Scream as loud as you can
by LEUNG Sik Wai
Teenagers love to gather with their friends and even at midnight, they will still make huge noise on the street. However, these acts are inconsiderate to residents living nearby and affect people get into sleep. So that this simulator is proposed to bring a message to the visitors that to be considerate, keep quiet at night and not to disturb others.
This device is an interactive device with an educational purpose, not only as an art project.
The device consists of four major parts. They are namely the voice collecting part, image collecting part, part that analyzing voice and the display part.
The overall procedure of the device would be like this. People would like to scream and make some other noise onto the voice collecting device, which the mic connected to the computer. At the same time, they can see their face on the projected image. Next, voice collected will be transmitted to computer and do analyzing work. The system should be able to distinguish noise and the voice of ‘shu’ which means to ask others to keep quiet. Finally, the projector will project a computer graphic. The computer graphic will be a picture of many residents, and they are doing their own things inside their flat.
When the noise intensity keep on increasing, their face will turn to red colour gradually due to the length of noise made by visitors and the loudness of the noise. If visitor produce a ‘shu’ sound which reminds others to keep quiet, the residents’ face will gradually back to normal and becoming less red. If their faces are not being cooled down, the face of the player will become a pig to represent the discontent of residents, also tell the player this act is unacceptable to the society. Users are able to capture the screen of their pig faces, and share this photo onto social networking sites to promote this message of not to make noise at night to his or her friends.
This simulator is to let audiences to think about the importance of keeping quiet at night in public area, especially teenagers. So that it is not just an interactive art work, but also a piece of work promoting some issue which related to public interest. At the same time, make use of internet to make this piece of work to let more people get this message of not to make noise in public area at night.