Here are two examples of books that make sound. The one on the left [image source] is a children’s book with a key-typed electronic sound board that plays digital recordings of sounds made by the various animals encountered in the book. On the right [image source] is an academic project titled Phono Aesthetics by Thomas Niblett, 2010. It attempts to demonstrate relationships between sounds and images. Here is a video, and the author’s website does a great of job of showing how it was designed.
We can imagine an occult book of Paul Case‘s color and sound correspondences, for example, making use of similar technology.
It’s worth noting that both of these books have tiny computers embedded within them. Also that the Phono Aesthetics book uses conductive ink, which is something I’ve experimented with; it’s quite promising. There are many interactions we could design with computers and electronics, and physical books.
Hi HyperRitual,
excellent presentation so far. I think that the figure from Matthew Reinhart & Robert Sabuda’s Encyclopaedia Mythologica volume, Dragons & Monsters, is the Medusa and not the Sphinx. I’m not 100% certain about this, but I can deduct it from her snakey hair.
Keep up with the great work,
Plethon.
Hi, Nick. Thanks for taking time to check out my work. Look at the lower-right corner of the book; that is the transition I am referring to in the speech/text. :-)
Right, I get it now, thank you for pointing it out. I have finished watching the slide show and I find it brilliant. It does motivate to go out and start doing, creating, interacting… Please produce more work like this, we’re so thirsty for this kind of quality.
Cheers, man!