Listening Through Technology: An Interactive Sound Walk for a Suburb in Shenzhen

Sagesser，Marcel Zaes; Xu，Binghuang

10.1007/978-3-031-35696-4_17

2023

0302-9743

1611-3349

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

14031 LNCS

232-245

“Take A Step” is a sound walk that consists of a web-based user interface that the audience opens up on their phone, and with which they control the sound design that they hear on their headphones as they walk through and around the historic “Dawan Shiju” site in the Pingshan suburb of Shenzhen. The sound walk was made by four undergraduate students from the SUSTech School of Design (Shenzhen) in close collaboration with the instructor and co-instructor and was publicly presented at the UABB Biennale in Shenzhen in 2022. With this paper, the authors, who are also the project leaders, analyze specific modalities of interaction with a socio-cultural site through the designing of a digital media experience. They describe this modality as listening through technology and show how it can raise the user’s awareness of the social, cultural, and mediatic specifics of the thematized site – not only on this given site, but in any other listening situation in the everyday as users may potentially carry the gained knowledge elsewhere. This paper puts forward the notion of technological listening as a complex modality happening in between reality and fiction, and in between the actual and the virtual. Listening to an environment through technology, the authors argue, is a method that accounts for the always multidimensional social, cultural, as well as sonic characteristics of a given site.

Education Interaction Mobile Media Art Sound Technology Technological Listening

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English

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School of Design,Southern University of Science and Technology,Shenzhen,China

Sagesser，Marcel Zaes,Xu，Binghuang. Listening Through Technology: An Interactive Sound Walk for a Suburb in Shenzhen[C],2023:232-245.