Meeting #1 : Notes

Meant to put these up ages ago - but I've had a silly / busy week. Various notes from our first meeting as a group. Exploration of ideas and possible constraints from the initial suggestions and initial 3 ideas.

“Silent Radios” :
Anthony Massingham
Pierre Medeiros
Megan Daley

Our Ideas :

Megan : “Toilets for Seats” - Toilet seats with sound effects

• Various Cost Issues
• Used for Reflection on life / artwork
• Novelty
• Abstract idea

Pierre : “unsure of name” - Recorded Conversational snippets

• Privacy Issues

Anthony : “Chatter Critic” - Recorded and Analysed conversations

• Privacy Issues

General Comments :

Massive ethical issues with all three ideas. Privacy with the microphone / recording ideas, Costs with the toilets.

How these ideas link :

• Recorded Sounds
• Sitting and Reflecting
• Listening to other conversation/ideas
• Expansion on ideas/thoughts.

Expansion on ideas :

On Recording -

• Ambient or manually recorded and saved in a record bank.

• Randomly Played Recording.

Possible Implementations -

• “The Walls have ears” - Physical representation, an actual wall where people sit and listen to what others have said.

• Speakers spread throughout the space, filling it with general ambient noise / conversations

• Actual physical art prescence

• Confessional / closet

  • Similar in style to http://grouphug.us/ ( Anonymous Confessional forum ).

    • Would require some sort of voice synthesis for anonymitiy.

• Speech analysis. Breaking conversations up into individual pieces. Possible ? How hard ?

• Lost Voices. Excerpts of thoughts. ( Lost Souls, Bus Stations . . . Disembodied voices... Ghosts ?)