Fur, creators of the Painstation and Furminator (among others) have just released information on their project Earworm Assault Devices. From the website:
“Sound is unavoidable (the ear can’t be shut like the eye) and evolutionary hardwired into our cognition apparatus, it can reach into the subconscious and arouse emotions. A well made sound can get stuck [...]

SoniColumn, created by Jin-Yo Mok, is an extension of The MusicBox Project. In the first project, users could compose a sound using a mouse and grid-like score. In SolniColumn you turn each note on by running your hand over it and around the column.
SoniColumn is an interactive sound installation that can be played by a [...]

Onetonnemusic informs us that Toshio Iwai now has a Tenori-On development blog : tenorion.blogspot.com. Hurrah.

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 [...]