Another Instrument for the ‘Sonification of Everyday Things’

Earlier this year, we showed you Mogees, which let you make music from anything from a balloon to a tree. Now we have another similar device, made by Dennis Paul, a professor of interaction and space at HFK Bremen in Germany. Is that actually a class? The project is part of his Sonification of Everyday Things, which sounds really fancy.

The machine scans objects as they rotate on a barbeque-like spit, and their distance and surfaces are measured by a laser and translated into an audible frequency (via Crave). Music loops are made by the silhouettes of the objects. The video is quite brief, but the objects sound rather similar to me. But if you like creativity and lasers, then check out the demo video below.

An Instrument for the Sonification of Everyday Things