Projects - 2007 audio

Audio

PersonalSoundtrack: Greg Elliott

Location: University of California, Irvine: Irvine, CA

PersonalSoundtrack, a tiny wearable computer, detects your walking or running speed and plays songs from your music library that match your pace. Song speed is adjusted in real-time to match subtle variations in your gait, while larger, deliberate pace changes cause the device to change songs. You simply put it on and begin moving; that's it.

Most computational devices require the user to adapt to the machine. PersonalSoundtrack offers, instead, a symbiotic relationship: both human and machine actively adapt to each other in real-time. The 'interface' is one's natural gait. There is no optimal or pre-defined experience, encouraging meandering, wasting time, and loitering.

This project has been demonstrated at several shows and featured in several magazines.

• Website - PersonalSoundtrack
• Contact - gelliott followed by an at sign then uci dot edu

PublicSoundtrack: Greg Elliott

Location: University of California, Irvine: Irvine, CA

• Website - PublicSoundtrack
• Contact - gelliott followed by an at sign then uci dot edu

Tunestix

Project, open to all to contribute to, working towards a framework making it easier for people to construct their own portable music player using a gumstix computer as the base. At present only mp3s can be played off a CF card however many additions planned such as voice synthesis using flite of Wikipedia and the use of CF Wireless Card to stream iTunes shares.

• Website: Tunestix
• Contact: James Coxon <jac208@cam.ac.uk>