Overture

Maskull Lasserre

[laughing squid]

Beautiful Dreamer (pulled)

Maskull Lasserre created "a series of grenades that "detonate" a melody from an enclosed music box when the pin is pulled and the spoon is released. Each grenade is wound and set, and can only ever be 'played' once—much like how a grenade can only explode once."
[the creators project]

Submerged

Submerged Turntable from Brian Lilla on Vimeo.
Evan Holm
[notcot]

Laser Cut

A laser cut wooden record made by Amanda Ghassaei.

[booooooom!]

Years

YEARS from Bartholomäus Traubeck on Vimeo.


Bartholomäus Traubeck's record player turns the rings in a cross section of a tree into music. Year rings are interpreted into sound.

"A tree’s year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music. It is mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appearance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture). The foundation for the music is certainly found in the defined ruleset of programming and hardware setup, but the data acquired from every tree interprets this ruleset very differently."

[Notcot]

Analog Vinyl Sampling

Analog Vinyl Sampling from Ishac Bertran on Vimeo.

Ishac Bertran has experimented with analog sampling of modified vinyls.

"Sectors from a vinyl record are [laser] cut and replaced by pieces with exact shape from other records. When played in a vinyl player the needle follows the grooves from both sectors creating sampled tunes or loops."
[Notcot]

Greeks

I'm not usually someone to post music videos, but this one by Is Tropical sure is something.
[Matt]

City Music

Akko Goldenbeld
[design boom]

Touch Wood

Kenjiro Matsuo
[Neatorama]

making of:

Give You Love

Orelha Negra - M.I.R.I.A.M. X Vhils aka Alexandre Farto from Vhils on Vimeo.

Vhils (Alexander Farto) with music by Orelha Negra
[HuffPo]

Human Drum Machine

Daito Manabe & Masaki Teruoka use myoelectric sensors to make music by tapping on each other’s skin
[today & tomorrow]

In Sync

Daito Manabe stimulates his facial muscles with small electric pulses, synced to music.
[today & tomorrow]

Slower

J. BIEBZ - U SMILE 800% SLOWER by Shamantis
Shamantis took Justin Bieber's song "U Smile" and slowed it down 800% to make quite an amazing 35 minute ambient track.

Full of Love

The PS22 Chorus covers Bjork.
[Matt]

Gravité

Gravité from Renaud Hallée on Vimeo.

Renaud Hallée
Falling objects synchronized to produce rhythm.
[Ektopia]

Dead Hearts

I'm not one to post many Music Videos, but I just came across this one called "Dead Hearts" from Dead Man's Bones that caught my attention. The main protagonist of the video is the "Machine with Wishbone" built by Arthur Ganson.

A nice way to end out the year I think. If perhaps a little of a downer.

Happy New Year.

Railings

"Railings plays on the simple pleasure of picking up a stick and running it along a set of railings to make a lovely “clack-clack-clack” sound. [Greyworld] tuned the railings so that when you ran a stick along them they played “the Girl from Ipanema.”

I'd kill for video of this one...

Andrew Shoben's Greyworld
[It's Nice That]

Found Notes

Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.

Jarbas Agnelli finds out what happens when you play these birds as music. Photo by Paulo Pinto.
[Neatorama]

Sour '日々の音色 (Hibi no neiro)'

A video made online in collaboration with fans for the band Sour
Directed by Masashi Kawamura, Hal Kirkland, Magico Nakamura & Masayoshi Nakamura.

HAIRPOLITIC

Kenya Robinson