Projected Auscultation

Projected Auscultation is a theoretical proposition which explores the creation of a social network connected only by the projected sounds of the human body.

Internal sounds are picked up by a microphone, amplified, and projected into the surrounding space. Simultaneously they are projected out to a network of locations around the city (or globally?) and amplified into these other public spaces as well.

Modified urban furniture could potentially serve as points of connection/collection of body sounds in the public realm. There are a number of different ways that this type of biometric data could be collected...perhaps even with an app for a smart phone.
 

Sounds captured at point "A" are projected at various locations as "a" 

Meanwhile, sounds captured at point "B" are projected at various locations marked "b", creating overlapping conditions. 

And so on...

A (low-quality) simulated audio experienced can be accessed here:


At any given moment there may be multiple people connected to this web of auscultation. In this way, when you participate, you become connected to the public solely through the acoustics of the inner body.  You are able to hear your own individual characteristics in conjunction with others, and subsequently, you are contributing to the formation of a temporary and constantly changing social network of displaced sounds.