“…..everyone will be famous to fifteen people“
— Momus
Playing the Building a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.- David Byrne Some nice videos up here

Playing the Building a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.- David Byrne

Some nice videos up here

All Problems of Notation Will be Solved by the Masses - Simon Yuill
Consumer-B-Gone enables you to block a shopping cart by just playing some tones out of your mobile phone speaker as a song or as a ringtone.
Bad Boy - Kim Rugg Rearanged newspaper pages, text arranged alphabetically and images aranged by pixel colour

Bad Boy - Kim Rugg

Rearanged newspaper pages, text arranged alphabetically and images aranged by pixel colour

Two Bits by Christopher M. Kelty investigates the history and cultural significance of Free Software, revealing the people and practices that have transformed not only software, but also music, film, science, and education.

Published under a CC licence, and available as a free download.

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Bored by mainstream media? Tired of boring social tags?
Subvertr is the UMSSP (Ultimate Massive Social Subvertizing Platform) from Les Liens Invisibles - imaginary art-group - leader in Web 2.0 Rich Internet artworks.
Enter the most fantasticulous collaborative Culture Jamming community and discover our latest services.

http://www.subvertr.com

Bank of Common Knowledge - a pilot experience dedicated to the research of social mechanisms for the collective production of contents, mutual education, and citizen participation. It is a laboratory platform where we explore new ways of enhancing the distribution channels for practical and informal knowledge, as well as how to share it.
“I’m constantly working to understand how something can seem to be both
the most important thing in the world and also completely
inconsequential. That’s my primary organizational strategy!“
— Douglas Repetto / Dorkbot - Pixelache University
Room Services - an institute for practical research projects transgressing the borders between DIY urbanity, social re-organization, design co-location, applied sociogeography, social and entreporeneurial enablement and art work. The projects of roomservices reflect wide inquisitiveness for experimenting tools and techniques, providing a different viewpoint or just celebrating the differences in everyday life by revealing their varied shades under new light.
Room Services - an institute for practical research projects transgressing the borders between DIY urbanity, social re-organization, design co-location, applied sociogeography, social and entreporeneurial enablement and art work. The projects of roomservices reflect wide inquisitiveness for experimenting tools and techniques, providing a different viewpoint or just celebrating the differences in everyday life by revealing their varied shades under new light.

Big Ideas (don’t get any)

Radiohead Nude Remix played by Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX - James Houston

 

szymon: Why speakers are called what they are.

szymon:

Why speakers are called what they are.
Keyworlds - an online installation that keeps on fetching RSS feeds from various news websites. The whole system reacts to hardcoded keywords, such as “bomb”, “war”, “iraq”, “love”, “bush”, etc, which are represented by a small car. Each cycle is a race on all the news feeds to determine who is the current winner. - Aymeric Mansoux
Keyworlds - an online installation that keeps on fetching RSS feeds from various news websites. The whole system reacts to hardcoded keywords, such as “bomb”, “war”, “iraq”, “love”, “bush”, etc, which are represented by a small car. Each cycle is a race on all the news feeds to determine who is the current winner. - Aymeric Mansoux
Tree Listening Devices can be used to listen and record a tree anywhere. By placing the device against the bark of your chosen tree and placing your ear at the other end you will hear the water being pulled up from the roots to the leaves through the xylem tubes. The clicking sound that you will hear is produced by the water passing through the cells and cavitating. - Alex Metcalf
Tree Listening Devices can be used to listen and record a tree anywhere. By placing the device against the bark of your chosen tree and placing your ear at the other end you will hear the water being pulled up from the roots to the leaves through the xylem tubes. The clicking sound that you will hear is produced by the water passing through the cells and cavitating. - Alex Metcalf