Music
Le button
Le button is one single button that can transform any surface in a radio tuner. It allows to use any printed page as an link to an internet audio file which you can stream to your headphones. And because it’s able to save any pattern in it’s internal memory, you can re-save those links in any surface you can look at. how much can you do with a single button? about: Made in 2006/07 for Kenwood corporation and École Nationale de Création Industrielle along with Clément Tissandier, using Adobe After Effects* for the movie and Max/MSP/jitter* to program the working prototype. *(both which I had learned the week before)
Radio Jaba
Free music might change our culture. But only if it creates a culture. We live in a funny paradox. You can hear any music, from anywhere, given you already know it, or at least know how to spell it in a search engine. As a result, most of downloads are the famous artists seen in MTV, which makes the MTV guys very unhappy, as that´s precisely what they don´t want you to do. And at the same time, thousands of ignored musicians out there are actually asking to be heard, but remain in oblivion. The result: recording companies prosecute people who can´t understand what they have done wrong (we´ve all always heard music for free after all), independent unknown artists who remain unknown artists,…