Cloud Piano by artist David Bowen is an instrument played by the sky. A live feed of clouds and its patches of light and dark are interpreted into “hand” movements. As the sky changes, so do the notes played. Creative Applications explains, “MaxMSP patch uses the video of the clouds in real-time to drive a robotic device that presses the corresponding keys on the piano.”
The recording of Cloud Piano‘s music above is more melodic than one would think. Both bass and treble notes play together forming an abstract composition. Bowen’s work is a perfect use of automation as poetry, translating sight into sound to create something that requires no explanation to be enjoyed.
Geoffrey Guterl created a hack that allows him to control an XBox 360 with a MIDI keyboard. In the video above, he demonstrates, playing Tekken -- and handily defeating his online opponent! -- while playing piano. As you might expect, the music produced isn't exactly Chopin; the limited controls and repetitive nature…
New York-based artist Matthew Matthew's project On a Human Scale has already turned the faces in the crowds of New York City and Guadalajara into a singing parts of a giant musical instrument. There's an individual for each note on the scale, projected on a gridded screen and connected to a hacked mini-piano... Watch…
For his new series therainpaintings, Kilo Collective's Brazilian-born artist Gustavo Sousa collects raindrops -- in Paris, São Paulo and around New York, from Hell's Kitchen to Chelsea to Park Avenue -- and watercolors with them. "We have these beautiful sculptures floating above us every day and we take little notice of them,…
