The video footage provided below consists of an extract from a major presentation given by Toshio Iwai at Ars Electronica: Simplicity the Art of Complexity, in 2006. In this segment he gives insight into the inspiration for his remarkable visual-musical interfaces such as his gallery-based interactive visual music installations, his compilation of such ideas into Electroplankton for the Nintendo DS and his invention of a new visual based musical instrument the Tenori-On, which Iwai developed in conjunction with Yamaha (link 1 [uk] link 2 [global]). (more…)
Where do we draw the distinction between vision and sound? To those of us not endowed with the gift of synaesthesia (although more, or even all, of us may have aspects of this talent at the level of unconscious cognition) that question might seem easy to answer but the distinction is becoming blurred. Note how some of the most outstanding pieces of “sculpture” at the Munster Sculpture Project 07 were actually sound pieces. I refer to Suchan Kinoshita’s Chinese Whispers installation and Susan Philipsz’s The Lost Reflection. (more…)
Yoshimasa Kato and Yuichi Ito received honourable mention in the category interactive art for their work White Lives on Speaker, at Ars Electronica 2007. Remarkably the artists responsible for this fascinating work are 25 and 24 years old respectively. As the video (VIDEO CLIP) demonstrates the work entails hooking up a member of the audience to an electroencephalograph and feeding the subject’s brain waves into software (Max/Msp) that transposes them into audio frequency output that can power a heavy-duty loudspeaker.
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The video footage provided below consists of an extract from a major presentation given by Toshio Iwai at Ars Electronica: Simplicity the Art of Complexity, in 2006. In this segment he gives insight into the inspiration for his remarkable visual-musical interfaces such as his gallery-based interactive visual music installations, his compilation of such ideas into Electroplankton for the Nintendo DS and his invention of a new visual based musical instrument the Tenori-On, which Iwai developed in conjunction with Yamaha (link 1 [uk] link 2 [global]). (more…)
