Origami as Musical Instrument

[Fold Loud] is a project by my friend, Korean artist Joo Youn Paek.

" Playing Fold Loud involves folding origami shapes to create soothing harmonic vocal sounds. Each fold is assigned to a different human vocal sound so that combinations of folds create harmonies..."

For Video & project information, please visit her project site.

Making music with portable game console

We've seen the co-project by Nintendo NDS with Korg: DS-10, a great portable synthesizer with touch screen interface.



How about PSP? is there anything similar like that? Today I discover this:

Beaterator

Organ Player- Retro Style

When I watched this youtube video for the first 5 seconds, I thought it's a comedy with fake player and music, or they tried to make jokes with band; But, IT'S AMAZING! These girls really can play!

Music from everyday things

talian artist Diego Stocco makes sound from everyday things. After his previous work "Music From Sand" (as below), he created another work which is Green, Music From Tree:

MUSIC FROM SAND:

Diego Stocco - Music From Sand from Diego Stocco on Vimeo.

MUSIC FROM TREE:




This is how he created the sound:

"In the garden of my house there's a tree with lots of randomly grown twigs. It looks odd and nice at the same time. One day I asked myself if I could create a piece of music with it.

To tune the tree I picked a fundamental note and tuned the twigs by trimming them with a pencil sharpener. "

More info about Diego Stocco

Music for nerdy people

Let's see some professional geek's work, see how they make music, in unconventional way:

iPhone as remote:

Nintendo DS as remote:

Culture Remix: African American singing traditional Japanese song

hip hop dancing + Enka (Japanese traditional singing style), really touching remix:

Cellphone Music- Concept Model by au KDDI

"Cell phone can be musical instrument" is not that new to us. We've been seeing a lot of cell phone application for people to generate sound. However, have you ever seen any cell phone that can be play as harmonica, trumpet, or even drum stick to play drum?

One of my favorite cell phone design/ manufacturing company, au KDDI, is showing their concept models, cooperate with YAMAHA. Needless to say, YAMAHA is always innovative on new musical interface. These concept cell phone instrument are really awesome, those interface with shape changing and marvelous modules are really attractive, definitely wanna try them out!


see the introduction: (sorry, only Japanese)
http://www.au.kddi.com/au_design_project/models/2008/gakki/index.html?event=0

for demo video, please click on a black button in the bottom right of that page, and also click on different concept model in the bottom tray.