KIMA: Noise: A visual sound installation on urban noise

Abstract

KIMA: Noise is a participatory art piece inviting audiences to explore impact of urban noises interactively. Using specific urban sound sources, the audience experiences noise as spatial soundscapes, responding to it, physically engaging and interacting with it. KIMA: Noise creates awareness for the phenomenon of noise pollution. The paper looks at preeminent research in the field, and draws conclusions of how sound affects us as individuals. The art project KIMA: Noise is introduced technically and conceptually.Visual sound. Participatory art. Visual sound installation. Noise pollution.

New Heritage: New media art between cultural heritage experience and artefact

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