Listening Instruments
Alex Braidwood's ongoing research into the relationship between people and the noise in densely populated environments.
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Alex Braidwood's ongoing research into the relationship between people and the noise in densely populated environments.
Contact BIO/CV Statement Teaching Bedlam (blog)
Recent Additions
LI No. C-V02011.10-0007
Flourish
LI No. T02011.12-00003
Noise Foraging [App]
Noise Foraging records a certain length of sound at a defined interval to create audio snapshots of sonic environment.
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LI No. E02011.07-0003
Listening Instruments Workshop & Sound Walk
A hands-on, making lab that provides participants the opportunity to develop physical devices that create new listening experiences.
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Inventions
LI No. W02011.01-0008
Noisolation Headphones
An invention for mechanically transforming the relationship between a person and the noise that immediately surrounds them.
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LI No. V02011.04-0010
Synesthetic Din Rail
A trolly system invented to allow a mobile device to perform visual information from the environment by manipulating a series of noise compositions.
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LI No. L02011.03-0021
GEOrchestra
A system invented to pose the question, what if a community's listenable proximity to noise changed to GPS scale?
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Releases
LI No. C02011.03-0054
See Also Noise
A cassette containing a collection of tracks composed entirely using found noises from various urban environments. Developed as part of the early research process, each of the six tracks is an audio exploration of a synonym for the word "Noise."
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Experiments
LI No. C-V02011.10-0007
Flourish
LI No. E02011.07-0003
Listening Instruments Workshop & Sound Walk
A hands-on, making lab that provides participants the opportunity to develop physical devices that create new listening experiences.
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LI No. L02011.01-0014
Performing the City - Pasadena, CA
A GPS controlled audio performance system using a mobile app that I developed [GEOsc for Android], this experiment uses the act of driving to control the performance of compositions using traffic noise as the material.
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LI No. C-V02011.02-0005
Synesthetic Record
Noise + The Body
Noise + The Body
A collaborative performance between Daniel Lara & Alex Braidwood that explores the relationship of noise and the body through the visual analysis of the act of painting.
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LI No. C-V02010.11-0003
The :) :) :| :) Quartet
Noise + Happiness
Noise + Happiness
A collaborative performance by Haejin Lee & Alex Braidwood exploring the performative qualities of happiness and noise through the orchestration of facial expressions.
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LI No. C-V02011.01-0021
Impalpable Descriptivism
Noise + Writing
Noise + Writing
A collaborative reactive audio sculpture that merges text messaging, a fax machine and audience prompts for the development of an audio composition. Created in collaboration between Julianne Weiss & Alex Braidwood.
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LI No. L02010.12-0117
Based on a True Story
A Mobile Noise Collection Prototype
A Mobile Noise Collection Prototype
A real-space sampling, real-time performing noise collection experiment based on the importance of context when discussing noise as a category of sound.
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LI No. V02010.11-0013
Mobile Color Sound Control
An early experiment using color data sampled from a mobile device camera to control sound. This was accomplished through the use of OSC messages sent over a network to a waiting Max/MSP patch.
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LI No. L02010.10-0032
Noise Collection - ACCD Library
An experiment based on the importance of context inspired by the question "what is noise?"
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LI No. L02010.10-0044
Noise Collection - (BUR)
An experiment based on the importance of context inspired by the question "what is noise?" this time in the area surrounding an airport's flight path.
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LI No. V02010.11-0018
Traveling Footage as Score
This investigation is a system developed to use digital video footage as a score through the use of image analysis as a controller of a digital instrument.
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LI No. T02010.10-0001
Touch Noise [001]
An investigation into the use of a networked mobile device as a touch-based controller for noise manipulation.
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Articles
LI No. A02010.11-0007
I’m not trying to shatter the Earth.
I’m just trying to frame my world.
I’m just trying to frame my world.
Tools
LI No. T02011.12-00003
Noise Foraging [App]
Noise Foraging records a certain length of sound at a defined interval to create audio snapshots of sonic environment.
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LI No. T02011.04-00012
Noise Forager [App]
LI No. T02010.11-0023
OSColor [App]
LI No. T02010.12-0007
GEOsc [App]
Signal
December 3, 2011
Critical Information: Mapping The Intersection of Art & Technology
School of Visual Arts. New York, NY
I presented Listening Instruments on the panel Visualizing the Invisible: The Art of Sound. The conference was organized by the Art Criticism & Writing Program.
October 6-10, 2011
ArtBots 2011. Ghent, Belgium
I was invited to present Noisolation Headphones as part of ArtBots 2011: The Robot Talent Show.
October 1, 2011
SoundWalk. Long Beach, CA
I presented Noisolation Headphones, Synesthetic Din Rail and a new collaborative peroformance with painter Meredith Lynn Morrison as part of this year's SoundWalk.
September 13, 2011 - March 11, 2012
Noises in the Void
See Also Noise and Noisolation Headphones are included in this online curatorial experiment by Pedro Torres from Barcelona, Spain.
October 1-30, 2011
You First @ OCCCA. Orange County, CA
Noisolation Headphones and Synesthetic Din Rail were included in this exhibition currated as an exploration of Relational Art by the UFORA group.
September 19, 2011
Speaker: USC's Institute for Media Literacy's Digital Studies Symposium
I was invited to present my process and Listening Instruments projects to research students from a variety of majors.
July 17, 2011
World Listening Day, Machine Project
Co-organized w/ David Eng, the day included a Noisolation Headphones presentation, a series of active listening projects & a Listening Instruments workshop.
July 12-17, 2011
Little Tokyo Design Week
Noisolation Headphones on display and demonstrated for Future City: Little Tokyo Design Week. Here are images from throughout the week.
July 16, 2011
Rafu Shimpo LA Daily Japanese News
Noisolation Headphones featured in a story about Future City: Little Tokyo Design Week
June 29, 2011
Brand X - Cover Story
The cover story "App evolution" featured Synesthetic Din in an article on mobile devices as media arts platform.
June 5, 2011
Los Angeles Times - Sunday Paper
Synesthetic Din was featured in an LA Times story on mobile apps as media arts platform. New Media section D10.
June 5, 2011
Dorkbot SoCal 44
I was invited to give a presentation about my Noisolation Headphones and demonstrate them at the June 2011 Dorkbot meeting. Photos of the event including visitors trying on the headphones are available here.
June 3, 2011
Los Angeles Times Hero Complex Blog
Synesthetic Din was featured in a story on mobile apps as media arts platform that was published on the LA Times media and game blog.
May 13-15, 2011
Speaker: Media in Transition 7 @ MIT
I presented Listening Instruments as a method for Negotiating Noise as a Condition of Urbanization on a panel titled Urban Media.
April 20, 2011
4 Hours Solid
The first 3 Listening Instruments were on display as part of the Graduate Thesis Exhibition.