Media
9 entries related to the media “Music & Sound”.
The site of a Japanese artist known for the "Star Cage". It presents bamboo sculptures, benches, an origami turbine and other works based on Fibonacci numbers and quasicrystal geometry, along with papers and Fibonacci-based music. The site design is old-fashioned, but it is still being updated.
A Japanese project led by artist Ei Wada that rebuilds retired household appliances into electronic instruments and plays them as an ensemble. CRT televisions, electric fans and barcode readers become instruments, built with participants in several cities and performed at concerts and festival-style events — an inspiring way of turning everyday machinery directly into material for expression.
A Japanese art unit that presents itself as a small electrical-goods manufacturer. It builds its own mechanical instruments and devices and takes them to live shows, exhibitions and even mass-produced toys. The official site covers works, performances and products.
A collection of musical toys to play in the browser. Musical Spirograph turns a spirograph into musical patterns; others include pendulum waves, Polyrhythm with its polygons, Cellular Sequencer built on the Game of Life, and Wave Drawer for drawing a waveform and hearing it — many let you see and hear a mathematical mechanism at work.
The official site of a Japanese composer and artist who works with sound and data. It organises his large-scale audiovisual installations such as datamatics and supersymmetry, his concerts and his recordings by series. A leading example of making numbers and data themselves into the work.
A cultural facility in Tokyo Opera City Tower, Hatsudai, Tokyo. Since opening in 1997 it has presented exhibitions and an archive on the dialogue between science, technology and the arts.
A non-profit devoted to the connections between mathematics and art, music, architecture and culture. It runs the annual Bridges conference, held since 1998 and a central venue for mathematical art exhibitions and papers.
An arts centre in Yamaguchi, Japan, opened in 2003. Its in-house R&D team, YCAM InterLab, works with artists to develop and present works using media technology.
A cultural institution for art and media in Karlsruhe, Germany. It combines exhibition, collection, research and production of media art, and has staged major exhibitions on art, science and technology.