Product designer Shane Kerwin has created a device that allows deaf people to “feel” music with their fingertips […]
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Miya Masaoka has worked with Madagascan cockroaches, the electrical signals from the bodies of ten naked Asian men, […]
You Say Potatoe, I say Potato. In this study of the sonic properties of Genetically Modified potatoes, two […]
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London-based artist Kaffe Matthews‘s Three Crosses of Queensbridge is a symphony for radios and bicycles. Replacing notes written […]
Howlin, by Marina Yanagisawa, is a unique musical instrument partly inspired by Theremine, one of the earliest electronic […]
TurntablistPC is an electronic and mechanical hybrid of turntable (gramophone) and an old pc. Several versions of TurntablistPC […]
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Make A Baby, by Lucky Dragons, is an ongoing series of experiments into the possibilities of using skin […]
Ã?ngeles Oliva and Toña Medina’s installation, Dolor Intenso, uses hairdryers-MP3 players to explore the relationship of repression, admiration, […]
The HandySinger system is a tool developed at ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories to naturally express a […]
With Playing the Building, David Byrne wanted to create an installation that would produce sound and would take […]
With Hidden Numbers, by Meghan Trainor, uses embedded RFID tags to trigger an audio database and illustrate a […]
Sound-suit is a wearable synthesizer controller. Sensors are strapped onto your elbows, wrists, and fingers. They translate your […]
“Once bound by cereal boxes, held in the pages of a magazine, wrapped up in envelopes sent through […]
Strainings is a tactile, sound and light installation contained in a silo. The many interpretations of the word […]
Cynthia Bruyns’s Vibration Lab is a software designed to simulate the sound of any percussive instrument, real or […]
… and other musical gems such as Win A Night Out With A Well-Known Paranoiac, Abominable Radio Gnome, […]
Sonic Constructs is a sound installation that uses Lego Mindstorms robots as musical instruments. Visitors participate by constructing […]
Carrie Bodle has turned MIT Building 54 into a giant speaker, resonating with sounds from the upper level […]
With the Facial Control for Electric Guitar project, David Merrill mapped the output of a real-time face-tracker onto […]
The G-Player (Global player), by German artist Jens Brand, works like a CD-player. But instead of playing CDs, […]
URBANtells is a mobile sound installation in which the user explores a neighborhood on foot, “data-diving” with a […]
Scrapple: A physical active score table, by Golan Levin, is a physical version of the screen-based Audiovisual Environments […]
Artist and composer Tristan Perich‘s new project is called One Bit Music. This low-fi musical device consists of […]
Developed by Sonic Studio, BodyRest is a wearable device (PDA + headphones + sensors) that produces customized music […]
OP_ERA: sonic dimension, by Daniela Kutschat and Rejane Cantoni, is an immersive installation designed as a music box. […]
Appendix2 features an alternative state of urban landscape. The multimedia exhibition consists of short video works and interactive, […]
Video Turntable, by miyakodub, is a machine that appears to be very similar to a regular turntable. You […]
Trans-Siberian Radio is a low-power FM station that will operate on the train from Moscow to Beijing via […]
Light_&_sound, by Natalie Bosco, transforms light waves into sound waves and back, creating an informations loop. Turning sound […]
In the series Bootleg Objects, Markus Bader and Max Wolf comment on technology, transformation and question the concept […]
Heaven Seed is a smart plastic ball that senses its movement and generates various sound effects in real […]
Oto Kinoko is a “sound shop” in Kyoto, which was produced by Kazumichi Fujiwara, the sound artist from […]
I visited the exhibition D.Day Modern Day Design at the Centre Pompidou in Paris this weekend. Have mixed […]
Nick Constantinou‘s Tremor tactile music sleeve is a piece of clubwear that allows the user to “feel” the […]
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The Zig Zag Musig Block is a three-block-structured visual music toy. Blocks are working as the sound controller […]
RNID, UK’s charity for deaf people and design magazine Blueprint are launching an exhibition of futuristic hearing aids […]
Drawn is a concert-performance in which live painting is augmented in real time, the painted forms appear to […]
TENORI-ON (sound on your palm) is a novel personal digital instrument for playing sound and ambient light patterns. […]
Camera Lucida is an interactive “sonic observatory” that converts sound waves into light by means of a phenomenon […]