Sound making art

Another musician/artist/sound designer that experiments with audio/visuals/art is Yann Seznec. Even though he is more into the technical side I think that his projects are still pieces of art in themselves. My favourite and most appropriate to my project is called "spores". Mushrooms drop thousands of tiny spores that are naked to the human eye so what Yann and mycologist Patrick Hickey did was shine lasers onto the mushrooms so that as they fell you could see them. Adding the audio element they made software and hardware that detected real time movement and with every spore that fell it activated a sound which was to "represent the nature processes inherent in the mushroom". Here is a link to Yann's website that goes into more detail and there are videos too!

http://theamazingrolo.net/projects/spores/