An interactive sound and light installation with body and skin from public "Contacts" or "Lights Contacts" is an interactive artwork perceptible by two people or more. This sensory installation is tactile and sonorous. It proposes an original and interactive staging among spectators’ bodies. They are transformed into real sonorous human instruments. In a poetic way, we invite the spectator to question the perception of the other one.  This a...

Digital sound and tactile sculpture by Jean-Robert Sedano and Solveig Ory to: sounds of the entire planet to be discovered with their hands. Covered on all sides of signs seem to belong to written eras and backgrounds, aluminum shapes standing out blue background, the cube 3 meters on each side is first an object visually surprising. Walking around, you discover the styles graphs of each side. Approaching a bit longer, touching with the hands the signs ...

Chris Harrison, student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University has made Skinput, a technology that appropriates the human body for acoustic transmission, allowing the skin to be used as a finger input surface : "In particular, we resolve the location of finger taps on the arm and hand by analyzing mechanical vibrations that propagate through the body. We collect these signals using a novel array of sensors worn as an armband. This approac...

The Round A musical and interactive Installation by Jean-Robert Sedano and Solveig de Ory. The Round is a set of 8 sculptures arranged in circle. Every sculpture consists of a pair of life-size bronze hands casted according to the hands of the authors, put on a plinth and surmounted by an umbrella. The public is invited to come in The Round by squeezing hands to create immediately a musical variation which will depend on the contact and on the number of the participants. It appears ...

Tactile memories! Digital interactive musical installation by Jean-Robert Sedano. The Tubulophones form a group of eight sculptures musical touch that react with hands in producing sounds. Changes in the skin and the mood of the players can adjust the sound (a fortnight by tubulophone). Report of June 5, 1993, the first public presentation at Orleans, during the Science Festival. See the video: http://www.digitalarti.com/en/video/tubulophone_1993_0 Visit  Ludi...