I found my new favorite musical interface and it’s called the “Toriton Plus”. It’s a fairly simple concept that produces great results. A slightly more complex version of using a water surface as a music controller featuring five lasers instead of just the one. Please note that this is a prototype version, and as such […]
The work of “outsider artist,” machinist, and whirligig maker Vollis Simpson. Self-taught folf art: Vollis Simpson [Thanks, Patti!]
This year @ the ITP show the latest addition of devices used for projects included the Wiimote. Younghyun Chung’s digital wheelchair art project @ ITP… More about the project… Digital drawing tool for people whose physical challenges confine them to wheelchairs. http://digitalwheelart.com Everyone has the desire and the right to express themselves. People can draw […]
In addition to being a novel oscillator source, speaker feedback can be a means of analog/digital signal exploration – Speaker Synth is a five-speaker array with no external audio input, created by Lesley Flanigan. The only components in the system are the instrument’s speakers, piezoelectric microphones, amplifying circuits, and the hands of the performer. Speaker […]
Excellent collection of embroidered felt objects from blueblythemonster via NOTCOT. Related: Felted weapons.
Here is a project by Timothy Twillman that was exhibited at the Spring ITP show. Timothy made a cool, interactive, LED staff that uses a ZigBee for wireless communications with a computer. This allows for remote programming and synchronization between several LED staffs. It can even be used as a POV display. The project is […]
I got a chance to talk with Adam Parrish at the ITP show about his project called the “Autonomous Parapoetic Device”. I have to thank him for tearing it completely apart so I could see the “guts” of the piece. Here is how Adam describes his work: The Autonomous Parapoetic Device is a self-contained and […]
