June 24, 2005

Groovy Tunes

I've noticed that in some areas of road, there are lines cut in it every 10cm or so. When you drive over it at a set speed, there is a distinct note that sounds. Something to do with resonation and tyres and so on.

What I want to do is, experiment with different spaces between the grooves. I should imagine, the closer together the grooves, the higher-pitched the sound. If that's true, then you could take a straight piece of boring road and turn it into a musical road!

Tomorrow I am going to search for someone in roading to email with this idea for a tourist attraction/art project.

(You could have, as well as those "Welcome to Small Town!" signs, a "Welcome to Small Town!" tune, and in black spots, the Jaws theme might be more effective than those little white crosses.)

Posted by phreq at June 24, 2005 08:20 PM | TrackBack
Comments

inpirational, i like it! this can be taken to further (il)logical extenstions. i was imagining cars being fitted with the equivalent of a gramaphone needle that touched the road and plays warning messages at certain points.

Posted by: tc at June 28, 2005 08:03 AM

Ah! Or even make a GPS unit compulsory in all cars, so it can say things like "Warning! Warning! Dr Smith says slow down." or "It is indeed a disturbing right hand turn up ahead."

Posted by: phreq at June 28, 2005 10:40 AM
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