May 2010
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Some musical chickens
Because it’s Wednesday. (click through if you can’t see the videos.)
May 26th
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OrganOOn is a great site-specific sound installation.  For Electrified02, [Roberta Gigante] decided to ‘hack’ the harbour of Ghent with a sound installation that turned twelve rusty, gigantic metal pipes stored there into didgeridoo-like sound cylinders. I’m big fan of turning environmental features into musical instruments. This reminds me a bit of those public organs that make...
May 26th
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This is an RFID-based system that uses the location of two speakers to trigger music samples. By picking up and moving around the speakers, you make some rudimentary mashups. My only quibble is that it wouldn’t be too hard for this system to have the samples be beat-matched in something like Ableton, and the end result would be a lot cleaner. (That is, assuming there isn’t some failed...
May 25th
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May 21st
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The Heart Chamber Orchestra plays music generated from their heartbeats, in front of a screen with visualizations based on the same. This must be an amazing experience live. You can see another video with more explication on the Heart Chamber Orchestra’s site. (via Everyday Listening)
May 18th
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May 18th
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May 17th
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May 15th
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Not only is the Ritmo Advanced Sound System a music player for your unborn baby, it is also a surround sound music system for your unborn baby. (At least according to the ad copy. Doesn’t look like 5.1 to me, unless I don’t want to know where the subwoofer goes.) (via NOTCOT)
May 10th
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May 6th
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