With all of these new interfaces for musical expression that have been around now, I started taking a peak at the scores the players use in their performance. Whilst I am not personally involved in research in this area, I thought it might be interesting to someone out there who is (plus I’ve not [...]

As mentioned in a previous post, the documentation of my work at Moving Brands is now online.
An audio responsive installation for the launch of Muon, new speakers from Kef and Ross Lovegrove. Launched at the National Museum of Science and Technology (Leonardo da Vinci), during Salone del Mobile in Milan.
Created in Processing for a [...]

If you are in Milan for the Salone del Mobile, be sure to put a visit to this on your schedule…
The launch of Muon, an incredible two-metre tall speaker system, in one of the most fascinating locations in Milan, the Sala del Cenacolo. This exhibition is the extraordinary result of the convergence of two masters. [...]

If you go down to the South Bank in London this summer, outside the Royal Festival Hall is a wonderful installation titled PLAY.Orchestra.
56 plastic cubes and 3 Hotspots are laid out on a full size orchestra stage, each cube containing a light and speaker. Sit down on the cube or stand in the hotspot to [...]

Semitransparent Design is a company based in Japan, a talented bunch of artists and designers, consisting of members Ryoji Tanaka, Toshiyuki Sugai, Yusuke Shibata and Hiroshi Sato. I first became aware of their work when I wrote about Motion Wall from Nanika (read post). Semitransparent created Snow Wishes for the same interactive interiors [...]

[Update] here are some photos of the first event.

I am off to Liverpool to take part in the first event in the Future of Sound tour. Owen LLoyd and myself are collaborating on an interactive spatial soundscape, and today I will show the first stage prototype of this. More details about this project in [...]

[updated] here is a video

(photos above by John Adrian)
On Friday night I went to the opening of Volume at the V&A Museum, part of the Playstation Season of Culture. Here are my photos.
Created by United Visual Artists and one point six (production company set up by Robert Del Naja [alias 3D] of Massive Attack and [...]

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 [...]