SoniColumn interactive sound installation

by Donald Melanson, posted Aug 14th 2006 at 4:45PM

The SoniColumn -- an interactive sound installation that's one part sci-fi and one part Victoriana-- is the latest work from multimedia artist Jin-You Mok. Part of his MusicBox Project, the piece, as you can no doubt guess, consists of elements designed to mimic a music box in one form or another. The SoniColumn itself works through an array of touch-sensitive LEDs that each emit a unique tone when touched -- the budding musician can then turn a crank to rotate the column and play back his/her composition in its entirety. If you want let loose your inner Thomas Dolby, you can currently check out the SoniColumn at Bitforms gallery in Seoul, South Korea, or catch it's next appearance at Wired's NextFest in NYC come October.

[Via Engadget Japanese]

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Tags: art, interactive sound installation, InteractiveSoundInstallation, jin-you mok, Jin-youMok, music box, MusicBox, musicbox project, MusicboxProject, sonicolumn

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adammhaile @ Aug 14th 2006 4:48PM

ummmm.... that's REALLY old

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Tony @ Aug 15th 2006 12:02AM

There is a link to a video of it in action here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMLaHmFEyF0

Frankly, I think it sounds like crap.

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MJ @ Aug 15th 2006 4:08PM

Parece o prédio da Dacon.

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zoara @ Aug 16th 2006 10:13AM

Tony, I have a vague feeling that this wasn't intended to provide a high fidelity surround-sound experience.

Does it matter if it "sounds like crap"? I think it's brilliant.

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Fan @ Aug 17th 2006 9:49PM

Isn't that the device from He-man the movie.

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