Silence is Golden

We were asked to consider 'Soundscapes' and design an interaction for this topic. Our group consisted of Michael Walker, Phoebe Batham and Philip Blaikie.

We considered silence in a soundscape, and the role that silence could play in the future. Out of this came a lot of talk of noise cancellation, and from there we decided to go down the rather fun route of 'shutting things and people up'.

Taking the phrase silence is golden, far into the future when technologies like nonotechnology will exist in smart fabrics, and possibly in paint form . We decided to use said 'technology' and made the concept of noise cancelling paint. Paint it on something and the sound will be recorded, the inverse sound played, and silence produced. Some might call it far fetched, we prefer 'advanced' but the communication of the concept is more important than the technology itself.

We storyboarded the prototype before putting it together quickly on small handy cam, and edited later.

You may notice the slight use of humour, and direct attack on the enigma that is 'She not Fi'.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_noise_control
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_fabrics