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Soundmachines by The Product

http://www.the-product.org/soundmachines

An instrument for performing electronic music

Three units, which are resembling standard record players, translate concentric visual patterns into control signals for further processing in any music software. The rotation of the discs, each holding three tracks, can be synced to a sequencer.

The Soundmachines premiered on the Volkswagen New Beetle stand at the IAA motor show in late Summer 2011. In cooperation with the sounddesigner/producer Yannick Labbé of TRICKSKI fame, we developed three unique discs, each controlling one track of an Ableton Live Set exclusively made for the Event. The show was supported by a set of realtime generated visuals, running on a 25m wide LED wall.

One/One oneone-studio.com

TheProduct* http://www.the-product.org/

©2011

Client

Volkswagen

Agency

Vok Dams, Hamburg

Sounddesign/Producer IAA

Yannick Labbé http://www.yannicklabbe.com/

Special Thanks

Matt Karau http://matt.karau.com/

Andreas Schmelas http://invertednothing.com/

Waveshaper

http://waveshaperapp.com/

ReDigi

https://www.redigi.com/home.html

ReDigi.com short for Recycling Digital Music - Rather than discarding music on your harddrive. We are not interested in melting down plastic, turning objects into other objects and so on.. all we are interested in is your MUSIC! We just want to take your unwanted or unused music and reuse them by finding a place where they can continue to provide benefits to others that can appreciate all that we have to offer on ReDigi.com Simply said, we will buy all your mp3 files right from your computer! The future is here, a new marketplace for people to buy new music and sell their used music.

DAIKU Generative Beethoven

Marc Tiedemann

http://www.marc-tiedemann.de/2011/12/animation-daiku/

e3lm:

إعلم عزيزي القارئ أن الصوت يمكنه تحريك الأجسام، ففي هذه التجربة تقوم ترددات الصوت بتحريك السطح الذي يقوم بدوره بتحريك الرمال الملونة لتشكل بذلك فنّاً جميلاً

(Source: Laughing Squid)

Versus

by

David Letellier

http://www.davidletellier.net/

Versus is a sound installation consisting of two kinetic sculptures placed face to face.

Each sculpture is made out of 12 triangular panels, hinged and powered by six linear actuators, controlled by a specific program. At the center of each corolla, a loudspeaker and a microphone allow to play and record sounds.

At regular intervals, each sculpture produces a sound, simultaneously recorded and analyzed by the opposite sculpture, which then moves according to the frequencies of this sound.

Like a feedback loop, it then plays back the recorded sound, with the errors and disturbances caused by the reverberating space and the visitors.

By intervening in this conversation, the viewer becomes an actor, as he degrades the communication by his presence and the noises he produces. As the panels move back and forth at a pace determined by the environmental sound, they create a non-immediate interaction, where the imperfections of reproduction are becoming creative elements.

The original sound is continuously transformed, and becomes something entirely new and unpredictable. The memory of past events is hold for a moment, until it’s reproduced, degraded, and then forgotten, replaced by the present.

microhom:

An installation for used cassette players which looks on their obsolescence not as an ending, but as an opportunity to reconsider their functional potential. Superseded as playback devices, they become instruments in their own right. Replacing the prerecorded content of each tape with a microphone gives us the chance to listen instead to the rhythmic and resonant properties of these once ubiquitous plastic shells. Binatone Galaxy brings the framework within which a generation purchased their favourite records to the centre of attention, revealing the acoustics of the cassette and the voices of the machines themselves.

http://www.scrawn.co.uk/current.html

Voice lessons by John Keston

Voice Lessons is an electronic, audio device that interrogates the popular myth that every musical instrument imitates the human voice. Touching the screen allows the participant to manipulate the visuals and vocalizations of the “voice teacher” as he recites vocal warm up exercises. 

The piece resides in the space between a musical instrument and voice lesson. Move the touch point left, right, up, and down to explore the visual and auditory possibilities. Rapid high pitched loops occur while touching near the top of the screen while lower pitched longer loops are heard near the bottom.

The actor, also named John Keston, is the artist’s retired father who became a voice teacher after a long career on stage in plays, operas, and musicals with the Royal Shakespeare Company in his native country England and abroad.

32” Interactive Touch Screen Installation (2011)

By John Keston while a graduate student at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design

via

http://unearthedmusic.com/uem/