The Xth Sense [1], has been awarded the first prize at the prestigious Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition [2] as "the world's most innovative new musical instrument." The GNMIC is an annual event to find the world’s best new ideas in musicality, design, and engineering. It takes place at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, US. This critically acclaimed event seeks to provide a fertile platform for the advancement of the studies on New Musical Interfaces for Musical Expressio...

Marco Donnarumma - Music for Flesh II - Interactive performance for enhanced body, 2011 eContact! 14.3 -- Biotechnological Performance Practice eContact! extends an open call for contributions to an issue focussing on the use of the body in electroacoustic performance practice, coordinated by Guest Editor Marco Donnarumma. Performers, composers and others are encouraged to contribute their perspectives on the role or position of the body in experimental practices of mu...

  For Nuit Blanche and Todays Art Festival in Brussels we invite you to take control of miniMAL, the low-res, low-tech media facade created by iMAL during the Media Facade Festival Europe 2010. This 4 days workshop (28 September - 1 October 2011) will be dedicated to the design and development of interactive interfaces and softwares to drive the 18 LED spotlights behind iMAL's windows. Design interaction through various inputs (microphone, webcam, sensors, mobile devices...

The majority of the lights intorduced on our website can be seen in our showroom (almost 600 products). The lamps are made in our European centre, in a Hungarian manufactory.Every piece of our lamps is made of brass.Their finish was thoughtfully crafted as a jewel -from casting to the assemblage.That is why every piece is unique. Our lamps are exclusively made of brass, glass and crystal, we do not use plastic components.We produce more than 1000 lamps with an endless variation of possibilities ...

Schimmel Pegasus Grand Piano Could Probably Travel Through Time and SpaceLooking like it belongs in Jeff Vader's Coruscant bachelor pad, the hand-made Schimmel Pegasus has an ergonomically curved keyboard, over 200 strings under a total tension of 176,520 newtons, and a key assembly composed of 10,000 pieces. Only 14 were made ten years ago for people like Eddie Murphy, Lenny Kravitz, and granfunkmeister Prince.More on http://gizmodo.com/364193/schimmel-pegasus-grand-piano-could-probably-travel-...

28 April 2010, 20:30 @ iMAL presentation / demo iMAL invites 3 schools with a multimedia or digital art section to present some of their best projects. This first Special Students will features productions made at the Design & Media Academie (Genk), Ecole de Recherche Graphique (Brussels) and ESAPV (Mons). On the menu: a game with haptic feedback, an interactive social music creature, a participative photographic sculpture, computed clocks and a communicating jacket. www.imal.org ...

Run your hand across this wallpaper to turn on a lamp, play music, or control your toaster. This interactive wallpaper can be programmed to monitor its environment and control other electronic devices, serving as a beautiful and unobtrusive way to enrich environments with computation. The wallpaper is flat, constructed entirely from paper and paint and can be paired with our paper computing kit whose pieces serve as sensors, lamps, network interfaces, and interactive decorations. ht...

At the Arts Electronica center, the Fablab explores design with the new generation of 3Dprinters.The printer:    The material used by this printer: plastic wires of various colors. No this camcorder does not work it was printed on a 3D printer but is only a prototype.  Those 2 functional large clocks were entirely produced on a 3D printer by the MIT labs. All this shows the start of an entirely new field as also presented during the Lift France conference in Marseille l...