ACUO - Aboard
13/11/2011.
by Michal Šeba, Vitezslav Danda, Stanislav Abrahám. [Prague] Czech Republic. 2011.
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
Passersby can enter the foil-covered stellar shape and experience the outside world in a new way. People have a lot of sounds around them, know all the sounds and remember them but don’t pay attention. This installation, with six microphones and one sound periscope, is telling people: Come in and listen to all the sounds the city makes. Michal Šeba
Acuo is an interactive audio-visual installation for public spaces. It is based on the concept by Michal Šeba, with the support of municipal projects BU2R. With its shape and functions, Acuo resembles a cosmic module which has landed in the city to observe the affairs around. Acuo sees and hears in a way different from ours.
It scans the world with six microphones and three cameras; then it transmits the environment thus captured to the inside, to emit a spatial audio experience and to screen it through a LED system onto all of its inner walls. At the same time, Acuo transmits the sound around it through a terrestrial FM radio signal and streams both audio and video online to its acuo.cz base. There, this recording is archived for future generations. In addition, the module is equipped with a “periscope” with a highly sensitive directional microphone; this enables the audience to capture audio details of the city commotion.
The crew is made of the passers-by; inside the Acuo module, they can experience the city in another way, they can analyze the events outside while contemplating the endless variability of individual output modification. From a brand new perspective, the visitors can experience the sound map of a place they walk through every day, without the ability to thoroughly perceive or listen.
Credits:
Concept and photographs: Michal Šeba
Project architect: Vitezslav Danda, www.editarchitects.com
Cooperation: Ivan Boros, Matous Godik, Pedro Sousa Santos, [Edit!]
LED system: Michal Pustejovsky
Audio system: Stanislav Abraham, Michal Seba, [Data-live]
Construction: Libor Stych, Mirek Mares
Facade: Alice Klouzkova, Jana Jetelova, [Sistersconspiracy]
Webdesign, stream: Matej Bacovsky [Bioport]
Production: Petr Hozman [Shot Rabbit], Jakub Stransky [Yinachi/BU2R]
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Project Year: 2011
Architect and urban planner, since 2010 member of the studio edit!. In the course of their professional activities in Barcelona, Spain began to focus specifically on the relationship of man and the urban environment. With colleagues currently working on various projects, from designing interiors, family and apartment houses, to the industrial area.
about edit!
We edit the environment. We make architecture.
Edit! is a team of young architects based in Prague who formed the studio in 2010 after their previous creative collaboration on several projects and competitions. The founding members are Ivan Boroš, Juraj Calaj, Lenka Míková and Vítězslav Danda with professional & life experience from Spain, France, Germany, Denmark and USA. Matouš Godík is now an external member of edit! and devotes himself to music making as Zka4t.
Edit! creates innovative contemporary architecture that respects the unique context of each commission and strives to attain a persisting quality at the same time. Edit! has experience from a wide range of projects as private residences, office buildings, urban planning and design of public spaces as well as various small scale structures, interiors and reconstructions.
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT
IB | Ing. arch. Ivan Boros
VD | Ing. arch. Vitezslav Danda
LM | Ing. arch. Lenka Mikova
JC | Ing. arch. Juraj Calaj
Michal Šeba. Artist and author of the basic ideas of ACUO. He graduated from studio photography at the University of Applied Arts in photography VŠUP. Together with Stanislav Abraham made the project live music, publishing, last September, their debut album. In high school, he studied scenography, so that his three main concerns with the project met ACUO.
http://michalseba.com/