Leslie Garcia: media artist + tech lover + tinkering + developer + music addict + freak. this is my microserch around the web.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Pulsu(m) Plantae is a project that empirically analyzes which are the mechanisms that plants use to communicate and also how their own biological processes are a manifestation of communication, seemingly intangible to our senses.
The project involves the design of an audible prosthesis, based on the biofeedback principle, a technique that focuses on obtaining various physiological functions data of an organic body, using instruments to obtain information of the cycles and operation of these living systems. The prostheses * transduce biofeedback obtained readings in a sound synthesis process, thereby producing an abstract voice for plants.
By Leslie Garcia
fraAngelico is open-source and most hackable synthesizer ever and that is also why we call it true digital!
fraAngelico 8-bit PWM digital synth is also unique by the means of its sound generation.
294 prepared dc-motors, cork balls, cardboard boxes 41x41x41cm, Volume’s centerpiece, is part of Zimoun’s current series of installations involving prepared dc-motors and cardboard boxes.
(Source: creativeapplications.net)
Soundmachines
The Product, a Berlin-based design studio with a focus on objects, space and interaction, was commissioned by Volkswagen to develop a set of visuals for an interactive musical performance for the premiere of the New Beetle at the 2011 IAA motor show (September 15-25, 2011, Frankfurt am Main). What the client got instead was Soundmachines – a custom-built instrument for performing electronic music by DJing visual patterns on record-sized discs. Honk for ingenuity!
(Source: creativeapplications.net)
Tetrafol.
The Tetrafol is a hand-held tangible electronic sound toy. Circuits enclosed by a wooden tetrahedron detect orientation and motion-gestures to modify the playback of a collection of Fol Chen’s micro-compositions, allowing the user to explore sound through physical manipulation.
(Source: folchen.com)
The Magnatron
The Magnatron is an instrument that allows a person to play magnetic tape by hand. The provided stylus is rubbed across the tape field to create a sound similar to that of scratching records but with it’s own unique character.
Ariel Guzik _ Mexico City, 1960
Musician, researcher, scientist, artist, iridologist, herbalist. Her work is driven by a nostalgia that seeks to recover the game and combine art with science. Based on this, their devices are governed by a methodology of interaction between the viewer and the environment involving various performative actions in each of his appearances and generating a continuous transformation of the work itself. He invented and built various musical instruments.
An installation for used cassette players which looks on their obsolescence not as an ending, but as an opportunity to reconsider their functional potential. Superseded as playback devices, they become instruments in their own right. Replacing the prerecorded content of each tape with a microphone gives us the chance to listen instead to the rhythmic and resonant properties of these once ubiquitous plastic shells. Binatone Galaxy brings the framework within which a generation purchased their favourite records to the centre of attention, revealing the acoustics of the cassette and the voices of the machines themselves.
http://www.scrawn.co.uk/current.html
