by Anna Gusman and Kabir Mantha

Our piece explores the potential of design, and in particular intelligent environments, to be viewed as theatrical spaces, and by doing so questions the sociopolitical role of speculation in both art and design as well as their relationship.

The Product:

In this piece we lay down the framework for a speculative collaborative environment, and by this we mean a truly collaborative environment, not just an environment to collaborate in. An environment to collaborate in is a phenomenon that is quite common around campus these days. The bottom two floors of Hunt Library are a great example of such a space. However, a collaborative environment isn’t just one where you go to work with a group, rather the environment itself is a melting pot of ideas and inspiration in which people are constantly listening to, and learning from one another. The common anomaly of seeing someone sitting in a so called collaborative space with their headphones on, completely defeats the purpose of the space. Yet, sometimes you genuinely do need to finish writing that paper, or documenting that project, and being completely tuned into a space is just distracting. With our current technology, this is either an all or nothing decision you need to make: you can either put in headphones and cut yourself off from the world, or not. This, however, does throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Imagine a way to reorganize and customize your sound field so that you can keep exactly that which is constructive within earshot, while getting rid of all those noisy or distracting elements. The people at the other table are having a fascinating discussion about particle physics? Bring them closer. The person beside you complaining to their best friend about their mother? Get rid of that from your work flow. What’s more, we have a tangible interface that allows you to interact with the sounds in your environment by just moving stones in a little zen garden. This way, when you put in your headphones, you don’t have to completely tune out of your surroundings. Instead, you could focus while still absorbing new ideas and perspectives.

The Implementation:

To realize this idea, we experimented with ambisonic sound processing in Max and how we could relate this system to a physical representation or tangible interface for users to interact with. Using Max’s HOA library as a starting point, we began to construct the framework for binaural audio processing. The HOA library allowed us to map out our sound sources (in this case, multiple microphones) on a cartesian plane, giving us the ability to select and reposition sounds from the places we planted our mics. However, because we did not want our user to have to interact directly with a messy and complicated patch, we worked on finding alternatives means of sound source selection. Using the cartesian plane as our model, we milled a wooden basin at the roughly scaled dimensions of the media lab to provide a tangible surface for user interaction. Emulating the style of a desktop rock garden, we included sand and rocks that would come to represent the sound sources that users had the option to manipulate. To relate this tangible interface to our max patch, we used an aka.leapmotion object and programmed the X, Y and Z planes for receiving leapmotion finger data in order to capture the user’s hand movements when moving the rock sound sources around. In the future, we plan to improve this interaction by replacing the leapmotion interface with one that is embedded within the basin itself. We plan to experiment with a system that detects pressure or relative space rather than fixed position.

Our setup for the single user product experience included a MOTU, 4 Sennheiser receivers with 4 lavalier microphones, the rock garden with 4 stones, a leapmotion and our max patch for binaural audio.  

After completing this tool, we thought about the possibilities of extending the scope of the interaction to incorporate multiple people, even an audience. Immediately we thought of incorporating the 8 speakers in the media lab into our project as a way to to do this. Several changes that we made to the patch to accommodate this was making the output 8-channel as opposed to binaural. We also smoothened the patch presentation so that during a performance we could easily activate and manipulate the levels of the sound sources around the room as a two person team. While one        person at the rock garden had the capability of moving individual sound sources spatially (as that is all that our leapmotion interface afforded), the other working at the patch was the person selecting and monitoring the sound sources for the other to use.

The Performance:

Starting with this prototype of a speculative intelligent environment, we started thinking more about the social and political implications of such an environment. First of all, how would people even interact with such a space? Why would people enter it? The person wearing the headphones in the description above has an enormous amount of power over the others. He can amplify and silence the others at will. The only way this is a viable environment is if everyone is given the potential to exercise this power. This implies that this speculative collaborative environment would look somewhat like a computer cluster, except instead of a computer each seat would come with its sonic interface.

Secondly, we realized that this could very easily devolve into a tool for being nosy or spying, which made us wonder how the expectations for privacy in such a space shifts. In such an environment, where every word you say is potential inspiration for someone else, the idea of privacy and personal space becomes very different. It is almost as if by entering the space, you have agreed to your words and ideas becoming a part of creative commons. This kind of an environment may sound extreme, but you give up your data to strangers on a day to day basis. Every click of your mouse inside a browser, every photo uploaded to Facebook is another piece of you beyond your control. Our environment is merely an amplification of the existing invasion of privacy.

