| Résumé |
alarm/will/sound is a researched-based interdisciplinary project, currently being developed by Korea-based composer and sound artist Alexander Sigman and Stuttgart-based product designer/visual artist Matthias Megyeri—in collaboration with the IRCAM Sound Perception and Design (SPD) research team. The primary objective of this project in progress is to transform the car alarm from a passive, oft-ignored public nuisance with a predictable reper-toire of sounds into a dynamic and intelligent interactive audio-visual instrument that engages with the car’s environment. The first phase of the project (January-July 2013) has consisted in building, organizing, and indexing sound libraries, generating semantic and acoustic descriptors, design-ing and training machine-learning-driven interaction systems, and constructing the hardware for a series of alarm prototypes. During the second phase (September 2013-February 2014), the sound library categories and interaction system models will be evaluated and re-fined through experiments in sound perception. Uniting the fields of sound art, perception research, product design, and industrial design, it is hoped that the outcomes of this project will have artistic, research, and interface design implications. |
