Planetary, a new app for iPad from Bloom Studio, Inc., allows you to travel through a solar system made up of your iTunes library — imagine all your albums as planets! Your favorite artists orbiting in their own universe! Celestial technology at its best.
The Adidas MEGALIZER shoe lets you create your own beat with every step.
Airpiano is a customizable musical instrument that responds to hand gestures.
via laughing squid
Barcodas is an iPhone app that translates barcodes into a sound sequence. Just scan and listen.
via Creative Applications Network
Click on some cells, press play and you’ve got a pleasant little electronic composition. Click boxes again and you can change the cells’ directions, causing them to interact, sometimes creating evolving patterns and oscillations. And like any good bit of media these days, you can even share your piece with the rest of the world. Rad!
http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata
Contributed by Jeb Tankersley
Thumbs up or thumbs down music to communally control the tunes playing at a bar.
Contributed by Sara Becker
Police radio from different cities is layered over ambient tracks and photos borrowed from Flickr.
Such a simple idea, with limited interactivity, but there’s something so beautiful about this execution.
It’s almost an experiment in what is public domain on the web.
http://youarelistening.to/sanfrancisco
Contributed by Katy Hill
“Conductor,” a new HTML5/JavaScript project by Alexander Chen of Google Creative Labs, tracks the movement of the NYC subway system and produces the twangy sounds of a stringed instrument when train paths intersect. You can also use your mouse to interact with the strings to add your own flair to the music.
Via Mashable
Taking the sugary fakeness of pop stardom to a new level, Japan’s new holographic pop star Hatsune Miku is a dancing and singing 3D projection with a voice made from a synthesizer.
Via Flavorwire
An enchanting light painting video that captures long exposures of light sources as they spin around a turntable.
Via Laughing Squid