Category Archives: Media Art

ScoreLight: A laser-based artificial synesthesia instrument

ScoreLight is a musical instrument capable of generating sound from the lines of doodles as well as the contours of three-dimensional objects (hands, silhouettes, architectural details). There is no camera or projector: a laser spot explores the shape just as a pick-up head searches for sound over the surface of a vinyl record, with the significant difference that the groove is generated by the contours of the drawing itself.…