Remix Contest: Sounds from the Large Hadron Collider
December 30, 2010 – 10:05 pm | 416 Comments

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest particle accelerator that resides in a tunnel 27km in circumference beneath the earth near Geneva, Switzerland.
The purpose of the LHC is to help us understand some …

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Without records
March 17, 2010 – 11:37 am | 2 Comments
Without records

What would it sound like if you took the record off the turntable and just let the needle hit the platter while it spins? How about 100 of them all playing at the same …

Analogue tape glove
March 11, 2010 – 10:17 am | One Comment
Analogue tape glove

There are a lot of ways to use analogue tape as an instrument, however a group who call themselves “Signal to noise” have created an actual art installation based on human-magentic tape interation.
Participants wear a …

Fruit loops
March 9, 2010 – 3:09 pm | No Comment
Fruit loops

Alex Braidwood a graduate student within the Media Design Program at the Art Center College of Design and has worked on a number of art projects involving sound and music.
In this video, Alex demonstrates a …

Lego sequencer
March 4, 2010 – 10:42 am | No Comment
Lego sequencer

Yoshi Akai is an artist, musician and instrument designer from Tokyo, Japan. Yoshi has been producing DIY musical instruments with very unique input systems as works of art, and using them in performances.
The work …

Guitar-playing birds
January 20, 2010 – 12:15 pm | 4 Comments
Guitar-playing birds

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot is a visual/installation artist from France, and one of his most recent works involves birds and a guitars. He has recorded the behaviour of birds who have been lured to land on …

Creepy robotic singing heads
December 11, 2009 – 4:04 pm | No Comment
Creepy robotic singing heads

These heads are part of an exhibit at Art Basel Miami Beach – the piece is currently being sold for $75,000.

The 3 creepy heads are made from an actual mold of the artist’s face and …

Creepy Robotic hand plays keyboard
December 7, 2009 – 9:15 am | 2 Comments
Creepy Robotic hand plays keyboard

Kitty Clark is an artist and technology geek extraordinare.  One day, she must have thought to herself: “What do you get when you combine a couple of fans, a remote-controlled car and a weird robotic …

The Perfect Unison’s wooden headphones
April 27, 2009 – 9:51 pm | 2 Comments
The Perfect Unison’s wooden headphones

The headphone company The Perfect Unison has partnered with Dutch artist Parra to produce a set of incredibly beautiful wooden headphones.  The Perfect Unison x Parra headphones are being made in a limited number – only 50 are being …

Plushy soft synth pillows
April 21, 2009 – 10:14 pm | 3 Comments
Plushy soft synth pillows

It seems as though every time I try to bring my synthesizers to bed, I end up with bruises all over my body and scrapes and cuts on my face.  Well, there’s a solution to …