Ipod City - Audio and Perception of Urban Space
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Uploaded by smithee11 on Feb 22, 2007
Our perception of urban space is based on sight, smell, sound and to some extent touch. Portable music became main stream in 1979 with the introduction of the Sony Walkman and with it came a change to the way we perceive the space around us. By filtering out the natural and man made sounds of the city we are able to immerses ourselves in a alternative reality of our choosing.
The rise of the Ipod has placed this change of perception at our fingertips - to illustrate this we placed a webcam in our button hole, linked it to a laptop in our bag and record the sound from the ipod playing on our way to work.
The resulting movie is an insight into how the choice of music changes our view of the urban environment. In our case it is almost immersing yourself in a real-time MTV world as we consume the urban environment accompanied by the beats of a dance track. Our walking pace moves in time with the music and the environment becomes a backdrop to the video of space.
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I often think about how the 'soundtrack to my life' affects my journeys waling around London.
I'd like the video more if you had played several different songs to show how it changes the atmosphere in the same location, but nice idea.
Majorasblaze 4 years ago
great idea and amazing vid
lotrlegolas92 4 years ago
i don't get this video's idea? im chinese
OrionKenneth 4 years ago
jajajaja
jerezanozac 4 years ago
man i miss tot crt road
DR3TH 4 years ago
pretty example for sonic heterotopos. and good exercise!
bassbediener 4 years ago
Check that queue ( line to you North Americans ), at the ATM, and it is one line for several ATM's; life is so very civillized here in beautiful London -come on over.
sorry about the rain.
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sw1w 4 years ago
It was lovely back then to have Sylvester playing on the walkman, while riding the intercity train in N.S.W.
Sylvester - dance music from San Francisco.
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sw1w 5 years ago