This visual data experiment by Daniel Becker explores a more colorful approach to translating barcodes into human understanding. The award wining execution Barcode Plantage is another great testament to the potential of Processing. Operating mode: Once a bar code is keyed or scanned in, the program sends a request to the database, which returns a [...]
The Beavis Board is a rad new kit for building your own pedals for sound manipulation. You can tweak sounds and bend circuits including overdrives, distortions, fuzzes, filters, amplifiers, tremolos, noise generators, oscillators, and more. The kit comes with a big collection of components, such as resistors, capacitors, transistors, ICs, multimeter, and more. read more [...]
György Ligeti’s Artikulation. Ligeti composed it in 1958 and recorded it at the Studio of Electronic Music of the West German Radio in Cologne. The piece predates the modern analog synthesizers of the late 60’s and early 70’s – the sound sources are a combination of generated sound and tape manipulation. The liner notes for [...]
Radiohead recently released a new video for its song “House of Cards” from the album “In Rainbows”. No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar [...]
pulse from Markus Kison on Vimeo. Pulse is a fascinating live visualisation of recent emotional expressions written on the private weblogs published on blogger.com. Emotional expressions are parsed according to a list of synonyms, which then physically transform an abstract shape-shifting object. Textual expressions are assigned to 1 of 8 basic human emotions, which are [...]