otamatone wahha gogo
by Maywa Denki ………got this today for ¥500 (like 3 quid)
based on the original wahha gogo which mechanically replicates vocal chords…
Maywa Denki make many sound pieces as well as commercial sound toys products etc.
amon tobin: foley room
probably more interesting if you listen to the album first..
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kinetic instruments
“The Machines invite an audience to share the experience of their creator. He aims to exploit the complexity found behind the workings of most digital music and present it as a more accessible equivalent. These Machines do not intend to match human potential. Instead they exist to test the advantages of mechanical instruments alone.”
Marco Fusinato
Mass Black Implosion (The Immovable Do, Percy Grainger) 2008
ink on archival facsimile of score
drawings for 0_King variations
2004
10 ink drawings on drafting film
31.5 x 31.5cm each, (80 x 60cm framed)
Stéphane Vigny
Octodons’mix 2003
Objects + live animals
This is a device activated by three DJing degus (rodents of South America). The set is presented vertically. The two degus, left and right of the image, turning in their wheel each activate a turntable. The third animal, center, operates the crossfader of the mixer, which determines the sound distribution. That is to say that it is possible to hear, according to the position of the crossfader, one or other of the plates or both simultaneously. The resulting sound is so driven at random. It operates on the goodwill of these animals. (google translation from french)
Speakers acoucoustique 2006
TurntablistPC – mogens jacobsen
by mogens jacobsen 2005
“TurntablistPC is a server which third-party websites can access. A small file is hosted on the TurntablistPC. Subscribing websites place a short piece of code on their pages. This code sends information to the TurntablistPC. When somebody visits one of the subscribing websites, the TurntablistPC spins the record.
Control is remote and hidden. But output – audio – is local only (through speakers in the TurntablistPC).
The location of the remote website controls the direction of the spin. If the website is located east of the TurntablistPC, it spins clockwise. If it is located west of the TurntablistPC, the spin is counterclockwise.
The distance to the visiting user determines the amount of spin. If you are near the TurntablistPC, you will only scratch the vinyl. If you are far away, it will play a whole section of the record.”
AJ Fosik – artists talk
7 minute edit of AJ Fosik’s lecture at the 3rd Pictoplasma Conference 2009
graphite sequencer
sound is produced by electronic feedback, the pitch depends on the resistance.
by daniel skoglund