Re: Sound Bottle captures ambient noise and remixes it into unique, unexpected tracks. The bottle’s cork interface controls when it both records and plays back the sounds it captured — a fun use of technology to enhance the soundtrack of everyday life.
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Playbutton is a wearable button containing an album or a mix that you can plug your headphones into to listen.
Collect sounds from everyday life and use this app to make music with them!
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Using Kinect, Romain Dumaine controls sound with gestures with an aim to enhance interaction between a DJ and the crowd.
Kinecthacks.com showcases other kinect/sound experiments.
A digital tool for letting out your frustration — just grab your iPhone, hold it tight and shake your fist!!!
These guys (formerly featured on the blog here: http://gspdigital.com/create-your-own-is-parade/) made the app, in their words, “as a way to release for our frustration with the uncertainty of post 3.11 Japan.” Check it out more here: tinyriot.jp
Contributed by Tomohiko Hayashi
There’s a new solution to a dead phone battery, and you can wear it on your body! That is, if you happen to be at a concert. And also have this crazy weird shirt. But the idea of using live sound waves to charge your phone — in this case, with the Orange Sound Charge T-Shirt — is fun, if a little impractical.
“Invoxicated” invites kids – and adults, really – to create and manipulate sound effects in a public space.
The Adidas MEGALIZER shoe lets you create your own beat with every step.
The sound-reactive Konstruct app uses an AR marker to produce virtual 3D sculptures with your iPhone.
http://apps.augmatic.co.uk/konstruct
It seems reminiscent of this project from 2003, a very cool piece visualizing sound in a playful way in the live performance context:
http://thesystemis.com/projects/mesa-di-voce/
Airpiano is a customizable musical instrument that responds to hand gestures.
via laughing squid