{"id":940,"date":"2012-02-19T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/19\/tuning-in-to-ambient-urban-sound-alex-braidwoods-listening-instruments\/"},"modified":"2012-02-19T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T14:31:00","slug":"tuning-in-to-ambient-urban-sound-alex-braidwoods-listening-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/19\/tuning-in-to-ambient-urban-sound-alex-braidwoods-listening-instruments\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuning in to ambient urban sound: Alex Braidwood&#8217;s &quot;Listening Instruments&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[I used to do the same thing manually in the Philadelphia subways&#8230; -egg]<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/pjwbWjT8ce8\/tuning-in-to-ambient-urban-sou.html\"><span> <\/span>Tuning in to ambient urban sound: Alex Braidwood&#8217;s &#8220;Listening Instruments&#8221;<\/a><span>:<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/36325609\">Video Link<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/laist.com\/2012\/02\/07\/video_meet_the_man_who_is_listening.php\">LAist<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles area radio station <a href=\"http:\/\/kpcc.org\/\">KPCC<\/a> produced this lovely video portrait of designer, educator, and media artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listeninginstruments.com\/\">Alex Braidwood<\/a>. His work &#8220;explores methods for transforming the relationship between people and the noise in their environment.&#8221; In the video, you&#8217;ll see Alex wearing what I believe may be his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listeninginstruments.com\/index.php?l=LI+No.+W02011.01-0008\">Noisolation Headphones<\/a>, &#8220;an invention for mechanically transforming the relationship between a person and the noise that immediately surrounds them.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/25135917#embed\">His video<\/a> about that project is below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=4fca0c8645135a207ef4d8e4a3c49427&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=4fca0c8645135a207ef4d8e4a3c49427&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/pjwbWjT8ce8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[I used to do the same thing manually in the Philadelphia subways&#8230; -egg] Tuning in to ambient urban sound: Alex Braidwood&#8217;s &#8220;Listening Instruments&#8221;: [Video Link, via LAist] Los Angeles area radio station KPCC produced this lovely video portrait of designer, educator, and media artist Alex Braidwood. 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