I want to be a sound intercepter/sound collector

Still interested in the changes of personal spaces and the focus on the self brought on by technology and consumerism (cell phones, i pods, lap tops), I am interested in the idea of WIRELESS, and mobility.  These technological conditions of the current world have brought people together in a different way, as much as it has dispersed, and I believe that the sense of "sociality" has changed. Although, it may not be noticeable because these changes are concur with our own lives; we view these changes as we live them, which is much different than coming to the present day from the 1800's.

To remark the current "sociality", I have decided to recruit the senses of mobility and the wirelessness of pico to fabric a hybrid between an interactive costume and a sculptural object to push the relationship between people in a space and what is happening to it in this digital age.  My intention is not negatively criticizing technology, or the current sociality between people, I am simply asserting the SENSE OF HEARING and the SENSE OF SIGHT to pave a way in the invisible realm of wireless technology and reflect or collect (which I will explain) the sounds of people to send off my own affect on a space.  For instance, if a group of people are talking, how would they respond if a human being wearing or holding a disc collecting their noises  reflected them off to by-passing individuals?  Does collecting sound create positive spaces or negative spaces? How will my own presense affect the space, as a trespasser and a reflector? Do I have to get close to people or can the nature of sound and sight affect people from a distance?  Would I be stealing information, in a sense?

My vision is to be able to wear MATERIAL with the most sound reflective capabilities.

I originally wanted to create sound discs, but I felt that it might be too much of a visual quality.  The Pico blocks will function to give motion to the reflectors and collectors to move them at random or towards people, I have yet to decide.  If the choice is to have the attention of the collectors towards groups of sounds or people, I would then be interested in using Infra Red Tracking.  

My struggle with interactive work is this awareness of the otherside of the work, which is the hardware.  Engineering will be the struggle.  Aesthetically, I don't want my hardware to exist entirely in the secret realm "back stage", nor, is it going to be dangling around my face. 

COUNTER PROJECT: make sound stop

or use it in a way that it cannot be

identified as a sound

(on the thoughts of EMP...)