Mirage

Specially commissioned by the City of Santa Monica, California, for Glow 08, Primal Source was an all-night performance/installation brought to life through the active participation of festival-goers (estimated at approx. 200,000 over the course of the night).





Located on the beach near the Pier in an area that had been specifically landscaped over the course of several days, and making use of a large-scale outdoor waterscreen/mist projection system, the mirage-like installation glowed with colours and ebullient patterns created in response to the competing and collaborative voices, music and screams of people nearby.

Responding to sounds emanating from the crowd, the system's modes changed every few minutes depending on how active the crowd participation was (more quickly when there was more noise). Each mode responded in a slightly different way to the individual voices and sounds picked up by 8 microphones distributed towards the front.

Some modes created "creatures" whose colour, shape and movement followed the frequency and amplitude dynamics of individual syllables and sentences picked up; other modes responded to wider collective phenomena, e.g. distorting a grid in response to the crowd volume, or creating a rush of wind through a wheat-field landscape.

Multi Touch Music Wall

Just another music wall I found. I can't find much information online about it but it is just something I thought was pretty cool.

Evoke

Evoke specially commissioned for the city of York, is a massive interactive projection that animates the facade of York Cathedral.



The facade is designed to orient the gazes of passers-by upwards. As an attempt to continue this tradition, the patterns of Evoke are generated in realtime by the words, sounds, music and noises produced collectively by the public, determined by their particular voice characteristics. The colours will skim the surface of the Minster, pour round its features and crevasses, emerging finally near the top of the facade where they will sparkle high overhead.

People with voices of different frequencies, rhythms or cadences will be able to evoke quite different magical patterns upon the surface of the building - a staccato chirping will result in a completely different set of visual effects to a long howl for example, blending old and new to continue animating the facade of the Minster.

AudioPad

Audiopad is a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music. One can pull sounds from a giant set of samples, juxtapose archived recordings against warm synthetic melodies, cut between drum loops to create new beats, and apply digital processing all at the same time on the same table. Audiopad not only allows for spontaneous reinterpretation of musical compositions, but also creates a visual and tactile dialogue between itself, the performer, and the audience.





Audiopad has a matrix of antenna elements which track the positions of electronically tagged objects on a tabletop surface. Software translates the position information into music and graphical feedback on the tabletop. Each object represents either a musical track or a microphone.

Audiopad was created and developed by James Patten and Ben Recht for Ars Electronica in 2003

Touch Wall/Music Game

Music game is an interactive installation based on our multi-touch wall project. People generate music by hitting music instruments icons with rubber balls. As well we control concert lighting equipment via MIDI.

This solution is based on our GPU-accelerated computer vision technology called ACV. It allows to process a 4096x4096 px frame in just 5 ms (200 fps) utilizing a standard nVidia 9800 GT card. We use high-speed Fire-Wire cameras to feed our tracker at such a high data speed.

Light bead curtain

The Light Bead Curtain is an interactive musical installation that can be freely played by person's touch. The installation takes the form of a beaded curtain; strings of simple clear beads. Each bead, on a users touch, lights itself and emits a unique sound. People play with the curtain by weaving their hands through it, touching it with their faces, and moving through it with their body. An environment of light and sound is created when people engage with the curtain.

Cool Photography Site

Mark Jenkins is the name of this photographer and I just stumbled across his site and thought he had a few very interesting pictures.
The main theme throughout his work is the creation of tape sculptures and placing them in unusual places. These sculptures range from a giraffe down to a leaf.

I just thought that some of these were pretty cool and worth a look.