[← Back to work](https://cheyuwu.com/work/) Project archive2019 # Song of Distances ![Song of Distances](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/mirror/0c4186fe803d.webp) Client Sonification made with GPS, Node.js, and Max Original date record 2019/3/15 Type Sonification Responsibilities Developer / Co-created with CHI PO-HAO, 2019 Contents & work details Client Sonification made with GPS, Node.js, and Max Original date record 2019/3/15 Type Sonification Responsibilities Developer / Co-created with CHI PO-HAO, 2019 ## Recognition Listening Machine Exhibition - Taipei Artist Village ## Project record “Song of Distances” is a participatory and algorithmic web-based music composition based on ubiquitous computing. It focuses on the concept of compressed time and space by transforming the positioning information into audible events. Each login session represented as a node in the topographic coordinate by granting access to GPS data by the user. The system continuously calculates the session period and relative distances between the center and each node to trigger the music, while the orientation affects the direction of the sound in the spatial audio setting. This piece gradually evolves with crowd participation as a collective experience on the Internet. The location data is streaming from **Socket.io, osc and sync on Firebase**. Connects to the external media service when you play. [Open in a new tab ↗︎](https://www.youtube.com/embed/zxO_XCBJuWQ) Instruction: 1. Scan the QR code and authorize the positioning request to connect to the system. 2. The topographic coordinate with a scanning radar shows the states and position of all connected sessions as nodes in real-time. 3. If the user keeps the webpage open and move to a distant location, the system will indicate the displacement of the node; if the user closes the webpage, then the node will become offline. 4. You can scan the QR code anywhere to reconnect to the system, which means you affect the music by means of mobility. ![Song of Distances](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/mirror/9178e59a3631.webp) ![Song of Distances](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/mirror/551398fd1873.jpg) ![Song of Distances](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/mirror/d9b69e59ea1e.jpg) ![Song of Distances](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/mirror/921ed3f7ca98.jpg) ## Context & sources - [Original project link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxO_XCBJuWQ&feature=emb_title) Exhibitions, research & collaborations [Contact the artist](https://cheyuwu.com/contact?work=Song+of+Distances&from=/project/-M0nSR_ahyfV-9jC9po_/) ## Continue through the work ![Selinko & Remy Martin APP UI Design](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/mirror/7531d981e357.webp) 03/2015-05/2015 ### Selinko & Remy Martin APP UI Design [https://cheyuwu.com/project/0](https://cheyuwu.com/project/0) ![Unleash the Future - n3xtcon brand design](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/mirror/af7e4d0a4c08.webp) 06/2017 – 12/2017 ### Unleash the Future - n3xtcon brand design [https://cheyuwu.com/project/1](https://cheyuwu.com/project/1) ![Taipei Metro Soundscape - Interactive Website](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/mirror/25e82a257f00.webp) 01/2017 – 03/2017 ### Taipei Metro Soundscape - Interactive Website [https://cheyuwu.com/project/-L3BAn3HOg8fE1jx5B79](https://cheyuwu.com/project/-L3BAn3HOg8fE1jx5B79) 1 / 0