“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
sound is produced by electronic feedback, the pitch depends on the resistance.
by daniel skoglund
A crop circle measuring some 300 feet diameter has appeared in a field of oil seed rape near Wilton Windmill in Wiltshire. Lucy Pringle, crop circle researcher and author said: “I believe it contains binary. Working from the centre outwards, people are suggesting it has a connection to Leonhard Euler’s theorem e^(i)pi+1=0 which is thought to be one of the most beautiful theorems in mathematics. Historically over the years, crop circles have been associated with diatonic scales (white notes on the piano). These diatonic scale frequencies are encoded in each segment of the crop circle and can be played on the piano. This is a unique formation incorporating both music and mathematics and is similar in importance to the famous 2008 Barbury Castle Pi event” (Telegraph)
I’m pretty sure this would make a sick beat: 8 tracks.
I have been making turntable based drum machines using this method.
A simple ambient musicbox, with sounds generated using the orbital frequencies of our solar system.
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By Luke Twyman, Whitevinyl
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
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
info
miniorgan : GOOD PLAY, MUSIK LOK 1992.
relevant to this; something thats been left half built for the last year. It was the beginnings of a drum machine toy for kids.