Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures the latest audio installation by vtol, dervish. pseudo turntable is a manual or autonomous glitch controller, built around a turntable and vinyl LP. vtol describes it as an ‘expressive abstract paintings convertor’.
Reader Shahneze Tsouria let us know about the Bobbyland automata orchestra, a project combining music, DIY and digital arts. Here’s the official description of the project:
Tangible Orchestra is an interactive light and sound installation, created by Picarøøn, that combines electronic and classical music, controlled and perceived individually in a three-dimensional space.
Theometrica is a generative sound synthesis instrument inspired by acupuncture. Created by Oscar Palou & Alexander Müller-Rakow, Theometrica is a sound interface designed to explore “the relation of ethnologic, geometric graphics and generative sound synthesis”.
Reader Devin Curry teamed up with Ben Gullard to create the Percussion Kitchen, an electronic rhythm instrument based on kitchen items – along with robotics and Arduino control. The duo set out to create something whimsical and fun to play. They started with a variety of kitchen items, ranging from a cheese grater to tupperware. The created a… Read More Kitchen Items + Robotics + Arduino Control = The Percussion Kitchen
Reader Matt Fellers writes, “I saw this amazing installation at the Church of San Lorenzo in Venice Italy this summer.” Cordiox, by Ariel Guzik, is a complex machine, four meters in height, which describes the environment through sound. This is due to its two complimentary elements: on one hand, 180 long, tense chords distributed throughout three… Read More Cordiox ‘Describes The Environment Through Sound’
Reader Jay Kim sent word of a new audiovisual installation, inspired by John Cage: Variations II of Variations II is a kinetic sculpture inspired by John Cage’s Variations series. Cage’s Variations II is a graphical composition that generates musical events using measurements of distance between dots and lines on a piece of paper. In my realization… Read More Variations II Of Variations II
Archifon is a big interactive virtual musical instrument, created by The Macula Project, originally made for the Olomouc Baroque de-baptized chapel. Architectural elements within the chapel are turned into laser-controlled triggers by mapping a virtual surface to the chapel’s interior. Up to ten visitors at a time can interact with the Archifon through the laser pointers.… Read More Does This Laser-Controlled Musical Church Satisfy Your Need For Audio-Visual Nihilism?
DJ Lux (DJ Light) is an immersive public sound and light installation that gives visitors the power to orchestrate a performance of light and sound across a large public space. The installation consists of 85 giant globes of light, each capable of displaying millions of colours. As the “guest DJ” assumes their position on the… Read More DJ Lux (Gorgeous Interactive Audio + Visual Installation)
OT: Fantasie No. 1 For Mobile Pianos, by Joe Winter, may be the antidote to music installations that take themselves a bit too seriously: Five modified toy pianos circulate the gallery on five elevated wooden tracks. Each piano is equipped with small speakers to play amplified sounds picked up from conductive tape on the tracks. Each… Read More Fantasie No. 1 For Mobile Pianos
