“ItSpace creates a network of pages within the social networking site MySpace. Instead of featuring people, the pages feature everyday household objects. Each page has a photo of the object, a description, and most importantly, a 1-minute piece of music composed of recordings of the object being struck and resonated in various ways. All the pages, or objects, are ‘friends’ with each other, so that visitors who discover one object may jump to the others by clicking on the ‘friends’ pictures at the bottom of each page.”
link to the project page for itspace: http://transition.turbulence.org/Works/itspace/
i appreciate the creative idea of using an existing social networking site to explore how items might connect with each other. i think the composer missed out on an opportunity to learn how people may interact with his items and their sounds by not allowing his items to be friended. this closed approach to a site that is about unexpected connections is too bad.
that said, the sounds the items make are intriguing. my favorite is the pillow. the mashup of the bannister and the pillow, the “banillow”, is nice too.
