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.
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A while back, someone figured out that Google Translate also works as a beatbox. Google noticed and now the button label switches from ‘Listen’ to ‘Beatbox’.
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This use of video projection mapping tranforms a building into a twisting, bouncing, dancing machine. It’s also interactive; as audience members direct sounds into microphones, a massive face on the surface of the building appears to sing them.
Created by French architecture firm 1024 Architecture, PERSPECTIVE LYRIQUE was featured as part of the Lyon Festival of Lights in 2010.
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