Saturday, April 23, 2011

Thomson & Craighead

Jon Thomson (born 1969) and Alison Craighead (born 1971) are London-based visual artists, who work with video, sound and the internet.



This piano was designed to play midi tracks found on the internet. This is interesting because to me, you take a digital medium and convert it to an analog format, and this is what you get. It may not sound amazing by any means, but its interesting to see how a computer would play these digital files in a "real" setting. Pretty nifty!
Its small projects like these that get turned into a bigger idea. I couldnt tell you what it is, but things like ipods, etc came from simple ideas such as these. Art has a purpose!!

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