PAKU PAKU

Paku Paku is an audio mash-up machine disguised as a real-world Pac-Man game. Custom circuits convert audio signals from local radio stations into light across an eight-by-eight-metre maze. Audience-controlled hover characters travel through it while photocells beneath their chassis read the illuminated frequencies and reinterpret them as audio. Moving among the light sources turns the characters into crossfaders, swapping between broadcasts to create collages of music, advertising and talkback: an aural snapshot of the surrounding community.