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Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Tag Archives: music
Jamie XX – Gosh (2016)
Another breathtaking video from Romain Gavras. Shot at and around the “Eiffel Tower” in the semi-abandoned Chinese city of Tianducheng. h/t Monika Bielskyte.
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Jaakko Eino Kalevi – Deeper Shadows (2015)
“No one cares about you and your things.” http://weirdworldrecordco.com/jek/
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Turn off the options, and turn up the intimacy
“Although designers continue to dream of “transparency” – technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt – both creators and audiences actually like technologies with “personality.” A personality is something with which you can have a relationship. … Continue reading
Mogees: Realtime Gesture Recognition with Contact Microphones
Bruno Zamborlin’s Mogees project — “an interactive gestural-based surface for realtime audio mosaicing” — implies all sorts of interesting futures for musical instruments and performance: http://youtu.be/erz-9f4M9B4 Via @elejansen
John Maus – Believer (2011)
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Cybraphon
Junkshop/steampunk social-network-enabled automatic music machine: Cybraphon consists of a number of instruments, antique machinery, and found objects from junk shops operated by over 60 robotic components, all housed in a modified wardrobe. Its emotions are shown on a 100 year … Continue reading
Tenori-on
Tenori-on is an electronic musical instrument, designed and created by Japanese artist, Toshio Iwai and Yu Nishibori of the Music and Human Interface Group, Yamaha Center for Advanced Sound Technology. It consists of a screen, held in the hands, of … Continue reading
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Tagged little boots, monome, music, music and human interface group, sequencers, tenori-on, toshio iwai, yamaha, yu nishibori
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Tone Matrix
Andre Michelle’s Tone Matrix is a simple but Flash-based music sequencer. You can copy-paste sequences by right clicking (or option-clicking on a Mac). By opening several Tone Matrices in multiple tabs on your browser, you can actually create some pretty … Continue reading
John Maus – Maniac
John Maus is a master. If you like “Maniac,” check out “Tenebrae.” It is Easter Sunday, after all. More Maus vids here.
Drawdio: Turn almost anything into a Theremin
Everybody should have one of these. You can learn how to make them here.
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