sound is produced by electronic feedback, the pitch depends on the resistance.
by daniel skoglund

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

Fractions of a Second: An Olympic Musical

The NY times has an interactive info-graphic visualising the time separating athletes in each event.
I would like to have seen it with a different note for each event so as to produce a random score.

a step-sequencer that plays music based on camera input.
by Sebastian Rønde Thielke
info

Harvest by Alunda Kyrkokör (2009) from Olle Corneer on Vimeo.

Harvest (2009) – by Olle Cornéer and Martin Lübcke.

“In this performance Alunda Church Choir, conducted by Cantor Jan Hällgren, plays the soil of northern Uppland (in Sweden) on terrafon. Harvest by Alunda Kyrkokör was exhibited at the Volt Festival in Uppsala the 6th of June 2009. Terrafon is a large agricultural version of the horn gramophone, amplifying the sounds in the track it ploughs.”

found on CDM more pictures there…

OTTO ~ demo.01 from Luca De Rosso on Vimeo.

By Luca De Rosso

Images

found on CDM

The finished piece was shown as part of my exhibition back in June…

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sorting algorithms. make

holes in paper fascinates me.

It’s tragic that these will no longer be made. To think that they have been in production for so long, pre dating and outlasting every publicly available form of broadcast and recording media until now is incredible.

(from Make)