Dialed In: 15 Cool & Quirky Radio Design Concepts
The long history of radio and radios has progressed from polished wood, vacuum tube powered monstrosities through cheap Japanese transistor models to bass-pounding inner city “ghetto blasters” ...
Tag: music
Lullaby Factory: Fanciful Installation for Children’s Hospital
Children at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital can enter a secret courtyard, stand beside a convoluted system of copper pipes and horns, and listen to the sound of soft lullabies. This musical ...
Touchy Instrument Turns Literal Beets Into Figurative Beats
The BeetBox from designer Scott Garner explores user expectations and creates a delightful visual pun. Its wooden enclosure holds six actual beets that, when touched by human hands, create actual ...
Mundane Music: The Sonification of Everyday Things
Exploring the world through sound is not limited to simply listening to the audio that's automatically produced by the people, nature and objects that surround us each day. For designer Dennis P. ...
Imagine Nations: 15 Peaceful John Lennon Memorials
Imagine a world without memorials to the late John Lennon, it isn't hard to do. The fact there ARE commemorative tributes to the former Beatle and peace crusader scattered across the globe in some ...
Sneaker Speakers: Blast Music From Your Feet to the Streets
Strut around your neighborhood blaring your favorite tunes, hands-free, with speakers that strap onto your feet. Sneaker Speakers by Ray Kingston are the modern answer to the '80s urban boom box ...
Click, Hum, Whir: An Orchestra of Obsolete Technology
In the broad scheme of audio technology, cassette tapes had a rather rough go of things. Their predecessor, the vinyl record, had been around for decades before and even now continues to be a ...
Sound of the Earth: Vinyl Globe Plays Music of the World
This is more than just a model of the globe: it's a spherical record player that will produce the sounds of a particular region when spun. The Sound of the Earth by Yuri Suzuki is just one of the ...
Musical Tree! Amplified Sound Art from Falling Chestnuts
The ground below an immense chestnut tree in Berlin's Montbijoupark is aglow with green polymer membranes that produce sound from the impact of falling nuts. 'Tree Concert' is a temporary ...
Microsonic Landscapes: What Music Looks Like in 3D
What would your favorite album look like in three dimensions? Mexico City-based research and experimentation studio Realität proposes "a new spatial and unique journey" by transforming the ...
