Final Project: Elephant Stage

For my final project I decided to do an elephant on a stage that lights up and plays music. You would put the elephant on a button and a sensor would make an Led strip light up and play music. I was inspired to create this by old cartoon shows and circus shows. Materials: Cardboard…

Multitouch responsive interface for computer-based music

Multitouch Prototype 2 from Randy Jones on Vimeo.One of the biggest points of interest for me is interface design, more specifically for synthesizers and computers. The keyboard concept is over 600 years old, so why is it still the main choice for modern synthesizers? This type of alternative interface is a nice move in the…

The Three Sirens A Self Learning Rock Band

The Three Sirens is a self learning band created by Nicolas Anatol Baginsky. The band members are all robot musicians who are not controlled by humans, instead they improvised in response to each other. The band members are Aglaopheme, Peisinoe, and Aciilyzer . Since the band has started a few other robots have joined the…

David Byrne’s Battery Maritime Building Project

Link to New York Times video of the installationArtist/musician David Byrne has this summer presented “Playing the Building”, a work in which the entirety of an empty ferry terminal building is converted into a musical instrument. An antique pump-style organ is used as the interface to “play” the structure- the workings of the organ have…

Radiohead’s House of Cards Video

“Radiohead just 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…