Binaudios-The Magic giant handset, can listen to the whole city sound

A giant two-barrel handset that allows you to hear a half mile away, even a century ago? It sounds like the magic of a double telescope in the adventures of bragging. According to foreign media May 29, the British Dominic Wilkstedt (Dominic Wilcox) and James Lasseveude (James Rutherford) have designed such a giant dual-tube handset ...

It is reported that the giant dual-receiver is the world's only existing dual-receiver, is housed in the Saint-Getzhead Music Center in England. It lets people's hearing leap Tyne, direct Newcastle. Kathy Wilcox listened to the station's voice, and the floor in front of her was a map of the sound.

The handset covers in two ears, slowly adjusts the position, looks for each kind of sound in the whole city, the left and right ear each kind of sound sometimes suddenly sometimes fades. You may have heard the sound of a crowd playing basketball in the city park, perhaps hearing the bargain of the buyer sellers on the market, and perhaps hearing the sound of the ship built in the 70 's on the pier.

I don't want to be a part of this, but the sound in the handset is just pre-recorded audio, the producer collects sounds from 50 locations in the city, and adds the audio data collected over 1928 years--a memorial speech by King George V in 1928 at the newly-built Tyne Bridge.

"I have always been very interested in sound, it can inspire our imagination, let people recall the past has been to the place," Wilkstedt said, "Sometimes, hear the voice of the distant, our thoughts will be carried very far." ”

This gigantic, giant handset has undoubtedly made these feelings come true, suggesting to the user the possibility of miracles and magical existence.

"It is important that the focus of attention is on physical objects and the interaction with the handset." The technical aspects of things are hidden. Wilkstedt explained, "I only use technology in my work when necessary, technology is not the motivation of my artistic ideas, but technology can not be possible, such as you through the window, across the river, to hear very far away from the sound of the place." ”

Listen to the sound of the whole city