Jamming Gear is a concept gadget allowing you to control music through the tangible arrangement of gears. Each corresponding music loop is played in full with each complete rotation of a single gear.
(collaboration with Kenichiro Saigo)
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.
probably more interesting if you listen to the album first..
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“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.”
7 minute edit of AJ Fosik’s lecture at the 3rd Pictoplasma Conference 2009
sound is produced by electronic feedback, the pitch depends on the resistance.
by daniel skoglund
“Using a combination of RFID technology, Processing and Arduino, the speakers work as location aware controllers, allowing the user to interact with music and the environment by moving the speakers around.”
by Ulrik Andersen Hogrebe
synethesia
syn·es·the·sia syn·aes·the·sia (sĭn’ĭs-thē’zhə)
n.
A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.
A sensation felt in one part of the body as a result of stimulus applied to another, as in referred pain.
The description of one kind of sense impression by using words that normally describe another.
By Terri Timely (Ian Kibbey and Corey Creasey)
Sonic Wire Sculptor turns your 3D drawing into sound.
The Sonic Wire Sculptor is one of several works that the musician Amit Pitaru made around 2003 to explore basic conenctions between sound and visuals. Now available as an iphone app.
by Amit Pitaru 2003/2010