Roger Linn works on a new musical interface to enhance the boundaries of  traditional music instruments.

This design uses a fingerboard grid consisting of 6 rows of 24 semitones each, similar to a guitar. In acknowledgement of my wife Ingrid’s contribution to the engineering, we like to refer to this note grid as the “InGRID”. :) It also has two thumb control strips, one on each side of the fingerboard, to be used for sustaining fingered notes after release, strumming, bowing, blowing or restriking, and also has a wind sensor for added expression. (Ignore the 4 long, thin bars on each side; they were to be used as separate palm-actuated sustain bars, but I’ve decided that the two thumb strips work better for this.)

Check out out Roger Linns Homepage here for additional information.

Making a statement through music is far from unfamiliar – some of the most powerful messages of our time have been embodied in the most fetching melodies. Taking the wide human reach held within this medium, designer Craig Colorusso has created “Sun Boxes,” an alien field of independently operating, solar-powered speakers, each remitting its own distinct guitar sample. A true marriage of sound and (natural) light, this array of speakers is able to create a glorious composition that attests to the value of solar power in today’s world.

via [inhabitat]

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Starkey’s Cetera technology makes the hearing aid “invisible” to the brain. Cetera removes the barrier between sound and the brain’s ability to process signals. The Cetera technology is based on an innovative new algorithm- the complex mathematical formula that drives a hearing aid. Cetera’s algorithm can match the exact characteristics of the wearer’s ear. This customization removes the barrier that most hearing aids erect between the incoming sound waves and the data sent to the brain for processing.

Gravité (Gravity) - Falling objects synchronized to produce rhythm. 2009

by Renaud Hallée

Cosmogramma Fieldlines is a free augmented reality application to celebrate the imminent release of the new Flying Lotus album ‘Cosmogramma’. It can be controlled with your webcam or mouse.

Cosmogramma Fieldlines was developed by Aaron Meyers with sound design by Flying Lotus and harp by Rebekah Raff.  Based on the artwork by Leigh J. McCloskey.

For Mac and PC.

Get it here.

i think this can be applied to all kind of jobs in the media industry ;)

Harlan Ellison is an award winning writer for TV series such as Star Trek, The Outer Limits, Babylon 5, and many more.

Lang Lang playing flight of the bumblebee…on an iPad ;)

Jaime Oliver created a fascinating multitouch drum controller:

It’s a transparent shell covered with an elastic head that the player can stretch with their fingers. A camera positioned to the side detects the shape of the deformation and translates that into sound, chillingly demonstrated below.

via [engadget]

Wonderful high speed recordings capturing the physical power of sound by Trevor Cox of University of Salford.

via [silentsounds]

Video by Patrick Jean. Music by Naive New Beaters.

via [Gizmodo]