The Chandelier - developed by Mike Fabio, Steve Pliam, Brian Demers, and Lucas Hernandez-Mena - is a large-scale robotic musical instrument designed for the opera Death and the Powers. Using various electronically controlled actuators, The Chandelier is capable of creating sounds unlike traditional instruments, and even some sounds that defy the size of the instrument itself. In this installation participants are given control over an instrument that is clearly, visibly, much larger than themselves, yet inextricably linked to their movements on a traditional piano keyboard, exploring and breaking the limitations of human performers as well as the instruments that we think of as commonplace.

In Untitled Sound Objects materials are sonified through vibration and computer controlled machines and robots. pe lang and zimoun focus on creating acoustic architecture with an organic feel, investigating properties of sound, materials, resonance properties and generative systems. The work is presented as sound installations (exhibitions) and as live performances (audio/visual concerts). Movie. Read more >> [PDF]

Also see The Sound Machine Project [via Architectradure]