YouTube - Ruben’s Tube

Sound visualization using fire. Via smadden.

Dialtones (A Telesymphony)

A concert performed entirely through the ringing of the audience’s mobile phones. (2001 - Austria, Switzerland)

Auditory logic of globalization

Exhaustive paper on the cultural and economic effect of ringtones. I don’t understand why ringtones are so popular, maybe this will help. Includes a look at ringtone composers and does a little music theory comparing ringtones to the orig. pieces.

Sonicforms - an open source research platform for developing tangible interfaces for audio visual environments.

The aim of the project is to improve this area of musical interaction by creating a community knowledge base and open tools for production. By decentralising the technology and providing an easier entry point, artists and musicians can focus on creating e

Whisper

A garden of cala lilies whispers quietly into ones ear.

Blendie

Voice controlled blender that responds when the person using blendie “speaks the language of the machine.” Performative user interface!

Let them sing it for you

A project where you type in a phrase, and it is sung back to you as a stream of audio clips - one per word. Really neat effect.

Sound art gallery in Berlin

Hosts sound shows, located in an old parochial church. Awesome.

Mark Bohlen - “Universal Whistling Machine”

Machines communicating with machines (and beings) through whistling

Sonohouse

Acoustic sound structure. Very interesting physical construction (Gehry-esque), interesting sound concept too.

Listening to cells

Cells emit different sounds depending on their health and composition. (Possible use for detection of cancer.)