waves to waves to waves

by damian stewart and chris sugrue, 2008. “Waves to Waves to Waves visualises and sonifies ambient electromagnetic energy. Human-generated electromagnetic waves are traveling over, around and through us all the time. Wifi, cellphones, radio, and television broadcast all create electromagnetic fields that are ‘loud’ compared to the natural background, but imperceptible to the human senses. This invisible world is alive with activity that directly reflects our growing relationship to and dependence on, technology.”

Klanghelm

by Satoshi Morita. “While the sound is recorded its perspective is designed by means of the microphone as an ‘extended ear’ and while listening by means of the loudspeaker as ‘mirrors of the ear’. The transducer which is built into the ‘Sound Helmet’ adds the tactile perception. All this makes sound tangible. [..] Klangkapsel / Sonic Helmet” provides a new way of listning to sound - with unique auditory spatial perception and tactile perception through three audio channels. It’s open for collaboration with sound artists, musicians and composers.”

Portable Forest

by David Wicks. “Portable Forest is a jacket that brings a riparian habitat to your current location. As you zip up the jacket, bird calls begin to echo around you. [..] By zipping up the jacket, you create not only physical and thermal barriers to your environment, but also a new sonic environment around yourself. The further the jacket is zipped up, the stronger and more varied the forest sounds become.”

TIP TAP 2

works by Yuri Suzuki. Tip Tap 2” has an element of performance but has not an element of composition.
The control box has a microphone inside then player can beatbox then it can record and play back with TipTap. It can change control the tempo.” video, more works

d-touch

“d-touch is a visual markers recognition systems that enables the development of low-cost tangible user interfaces and mixed reality applications. d-touch supports markers that are both machine-readable and visually communicative to humans.”

via createdigitalmusic.com

GCE-2

a gestureSynth device by Mouse & the Billionaire. a music controller that explores the relationship between movement, physical space and musical performance. video. read the whole article about handmade music over at Create Digital Music including more coverage about dynamic musical interfaces and instruments.

blipfestival

Archaic game and home computer hardware is recast into the unlikely role of musical instrument and motion graphics workstation in the BLIP FESTIVAL 2008, a four-day event showcasing nearly 40 musicians and visual artists occupying the international low-res cutting edge.

Playing the Building

by David Byrne. Playing the Building, a 9,000-square-foot, interactive, site-specific installation, a massive sound sculpture.

“The project consists of a retrofitted antique organ, placed in the center of the building’s cavernous second-floor gallery, that controls a series of devices attached to its structural features—metal beams, plumbing, electrical conduits, and heating and water pipes. These machines vibrate, strike, and blow across the building’s elements, triggering unique harmonics and producing finely tuned sounds.”

Wall piano

by interactive design group sounds.butter “A computer connected with two sensors which attached on the wall. The computer is able to translate the vibration into music notation. The entire wall becomes a playable piano.”