Keywords: Audiovisual Installation & Performance, Harmonic Sound Feedback, Responsive Visual Translation of Sound, Networked Interactions, Playful/Shared Experiences

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"AHH" is an interactive installation-based system that uses harmonic sound feedback and a real-time responsive visualization to create personal, playful and shared experience of its participant with prior users of the system. The participant's experience is triggered by his or her own voice, the generation of sounds, into a special sound input device.

The concept of this project touches on themes of playful audiovisual narrative, memory, multiple resoundings, and networked interactions. With this project, I want to explore how I can create a system that allows participants to do voicing to create multiple resounding phenomena. To enhance the interaction and communication between participants, the screen displays a series of pre-recorded movies of the system's prior participants. The visualization on the screen is vertically subdivided into four segments, representing four part harmonic and gestural responsive feedback to be experienced as each participant interacts with the system. In real time, participants one-by-one, project their voice into a stand up microphone. Its current participant's image is projected onto the screen together with the visualization of prior users in quadrants. The participant experiences responsive, harmonic vocal feedback with other human figures gesturing in rhythmic time. I propose a system that joins people as instruments in a visual translation of sound.

Through the use of computation technology, this project attempts to develop interactive sonic experiences with its responsive, visual environments, enabling participants to release their stress and/or feel virtually connected with other participants through an engaging, playful activity.

Movie
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AHH.. @ Peer Gallery

AHH.. @ Felissimo

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