Project GuitARS brings the rock out of your living-room! It is a game played with a guitar-shaped usb controller on a 5100m² LED facade. The player has to hit the buttons and stroke on the controller at the right time, depending on the falling blocks on the building.
The game was developed during the course “interface technologies” with Robert Praxmarer at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. Project GuitARS was written in Java, the controller input is piped via xpadder. A note-recording tool was written in C++.

http://artcore.mediacube.at

White Glove Tracking, by Evan Roth:

“On May 4th, 2007, we asked internet users to help isolate Michael Jackson’s white glove in all 10,060 frames of his nationally televised landmark performance of Billy Jean. 72 hours later 125,000 gloves had been located. wgt_data_v1.txt is the culmination of data collected. It is released here for all to download and use as an input into any digital system. Just as the data was gathered collectively it is our hope that it will be visualized collectively. Please email links to your apps, video, source code, and/or screen shots to evan[at]eyebeam[dot]org. Work will be exhibited in an online gallery and depending on popularity and interest potentially in a forthcoming physical gallery exhibition as well. Huge thanks to everyone that contributed to the data collection.”

http://whiteglovetracking.com
http://evan-roth.com

The MIDI Opera by Manuel Bürger is an homage to the MIDI file format:

“Due to its limitation composing songs with the MIDI synthesizer of my laptop was always an attraction to me. The sequencer software is simple, and cheesy melodies are clicked within a second. After clicking this link you’ll find a compilation of songs squeezed into a little story about Gérald Midi, a hard working businessman, who is caught in his dreams of a colorful, exciting life. Maybe similar dreams are shared by MIDI files themselves as well.”

http://www.manuelbuerger.com/2010/themidiopera.php

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Inspired by his favourite Play.com download, Pure Evil, with Don’t Panic, uses a projection as his stencil and paints an amazing music inspired image. If you can work out which track he’s inspired by, you could win the piece. Each day a clue will be published on the Beck’s Facebook page to help you work it out.- you can make as many guesses as you like, so keep trying for a better chance of winning.

Inspired by his favourite Play.com download, Rubi Cane (aka Mr Bruce), with CultureLabel, paints two amazing portraits for Beck’s project “Shape your Music Experience”. If you can work out which track he’s inspired by, you could win these one-of-a-kind paintings. Each day a clue will be published on the Beck’s Facebook page to help you work it out.

The second video from Beck’s Shape Your Music Experience is online: this time the artist is Jotta.
Inspired by their favourite Play.com download, Jotta, working in a range of media, creates an innovative screen print for Beck’s. If you can work out which track they’re inspired by, you could win the unique screen print.
Watch the video and follow the Facebook Page for more clues…

Inspired by his favourite music download, Melvin Galapon, from the Young Creatives Network, created a unique light installation by painting on to a glass ball as it revolves on a turntable. This project is part of Beck’s “Shape Your Music Experience“, a project born to explore the hidden elements of music and art.

And if you can work out what the track he’s inspired by is, you could win this one-of-a-kind piece of art. Each day a clue will be will published on the Beck’s Facebook page to help you work it out . After Melvin Galapon, three more innovative artists from Don’t Panic, CultureLabel and Jotta are coming soon…

The Heart Chamber Orchestra – HCO – is an audiovisual performance. The orchestra consists of 12 classical musicians and the artist duo TERMINALBEACH.
Using their heartbeats, the musicians control a computer composition and visualization environment. The musical score is generated in real time by the heartbeats of the musicians. They read and play this score from a computer screen placed in front of them. HCO forms a structure where music literally “comes from the heart”.

www.heartchamberorchestra.org

Inside a Dead Skyscraper is the newest project by Molleindustria, a music video game for the song “The building” by Jesse Stiles.

“The game and the song are based on Jesse’s brief tenure as a videographer in the partially destroyed buildings surrounding the World Trade Center site. Ideally, it is meant to be a critical answer to the proliferation of rhythm games ‘a la Guitar Hero. These karaoke-derived products simply capitalize on already successful music, generating royalties for a dying record industry and reinforcing the mythology of the rock star as super-human that common people should identify with.
An alternative approach to the musical game form would link the independent music and independent games scenes. Indie music games could promote unknown bands to the multi-tasking, hyperactive, interaction-addicted new generations. They could enhance the listening experience while being autonomous works as the best music videos have been done in the last 30 years. ”

http://www.molleindustria.org

The MoshPit Amp, by Fur, is an automata that converts headbanging movements into metal music. Through style and intensity of your head banging, you are the conductor of a virtual metal band consisting of four instruments: vocals, bass, drums and guitar. you can control the volume as well as the pattern of each instrument to create engaging musical arrangements. If you mosh really hard you can trigger a guitar solo for the ultimate rock experience. Your performance in front of the amp will additionally be supportet by a lightshow with smoke, flash and pyrotechnics.

http://www.fursr.com

From 27th to 30st of May 2010, at Brancaleone in Rome, will take place the eighth edition of LPM – Live Performers Meeting: an international meeting of live video performers, visual artists and vjs, focused on live video performances.
Rome 2009 edition, registered the presence of 362 artists coming from Italy, Portugal, France, Germany, Canada, Hungary, United Kingdom, Poland, Spain, Uruguay, Latvia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden, Mexico, Greece, Denmark, United States, Austria, Australia, Turkey. During the whole four days, 289 performances, workshops and showcases, gave life to each area of the 900 square meters space of Brancaleone, enhanced with 15 projectors and as many screens.
For the second consecutive year, the edition of LPM settles in an exclusive location, the long-standing Brancaleone that with its structure, perfectly fit the growing needs of a meeting, that year after year has definetely enlarged its range of contents, artists and audience.
LPM once again, will use its 4-day formula, creating a truly unique event and granting a program full of workshops, project showcases, softwares and brand-new products.

