On August 15, 1945, Korea was freed from Japanese occupation, but the country was divided into two and […]
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According to Swedish designers Magnus Torstensson and Erik Sandelin, humans are “the decorated monkey”. We submit our bodies […]
Vinat Venkatraman and Pei Yu‘s Book Radio takes the mental model of a physical book where user can […]
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The MusicCube, a wireless cube-like object, renders more tangible several content attributes of Mp3 music. Play lists, music […]
KEE, designed by Miasnik Shira, is a motion based digital instrument for the performing arts. The user modifies […]
La Pâte à Son (means “sound dough” in french) allows anyone —even those with no training or previous […]
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In 1948, Yugoslav leader Tito broke up with Stalin and Russian films were suddenly not so popular anymore. […]
Catalin Lazia‘ Living Jukebox is a modular interface designed to browse, explore and experience music in your living […]
The Funkenschnorkel (corrupted German, adapted from “broadcasting snorkel”), by Andrew Zoz Brooks, is a backpack loudspeaker system for […]
“A Clocktave is a note scale to scratch with, with a range of multiple octaves. The notes of […]
The Lake is a sound and animation work by Julie Freeman based on the movement of fish that […]
String Thing, by Benjamin Dove, is a cello-like electronic instrument played by stroking or beating metal rods with […]
Tune Me is an immersive conceptual radio based upon tactile features. The sound and the visual are triggered […]
Synthecology, a tele-immersive collaborative project with a new architecture for virtual reality sound immersion to create a garden […]
In Sale Away, passers-by can conduct an “orchestra” of household devices via their mobile phones on a display […]
Despite music’s ubiquity, its role as an accompaniment to other activities – marching to battle, hoeing fields, repetitive […]
Ange, designed by Danielle Wilde, is a bodily mounted series of “ribs” with electronic sensors that enable a […]
Since May 6, visitors to the oldest maze in the world, Hampton Court Palace Maze can hear cymbals, […]
Theodore Watson‘s Audio Space allows you to leave messages in specific locations within the room. Wearing a headset […]
South Korean startup Plasma and Ion Beamhas plans to commercialize its paper-thin plastic film speaker technology developed back […]
Rare mixes, mastermixes, remixes, bootlegs and pirate radio from the mid 80s. Via Blography.
Mapamp uses existing structures and systems (architecture of a city, navigation and radio systems) to layer an artificial […]
Ellen Hackl Fagan and Konrad Kaczmarek’s Reverse Color Organ (RCO) enables viewers to explore synaesthesia, or sensory blending. […]
The Haptic Gloves allow their wearers to create musical compositions by linking hands together. Each participants wears the […]
The RadioActive project, by Aaron Zinman and Judith Donath, aims at enabling a forum for asynchronous discussion using […]
Japanese violin production company Alte Kobo has developed a violin as a speaker of an audio system. The […]
More from Cybersonica. Chris O’Shea presented another table to add to the list of musical tables. This one […]
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Researchers at Sydney University may have the solution to the biggest problem of the hearing impaired: how to […]
When listening to rock music, people make “headbangings”. They move (bang) their heads according to the riffs of […]
Another sonic instrument seen at Cybersonica: Orbe is a kinestheic synthesiser for group musical improvisation, created by London-based […]
White Noise/White Light, an interactive sound and light installation first presented in Athens for the Olympic Games, will […]
Cybersonica: Another installation of the someth;ng collective got me totally fascinated: midiBalls is based on Markus Quarta´s Interactive […]
Location33 investigates the potential for new types of music made possible by location tracking and wireless technologies. Listeners, […]
A wearable captioning system developed at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, which relies on mobile wireless technology, will […]
Players of Organum: The Game navigate through a human voice box using their own voices as game controls. […]
Mocean is a musical immersive environment that invites people to touch, stir and play with water in a […]
Bloc6tm is 3D application allowing networked users to navigate into a collaborative sound composition, through a series of […]
DARPA is working on the Advanced Speech Encoding project, aimed at replacing microphones with non-acoustic sensors that detect […]
Acoustic location was used during mid-WW1 for the passive detection of aircraft by picking up the noise of […]