Audio Jitter - Experience a Different Representation of Space
Audio Jitter allows you, the subject, to experience a different representation of space via the unwanted variation in GPS microwave signals (Jitter) and stereo sounds. Jitter can be seen in characteristics such as the interval between successive frequency or pulses. GPS microwave signals are all around us and its variation in the frequency of the microwave signal to give a GPS position on the Earth are never seen. Most GPS software tries to filter out these in accuracies giving an average position, what Audio Jitter does is amplify these in accuracies for you to hear and experience in familiar spaces.
Using binaural recordings taken in 3 locations; Mutley Plain, Drake Circus and The Hoe, Audio Jitter represents GPS jitter through the sounds of that location. As you stand still in one place you will experience the variations of the signal giving you a different representation of that space.
This project aims to change the way you view a familiar space forever.
Locations
The best way to show you the locations; a map! Mutley Plain, Drake Circus and The Hoe. Clicking on the maps will take you to Google where you can view the locations in more detail.
Mutley Plain
To get into position stand outside the Pizza Hut shop just the other side of the railings, in the middle. Then face roughly North to get the full effect of the jittering. To find this try and line yourself up with the direction of North Hill.
Drake Circus Crossing
To find this position cross the road onto the island in the middle of the 2 carriageways just outside the Roland Levinsky building. Then stand next to the railings in the middle at the top of the island. Insure you are facing North, lining yourself up parallel with North Hill.
The Hoe Sea Front
To get into the correct position make you way down to the Hoe sea front and face opposite the steps leading down from the promenade next to the wall. To face North line yourself up with Smeatons tower so you are facing it.
The Concept
Audio Jitter attempts to establish a different representation of a familiar space. Audio Jitter is based on Lefebvre's Dialectic of Space, in particular, his Representations of Space which "...are the forms of knowledge and hidden ideological content of codes, theories and the conceptual depictions of space linked to production relations." The project takes this part of the dialectic to produce a new abstract presentation of the lived experience in space through GPS jitter and stereo sound in a given location.
How it works
Using a middleware application to retrieve the GPS co-ordinates, flash is fed the longitude and latitude. When you click start the starting longitude and latitude are recorded. Subsequent longitude and latitude co-ordinates are compared in real time to play different sounds dependant on where the jitter occurs.
Requirements
- Windows Mobile 5+ device
- Flash Lite
- Stereo headphones