Taeil Lee: SeoulVibe
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- SeoulVibe
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City walks, runs, chats, shouts, sings, dances and moves. City flows. City talks. City shows. City still struggles under the pandemic. There still are managing lives with dripping sweat and popping joy. Continuing vitality of city, vitality of streets like shooting buds.
Streets of city are filled with sounds. Running automobiles and rushing bikes’ roars, busy steps, oozing commercials, loud laughter and chatters. Streets of city express with sounds. Reveal and show that they are still there.
Feel the city, literally. Sense the chatters, shouts, and speeches of city. By sensing, sympathize and understand it. By sensing, embrace and accept it. By sensing, explore and discover it. By sensing, appreciate each and every note of the city. By sensing, show and reveal it. By showing, by revealing, shout the city with the city.
SeoulVibe is an effort to feel the city of Seoul through the sounds produced by it, and to reveal the vitality of the city by converting the sounds to lights. SeoulVibe is composed of units that are capable of sensing sounds and converting the amplitude to vibration and the frequency -note of sound- to colors of light. These individual units multiply to amplify the experience.
The Jacket covered with pockets can carry 45 units. It enables you to feel surrounding sounds by the vibration made by the units. In addition, you see the sounds by the lights of the units through. Depending on the position of each unit and subtle discrepancies in sensor data, the composition of vibration and light becomes more dynamic.
We experienced the streets of Seoul at Gangnam, Hongdae, Gwanjang Market, Gwanghwamun Square, Seoul Square through the sounds they uniquely produce from cars, people, shops around. They form the city of Seoul.