click here for more info
download the workshop program
(subscribe to one of the workshop by writing to: workshops@flyer.it)

www.liveperformersmeeting.net

Live Video Ensemble is a live audio-video project conceived by Claudio Sinatti and performed by a 10 element ensemble together with a musician or band. The shows follow a 2/4 day workshop in wich 10 people are prepared for the execution of the performance. During the show the musician and the ensemble compose a single, abstract, completely improvised, yet perfectly synced, audio-video stream.
The visual track is performed in real time, using a custom generative software. Images are controlled by the ensemble through a set of midi instruments connected to a single computer. The software recieves the music and the performers can link it to different image parameters as well as controlling the scene manually. The result is a highly organic audiovisual show in wich the sounds seem to be produced directly from the images.

http://www.livevideoensemble.com/

Notput, by Jürgen Graef and Jonas Heuer, is an interactive music table with tangible notes, that combines all three senses of hearing, sight and touch to make learning the classical notation of music for children and pupils more easy and interesting.
All basic clefs, note values and accidentals exist as single wood elements. Whole, half, quarter and eighth notes differ not only in their form, but also in their weight: Long note values are heavier than short ones.
The table has two modes: A standard mode, where you can place notes on the table in a playful and experimental way and explore the related music outcome. And an excercise mode, where excercises and tutorials sort by topic and difficulty have to be mastered.

http://www.jonasheuer.de/index.php/noteput/

Bicycle Built For 2,000 is comprised of 2,088 voice recordings collected via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk web service. Workers were prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard. All the voices are assemble to sing “Daisy Bell” (the song that HAL is singing at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey).

http://www.bicyclebuiltfortwothousand.com

On September 20 at 2pm, MTAA and Mike Koller organized the “World’s First, Possibly Only and Probably Last iPhone Drum Circle (aka IPDC)”. They set out a brightly colored blanket surround by a circle of chairs at McCarren Park, Williamsburg, Brooklyn and brought amplified iPhones on which they have downloaded touchscreen drum and bongo applications.
As explained by M.River of MTAA “The main objective of the iPhone Drum Circle is to get a total stranger to do a little dance on our blanket. That and hopefully enjoying the last summer Sunday in the park this year for an hour.”

http://tinjail.com/ipdc/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mriver/sets/72157622295990595/ (photos)
http://mtaa.net/video/iPDC_h264_VGA.clip02.mov (video .mov)

Cybraphon is the latest project from Edinburgh-based artist collective FOUND (Ziggy Campbell, Simon Kirby and Tommy Perman). Inspired by early 19th century mechanical bands such as the nickelodeon, Cybraphon is an interactive version of a mechanical band in a box. Consisting of a series of robotic instruments housed in a large display case, Cybraphon behaves like a real band. Image conscious and emotional, the band’s performance is affected by online community opinion as it searches the web for reviews and comments about itself 24 hours a day.

http://cybraphon.com
http://foundtheband.com

Headbang Hero, by Tiago Martins, Ricardo Nascimento and Andreas Zingerle is a music/dance video game for testing and improving your headbanging prowess. A special wig is used as a game controller, feeding motion data to the game software. The game analyses in real time how well your headbanging follows the rhythm of the music. You are awarded points for your personal headbanging choreography… but you should be aware that your health is at risk! To stress this point Headbang Hero also analyses how hazardous your performance is. As opposed to what happens in games where the player is in control of an avatar, in Headbang Hero what matters is the player’s own health. The game keeps track of two distinct aspects of the player’s performance. The first is the player’s (potentially heroic) sense of style and rhythm as he headbangs along to the music. The second is the amount of health damage the player is causing himself in the quest to become a hero. When the game ends the player receives a printed health report based on his performance analysis. Included in this report are tips on how to improve the performance and advice on how to avoid injuries.
Headbang hero is currently installed in Linz for Ars Electronica 2009 (Interface Culture Exhibition. 4-8 september 2009).

http://www.headbanghero.com

Skinstrument, by Daan Brinkmann, is a musical instrument which works using skin resistance as a parameter to generate sound, it can be played simultaneously by two players. When players touch one of the semi spheres they become part of an electronic circuit consisting of a tiny, imperceptible current. When the players now start to touch each other on the skin this circuit starts to generate sound. The intensity of the touch determines the modulation of the sound.

www.daanbrinkmann.com

From 28th to 31st of May 2009, at Brancaleone in Rome, will take place the seventh edition of LPM – Live Performers Meeting: International encounter of live video performers, visual artists and vj meeting, dedicated to live video performances.
The Rome 2008 edition, followed in September by a special mexican edition, registered the partecipation of 257 artists from: Algeria, Argentina, Austria, France, Germany, Japan, Guatemala, UK, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Hungary. 142 shows and performances gave life to the 900 square meters of the Macello IV – Mattatoio di Testaccio, setup during the four days with 13 beamers and screens.

This edition will take place in brand-new exclusive location, the historical Brancaleone. Its spaces perfectly fit the needs of the Meeting, which during this years has definetely enlarged its range of contents, artists and audience.
LPM will again use its 4-day formula, creating a unique and unforgettable event, which every year grants a program full of workshops and showcases of projects, softwares and brand-new products.

LPM is not a festival, it is an opportunity of meeting to get a glimpse of what visual-artists are creating or, even better, what they could create. Therefore, and in order to allow the many interesting artists to perform, the maximum length of a performance is 30 minutes.

More infos: http://lpm.flyer.it

Israeli funk musician and producer Kutiman mixed an entired album from samples of YouTube videos. The website Thru You features seven amazing tracks and a video presentation made by the author himself.

http://thru-you.com