Paper Speakers
Paper speakers from the MIT High-Low Tech lab. Great idea!
Project page: http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=1372
Video link: http://youtu.be/y1F5Gg4bG3o
Daito Manabe Sculpture
Interesting lit-up ball sculpture/sound work by Daito Manabe. Full info here:
http://daito.ws/dl/particles_0406.pdf
video link:
YouTube – particles at YCAM
Book of Stamps
The “Book of Stamps” is a travel guide between sonic landscapes fromcities to urban cultures. The sheets of the book provide a recordingsurface and the ink stamps provide the ability to place sounds in the book.Together they act as an interactive tangible interface for a variety of time based musical tasks that form a collaborative composition by its users. When the user turns the pages to other already stamped pages, it lends him or her the impression that they are actually traveling between different places.
Quote from YouTube: BookOfStamps PageTurning
Rec/Play Pen
I like the simplicity of this project by Oscar Diaz and Yuri Suzuki. One pen is filled with magnetic ink and has a record head that trails the line you draw. A second pen has a play head, that can play sounds from the magnetic lines. I spotted this project on the PixelSumo blog. More information and pictures can be found on the project page: here. Video below:
Font-Synth
Really liking the look of the MeekFM font-synth. It gives you hands on control of a fonts parameters, in a similar manner to an analogue synthesiser. The fonts also create sounds dependent on the shape, so allow audiovisual performance. Video of it’s operation below:
Carbon Turntable Sequencer
Liking the look of this turntable sequencer by Daniel Skoglund. There’s some more of his music on his myspace page (“kretsar” has a nice pops’n’clicks ambient vibe).
[via: Synthtopia]
Tape-Glove
Great way of directly connecting with sound.
“This interactive sound installation deals with exploring the physical connection between people and technology. A tangible user interface, taking the form of a glove is worn by the participant as they are invited to interact with an analogue tape surface. As the glove comes in contact with the tape, sound is generated and can be manipulated via touch and movement.”
More info and photos here: http://signaltonoise1.blogspot.com/
[via: Synthtopia]
What What gig at Lavery’s Bunker
What What played their debut gig at Lavery’s Bunker last night. WhatWhat consists of Matthew Rodger (guitars/vocals), Matt Green (keyboard/laptop/vocals), and myself (akai-pad/keyboard/kick-pedal). What What played support for Not Squares, who were also playing their debut gig. More info on What What at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/whatwhatband
Graphite Sequencer
An interesting sequencer project by Caleb Coppock that uses the resistance of a graphite drawing to generate tones.