Soundaroid: Polaroid Camera Capturing Sound
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 17:12
admin in Listening, Sound Art, visualization

The Soundaroid is a weird thing: it works like a Polaroid camera but instead of capturing the an image, it captures sound. After one minute of recording the device, created by Wei-Hao Chang, spits out a piece of paper just like a Polaroid camera, but instead of a photograph, a visual representation of the sound you just recorded becomes visible.  

To be honest the result is not great, but what I like about the Soundaroid is how it tickles the imagination. We know we can not capture sound instantly like a photograph captures a moment, but what would it look like if we could? As if being able to hear sounds is not magical enough, somehow we like to make things visible even if they are not. We have already seen examples of sound sculptures here, here and here.

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