Fan + Walkman = Turntable
Nice idea using a few simple and cheap components. More info on the project homepage.
ball bearing music robot
Another instrument with ball bearings – this time robotic. Would be great trying to use this as a sequencer. Would make a great actuated BeatBearing!
More info on the project homepage.
[spotted on the MAKE blog]
OHP Sequencer
Always liked the idea of using an overhead projector for a sequencer, glad to see one in action!
Project by Blair Neal
[via: MAKE]
Bounce-Bearing
Just been tipped off about this flying ball-bearing music machine (thanks Ben!). Would be great to combine this with the BeatBearing somehow, there’s a lot of possible design variations…
BEARINGS GLOCKEN is a musical instrument that automatically performs a glockenspiel using steel ball for bearings, said to be the world’s most perfect sphere on earth.
The steel ball is finished into a nearly perfect sphere, and has the property of uninformly bouncing back, over and over.
BEARINGS GLOCKEN uses this property in a musical instrument.
Project website: http://www.bearings-glocken.jp/en/about/
paper, animation, sound
Really nice animation where each frame has been printed out on paper. I like the way that the virtual graphics have been made more tangible. Hopefully it won’t be long until e-ink looks this good!
Made by Benjamin Ducroz (….>>>ducroz.com)
Spotted on: CreativeApplications.Net
Duo Contour
Attended a Duo Contour concert in the Sonic Lab. Here’s some blurb from their website:
“duo Contour was formed in 1998 by the American percussionist Lee Ferguson and the English trumpeter Stephen Altoft following their participation on the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music, where they performed as soloists and as an ensemble. duo Contour have successfully collaborated with composers, artists and dancers, and have extended their performances through improvisation and new technologies.”
The duo played a mixture of jazz and soundtrack pieces. The instruments used included micro-tonal trumpet, percussion/drums, and a xylophone and marimba played simultaneously to mimic the rare xylorimba.
Mathew Adkins Performance
Listened to Mathew Adkins perform four electro-acoustic works in the Sonic Lab:
- Silk to Steel
- Vistas Pt1: Aerial
- Cortex
- five panels no1
Cortex had an accompanying video by Mike Almond. The combination of the sound and video had a very similar feel to Gantz Graf by Autechre