French artist Gregory Chatonsky made this piece of audio art which generates sound via some sensors placed on a broken hard disk. The amount of vibration is picked up and changed into sound via a program running on a PC. Hit the play button below to listen – it sounds kind of beautiful but eerie and reminds me of the ambient music of German glitch pioneers Oval.



Original article at Make: Blog

Following up on my last post, I had a dig through Yes Studio's website and they've done some really nice work, particularly in the areas of music and art. I'm a firm believer in the theory that a designer or agency's portfolio should reflect the type of work they want to be doing, and I reckon Yes Studio's portfolio is a great example of this. There's probably some more mundane work going on day–to–day to pay the bills, but there's no reason why anyone has to know.


“Conceived as a reaction to the glut of new bands called 'The... ', Yes Studio created a list of 99 classic band names prefixed with ‘The’”