Seoul Hospital Noises and the orienting din of ambience
Michael Gallagher I was just today at the clinic (all is well) in Seoul at Severance Hospital and, arriving a bit early for my appointment, I sat in the main hall and…
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The contradictions of ambient audio: flip sides of a protest in Mapo, Seoul from the 23rd floor
I posted a few weeks ago on the use of Audioboo for ambient cityscape audio, capturing and geolocating audio clips from various parts of the city. Specifically, I was posting…
A Day in the Life: Audio dispatches from Seoul on January 6, 2012; an ambient backbone of a city
As I mentioned in my previous post, I am relatively enamored with the transformative effects of audio on understanding and sensemaking in new environments. I had written about how you…
The DMZ in Korea: from tragedy to conservation to bottled water
I had written a blog postover a year ago about the DMZ between North and South Korea as a nature preserve due to it’s lack of human contact for 60…
Orientation Seoul: mobile augments and disaggregates space; doesn’t negate it
Being a bit of a nomad, I have always ascribed to the belief that location matters less and less with each passing technologicial development, with each communication technology, with each…
Mobile history and data capture in the field: Hyun (현) family street in Insadong (인사동), Jongno Gu (종로구) in Seoul
I will spare everyone the ongoing epic poem I am crafting of my love for mobile learning, except to say that I did all of the following using only my…
Off to Insadong for some detective work for Hyun family: mobile learning in Seoul
Slight addendum to previous post. The Supyo address I was documenting yesterday was in fact the head of household address, ie my wife’s great-grandfather. After consulting the registry again, I…