanced Visualization and Interaction) for technical support.
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Breinbjerg, M., Højlund, M.K., Riis, M., Fritsch, J., Kirkegaard, J.R. (2016). Audio Satellites: Overhearing Everyday Life. In: De Angeli, A., Bannon, L., Marti, P., Bordin, S. (eds) COOP 2016: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 23-27 May 2016, Trento, Italy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33464-6_18
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