Comme l’année précédente sur Fubiz, Sony a fait appel à Torafu Architects pour concevoir ce Crystal Aqua Tree, une installation à l’extérieur du Sony Building dans le quartier de Ginza à Tokyo. En invitant les passants à déposer des pièces dans des boîtes de couleurs, cette installation propose de voir l’arbre digital évoluer.
St. Vincent: Birth In Reverse David Byrne’s beloved sidekick is back on her own after their whirlwind world tour, and St. Vincent has never sounded so fresh. Annie Clark’s self-titled St. Vincent album hits record stores 24 February, but fans got a sneak…
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Dezeen Music Project: London artist Di Mainstone is developing an electronic instrument that enables performers to make music from the subtle vibrations of suspension bridge cables (+ movie).
“I would regularly go to Brooklyn Bridge [in New York] and it struck me that there’s a comparison between a suspension bridge and a harp,” said Mainstone, who presented the project at this week’s Wearable Futures conference in London.
“I started thinking about the cables of the bridge, which carry vibrations down them in the same way as a harp string. I wondered if there was a way to develop a parasitic interface that would enable people to ‘play’ the frequencies of the bridge, which is this beautiful deep groaning sound.”
She added: “I imagined these people called ‘movicians’ who were almost part bridge, part instrument with all of these cables attached to them.”
Mainstone’s Human Harp, which she is developing in partnership with Queen Mary University of London and Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, consists of a series of eight electronic modules, which modify digital recordings of the sound of vibrating suspension bridge cables.
These devices, which Mainstone attaches to the structure of the bridge, contain retractable cables that control the volume, pitch and intensity of the sounds based on the length, speed and angle at which they are pulled.
Mainstone’s performers wear a special vest, which these cables clip on to, enabling them to alter the music by rolling and contorting their bodies.
Mainstone tested the Human Harp on Brooklyn Bridge earlier this year, using pre-recorded sounds from the bridge. She is now looking at developing technology to enable the modules to record the sounds of a bridge in real time and wants to create specific sound installations on bridges around the world.
“We plan to do a tour in the UK and then a global tour of suspension bridges after that,” she explained.
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Following our exclusive interview with architect Jacques Herzog of Herzog & de Meuron last week on the studio’s recently completed Pérez Art Museum Miami, our new Pinterest board focuses on the Swiss firm. See our new Herzog & de Meuron Pinterest board »
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Montreal designer Loïc Bard has created a wooden stool to add to his collection of furniture with gaping mouths that store magazines inside the top.
A single magazine can be stored within the thin curved lip of the Andy stool seat.
“This new furniture follows the organic shape of my previous creations,” said Bard, who has also created a coffee table in a similar style.
His collection was influenced by his childhood memories of a trip to Japan: “I designed this [furniture] while remembering the sober atmosphere, the simplicity of the utensils and the rustic environment of the tea ceremony.”
Three tapered round legs support the irregular-shaped seat, which comes in maple wood finished with natural oil or stained darker colours.
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Following our exclusive interview with Rem Koolhaas last month, Dutch office OMA is the fifteenth entry to our A-Zdvent calendar of architects. Koolhaas’ firm recently completed De Rotterdam, a 44-storey group of interconnected glass towers in the architect’s home city, and has also built two skyscrapers in China – the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (pictured) and the CCTV Headquarters building in Beijing.
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