An interactive sound walk using geo-location.
The a glimpse of the possible dystopian future of 2072 by entering the portal below:
OLXAL came to life though our last modul of the tangible design course on AHO. I was teamed up with Sunniva, and on the first day, Sunniva set a rule for the project: Let's make something entirely fun.
So that's what we did. We were asked to make an interactive experience existing of only audio and a visual landing page to set the mood. It didn't take us long before we realized we wanted to do storytelling, focusing on either utopia or dystopia. That way we could create almost everything out of imagination, without having to stick to much to the history of the area we were given.
Our designated area was Vulkan and Mathallen. We thought this would be perfect, as the OLXALS had chosen this as their headquarters for their experiments. In our scenario, the local live together with humankind, and to some extent we benefit from this. They eat everything, and they especially love waste. Also, they have a cellular respiration system, which means that they breathe in CO2, and create Oxygen. But, what goes up, must come down...
We split up to do what we do best, Sunniva has a background in service design, and I have worked a lot with branding and animation, and was also very comfortable with coding. I made the visual profile and the website, she made the script, the audio files and a final video to showcase it all. The teamwork was amazing, we had fun every day...
We also AI generated almost all the images used for this delivery, or made them from scratch. Only one image was lent. The different sounds and audios we also made, or collected from Soundly.
Our concept ended up being the story of a time traveller, who had managed to reach out to the people of 2022 to warn them. If they didn't stop Trump from being re-elected in 2024, the whole universe would be forever imbalanced.
But the OLXALs have discovered the time traveler and their mission, and are trying to sabotage it. The aduio-visual message sent to the user is infiltrated by the OLXALs attempt to stop the people of 2022 from finding out.
The user has to walk the walk to experience the possible dystopia they might end up facing. The time traveller walks besides the user, and help them visualizing by sound effects, story telling, and geo-specific mental images. This is definitely better explained through the video, so I'm going to leave you with that. To get the full experience, please visit the landing page first, either by pressing the portal on the top of the site, or by copying the bottom link.
Good luck...
(Links to echos tour and Website:)
I discovered THE OLXALS on the Echoes app https://explore.echoes.xyz/collections/OVqMcI42ZJVgox4R
https://cute-sherbet-80c6c9.netlify.app/
