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DIY HQ : Soundscrapers
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The Museum of Acoustic Geology. Air Conditioner No. 8. A Voice that Lingers. Nick Sowers converted an auto body shop built in the 1940s into a workshop and office space for DIY.org, a company which teaches skills to kids. Sharing the space with DIY, Nick’s studio has grown and evolved within the space, even installing things like a douglas fir kitchen island cantilevered on steel posts, and a Sound Dome, which creates an intimate atmosphere for conversations.
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Next World : Soundscrapers
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The Museum of Acoustic Geology. Air Conditioner No. 8. A Voice that Lingers.
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Military Pastoral : Soundscrapers
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The Museum of Acoustic Geology. Air Conditioner No. 8. A Voice that Lingers.
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ON AIR : Soundscrapers
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The Museum of Acoustic Geology. Air Conditioner No. 8. A Voice that Lingers. ON AIR: Sukkah with the Sound of its Own Making. A sukkah is a traditional structure built during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. In 2010, a competition invited architects and designers to re-think the sukkah, following the traditional rules of sukkah construction. I proposed recording the sound of building a sukkah and projecting that sound in a busy Manhattan square. The original competition entry is here.
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Listening Prostheses : Soundscrapers
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The Museum of Acoustic Geology. Air Conditioner No. 8. A Voice that Lingers. The image itself speaks of a colossal effort to listen to something. Was it a particular sound that was sought out here? Not sound, but another kind of wave energy would be collected in this ear in the landscape. This ear with its ability to rotate and point to a particular part of the sky could subtract out all of the radar and radio waves inundating the electro-magnetic landscape.
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Bunker Acoustics : Soundscrapers
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The Museum of Acoustic Geology. Air Conditioner No. 8. A Voice that Lingers. Ongoing acoustic research into the current uses of abandoned bunkers and other military structures. A selection of field recordings are posted on Soundcloud. Published in Places/Design Observer. Work was named a top audio installation of 2009 by XLR8R Magazine.
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A Voice that Lingers... : Soundscrapers
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The Museum of Acoustic Geology. Air Conditioner No. 8. A Voice that Lingers. A Voice that Lingers Forever in the Bowels of Missile Silos. In collaboration with Javier Arbona and Bryan Finoki of DEMILIT. The Headlands Center for the Arts. Invited DEMILIT to lead walk as a part of Desire Trails. On September 25, 2011. DEMILIT produced a guided soundwalk through a dispersed 27-channel audio installation, acoustically examining the uses of the former military base through the lenses of its current tenants.
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Mushroom Kitchen : Soundscrapers
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The Museum of Acoustic Geology. Air Conditioner No. 8. A Voice that Lingers. We should cultivate an environment of living things in our kitchens, where all too often food shows up frozen, cut up, bagged, dessicated, boiled, pickled, or otherwise DOA. Published on GOOD. March 15, 2011.
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What if Food... : Soundscrapers
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The Museum of Acoustic Geology. Air Conditioner No. 8. A Voice that Lingers. What if your food hired an architect to redesign your kitchen? A three-part design essay on re-thinking kitchen design with food as the client.
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Echo Red : Soundscrapers
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The Museum of Acoustic Geology. Air Conditioner No. 8. A Voice that Lingers. UC Berkeley Master's Thesis investigating the future history of a jet noise barrier on the island of Guam. The US Military builds a colossal earth-structure to block jet noise on its runways, altering the island's ecologies - both acoustically and biologically. Posted on Mammoth.
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