Idea:
The Ball of Sounds is an object that lives in public spaces that needs simultaneous human voice input to "live". It works as communication device and it aims to encourage social interaction in public spaces. The Ball is reacting to the input of the participants, inflating and deflating based on the amount of input from the participants. If you don’t use it, he will die/fall and if people make him happy he ´ll become bigger and happier.
Object
An inflate transparent ball with a labyrinth of tubes inside. The idea is to have at least
10 to 12 tubes and having some tubes that work as input and others that work as output of the sounds created. Some of the tubes will be connected together, making the different sounds mix together. The idea of using a transparent ball is to bring some kind of visibility to the project. You can see the different participants and their location but at the same time, since there is a labyrinth of tubes, you don't know to who you are talking.
How to do it ?
A) Create the inflate ball, using the instructions kindly gave by that Huong Ngo, an artist based in NY that created the Pop-Up Studios based in inflated structures.
B) Find a malleable material to build the labyrinth. I though on one way to make it and I have to build the structure..i guess
C) Think in a system for the grown of the ball.
D) Hope it will works...at least i not going to crash (hihihih)
Problems:
Wind: maybe the object will fly...
Sound of the generator/fan that makes him live
Find a material that can inflates and grow/swell
Find a material to make the tubes