Distance music: preferred population density for the acoustic hygiene

Abstract

"Distance Music: Preferred Population Density for The Acoustic Hygiene" is an interactive ambient music installation, which interacts with the number of listeners in the installation. The installation consists of three parts, which is the music engine, sensor, and a video loop. While people watch some archives of vintage government educational videos about social hygiene inside the room, the sensor will measure density of the room and send it to the pre-recorded music engine, which will interact with the data from density sensor, evolving into more intense music as the population density rises. As a result, people will hear unpleasant noise the more they are close to each other. This installation is inspired from 'social distancing', a global experience during this ongoing pandemic era, as some of the music engine process represents and simulates 'distancing alarm' for social distancing, therefore acts as an experiment of public alarm for social distancing. We believe that the people's memory with this unprecedented worldwide incident will resonate efficiently with the installation, and a great deal of inspiration as well.