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SoundHouse

A joint experiment between David Hanawalt, Architect and Bill Close, Sonic Installation Artist explores in first steps the integration of site, sight and sound...As a main theme in their newly designed and built house, they have commissioned the creation of architecture as musical instruments. The house is set up with a series of musical experiences that are intriguing and inviting for the Wege family and guests. Curious fingers of any musical background find the excitement of bringing the Architecture to life through sound/music. All the Architectural instruments are based around strings. The Architecture becomes the structure, bridge and resonator for these giant stringed instruments. Specially developed brass wire and piano wires are used as “the strings” of the instruments. The complex patterns of strings are extension of the architectural lines of the house and become an integral part of the visual experience. symphonic house 

HMC Medialab

HMC Medialab has its new Lacuna Project up and running at the Portland Square Building in Plymouth, UK. Their website explains: "Lacuna is a response to the relationship between body and architecture in the cyborg era. Existing in the perceive 'gap' between physical volume and electronic volume, Lacuna is customised software that communicates between the visual medium of the screen and a high resolution electronic skin of real world architecture. This in turn creates virtual counterpart architecture, enhancing the electronic Cybrid dimension of construction." hmcmedialab

fractal generators

Fractal artist Juan Lewis started Fractovia as a two-page website under the name of Fractal Division back in the summer of 1998. Over the last several years, it's expanded to contain over 600 pages, most of which were adorned with pictures depicting fractal representations. For fractal generators there are applications listed on his site available free of charge from their respective home pages (Mind-Boggling Fractals and Ultra Fractal, being shareware, are the only exceptions; look for these at the end of the Generators list [page 10]). In no case they are public domain, unless if stated explicitly as such by their author(s), who, in any case, retain all rights over their products. They are also free of spyware. fractovia