I decided I wanted to do something with audio as my jumping off point. Currently my favorite idea is a typology of non-human voices in public spaces (ex. loudspeakers, elevators, busses). And then if they are all collected together I can let them talk to each other. My other favorite idea was a typology of room-tones or A/C, vents, and pipes. Like, subtle background noises. I have been unsure if I’d rather begin with concept or with technology, but I think at this point, I would like to find the piece of tech that most compliments the loudspeaker idea.
I am part way through reading a book that’s giving some good ideas, and I have attached a pdf of some of my notes thinking : typology notes.
Edit: After having the meetings, I also have this idea: trying to get “noise pollution”-type sounds to be able to be transcribed by a speech-to-text program into words or phonetics. I like the idea of using “noise pollution” type sounds because these sounds are all caused by humans, but ignored/disliked by humans, and they are very subtle but very constant. I can see one vision of this where the end result is : A video of the Object that makes the noise, and the video’s audio is the noise the Object makes, run through speech-to-text, and then the transcription is read out (either by synthetic or human voice) in sync with the video.