[2024]

The Sonic Chronograph

In this design research project, I set attunement as agenda for design by exploring the potential of materialising noise in a counterfactual artefact. Through both listening and creating from a first-person perspective, I speculate on how noise might be abstracted to a physical form to promote reflection and discussion on the soundscapes we create together. The Sonic Chronograph is a counterfactual clock that abstracts noise levels in shared spaces. 

The chronograph works by listening, interpreting, and encoding noise within its pattern by moving opposing elastic strings based on different scales of time. 
The design is informed from Sonic Ethnography: reflecting on noise perception in shared spaces to condense a qualitative, first-person picture of what noise is. 


The chronograph relies on a Zoom Recorder and Pure Data to make a live feed of decibel available to an Arduino. 







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