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A giant-sized music box, made with digital tech and antique furniture
An oversized music box takes to the streets, packed in vintage furniture and cranked by passersby, in this Portuguese sound art piece.
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Music of the Spheres, Player Roll Style: Astro Cantus iPhone App Plays the Universe
In the latest take on sonifying data in musical form, iPhone app Astro Cantus plots star data from the universe as musical notes. It turns the the sphere of heavens above the Earth into a massive piano roll. Co-founding developer Rocky Alvey, according to the creators, dismantled a music box as a kid, and that […]
Music Box Creations, with a Pd Score Made from Dance
In a twist on generating music from dance, artist and coder João Pais sends us Pd-generated scores, transformed into twinkling sounds by music boxes. As it happens, the music boxes are the same featured in Friday’s story on Ritornell. The piece is RISS, a “performative installation/concert” produced outdoors in Berlin, with a 30-meter score generated […]
Peter Kirn - November 7, 2011
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Punched-Hole Tunes: Ritornell’s Musicbox Business Cards, as Delicate and Magical as the Music
Peter Kirn - November 4, 2011
Music Music tech
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