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)
“Radius Music combines ideas of cartography and graphic scores as a means to produce sound.
The device itself is an autonomous revolving machine that reads a distance value in real-time between itself and another object. As the machine slowly rotates and scans the room, it takes this radial distance and outputs it as a relative sonic frequency and a corresponding visual score.”
by Dave Young
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.
“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.”
sound is produced by electronic feedback, the pitch depends on the resistance.
by daniel skoglund
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
FINE COLLECTION OF CURIOUS SOUND OBJECTS
“The arrangement includes six exceptional exhibits from the world of sounds and acoustics. At first sight looking trivial, each object incorporates a very unique ability.”
Georg Reil and Kathy Scheuring, January 2010
images here…
Length and vertical position show the velocity, the stripe’s width reflects the length of each note.
Notes belonging to one specific tonality always get colors from one specific area of the color wheel.
see jonasheuer.de
for more video and information.
amazing.
a step-sequencer that plays music based on camera input.
by Sebastian Rønde Thielke
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