Speaker suits designed by Ben Newland for MA Design Products graduation project at The Royal College of Art. Shot on location in west London by Chris K Jones.
“In terms of the video production we used a master track as this film was part of the installation in the final Graduation show and was playing through the units. So needed to be a clean version of the track. The various frequencies were split between units and playing in the room. The units do themselves work with the Bass Mid and treble frequencies of the input track divided between them. They are wi-fied together and battery powered with very efficient amplifiers. The resultant (band) is really quite loud. Ben Newland designed the units which have quite complex resonance chambers. They are really very cool, the film was edited to enable people to get a sense of how they would work in the environment. Unfortunately the location we were filming in was underneath a motorway fly over and the background noise was causing problems making a continuous actuality track sync up. We took sound recordings of the units playing in the environments to enable us to recreate their interaction with the location in audio terms.”
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My sister was in Ben Newland’s graduation class, I had the good fortune to see the system live at the diner party the night before the invocation. The horn’s sounded quite good. I didnt hear the other speakers unfortunatly. They were not turned on at the exhibition.