LocoSound

Designed by Alain Bellet (interaction designer, University of Art and Design, Lausanne), LocoSound is a flux audio experience that is synchronized with the landscape viewed from a train window. A location system, based on GPS, matches in real-time the music with the landscape. In the train wagon, the audience can tune into a radio frequency to become part of an audio visual experience that is based on:

• a sound experience that has been created for a specific train visual (the landscape between Zurich and Basel for example)
• a system that is sensitive and responsive to any delays, unexpected stops or other real-time changes in the train ride.

The experience is therefore not linear but rather an interactive and responsive, taking into account the singular experience of a particular train ride.

Relation to my thesis: Unexpected events are often remove from location-based application for the sake of seamlessness. In LocoSound, the system responses and plays with the unexpected and the non-linearity of the real-world. I am an informal member of this project. Challenges include finding the best location on a wagon for a GPS device to get proper fixes and transmit it to a nearby notebook.