The sound of the room

Room 4 is about how everything is connected. So everything in it talks to the sound.

Ride the slide, and a bird sings in the climate corner. Spin the house, a bird in the housing corner. Then the birds fly across the room to the cloud in the middle. Three thunderclaps in a row, and the greenhouse answers.

Under it all, a soft drone slowly circles the room.

• Mobility and skills: the tandem bike, the high five wall, ACE.
• Social: the social sustainability corner.
• The flowers: the yes button and its hymn.
• The cloud: thunder, and where the birds fly to.
• Housing: Spin the house.
• Climate: the slide and the scrap monster.

• A Python sample player listens to every installation in the room over MQTT, with rules for each: every time, at most every few seconds, or once per session.
• 87 birds, 53 hymn notes, 13 thunderclaps and a bed of running water.
• Six mono channels across two sound cards, run as two separate streams. More robust, open every day.
• The same bird can’t sing twice in three seconds. The drone pad circles the room on slow LFOs, 16 to 50 seconds a lap.
• The curator turns the whole room up or down from one knob.