The idea of this experiment stemmed from my “sonic route”- where a recording slowly transferred from one speaker to another.
Sometime during class this week, Paul had said something along the lines of “If you have a megaphone, people will listen to you”. I had a think about this and decided perhaps that I could have a particular method of delivering my presentation. However, it would not only be somewhat difficult for me to procure a megaphone, but it would also leave my classmates with an annoying headache!
So I scaled it down.
This is where a simple children’s toy of a “string cup phone” comes in. One persons speaks into a paper cup attached to a string, the string provides a route for sound to transfer, and one person at the end hears the sound. Easy!
It does the exact same thing as a telephone. However, with modern technology, we are able to employ programs such as Facebook messenger to talk to multiple people at once. Could we update the cup phone to do the same?
We are updating the un-updated!
So here is my plan:
I’ve never seen or made a multiple way string phone before, would this work? Who knows?
And here are the phones all stacked together! (I would say that this is a pretty compact machine if I could say so myself!)
The experiment turned out really well! (I wasn’t able to trial with this many people beforehand!)
I was able to pinch some lines so that some classmates were unable to hear me at times. The physical attachment means that spying is practically impossible!
A rather private way of communicating in our heavily surveillanced world, don’t you think?
An almost ritual-like ceremony for the phone. One person in the centre that everyone listens to. If you have a megaphone I guess people do actually listen to you!
