KIMA: Noise
KIMA: Noise is as a participatory art work originally exhibited as site specific installation at Tate Modern by the Analema Group. KIMA Noise invites audiences to explore the impact of urban noises interactively through 360 sound installation and drawing an ambisonic sound trajectory - a virtual sound walk. Using specific urban sound sources, the audience experiences urban noise as spatial soundscapes, responding to it, physically engaging and interacting with it. Raising awareness for the phenomenon of noise pollution, this research also explores the function of digital, online art interventions in fostering social connectedness. The KIMA: Noise Map is an online interface for global users to concurrently interconnect and stream their noise-scapes from all around the globe. Interactively and playfully, any participant can draw their own sound-walks, interactive sound trajectories created as digital drawing, while listening to ambisonic sound streams that are responding in real-time. This research is being conducted in collaboration with Brunel, CNWL NHS Foundation Trust, Queen Mary University and the Noise Abatement Society.
Try out KIMA: Noise.
Click on the link below to explore the Zeitgeist project. In order to best understand the artwork, click below to watch our onboarding facilitation video.
The KIMA: Noise project is designed to instigate discussion about listening: the sort of sounds that contribute to our lived soundscapes, and their effect upon our individual and collective well-being. Once you’ve used the app, head over to our blog and let us know your thoughts: what sorts of sounds surround you? How do they make you feel? Do you feel acknowledging them directly changes you relationship to them? And how do such sounds underscore existing social relationships (such as power dynamics)?