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Previous Idea

In a world where nearly everyone has a smartphone, which in many cases is used to play music, we ask why not know what everybody is listening to? The StreetBeat is an urban artistic display that senses what music is played near it and visualizes this music for the benefit of passers-by. It allows anyone to leave his or her own mark by having their music visualized as well as exploring and experiencing new music, played by others. To experience such music, you don't even need a smartphone, just plug in a pair of headphones. This isn't to say you can't take this music home on your phone, you're free to choose. Beyond these, StreetBeat also shows the musical "personality" or mood of where it's positioned, integrating data by artist or genre to share and display what's trending and who's popular.

StreetBeat will stand on the sidewalk in the city.
The red writing is LED lights moving around (Like in WallStreet), and it will display the last played song. The colorful "Pancakes" present the beat of the last played songs and the top part will display the genres/artists played on the street, according to the amount of times they were listened to. This part will be displayed like "bubbles" with the genre/artist name.

This was our first sketch

This was our concept video:

Itamar and Sharon filming the first concept video for StreetBeat

 We took photos of our character walking around in the city, listening to music. 

All our drawings, including some from our last design

Previous Scenario

Dean is 22 from Tel Aviv. On his daily walk to work, Dean always listens to Pop music, Britney Spears in particular.

In one of his walks, Dean walked next to the StreetBeat while listening to "Toxic" and saw his song's name appear on StreetBeat's LED screen. Dean, filled with self importance, stopped to watch StreetBeat's "musical pancakes" beat in different rhythms, and opened his app to check out which previous songs were listened to in Rabin Square. Dean chose to listen to the red pancake by choosing the red color on his smartphone's StreetBeat app, which promptly opened up Rihanna's "Please Don't Stop the Music". Having enjoyed Rihanna's single, Dean decided he should be more open to artists other than Britney.

As Dean was about to take off, he looked at the upper screen of the StreetBeat, and saw Britney's bubble grow, representing a rise in her popularity on the street.