Rafael De Cardenas, visionary designer, and Sahra Motalebi, sound artist, combined to bring an eerily unsettling, yet super aesthetic environment based on the design of the maze, entitled AMAZE. The space itself looks like a David Lynch movie combined with mid century modern design, and the sound is a wild, interactive vocal-only sound scape by Sahra Motalebi. … [Read more...]
Vandmand, A Sound Art Installation
Dutch artist Mariska de Groot creates totally unique sound art installations with analog light-to-sound instruments. For "Vandmand", she collaborated with Dutch sound artist Lars Kynde, and they composed a sound and light piece for the Elsinore Girls Marching Band in Copenhagen, with choreography. … [Read more...]
An Ensemble of Instruments by Fedde ten Berge: “Of Nature and Things”
Of Nature and Things is a series of sound art installations by Dutch sound designer Fedde ten Berge, where he collaborated with ceramicist Frank van Os. Three ceramic pieces were built that cause the audience to investigate their sonic, visual and sculptural properties. The audience can explore and interact with the objects, which get more sonically interesting as the audience … [Read more...]
Nathan Moody On Musical Sound Design For Installations
Nathan Moody from Stimulant has written an interesting piece about his experience/approach to musical sound design for installations. The article touches on expectations and listener fatigue, considerations regarding the installation environment and how science fiction sounds often don't translate well into the real world. You can read the full story here. … [Read more...]
Art of Surround
Acousmonium, INA-GRM, 1980. Photo by Laszlo Ruska. Surround (Oxford Dictionary) (verb) [with object] - Be all round (someone or something) (noun) - A thing that forms a border or edging around an object. (adjective) (Surrounding) - All around a particular place or thing. Based merely on a technological approach, one might think that Surround sound is just the … [Read more...]
“Cicadas” – Sound Installation
"Cicadas" is an installation with a difference. Bringing together sound design, technology and natural science, Berlin-based sound artist Bob Meanza has created sonic robots which emulate some of the resonance and timbral qualities of the cicada. These robots are in fact tinyAVR microcontrollers, programmed using Arduino software to emit sounds that are determined by their … [Read more...]
Designing Sound for the BMW Tunnel Experience
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/25022786[/vimeo] Andrew Spitz has published a great post on his blog talking about the sound he designed and programmed for the BMW Tunnel Experience. A few months back, with Mann Made Media, I had the privilege to work on a great project for BMW. BMW was announcing their sponsorship of the South African rugby team – the Springboks. Our brief was to … [Read more...]