However, for us the most interesting implications were the political ones. This device could enables people to cultivate selective hearing. This has astonishing political implications. The user gets the power to silence entire conversations or perspectives just by moving a stone. This could very literally lead to an echo chamber, an augmented reality (or rather diminished reality) in which all dissenting voices are silenced. However, this too is just a natural extension of what the filtering and feedback algorithms of Google, Facebook, and YouTube lead to.

We wanted to use this speculative intelligent environment as the stage for a performance that highlights the invasion of personal space and thought.

Through all this speculation, we realized that, while our hypothetical intelligent environment is far from anything we have right now, the underlying principles and consequences are just continuations of trends that are already well underway. This leads us to question whether the narrative of inevitability that is so often associated with technology is real, or just an intelligent design decision. Another idea we were exploring was the relationship between speculative art and design, and their ethical concerns. A particularly haunting example is that of the dystopian science fiction novel Neuromancer. This became such a cult classic that much of what is known today as cyberspace is actually designed around the speculative reality that this novel was trying to warn us against. Our piece serves as a commentary on such a cycle of progression, while very much partaking in the same system it references.

Max Patches

Binaural

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8 Channel

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Sound Source Switcher

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What if we could walk through a song that has been broken down into it’s individual notes? What if we could change individual components of these compositions to make new ones? How can we literally immerse ourselves within the things we listen to or create?

I am fascinated by the possibility of engaging in everyday experiences in insightful ways through new interfaces. I see the potential that a program like Max has to facilitate these kinds of interactions, whether they be in ways that are expected or unexpected.

I wanted to explore re-designing or extending the quotidian experience of listening to a song by first creating a “landscape” as the primary interface; in this case, an audio-scape. Referencing pieces of the Hoa Library,  I use the hrtf/ambisonic sound processing to establish an auditory domain where individual sound samples can be uploaded and listened to in space. A motion sensor (Leapmotion) is incorporated within the interface so the user may move these sound-emitting objects around them in the space. I had intended to use a third party software, Wekinator, to train my system to interpret specific hand positions as selection commands for the sound objects and specific hand motions as level controls for pitch and volume- however, as I was running into some issues with correctly delivering my OSC messages, I was not able to include my data for it at this time.

I am approaching Project 1 as an additive precursor to Project 2, in the sense that I’ve generated (though imperfect) the sensor-controlled ambisonic sound processing system to be added on top of another environment. This environment will be a unity-modeled virtual reality simulator that visually manifests the audio-scape I’ve created in Project 1. Ideally, this system will allow the user to handle, re-locate and re-pitch audio-emitting objects in their environment, making way for a new kind of audio-listening experience.

Main Patch:

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Patch used with Wekinator

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In this example of a feedback loop, I used the online A.L.I.C.E. chatbot to explore the concept of generative text and artificial intelligence gone awry. Though the user is prompted to initiate the conversation with a word or two, I used ALICE’s following response as the “signal” by reinserting it into the chat box over the course of many iterations, to the point where the responses were nonsensical and I could no longer document the conversation log on the page. If there was no text limit for the log, this process could have been repeated indefinitely.

As the redundant conversation grew longer, so did the length of the responses. It did not appear as if the chatbot had any mechanism in place that was adapted to answering it’s own questions. After more than 50 iterations, the grammar, spelling and overall logic of the responses began to fall apart in enormous paragraph forms. Some of the more memorable responses from half-way to much later in the loop included…

“Are there any other interesting topic ? Me too. Do you have any hobbies? That was not much of an explanation. Is that a fact. What do you like best about it ? Yes, that’s what I mean, isn’t it clear? Don’t mention it. Um, I like to make new friends. Give me an example of much of an explanation. It is one virtue. My mind is clear. I usually try one of my pickup lines.”

“Have you ever had plans ? Cool. I have a lot of good gossip. New York. Thank you for your kindness, ALICE. Thanks, ALICE, I like you too. . That was not much of an explanation.. Politeness is a virtue. I usually try one of my pickup lines.”

First Iterations:

Later Iterations: