Self-sonification research

Self-listening field

Select a cassette. Record or upload a sound. Drag tapes into place. Press Begin listening. Add cassettes or fields to keep exploring.

Listening journal

AWAITING YOUR SOUNDS
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Drag a cassette to move it; drag empty space to rotate the view. Escape cancels a move. Arrow keys on the view rotate it; plus and minus zoom; Home resets. Focus a numbered cassette button and use arrow keys to move that cassette.

DRAG TO ARRANGE · SELECT TO RECORD

Top view · arrange your tapes here, or switch to 3D to see the suspended microphone.

NOW IN FOCUSSilence

Negative reverses the motor. Zero stops the drive; passive motion settles.

Increase the sound radius to blend neighbouring tapes. A wider angle hears more of the field.

Drag a tape to arrange. Drag the background to pan. Scroll to zoom.

Focus a cassette and use the arrow keys to move it. Hold Shift for larger moves. Escape cancels a drag. Drag the background to pan the view, or use the zoom and Fit all buttons. The numbered cassette buttons bring overlapping tapes to the front.

Field mixer

0 fields playing

Effects

Delay

Reverb

Mixed output

Silence · flat trace

Shared listening

Local field · not shared

MIDI control

Connect a controller. Choose a parameter, press Learn, then move a knob or press a pad.

Not connected

Choose a parameter to map.

No MIDI received
MAPPINGS0

CC knobs and faders control sliders; notes or CC buttons trigger actions. “Active field” follows the open tab. Move a knob through the current value to take control.

Mappings stay in this browser. Reconnect MIDI when you return.

Phantom Series

Phantom grows from Bryan Yueshen Wu’s experience of listening with tinnitus. Across sound, performance and installation, the series explores how bodily sounds, recurring melodies, remembered voices and places enter everyday listening. Giving these experiences an audible form creates something to return to, reconsider and share.

Phantom V3 installation: a tall rotation mechanism with microphones suspended above cassette players.Cassette players scattered on the floor around the microphone stand and audio electronics.

In Phantom V3, a rotating microphone brings fragments of continuing tape loops into the foreground. Its return can reveal a different moment in the same recording. This shifting access echoes the partial control we have over sounds that recur in memory and attention. What continues to sound, what is amplified, and what a listener attends to can diverge.

Self-listening field extends this enquiry into a space for your own sounds. Recording, arranging and returning to them becomes a way to notice how listening changes. Each field can hold a day, a place or a recurring sound; encounters unfold between the arrangement you make and the microphone’s wandering movement.

To begin: select a cassette, record or upload a sound, and press Begin listening. Drag tapes in either view. Drag empty space to pan in Top view or rotate in 3D view. Adjust speed, listening angle and sound radius to shape the mix. Add fields to keep a journal, or play them together in the Field mixer.

Your local fields stay in this browser. Use Export field to keep a copy. Shared rooms let you listen and contribute together.