Where visuals shapes and forms are translated into sounds.
Check more under the tag: SHAPING SOUND.
[pic: DIGITI SONUS, Yoon Chun Han // BARCODE BAND, Kang Woon Jin +
Lee Ha Lim + Kim Yong // CLOUD PIANO, David Bowen]
“Digiti Sonus is an interactive fingerprint sonification or interactive sound installation that transforms human's fingerprints into musical sound. “
By Yoon Chung Han, 2013. More info here,
and watch an interview describing the installation here.
BARCODE BAND
“The ‘Barcode Band Music Box’ we produced includes barcodes, formed by computer graphics, and the barcode reader. When the graphics of the barcode, which is printed on the music box, are scanned by the reader, the recognized barcode will reproduce its own sound of the musical instrument.
It is an instrument that communicates through the language of music. Therefore, a person can conduct music using only the barcode reader without a musical instrument. The making of the music box was composed of several different teams taking part as sound and video, design of the box, and the design of the graphics inside the box.”
Directed by Kang Woon Jin, Designed by Lee Ha Lim, Crafted by Kim Yong Duk, 2012. A video from a live performance can be watched here.
COLOR A SOUND
“Color a Sound is an installation that uses an overhead projector, a camera and a laptop to allow the user to draw whatever they’d like and roll it past a point and have it trigger sounds, player-piano style. Red, green and blue control three different octaves, or different sound sets (I use blue to control a set of 808 drum sounds in the example video). The rolls used to draw could be played forward or backward, and people could play previous compositions made from past users.”
By Blair Neal, 2010. More info here.
SPECTRUM MUSIC - PROTO
Image and Video to Sound. Sound Generator Test
Sonification of a snowFX video.
By Jeongho Park, 2015. Source Code.
CLOUD PIANO
“This installation plays the keys of a piano based on the movements and shapes of the clouds. A camera pointed at the sky captures video of the clouds. Custom software uses the video of the clouds in real-time to articulate a robotic device that presses the corresponding keys on the piano. The system is set in motion to function as if the clouds are pressing the keys on the piano as they move across the sky and change shape.”
