Binaudios: The sounds of a city

Binaudios is a device that enables the user to "listen" to the sounds of the city. Artist Dominic Wilcox and creative technologist James Rutherford together to collaborate on a new commission responding to the Thinking Digital Conference’s context in the music performance centre, Sage Gateshead, located in the cultural quayside quarter of NewcastleGateshead.

Taking tourist binoculars as inspiration, the Binaudios can be pointed at over 50 different locations, seen out of the Sage Gateshead windows. As the Binaudios are rotated the stereo sounds move from one ear to the other creating a real feeling of listening to the city across the river.