<h1><a href="../../index.html">Acconci Home</a></h1> <h2><a href="../../projects/index.html">All Projects</a></h2> <h2><a href="../../threads/index.html">All Threads</a></h2> <!--<h2><a href="/acconci/dev/views/">All Views</a></h2>--> <h2>2</h2> <p>SOUND-SHELL (PROTOTYPE) 2005 Like wrapping around a seated person…Like a blanket, a pod, that grows from, that spirals around, a person sitting… The outside of the skin hardens into something like a seashell. The shell is designed for the head, the ears – its meant for sound, for concentration on sound – the rest of the shell is there to give the listener a place to sit; its there to keep sound in, to keep extraneous sound out. Spiraling down from the shell is a tube that supports the shell from the ground. You enter from the open side of the spiral, and fold a seat down out of the soft, velvety interior. In front of you, embedded in the velvet, is a flat-panel touch-screen; the screen is blank when you enter, the light of the white screen illuminates the interior until you touch the screen. Using a retractable arm, you pull the screen up close; the fabric around the screen stretches, like the bellows of a camera. You touch the menu on the screen and select the sound program you want. You’re surrounded by speakers behind the velvet, two behind you on either side and one in front of you. Inside this seasshell, it’s as if you’re inside the sound of a seashell. In order to get up unencumbered, you push the screen back to its original position: the screen goes blank again, illuminating your way out. The seat folds back into the velvet; handicapped users can wheel themselves in and back into the space in front of the screen and between speakers, unimpeded. </p> <p>This project view belongs to <a href="../../project/sound_station/index.html">Sound Shell</a>, and is threadged with:</p> <ul> <li><a href="../../thread/2005/index.html">2005</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Capsules/index.html">Capsules</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Dar%C3%ADo%20N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez/index.html">Darío Núñez</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Garrett%20Ricciardi/index.html">Garrett Ricciardi</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Peter%20Dorsey/index.html">Peter Dorsey</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Prototype/index.html">Prototype</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Sarina%20Basta/index.html">Sarina Basta</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Seating/index.html">Seating</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Sehzat%20Oner/index.html">Sehzat Oner</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Sound/index.html">Sound</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Sound%20Shell/index.html">Sound Shell</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Twist-Warp-Morph/index.html">Twist-Warp-Morph</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Video/index.html">Video</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Wrap/index.html">Wrap</a></li> </ul> <p>(<a href="http://studio.stamen.com/acconci/dev/img/177/14.jpg">I</a>, <a href="../../img/177/13 copy.jpg.large.jpg">L</a>, <a href="../../img/177/13 copy.jpg.thumb.jpg">T</a>, <a href="../../index.html">A</a>)</p>