DIN is noise is a software synthesizer that tears the domination of the notation system apart. In its microtonal keyboard, every pixel is a tone that stretches from 20 Hz – 20 kHz . DIN is part graphical interface and part live coding, offering the flexibility to switch between the command mode and gui. Very exciting if you ask me, unfortunately, it only works in GNU/Linux.
Download DIN at http://dinisnoise.org
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On first impression, I thought that songbird was one of those mtv with beautiful everything. But looking through their website, I quickly realized that it was more than that. It turns out that Song Bird is an official project set to premiere in the Singapore Arts Festival. Here’s a quick introduction to this project :
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Noise Kitchen is a cafe based in Taiwan but unlike other cafes you can find elsewhere, it is an amalgamation of sound art and coffee fragrance. Started by Chung-kun WANG in 2012, Noise Kitchen is an installation + cafe, integrating art into the popular culture of coffee and introducing art to the public. (more…)
I was lucky enough to have a game art festival happening in UCLA this week, where I currently study. In case you haven’t heard of it, the UCLA Game Art Festival is one that showcases game art from universities around the U.S and abroad, as well as independent game projects. Currently in its second year, the festival is organized by the UCLA Game Lab and it aims to expand the notion of game as art and showcase some of the gaming subculture. Naturally, there was no way that I was going to miss this festival. (more…)
This is a little dated but the work itself is not. On the Fly is a commissioned work by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media for the Minimum Interface Exhibition that looks at Future of Interfaces. On the Fly is the navigation interface for the exhibition. Audiences are presented with a flyer that interacts with a camera tracking system to function as a navigation tool.
20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of 20 Hertz. Generated directly by the sound, tangible and sculptural forms emerge suggestive of scientific visualisations. As different frequencies interact both visually and aurally, complex patterns emerge to create interference phenomena that probe the limits of our perception.
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Codeable Objects is a library for Processing that enables novice coders, designers and artists to rapidly design, customize and construct artifacts using geometric computation and digital fabrication. (more…)
Subsculpture 13
intercom, 576 white LED lights, holosonic speaker, custom-made hardware and software
display dimensions variable
As a participant speaks into an intercom, their voice is automatically translated into flashes of light and then this unique blinking pattern is stored as a loop in the first light of the array. Each new recording pushes all previous recordings one position down and gradually one can hear the cumulative sound of the 288 previous recordings. The voice that was pushed out of the array can then be heard by itself.
To learn more about Lozano-Hemmer’s work, please visit:
http://www.lozano-hemmer.com
Recently the Adm graduation show was held in Old School. I personally did not mange to be there but a quick look into their website found me an interesting piece of work by Benjamin Cheah, a 2012 interactive media graduate from ADM. Although the gaming industry is well supported by the government in recent years, the idea of game as art has hardly penetrated our cultural sensibility. So I was pleasantly surprised by Cheah’s work. Benjamin also represents a new breed of game designer / artist who takes control of programming, art direction and the game design.
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I found this mysterious branch floating around, not much is known but I like it somehow. Although i do think that it’s too simple to be an automata. I would call it a kinetic art work.
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