Tactical Sound Garden
The Tactical Sound Garden [TSG], a project proposal developed by Mark Shepard [andinc], would allow users/visitors to add a new layer of interaction to the city through the ‘placement’ of sounds within a new from of user created/controlled ‘garden’.
Seeking to ‘reintroduce a form of active participation in the articulation of public space’, the Tactical Sound Garden allows users to download free software to their mobile devices [PDAs, cell phones, laptops, etc], and ‘plant’ sounds within wi-fi hotpots in their communities. These users can also ‘prune’ these sounds to have different operating parameters – frequency of sound, duration, volume- creating a new, manipulable, layer to the urban environment.
The popularity of mobile audio devices like the iPod points toward a desire to personalize the experience of the contemporary city with one’s own private soundtrack. These devices also provide varying degrees of privacy within public space, affording the listener certain exceptions to conventional protocols for social interaction within the public domain. Yet, to what degree does this contribute to a retreat or withdrawal of the modern urbanite by distancing him or her from the encounters and frictions that make urban public space such a vital component of democratic societies?
The TSG Toolkit supports the creation of shared social spaces within which people collaborate on the cultivation of sonic environments. The Toolkit builds on the practice of “playlist sharing” (sharing sequential lists of favorite music files amongst friends across a network connection) to articulate new terrain for social interaction in contemporary cities. The project attempts to spatialize this practice in the context of everyday urban environments as a means to transform passive mobile listeners into active participants in shaping the sonic topography of urban public space [from TSG site].

I think I read about something just like this in a Vernor Vinge novel…
::all images and information via Tactical Sound Garden::
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Posted: June 11th, 2007
at 7:30am by orangemenace
Categories: architecture, installation, my ninja, please, tech
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