The start of the Future Cinema tour back in June was one of the most interesting and unique nights I had been to for a while. Run by Future Shorts, the main focus of the event is short film, animation and motion graphics. Over 150 short films and videos were shown, along with [...]

NDSVisuals is a wireless VJ controller using the Nintendo DS. Ndsvisuals utilises the DS features, such as two screens, a touchscreen, wireless networking. The DS is used as an input device to control VVVV patches in realtime.
Watch this video [Quicktime or Windows Media] to see the functions such as:
display and arrange video footage, [...]

Simon Elvins, a graduate from MA Communication Art & Design at the RCA, has created a number of interesting works dealing with print as an interactive interface for sound.

Notation : “This is part of an ongoing exploration into sound, print and notation, and looks at ways of linking sound to the printed page. Using a [...]

Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman are taking over Japan. As part of the Kids Program exhibition at the NTT InterCommunication Center, they have a range of collaborative and individual projects on show from 2000-2006.
[from interview mp3 ]
“These collaborative projects came about through their common interest in gesture and audio visual performance. They have been [...]

Commissioned for the Cybersonica 06 Sonic Art Exhibition.

Freq2, by Squidsoup, uses your whole body to control the precise nature of a sound - a form of musical instrument. The mechanism used is to trace the outline of a person’s shadow, using a webcam, and transform this line into an audible sound. Any sound [...]

Last week the excellent Music Thing posted details about a new range of toys, licensed by the Blue Man Group and developed by ToyQuest.

Aimed at 8-14 year olds, these toys will kind of emulate the instruments used by the Blue Man Group in their stage show. The Percussion Tubes (shown top) will use distance [...]

A project in a similar concept to RGB Player is spinCycle from Spencer Kiser (an NYU ITP student).
As the turntable rotates, a camera reads the fluorescent tinted plexiglass (red, yellow and blue). The camera acts as the input detection, picking up the colours and positions of the pucks, but also as the visual feedback [...]

For anyone who doesn’t know what Tenori-On from Toshio Iwai is, first read about it on wmmna (then on CDM, Musicthing and Siggraph).
Then watch this video & see some photos. This is a great physical soundtoy and I am pleased that Yamaha got on board with this one.
Following the Nime conference, more details have [...]