Chad VanGaalen makes music with a variety of objects turned instruments, including motorized mallets that bang on old drums and other objects he found while sifting through trash containers. Check out the samples on the link below, especially “Flower Gardens” which has some nice solos from the homebrew devices. Chad Vangaalen on Sub Pop Records
Dug North sent in this video of a Programmable Thumb Piano. I really like the heavy metal gear mechanism and the way you reconfigure the instrument. Check out Dug’s site for more information. [Thanks Dug] This machine uses a series of studded disks to pluck the tongues on an instrument resembling a thumb piano tilted […]
The Atlantic has a very striking ad campaign, I like neon – so it’s fun to see these Jenny Holzer style messages in various places – the one above is my fave, very MAKE-y.
The ASRD is a clever design concept project with shoes that tell you when you’re near Wi-Fi… via Bruce Sterling. I fully expect someone to actually “make” these by the end of the week! Below are some links to get you started… The idea of footwear was pushed further by converging elements of digital culture […]
Opto-Isolator – Interactive Art by Golan Levin and Collaborators via NOTCOT. Opto-Isolator (2007: Golan Levin with Greg Baltus) inverts the condition of spectatorship by exploring the questions: “What if artworks could know how we were looking at them? And, given this knowledge, how might they respond to us?” The sculpture presents a solitary mechatronic blinking […]
We’ve blogged about the Touchshield for Arduino before here on Make, but this demo shows an interesting use of the add-on that allows for 3D animation on the device. Check out the video for details. via Tinker
This interesting art project consists of a computer speech to text loop that continually degrades over time. One machine reads text aloud that is alayzed by another computer which then speaks the text, while the next machine analyzes it and speaks the result as well. The result is printed out in real-time on a nearby […]
