Everybody hears about 10.000 different sounds on a normal day, ca. 80% of it gets blanked by our brain to concentrate on the few important sounds. A great deal of noise in every day life we absorb in privacy. Unlike people that live with a partner or their family singles are way more sensible to rumors and therefore are aware of a lot more sounds that happen in the privacy area than the people that live accompanied. Simply because there is way less sound produced if you stay alone.
But by no means have rumors that get blanked out by our brain no effect on us - far from it! Sounds can stimulate us in a positive or aswell negative way, even if we dont notice them at all. They can create realaxation, stress or even anger - completely subliminal. Just aswell a certain sounscape and acoustic level can effect that we feel company or solitude. The typing sound of the keybord produced by our partner next door, cooking sounds or even our neighbors lawnmower can create a kind of social atmosphere - even if were not aware of them.
Therefore many singles turn on their radio or TV if they are at home, often without paying actually attention to it, just because radio and TV consistently produce sound. So, its safe to say one can create a feeling of security by generating a certain soundscape. Another, very important, fact about feeling secure is continuousness, because it provides reliability. A quality singles often consider as very positive. On this account AUDIOMATES combines the appearance and the funktion of a speaker and a clock. A certain sound gets played every hour, wich doesn’t serve as time indicator, but helps to create that aforesaid soundscape. The sound samples suggest company, the link to time generates realiability and security. This creates an atmosphere that helps singles to feel less desolate.
AUDIOMATES combines those features in shape and function. The realisation as bipartite series allows to cover both, livingroom and bedroom. Therefore it generates the soundscape where we spent the most time at home.