Climate Control

Bart Woodstrup, an MFA student at RPI, is currently showing "a series of climate-interactive electronic installations and eco-visualizations intended to address the personal detachment felt towards global climate change." (iEAR Presents)

A "manual" for the installation describes some of the transformations ("data interpretations"): "Power: plant height and rate of growth; Irradiance: sun/cloud/moon animation; Ambient Temperature: leaf color and brightness; Module Temperature: flower head hue and saturation; Timescale: 1:1,800 seconds".

ixi Software

ixi Software presents a number of transcoding-based musical programs. For example, ixi Quarks offers various visual representations of musical events and sound sources.

Tenori-on

The Tenori-On takes advantage of a Monome-like matrix of LED buttons to visualize musical compositions in real-time as they are being improvised. One of the cooler controls is the breakable loop bar, allowing you multiple loop lengths.

Visible Speech

The IPA presents a visual, written representation of spoken sounds. The orthography is derived mostly from standard alphabets. Alexander Melville Bell (father of Alexander Graham Bell) developed Visible Speech towards a similar end, but he attempts to preserve physiological characteristics of the sound in the orthography.