Tangible Sound Lab’s Skintimacy
The Tangible Sound Lab’s site seems to be down, so all I’ve got to go on is description of the video:
With ‘Skintimacy’ we present a skin-based interface for a collaborative musical performance. The experimental setup is intended to be both an evocative tool for interpersonal interaction and touch, as well as an alternative digital musical instrument. By integrating the human skin and touch into the musician-computer interface, we propose a bodily-close haptic and emotional experience.
(via Sara Hendren via Warren Ellis)
Destroy Angels’ Light Machine
A bit less weird, but still interesting: How to Destroy Angels’ light instrument:
Rob Sheridan, the art director for Trent Reznor’s side project How To Destroy Angels, is up on stage, but he has no instrument. More accurately, he is playing an instrument, but it doesn’t play music — it plays light.
Smeller
Those not weird enough for you? Check out Smeller:
SMELLER is a genuine organ, an olfactokinetic art device for composing, producing, interpreting, programming, recording, storing and playing back compositions made up of scents and scent chords.
The SMELLER 2.0 project encompasses
The production of the hardware
The production of the control software
The production of the notation system
The production of the scent sources (basic components)
The creation of olfactokinetic scent compositions (“Smellodies”)
(via Rahel)