Re: Ambient Walkman: Odd take on a potentially physicalyl looped

[burnett@pobox.com]

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, RICK WALKER wrote:

> This guy at MIT has developed a walkman with binaural microphones 
>attached to 
> it
> that uses a chip which makes the ambient sound vocode synthetic sounds 
>so 
> that
> everything you listen to creates music as you walk around.
>
> http://web.media.mit.edu/~nvawter/thesis/index.html
>
> I suppose if one walked around in a perfect circle at a constant speed 
>in an 
> ambient environment
> with this instrument that you'd create a physical loop with the 
>resultant 
> sound.
>
> I can't figure out how to contact him ,but if they aren't too pricey I 
>want 
> to get one of these.

If you look at the web page you posted the link to up there, his email 
address is just above the quicktime film on that page.


Steve B
Subscape Annex http://www.subscapeannex.com/