140 db
“From the 20th century sound has been used as a form of torture”. This is the sentence open this very short experiential film, “140 dB” created by art director, animator, and sound designer Tadas Svilainis about interaction between sound and physical bodies. The main idea is to show how sound can change objects form and...
Reactable
An engaging way of performing electronic music by moving physical tags recognized as musical parametres by an interactive surface: ‘Reactable’ is a tangible interface “conceived as an instrument to bring back the expressive possibilities of traditional instruments to musicians who are working with new technologies”. Reactable can be bought here -> http://www.reactable.com/ and has got...
Synesthetic armonies
Listening to images, seeing sounds. Over 30 independent visual and audio designers/’studios gave life to “Resonance”, a collaborative project aiming at exploring the relationship between geometry and audio in unique ways. The result is a splendid set of 2D and 3D animations perfectly coupling with sounds: a real synesthetic effort, were sight and hearing blend...
Touched echo
Touched echo (2007-2009) is a site specific memorial installation created by Berlin artist Markus Kison. It has been installed in a pedestrian area of Dresden in memory of the bombing that razed the city in 1945. Placing the elbows on the handrail and the hands over the ears, it is possible to hear the sound...
Bare conductive ink
The idea is: using our bodies to conduct electricity and, for instance, lighting up strings of LEDs or being part of a human synthtizer. Funny, mh? Well, design company Bare Conductive did it. Bare conductive has been founded by four postgraduate students from the Innovation Design Engineering Course at the Royal College of Art and...
