Closer, Louder

#Interactive Sound Installation
Project Overview
Composed of microphones, speakers, various sensors, iPads, a PC, and a thermal printer, “Closer, Louder” is a participatory sound installation with touchless interfaces. She plays the soundtrack voiced by all its audiences in collaboration with people connected through cyberspace worldwide. The audiences hear the mutterings and speak up to have their voices become part of it.
Contributions
This interdisciplinary artwork motivates participants to think about the connection between individuals and between individuals and society as a whole. It aims to break the barrier, bring people closer, and encourage them to shape the world with their voices.
This project utilizes the notion of arousal and valence for emotion classification based on brainwaves measured in the EEG headset at 16 brain locations with a 200Hz sampling rate to create a visual interpretation of false memory.

The abstraction of emotion is calculated from the real-time brain signals on the prefrontal, frontal and parietal regions on both sides of the brain. Since either memory or brainwave has a physical form, I want to contrast it with something tangible and mechanical. Discrete emotions are most intuitively expressed with paints due to their inherent color and fluidity, and the burst of colors naturally represents the process of eliciting emotions from memory. Thus, watching balloons filled with colors pop where paints will spout, scatter, and mix is like watching our rendered memory.
The Color of (Re-)Rendering
Project Summary
Jul 2023
Interaction Demo Video