Visual Music

The highly innovative and excellent Playmodes team create innovative projects crossing art, technology, science, research and code.  Their website playmodes documents all the various projects they create.  They also have a channel on twitch.tv, where they present content live (great idea).  The project focused on here is their recent project titled ' Forms - Screen Ensemble ', which is a what they call a generative visual music instrument. PROJECT:  Playforms - Forms - Screen Ensemble, (Barcelona 2020) Forms - Screen Ensemble "Forms -Screen Ensemble- is a generative visual music jukebox. Driven by chance and probability, this automata creates endless, unrepeatable graphic scores that are immediately transformed into sound by means of sonification algorith…

Featured on the amazing website - Creative Applications Net (CAN) http://www.creativeapplications.net/sound/dedalo-an-instrument-by-quayola-sinigaglia-to-see-the-sound/ Dedalo - An instrument by Quayola & Natan Sinigaglia to 'see' the sound "Developed as a collaboration between Quayola & Sinigaglia, Dedalo is a collection of custom developed vvvv engines (and a toolkit) to generate, exchange and map data between a series of graphics modules and a rendering engine used for live performance and audiovisual concerts... The project began as a collaboration in 2010 with the development of software called  Partitura . The aim was to create an instrument for performance that would allow visualisation of sound in realtime... Dedalo is built…

Soundmachines - an instrument for performing electronic music "Three units, which are resembling standard record players, translate concentric visual patterns into control signals for further processing in any music software. The rotation of the discs, each holding three tracks, can be synced to a sequencer. The Soundmachines premiered on the Volkswagen New Beetle stand at the IAA motor show in late Summer 2011. In cooperation with the sounddesigner/ producer Yannick Labbé of TRICKSKI fame, we developed three unique discs, each controlling one track of an Ableton Live Set exclusively made for the Event. The show was supported by a set of realtime generated visuals, running on a 25m wide LED wall." source:  http://www.the-product.org/soundmachines Vime…