“Stanley” the Interactive Piano Takes Song Requests On Twitter!
“Stanley”, the interactive piano, will be taking song requests through its Twitter account @StanleyPiano. Make them now because he’ll only be playing from July 20-22!
This fun piano was created for Seattle’s Capitol Hill Block Party by creative agency Digital Kitchen.
Learn more about “Stanley” The Piano at stanleypiano.com
Museum of Endangered Sounds.
Make your own electronic musical symphony using sounds of endangered technology and see how many of them you’re actually familiar with. Try not to feel too old.
The Museum of Endangered Sounds is operated and created by Brendan Chilcutt. He launched this site in January 2012 as a way to preserve the sounds made famous by old technologies and electronics.
Source: savethesounds.info
Breathtaking! Lighting the Sails on Sydney Opera House.
Multi-award winning German design collective URBANSCREEN transformed Sydney Opera House with their Lighting of the Sails.
Visit the URBANSCREEN website to see more of their artistic and architectural projections.
Source: play.sydneyoperahouse.com
Interactive Musical Wall Brightens Hospital Spirit.
Montreal-based interactive media specialists Moment Factory created a musical wall to stimulate childrens’ imaginations as they wait for their doctor’s appointment at the CHU Ste-Justine Hospital.
The experience begins when hospital visitors touch the wall. By moving their hands and fingers around, they produce vibrant lines and shapes that trace their movement and produce musical notes.
No doubt a smile-inducing experience for visitors of all ages. Hope to see this in more hospitals and other public spaces!
Source: psfk.com
The DIY Gramophone Made Out Of Paper.
Design student, Jón Hólmgeirsson, from the Iceland Academy of the Arts has designed a fold-it-yourself gramaphone.
Called the ‘Jónófón’, the paper gramophone consists of a plywood base, a paper cup, and a thick paper horn to amplify sound.
Yet another item to add to my list of nifty things I’d like to have. Too bad he hasn’t announced his release date yet.
Source: designtaxi.com
ChoreoBots: a music visualization platform.
The ChoreoBots respond to ambient sound in realtime. Imagine how crazy these would look in a live show.
ChoreoBots consist of a set of internally illuminated modular forms that physically deform in response to changes in ambient sound. To visually delineate different components of music, three different module sizes were developed, each with there own respective input response range. The modules also detect tactile pressure, enabling the system to double as an input platform.
Music: Mount Kimbie-Sketch On Glass
Tabla: Sumeet Banerji
See more work from The Computational Design Lab.
Source: notcot.org
Architecture from Music: Anistropia by Orproject
“Anisotropia,” is a building proposal for the Busan Opera House in South Korea by architectural firm Orproject. The structure is based off of a piano piece composed by the firm’s director.
While the proposal looks gorgeous, there are questions about why the firm didn’t choose a song related to Busan, South Korea? What was the process for converting music into architecture?
Click here to read more.
Source: core77.com
A piano that transforms into a table.
Now this is pretty convenient. This would be great for small homes or apartments with limited space. I just wonder what the sound quality is like…
The Piano Table is designed by designer Georg Bohle.
Learn more about the design and purchase info here.
Source: behance.net
Plink: A Multiplayer Toy to Experiment Music.
Plink, by DinahMoe, is a very simple and addicting free multiplayer game where you enter “rooms” and experiment with music and sounds with other players.
All you have to do is select a sound, click, and drag your mouse and you’re on your way to creating harmonious music!
Source: kotaku.com
Self-playing instruments that sense spectators, weather, and Twitter.
FOUND, an Edinburgh-based art collective and band, created this interactive sound installation made up of robotic self-playing instruments. The purpose is to explore the way stories and memories change with each telling.
At the heart of the installation is a vinyl record player and ten 7” records of familiar singles from pop music’s heyday…The vinyl controls a series of acoustic, self-playing musical instruments…
…the memories embodied in the installation will distort, evolve and warp depending on external influences: the time of day, the size of #UNRAVEL’s audience, the local weather, and what people are writing about the installation on twitter from moment to moment.
Source: itsnicethat.com
