field receiver
Role:
Independent Thesis Project @ NYU ITP
Materials:
hardware: raspberry pi, LCD screen and potentiometer.
software: NodeJs (Dropbox library), FFMPEG and cron.
build: CNC plywood, lasercut acrylic, hardware bolts.
An answering machine but instead of voice-mail it plays field recordings uploaded by your friends.
This concept was formed in response to the constant audio/video communication needs that the global pandemic brought into my daily life. I wanted to explore alternative ways of communicating with friends and family without losing intimacy and purposefulness but also avoid the constant need to be live on video/audio. I found that a field recording is a really powerful medium that can transport you to the place the sender experienced without knowing every single detail, which is the perfect in-between of intimacy with privacy. For friend B to receive friend A’s recordings: friend A would capture the recordings from their phone and upload it to Dropbox; friend B’s field receiver device would pull those recordings (via cron scheduler) at some point in the day, stitch the audio recordings together (FFMPEG) and have the files ready to listen whenever friend B feels ready to.
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