Hidden Message
An Interactive Listening Device
An Interactive Listening Device
As our local, regional and national communities become increasingly more digital, our physical spaces beg for interventions embracing communal participation. Hidden Message becomes an open system for interactive listening intended to connect users through vocal and auditorial participation. This one-way acoustic message transmission device is intended for two users. User 1, the speaker, inputs speech into a single channel receiver transmitting an acoustic message into a two-channel (L and R) output intended for User 2, the listener.
This experience subverts the common relationship between the speaker and listener allowing the listener to embrace the more active role. It becomes the choice of the listener to step into the space of auditorial engagement or not. As our physical spaces become submerged by the expanding digital landscape, Hidden Message acts as an unusual experience to engage unused physical space attempting to reconnect human participants.
While Hidden Message may seem unusual when placed in a bustling urban context fitted with precautionary elements such as traffic cones. It deploys ease of use we all have encountered before from the playground pipe telephone to the neighborhood staple of the can & string telephone.
Install Date: December 3rd
Location: GD Commons, RISD’s Design Center
