The Interaction Design Programme at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design shares some of their latest projects with PSFK.

Designer Dean Brown has developed a method of transforming everyday metal cans into loudspeakers.

Emo Labs’ Edge Motion audio systems are poised to be a major breakthrough in how we receive digital audio from our electronic devices

The Thumping Guide to NYC was part of the recent Conflux 2009 festival in New York City. With the subtitle “Banging on the city’s most resonant protrusions”, the project aims to gather recordings of all the different sounds of the urban environment.

David Schwartz, a digital audio pioneer, will soon be unveiling a new design for a microphone that is aided by lasers to isolate “pure sound.”

We recently came across this video of an audiophile troubleshooting a speaker system he built on some knäckebröd, a Swedish type of crispy flat bread.  The noisy cracker is actually an object built for a three day Sound Sculpture workshop at the Neon Gallery in Brösarp, Sweden.
It doesn’t produce a very pleasant harmony and the wiring looks quite haphazard, but for those pushing the limits of experimental sound, this could be the music their waiting for.  Who knows? Maybe the next revolutionary speaker system will be built out of matzah, we’re already seeing cell phones made of corn.  Without further [...]

Lights On is a synchronized light and sound installation on the exterior of the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria. There are 1085 LED controlled windows to coordinate with the sound playing from speakers around the building.

[today and tomorrow via swissmiss]

Olle Cornéer Christian Hörgren and Martin Lübcke have designed an morphing musical “organism” that takes background noise and attempts to transform it into music. Named the Bacterial Orchestra, the digital organism runs off iPhones, is self-organizing, and evolves with the environment. “Public Epidemic No 1″ will be the premiere performance of the orchestra (using hundreds of iPhones), taking place at the Volt Festival on the 6th of June. Watch the program come alive in the video below.
The creators descibe the project:
Bacterial Orchestra (2006) is a self-organizing evolutionary musical organism. The installation consists of several audio cells. Every cell listens to [...]

The Sound Advice Project creates custom bracelets of any sound’s waveform. Although the project is aimed at parents who want to make anti-drug message bracelets for their kids, the concept seems full of interesting possibilities.
[via Gizmodo]