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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/

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/

Audio graffiti

by Mike Wozniewski

http://mikewoz.com/blog/

Audio Graffiti is a multi-user music installation that explores new modes of sonic interaction, afforded by the latest in locative technologies. Several mobile users may create and explore a gradually evolving collage of audio recordings, “stuck” to real walls in urban environments.

prostheticknowledge:

Ritornell for Musicbox (via Creative Applications)

Business cards that are folded sheet music for winding musicboxes:

Designed by Katharina Hölzl, the following are very special business cards for Ritornell, experimental music duo. The cards were inspired by the project’s live show where Ritornell invited the audience to bring along their private musicboxes. With the aid of laser cutter, nine micro compositions consisting of circles, triangles and Ritornell’s contact information were cut onto a long musicbox paper stripe.

Before handing out the cards to interested adressees, each individual subdivision is played back via an especially designed musical box – thus providing every business card receiver with a tailor made musical experience.

More information and links to the project can be found here.

The Funklet

It’s a booklet of twenty classic beats.  Each beat gets a page. The notation looks good and offers a little more information than standard notation.  

Drummers can dig the accurate transcriptions.  Cats who don’t read standard notation can gain a better understanding of the classics.  Beat-makers can program with these nuggets.  Design cats’ll dig it.

Dial in C

http://www.dominofactory.net/works/dial/dial.html

Hiroshi Matoba, NOBUhiko Furuta

Music could be understood as a four dimensional (three dimensional space + time axis) phenomenon of vibrating air. But usually it is converted into two dimensional formats, due to the limitation of paper or the understandability for human beings.

Most of the data in original phenomenon will be discarded or compressed by converting or clamping the value into a simple form. For example traditional five-line staff notation has two parameters as X-Y axis, pitch and timeline. A musician made complex air movement in space but it is written down just as black or white circles which describe the specific frequency which in addition is only the base of a continuum of frequency. A musical score is just one way of how to expressing air movement from a particular point of view, but we hold it an absolute system and keep using, except for some graphical scores in the 20th century/contemporary classical music.

The notation system which could be called language of music might limit our idea of music, much like language strongly influences the understanding of our surroundings. It might be possible to make completely new style music we never heard by rethinking and redesigning the notation system.

We focused on circular notation systems as opposed to the linear notation system and developed handmade software named “dial”. dial is performed with multi-screen projection and 6.1ch surround sound system to extend its circular movement to real space. dial provides new ways to make poly-rhythmic structure and control complex phase shifting via controlling circular interface.

Our goal is to emerge music as highly abstracted systems of parallel interlaced circular/cyclic movement like the world.

illucia:a modular codebendinginstrument

http://www.paperkettle.com/home/illucia/

via…

http://www.creativeapplications.net/

bashford:

Jordi Parra has made an RFID triggered Spotify player.

“In a nutshell the objects consists of Processing sketch, Arduino and an RFID reader. Each RFID tag can be assigned to a Spotify link, album, artist or search. When the tag is placed on the reader, an ID-12, it sends a trigger to Processing and triggers an AppleScript that will take over Spotify and play whatever is linked to that tag. The processing sketch can also retrieve the information about the track that is being played. For doing so, a packet sniffer is checking all the internet packets sent from the computer and whenever it finds something being sent to Last.fm, it grabs it and parses the track information (artist, album, title and length).”

You can read more about it at Creativeapplications and on Jordi’s project blog.

(Source: prostheticknowledge)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gregsurges/tabularasa-diy-digital-wavetable-oscillator?ref=spotlight

The tabulaRasa is a digital wavetable oscillator with voltage control of frequency, waveform selection, and the amount of interpolation between waveforms. The tabulaRasa consists of two components: a hardware synthesis module which can integrate into a modular synth system, and a software application which allows the user to create their own custom waveforms. These waveforms are then transferred from the computer to the tabulaRasa module through a standard SD card slot.

For more information, images, and audio samples, visit

http://gregsurges.com/circuitry/tabularasa/