THE FUSION OF SOUND & VISION
Fragile Territories is not just another sound and light show. This sound and light installation by Robert Henke is a complex multilayered experience, transforming piano recordings, using laser light and shadow, motion and suspension, positive and negative shapes and forces.
The visual and the auditive component are created in realtime using statistical and stochastic algorithms.The work is infinite, with embedded randomness -- it never repeats. Due to the complex nature of the code and its embedded randomness, it is quite impossible to predict future states.
Photo: Courtesy of Sakura Koshimizu. Gold Rings.
These beautiful gold rings, designed by Sakurako Shimizu feature laser-cut visuals of recorded soundwaves. In this example, these rings were made for an engaged couple, who had their vows recorded together. Or perhaps you might like a necklace with the audio waveform of a recorded giggle. Each wave is created with stunning precision and care!
Photo: Courtesy of Creative Applications. Murmur in action.
Murmur, a light and sound installation created by designers from Chevalvert, 2Roqs, Polygraphik and Splank. Visitors speak into a device, which elegantly transforms the sounds they make into visual projections on the wall, depending on the sounds they detect. Technologies such as Raspberry Pi and openFrameworks are used to convert the sound waves and create playful patterns with LEDs.
Photo: Courtesy of Born of Sound.
Sounds have shapes. And when we manipulate them with materials that make these normally invisible phenomena visible, we find beauty in each vibration. Born of Sound digitally converts sound files into visual representations of sound waves. Live recordings, as well as previously recorded sound files can be submitted to the site, which provides customizable works of art.
Photo: Dongsung Jung. iN.cline.
iN.cline is a sculptural audio object. It enables a user to rotate the single directional speaker a full 360°. The Bluetooth speaker can be undocked from the tilted stand. Just grab the handle and go!
Designer: Dongsung Jung
Photo: Jess Rowland. Sound art.
Jess Rowland , a sound artist, musician, and composer, affiliated with the Center for New Music and Audio Technology at UC Berkeley, creates paper speakers and other sound works on paper. Melding metal, forming circuits, working the visual beauty of shine and shape, to produce audio beauty, Rowland’s work is a sensory fusion.
Photo: Max Lee. Chang Yen Tzu.
CHANG YEN TZU is a new media art student who uses the Arduino and Pure data, combining hardware and software, to adjust the audio frequency in concert with different locations. The microphone in her mask enables her to send her voice to Pure data immediately for tone modifying. This device will lead the audiences enter another kind of redistributed time and space.
Video: Courtesy of Brusspup. Chladni plate experiment.
Watch water ride a sound wave. Watch sound move sand. Brusspup, a sound artist, often explores the intersection between art and science. In a recent video, the artist featured the famed Chladni plate experiment. A black metal plate is attached to a tone generator and then sand is poured on the plate. As the speaker is cycled through various frequencies the sand naturally moves away from the vibrations, creating beautiful geometric patterns as they go.
Image: Quayola & Sinigaglia. A visualization created by Dedalo.
Visualize sound in real time. That’s what Dedalo can do. Designed by Quayola & Sinigaglia, it is a collection of custom developed vvvv engines and toolkit that generate, exchange and map data between a series of graphics modules and a rendering engine used for live performance and audiovisual concerts. See the sound!
Illustration: Beth Brown. “Constriction No.5” January 15th 2014.
These intricate ink drawings and euphonic processed field recordings, created by Beth Brown share a common thread of accumulated texture and detail that create micro-landscapes. Brown, is a visual artist, composer, and experimental phonographer, fully immersed in the visual beauty of sound. Even the sound of a pencil dragging across her paper produces sound that is part of her artwork.
Photo: Courtesy of Jen Lewin Studio.
Jen Lewin is a new media interactive artist who works on large-scale sound and light installations. Using computers, LED and other advanced technologies, perhaps her most critical medium is human play.
Image: Courtesy of Stay on Beat. Sound wave.
Read more about Beautiful Sound Visions, as they relate to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, Soul/Impact, in our posts throughout this week, including 10 New Books on Sound & Vision, The Great Animal Orchestra Vision, and The Fusion of Taste and Sound.
Enter this week’s BN Competition. Our theme this week is Beautiful Sound Visions. Send in your images and ideas. Deadline is 01.19.14.
Photo: Courtesy of InterActiveMediaSW.
Also, check out our special competition: The Most Beautiful Sound in the World! We are thrilled about this effort, together with SoundCloud and The Sound Agency. The Winner was announced today at 12:00 p.m EST. Click here to see and hear the winning entry.
