With the see-through concrete screen we are forced to rethink our ways of production and communication in an infinite number of situations. Maybe we will soon have the choice between paper-thin electronic screens and solid walls directly displaying the revenue-generating ads. Maybe aesthetic qualities will now be challenged by building components with properties beyond [...]
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Toriton Plus is an audio instrument which is controlled by touching water and unbelievably it’s a DIY product. The waves on water produce audio. You can find the recipe to do it here.
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The Laser harp by Jen Lewin, Blue Ink Studio is playing with the relationship between the physical and the digital, the virtual and the real. The "Laser Harps" is an immersive instrument and installation using movement and laser light to trigger sound. On her website she explains: “The use of light instead of a physical string plays with our perception of space and matter. What is physically not there (the virtual string), responds as if it were”.
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With the advent of new technologies, there appear new concepts. Here’s a new phone/keyboard hybrid for Skype.
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Alex Dragulescu: Spam Architecture (detail) / Spam Plants (detail)
Romanian artist Alex Dragulescu turns data sets into raw materials for the generation of tantalizing 2D and 3D forms. Rather than scientific visualization intent on clarifying the content of the data, Dragulescu creates graphic and temporal compositions notable for their strong graphic qualities.
Spam Architecture is one project that has garnered much attention recently. Here spam is translated into three-dimensional form by analysing keywords and patterns in the text. Like its sibling project Spam Plants, it explores the mapping of textual data into spatial configurations.
All trace of the original data source is absent in the final result. No reference to the textual material remains, nor of the analytical process involved. Instead, a single coherent form is presented, with no signifiers indicating its origin. In this sense, the spam data could be said to simply constitute an arbitrary pseudo-random data input, with the result bearing no semantic connection to the raw material that it was generated from.
Dragulescu does not provide clues or any rational way of evaluating the nature of the mapping. But nor does he make a claim to producing literal meaning. Hence the viewer is free to enjoy the results as a complex formal experiment in which spam undergoes a process of transsubstantiation, transformed from a source of irritation into intriguing objects of great beauty.
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a bit too realistic?
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If you’re in need of a recommendation engine like Pandora or Last.FM, try Musiclens, which can give you recommendations and actually stream them when you use their visual menu, to give the details of the music you prefer like volume, tempo, age, mood and colour. Innovative approach and good music with yet another personal radio [...]
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Amie St. is a new web2.0 application & music business model. A music promotion / recommendation service which gives you money/credit for music that you recommend to your friends. “Artists can upload their music to Amie Street for promotion and sale. Users form social networks with friends, listen to, and purchase music. All songs are [...]
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Impressive new technologies coming in a few years. The first one is the 3D Google by UK designer Pei Kang Ng, which may be real in 5 to 10 years (hopefully), and works by taking pictures in real life so you don’t have to sit in front of your computer all the time.
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Pianographique is a wonderful audio/visual instrument. Basically it’s a sampler with built-in samples and loops that has matching video clips as well, you can use your computers keyboard like a samplers buttons and when you press different buttons various sound and video clips play. The clips are chosen well, so that they usually fit [...]
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