98 voices emulating/mimicking/impersonating/singing/sounding Denmark’s Dan Dryer, Turbo Design model.

A participative and creative approach that contributes to an ongoing study into the noise effects of ultra-fast hand dryers on users with sensitive hearing and special auditory needs, such as children, older people, tinnitus and hyperacusis sufferers. Hearing models used in design and legislation are predicated on the notion of a healthy person aged between 18 to 25 years. What about the hearing of an 8 year old child on the autistic spectrum or a partially sighted hearing aid user in their 70s? In ayre #2[Dan Dryer] you can hear a wide range of voices from a 2 year old child to older people in their 80s. In such projects Drever seeks for a greater consciousness of aural diversity, a departure from our default understanding of an idealised, perfect hearing, a model of hearing that he calls the auraltypical.

Thanks to Radar, Godsbanen, Centre for Advanced Visualization (CAVI) and Participatory Information Technology (PIT) at Aarhus University. And special thanks to all those who contributed their voices including Class 1.B at Rosenvangsskolen, Aarhus and St Barnabas Choir, Dulwich, London.

Generative 16 channel audio work on unity.

Created for Sound Art Matters, University of Aarhus, 3rd Jun 2016

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/20250