Laoban Infinite Baffle 2011
Cost to ship: guesstimate: 2k
Price asking: 10k
First round of places to contact:
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Cities
Singapore
Schools: 1. Yon Siew Toh Conservatory of Music http://music.nus.edu.sg/ contact: Kawai Shiu - Dan's friend
2. School of the Arts - Singapore http://www.sota.edu.sg/
3. LaSalle College of the Arts http://www.lasalle.edu.sg/
4. Egg Story Digital Arts School http://www.esdaa.com.sg/index.php
5. Orita Sinclair - School of design, new media & the arts http://orita-sinclair.edu.sg
6. Tisch School of the Arts - Singapore http://www.tischasia.nyu.edu.sg/page/home.html
Museums/Galleries: 1. National Museum of Singapore http://www.nationalmuseum.sg/120years/event_5pieces_bio.html
2. Singapore Art Museum http://www.singaporeartmuseum.sg/
3. Singapore Art Gallery Guide http://www.sagg.com.sg/page/
Other venues: 1. The Substation - Independent contemporary arts centre http://www.substation.org/ This looks cool.
Beijing
A lot of content here: http://www.aliak.com/content/beijing-digital-arts-and-sound-art-links
China Central Academy of Fine Arts http://www.cafa.com.cn/ http://www.cafamuseum.org/en/Overview
Other venues: 1. 798 Space http://www.798space.com/index_en.asp Looks like an ideal space.
2. Soka Art Center - Three locations: Beijing, Taipei, Tainan http://www.soka-art.com/
Taiwan
Universities: Museums/Galleries: Other venues: Guangzhou: Universities: Museums/Galleries: Other venues: Taipei: Universities: 1. Taipei National University of the Arts - Center for Art and Technology http://1www.tnua.edu.tw/dept3/super_pages.php?ID=dept33
Museums/Galleries: 1. Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts http://www.kmfa.gov.tw/home01.aspx?ID=1
2. Museum of Contemporary Art - Taipei http://www.mocataipei.org.tw/_english/index.asp
3. Taipei Fine Arts Museum http://www.tfam.museum/?sid=1
4. Digital Art Center, Taipei http://www.dac.tw/AboutDAC_En.html
5. 台北當代藝術中心| Taipei Contemporary Art Center http://www.tcac.tw/
Other venues: 1. Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival http://container.khcc.gov.tw/English/home01.aspx?ID=1
2. tranSonic 2011 http://transonic2010en.blogspot.com/
Press packet
http://laoban-soundsystem.com/ Note: Add video to this site.
Letter
Dear _______,
It is with great pleasure that I introduce to you Laoban Soundsystem's Infinite Baffle. The first open source sound system shipping container. Great for live events, Infinite Baffle consists of 32 speakers bolted onto the entrance of a standard shipping container. We want to ship this work to you for your shows and events. It would take about a month to ship anywhere in the world, and you have a great news-getter for live events in front of your favorite gallery, space, or show.
More about Infinite Baffle
Infinite Baffle is designed to fit inside any standard container regardless of its place or manufacture. Upon installation a temporary seal or gland is applied to join the two structures in order to separate the in phase and out of phase sound waves.
Within the field of audio engineering an ‘Infinite baffle’ is a speaker cabinet design in which the driver unit is completely enclosed, or cut off from the surrounding space. The length of the container tunes the output, therefore the unique space of each container will determine the baffle's sonic range. The audio fidelity of this device is raw. Shipping containers were designed to keep out the elements and thieves, prior to containerisation in 1968 nearly one 3rd of all goods were ‘lifted,' lost, or stolen in transit.
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Laoban Soundsystem (http://en.qihardware.com/wiki/Laoban_Soundsystem) are open sound systems designed by Matt Hope (http://matthope.org/) and Jon Phillips (http://rejon.org), all fabricated in China (http://fabricatorz.com/projects/laoban). They are Qi Hardware (http://qi-hardware.com/) with 100% copyleft plans available under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0). They are fun.
If this sounds like something you, or your organization might be interested in please contact us at: info@laoban-soundsystem.com Or visit us online: http://laoban-soundsystem.com
Thank you for your time.
