Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] Toolkit

Mark Shepard, 2006

The Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] Toolkit is an open source software platform for cultivating public "sound gardens" within contemporary cities. It draws on the culture of urban community gardening to posit a participatory environment where new spatial practices for social interaction within technologically mediated environments can be explored and evaluated. Addressing the impact of mobile audio devices like the iPod, the project examines gradations of privacy and publicity within contemporary public space.

http://www.tacticalsoundgarden.net/

The Tactical Sound Garden Toolkit is a project by Mark Shepard with Fiona Murphy (Field Recording, Sound Production), Achint Thomas (Programming), Viral Modi (Programming), Ajeya Krishnamurthy (Programming), and Aaron Flynt (Programming).

The Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] Toolkit is funded in part by the New York State Council of the Arts and the departments of Architecture and Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo.