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Even though I am on a blogging break, there are a couple of things coming up I need to mention before they pass me by.
Cybersonica 2007 is kicking off now, although I’m not involved in the exhibition curating this year, I shall be attending in some form.
This Friday 6th April 6-10pm […]

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 […]

More turntable research.

Datasound from Troika offers an alternative and more sensual interpretation of electronic data by exploring their musical potential. Datasound is a fully functional musical instrument that enables you to hear, mix, scratch and perform digital data signals, from a picture, an old program floppy, a computer virus, a love letter, or a drawing.
On […]

For the Cybersonica conference, we had Josh Randall, Creative Director of Harmonix Music over to do the keynote lecture ‘Interactive Music for the Masses’.
About the talk.

The video documentation is now online thanks to Playstation.com and Cybersonica.tv, highly recommended viewing.
Watch:
Lecture on Playstation.com
Josh gets interviewed by Playstation.com
Also check out this months Edge Magazine (UK) for a run […]

Commissioned for the Cybersonica 06 Sonic Art Exhibition.

Death Before Disko, by Herwig Weiser, is a beautifully crafted object, tube like in shape with speakers at each end. In the centre is a mirrorball-like sphere containing magnets. Stuck to this on the outside is ferrofluid, resembling a rotating liquid which is sculpturally dynamic. […]

Commissioned for the Cybersonica 06 exhibition. Created by London based collective Someth;ng.

An electro-kinetic sound installation, Tape uses simple analogue playback to allow users an arena in which to play with self-recorded sound and explore the effects of playback and sound synthesis. Housed in a transparent acrylic panel, Tape allows its user not only to view […]

Continuing coverage of Cybersonica 06 exhibition.

m3 Virtual Music Gate by Michael Markert is a virtual music gate, that sensors body movements in a space between two illuminated columns and processes the data in realtime to harmonic and rhythmic music. The art arises with the interaction of its users and their different and unique behavior […]

Shown at the Cybersonica 06 Sonic Art Exhibition.

Mind Your Head by Philip Marston is a simple and playful installed object which the viewer/participator (by wearing the headphones and walking under and around the suspended light) can audibly experience the invisible electromagnetic frequencies which leak and radiate out of an ordinary fluorescent tube light.
The headphones, with […]

Commissioned for the Cybersonica 06 Sonic Art Exhibition.
In Schizoporotica, Troika uniquely reinvent the music box over a century after its conception. Users are invited to tear their tickets and, by feeding them into the machine, create their own shredded melody.
Analysis of the resulting pattern then pitches the melody with endless possibilities, the torn pattern becomes […]

Showing at the Cybersonica 06 Sonic Art Exhibition.
Created by Wojceich Kosma, Interchange is an audiovisual piece controlled by the Playstation Portable gaming device. The player performs some composed graph score consisting of 98 boxes. Each box represents a note and a shape. The number inside the box is a pitch/length of loop. The player is […]

Friday, 19th May 2006, 11am-11pm
Saturday, 20th May 2006, 11am-8.30pm
The Science Museum’s Dana Centre, 165 Queens Gate, London SW7 5HE
The full programme has now been announced.
I am looking forward to ‘Interactive Music for the Masses‘, a keynote lecture from Josh Randall (think Guitar Hero).
“Josh Randall will discuss his experience at Harmonix Music, from the company’s origins […]

[update - project build photos]
Showing at the Cybersonica 06 Sonic Art Exhibition, created by Seulki Kang & Kenichi Okada (under the name atoyfactory).

EtchASound is an installation inspired by the world famous toy Etch-A-Sketch. By interacting with EtchASound audiences can have the unique experience of drawing with their own voice.
First the user creates a 2 dimensional […]

[update - here is a video]
A commission for the Cybersonica 06 Sonic Art Exhibition. If you are into your sound based game environments, you should get to the exhibition and check it out.

Fijuu2 was created by Julian Oliver (Selectparks) and Steven Pickles. Fijuuu uses a realtime 3D engine allowing players to dynamically manipulate 3D instruments […]

My reason for irregular postings on Pixelsumo has been due to curating and coordinating the Cybersonica 06 Sonic Art exhibition. After a huge amount of work by the team, I can now happily say that the exhibition is now open and we have 12 truly great pieces installed in the gallery space. I […]

iScratch by Shosei Oishi (a student of IAMAS Japan) is software which enables you to scratch audio files like analog record using iPod’s touch wheel. Shosei re-wrote the pre-installed open source audio play program of Pozilla to be able to scratch audio files, and works using Linux.
I got to try this at the Takeaway […]

I have been a longtime fan of Soundtoys.net, from watching the tour starting in Bristol (photos), to talking at the symposium at Cybermusic last year (photos) and now contributing some new work to the community.
Now there is a new soundtoys website, with a popular tagging method for artists and works, plus a back-end API that […]

Just got back from Cybersonica festival in London. More festival reporting from Regine and Mazine.
At Cybersonica was Audio Sphere by Someth;ng, a kind of upside down musical wind chime that swayed back and forth.

Along the same lines is another project by Mauricio Melo titled Swayway Midi Chimes at New York University. (development blog)

International Festival of Music & Sound
28th April - 1st May 2005
http://www.cybersonica.org

Yes Cybersonica is gearing up now and its looking really good. Golan Levin is the keynote speaker, with a very interesting soundtoys symposium, a host of vj and audio performances, interactive installations and workshops. Definitely worth a visit.
[update]
I will be doing a talk about my […]