Video by Elizabeth Fuller
Here are some photos of me presenting the head(banger)phones at the ITP Winter Show 2008 last night. Thanks to Justin Tedaldi, editor of the JETAANY Newsletter, for the photos.
The head(banger)phones are a personal music device made up of a pair of headphones and a sensor. When the user wears the head(banger)phones, the motion and position of her head triggers different sounds, creating a dynamic interactive musical experience.
Here is some internet ink about head(banger)phones:
Nod Your Head, Change the Beat: Accelerometer Headphones | PSFK
ITP Winter 2008: Accelerometer Headphones Control Music Via Headbanging
The Listenerd’s Links for 12.18.08
Gizmodo reports that I did the project using Max/MSP, but actually I used Processing/Arduino.
5 responses
52 Faces // Dec 19, 2008 at 5:49 am
Oooh – both you and Kris use the oh-so-modern pronoun “she”…or is this a “Just Jack” kind of a “she”?
leesean // Dec 19, 2008 at 5:44 pm
It’s both. It’s camp, and it’s me doing my little part in making up for thousands of years of linguistic misogyny.
Head(banger)phones | zbStudio.net // Dec 31, 2008 at 9:08 pm
[...] Huang’s Head(banger)phones have an accelerometer attached to them that measures the your head position in space, and changes [...]
Kris & Sophia meet the head(banger)phones | LEESEAN.NET // Jan 14, 2009 at 2:26 pm
[...] are some photos of Sophia and Kris trying out my head(banger)phones the other [...]
The Washington Post versus Gawker | LEESEAN.NET // Aug 3, 2009 at 4:07 am
[...] This is totally tangential, and I doubt you’ve made it this far, but I’ve had my own brush with Nick Denton’s blogging empire before. Gizmodo picked up my head(banger)phones project from the ITP Winter Show last December. They misreported the programming language I used to execute the project. I posted a comment to correct them, but the post was never corrected. Oh well, I enjoyed the 15 seconds of Internet fame while it lasted. You could always read the official story about the head(banger)phones on LEESEAN.NET. [...]
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