Video Projection Mapping Makes a Building Sing and Dance

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.

Via Laughing Squid

Plastic Bag Installation

Interactive Music Videos

Broken Bells and Arcade Fire recently released interactive website experiences as music videos. Arcade Fire’s site is done as a Chrome Experiment showcasing the capabilities of HTML5. Broken Bells use Flash.

Pixel, A Pixel Art Documentary

A comprehensive history of the pixel aesthetic, from primitive gaming graphics to modern art.

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InkQuencer sound experiment

The InkQuencer is designed by Sebastian Rønde Thielke, as part of a Computational Design Class at The Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID).

It’s a sound experiment where you make beats by drawing patterns on a piece of paper and hold them up to a camera.

The teletransporter

Behold, this is cutting edge digital stuff! hehe

Introducing the Teletransporter – a sound proof booth that plays a selection of ambient sounds such as crickets, an ER room and a karate class for when you need to make that call to ‘report’ home on a night out.

Sync/Lost

Sync/Lost is an interactive installation that explores the history of electronic music. ‘From a complex timeline, rhythms and sub-rhythms merge to create new sounds.’ Users are able to see how different music styles are interconnected by interacting with different visual and audio affects through the interface.

The installation was developed in ‘Processing’ by 3bits labs.

World’s first iPhone orchestra

Students at the University of Michigan are learning to design, build and play instruments on their iPhones as part of a course called “Building a Mobile Phone Ensemble”. The course is taught by Georg Essl, a computer scientist and musician who has worked on developing mobile phones and musical instruments. He was among the first known to use the iPhone’s microphone as a wind sensor, which is what the Ocarina iPhone app is based on.

According to Essl “The mobile phone is a very nice platform for exploring new forms of musical performance. We’re not tethered to the physics of traditional instruments. We can do interesting, weird, unusual things.’

To build an instrument on an iPhone, you program the device to play back as sound information it receives from one if its multitude of sensors. The touch-screen, microphone, GPS, compass, wireless sensor and accelerometer can all be transformed so that when you run your finger across the display, blow air into the mic, tilt or shake the phone, for example, different sounds emanate. (via phsyorg.)

The Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble will be doing a free concert on Dec. 9. Read more about it here or check out their Facebook page.

Virtual gallery visualizer

Minivegas first caught my attention with their awesome real-time idents for Welsh network S4C, which required a staggering 50,000 lines of code and shooting live action to create!
Here’s another cool piece of work they’ve done – a visualizer controlled by sound / music and hand-motion gestures (via the webcam) which renders out digital sculptures in real time, inside a virtual gallery.

Soundsculpture

One Minute Soundsculpture by Daniel Franke.